July 21, 2026

Professor Gamage quoted in CNBC

Professor David Gamage was quoted extensively in a recent CNBC story about the impending California billionaire tax ballot initiative. An initiative in which Gamage was instrumental in drafting. “California will, I think, more likely be better off if this is passed than not. Businesses thrive in places and states where people want to live, and being a place where people want to live requires health systems working for the people in California.” Read the full article here.

July 20, 2026

Professor Rhodes Analyzes Supreme Court’s Term in Textbook Supplement and Media Interviews

Professor Charles “Rocky” Rhodes, alongside his co-author Professor Renee Knake Jefferson, completed the 2026 Supplement to their textbook, Constitutional Law: Foundations, Interpretations, and Commentaries. The update evaluates all the major decisions from the Supreme Court’s 2025-26 term, including the decisions on presidential removal authority over executive officers, presidential tariff authority, birthright citizenship, sex-based athletic classifications, firearm regulation and congressional spending authority. Several media outlets also tapped Professor Rhodes to provide his insights and analysis regarding the Supreme Court’s recent jurisprudence on the following topics:…

July 8, 2026

Professor Oliveri quoted in New York Times story on housing discrimination

Professor Rigel Oliver was recently quoted in a New York Times story about a program in Washington state to compensate victims of redlining and other forms of government-sanctioned housing discrimination, and the legal challenges to this program (arguing that the program itself amounts to “reverse discrimination”).  Read the full story here.

July 7, 2026

Professor Conklin quoted in BBC

Professor Carli Conklin was recently quoted in a story by BBC on the American Constitution: “The document was both political and philosophical, asserting the ‘separate and equal station’ of the new United States among the nations of the Earth, while also laying out the philosophical underpinnings for that assertion. As both Thomas Jefferson and fellow drafter John Adams stated, the Declaration was not asserting anything new. It was not intended to do so. These ideas were commonplace in Enlightenment Era discussions about politics and law, with many of these ideas stretching back millennia. What was new was…

July 6, 2026

Professor Gamage quoted in New York Times

Professor David Gamage was recently quoted in the New York Times regarding the “Billionaire Tax” bill currently on the ballot in California. Professor Gamage was instrumental in helping draf the legislation. “They could have written language that would have clearly overruled the billionaire wealth tax if their language passed and got more votes, but they didn’t. So the question is whether their roundabout attempts to have that effect will be successful.” Read the full story here.

June 18, 2026

Two Mizzou Law students earn scholarships to support research

Two Mizzou Law students have been awarded Trans World Airline (TWA) scholarships for the 2026-2027 school year. TWA scholarships fund undergraduate and graduate students who perform or plan to perform research addressing environmental issues. Scholarships are awarded annually to students based on their academic accomplishments and research interests. Mero Libimbi, a rising 2L at Mizzou Law, received the scholarship to help fund her research examining how environmental and social conditions contribute to health disparities among Black women, with a focus on chronic illness and maternal health outcomes. Mero is particularly interested in understanding how these disparities are…

June 17, 2026

Associate Dean Lietzan speaks at health law meeting

Earlier in June, Associate Dean Erika Lietzan spoke at the American Society of Law Medicine & Ethics annual Health Law professors meeting, hosted this year at Georgia State. Along with her co-authors of the leading casebook on food and drug law, Dean Lietzan spoke about developments in food and drug law in the last twelve months and what’s ahead.