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October 17, 2025
Mizzou Law IT pro wins accessibility award
Mizzou Law IT Pro Scott Greathouse, along with his team of fellow IT pros from schools and colleges across campus, won the Lee Henson Access Mizzou Group Award. The IT Pros across campus play an essential role in supporting workplace accommodations for Mizzou faculty and staff. Read More
October 17, 2025
Prof. Henson presents on AI at Midwestern law conference
October 17, 2025
Mizzou Tax Law Colloquium hosts Georgia professor
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Oct. 16, 2025
Professor Lietzan presents at two French conferences
Earlier in October, Professor Erika Lietzan spoke at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France at a conference on the Regulation of Innovative Medical Therapies. She presented an overview of U.S. regulation of cellular therapies, engineered tissue products, and gene therapy, and talked about how U.S. regulation differs from EU regulation of these products. The next day, Professor Lietzan spoke on the same topic at a much larger conference, known as Innovative Therapies Days, which took place in Besancon, France. Professor Lietzan writes extensively about U.S. regulation of biological products, and has published before on how U.S. and EU…
Oct. 15, 2025
Professor Sperino publishes new edition of employment discrimination book
Professor Sandra Sperino has published a new edition of her book, “The Law of Employment Discrimination, 2nd Edition) through West Academic. Sperino’s book provides comprehensive treatment of the major federal employment discrimination statutes, focusing on Title VII, the ADEA, the ADA, the PWFA and Section 1981. It discusses who is liable for discrimination and the people the statutes protect from discrimination. The book extensively explores the frameworks for analyzing discrimination, including frameworks for individual disparate treatment, pattern or practice, harassment, disparate impact, and retaliation. One chapter focuses on religious accommodation and another chapter focuses on disability and pregnancy…
Oct. 14, 2025
Professor Dennis Crouch Presents on Jungian Themes in Patent Law
Professor Dennis Crouch recently spoke at a student/faculty workshop hosted by the University of Michigan School of Law, led by renowned intellectual property scholars Professors Jessica Litman and Rebecca Eisenberg.Professor Crouch presented his work exploring how Carl Jung’s concepts of synchronicity, shadow, and archetypes can illuminate key dynamics within the modern patent system. Drawing parallels between simultaneous invention and Jung’s notion of meaningful coincidence, he discussed how a puer aeternus mindset—driven by youthful idealism and discovery—shapes innovation culture. Jung used these tools to help draw meaningful connections for individual psychology. In his work, Crouch argues…
Oct. 14, 2025
Faculty Spotlight — Meet Taylor Gamm
by Tanner O’Neal Riley For Walls Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Taylor Gamm, the path to the classroom began with a lifelong curiosity about how rules and systems shape everyday life. Gamm earned her undergraduate degree in economics from Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, where she also played and later captained the university’s women’s soccer team. She went on to earn her J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, graduating summa cum laude and second in her class. During law school, she served as Notes and Comments Editor for the University of Cincinnati Law Review and received book awards in property, contracts, ethics, and lawyering.
Oct. 13, 2025
Professor Crouch gives keynote at Houston IP Law Institute
Professor Dennis Crouch recently delivered the keynote address at the 41st Annual Fall Institute on Intellectual Property Law, co-sponsored by the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association (HIPLA) and the University of Houston Law Center. His keynote, titled “Intellectual Property Rights under President Trump (2025),” explored the sweeping changes to U.S. patent and copyright policy since President Trump’s inauguration earlier this year. Professor Crouch discussed the heightened politicization of the USPTO and Copyright Office, the administration’s promotion of AI-driven innovation, and the renewed emphasis on patent-holder rights across key federal agencies. A nationally recognized scholar of patent law and editor…
Oct. 13, 2025
Professor Wechsler presents on human trafficking and immigration panel
Professor Rachel Wechsler participated as a panelist on a webinar hosted by the American Bar Association’s Immigration and Human Trafficking Committee. Professor Wechsler and coauthor Professor Julie Dahlstrom, published a blog on the Oxford Human Rights Hub last spring discussing implications of President Trump’s enforcement of U.S. immigration laws. Panelists on the ABA webinar discussed the implications of this change in enforcement and challenges it creates for lawyers representing human trafficking victims, undocumented workers and businesses that rely on immigrant workers.
Oct. 10, 2025
Mizzou Tax Law Colloquium to host San Diego professor
On Oct 15 (Wednesday), Miranda Perry Fleischer (San Diego), will present the draft paper, “Equality of Opportunity and a Universal Child Allowance”, at the Mizzou Law Tax Policy Colloquium, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm Central Time. The Mizzou Law Tax Policy Colloquium is convened by Professor David Gamage of Mizzou Law. Most sessions will be open to guest participants via zoom, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm Central Time. This session will be open to guest participants via zoom. Anyone who would like to join as a guest participant should e-mail Professor Gamage directly at dgamage@missouri.edu for details, the zoom login, and to…