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Professor Myers and recent Mizzou Law graduate publish new casebook

Professor Gary Myers and Meghan McAuliff, ’25, have published a new casebook that refocuses tort law for the NextGen Bar Exam. McAuliff, who is a current law clerk for Missouri Supreme Court Judge Paul Wilson, along with Professor Tracy Pearl of the University of Oklahoma, worked with Professor Myers publish… Read More

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rigel oliveri

May 28, 2026

Professor Oliveri speaks at UN women’s panel

Professor Rigel Oliveri of the University of Missouri School of Law participated in a joint UN Women panel on women’s empowerment and safe housing, held at the World Urban Forum in Baku, Azerbaijan, alongside global human rights advocates, municipal officials, and academics. She discussed how the sexual harassment of low-income women by their housing providers is a product of a chronic shortage of affordable housing and leads to further instability for affected households. The panel, titled “ONE UN – Beyond shelter: adequate, safe, resilient housing for gender equality and women’s empowerment,” explored how women—particularly in developing and transition states—are affected by…

david gamage

May 27, 2026

Professor Gamage quoted in New Republic story

Professor David Gamage was quoted extensively in a New Republic story on the California Billionaire Tax ballot measure. A measure Professor Gamage helped draft through his academic scholarship. Read the full story here.

erika lietzan

May 18, 2026

Associate Dean Lietzan’s article highlighted in The Regulatory Review

Associate Dean and Professor Erika Lietzan‘s new article forthcoming in the SMU Law Review, “FDA After Loper Bright,” was recently reviewed in “The Regulatory Review.” The Review article highlights Professor Lietzans argument that the Loper Bright decision “may not be nearly as devastating” for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as many scholars believe it will be. Read the full The Regulatory Review article here.

Jasmine De Los Rios

May 11, 2026

3L Graduate Spotlight— Meet Jasmine De Los Rios: Survivor. Warrior. Advocate.

By: Tanner O’Neal Riley The first time Mizzou Law 3L Jasmine De Los Rios learned what survival meant, she was a child standing in the aftermath of violence. “When I was a minor, my biological father beat my mom so badly she ended up in the ER—she was nearly dead,” she said. “When the police arrived, they saw me… I had bruises all over my legs.” For a brief stretch of time, there was quiet. “He was gone for about a year… and during that time, we were able to breathe.” But the quiet didn’t last—it rarely does in homes…

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May 7, 2026

From Equations to Opportunity: How Engineers Are Redefining Law at Mizzou

By: Tanner O’Neal Riley At the University of Missouri School of Law, the distance between engineering and law is shorter than it looks. What begins as equations and design often ends as arguments and advocacy, and for a growing number of students, the transition feels less like a leap and more like a continuation. “It’s a different kind of equation,” said Jacqueline “Jacqi” Parker, a first-year law student with an engineering background. “You’re still solving problems—you’re just using words.” That idea of translation rather than transformation runs through the experiences of students, faculty, and alumni shaping a quiet but meaningful…

erika lietzan

May 6, 2026

Professor Lietzan edits book on pharmaceutical marketplace

Professor Erika Lietzan edited a new book just published in French, titled “Le marché pharmaceutique, de l’aporie à une dialectique commerce international/santé.” The book, published by European publisher Mare & Martin, discusses the pharmaceutical marketplace and a wide range of issues relating to reconciling the importance of medicine to global public health with its nature as a commodity like any other. The chapters were written from a range of academic perspectives by scholars around the world. Professor Lietzan also wrote a chapter herself on the prospects for the U.S. government to play a role in the pharmaceutical marketplace. Read more…

lauren shores pelikan

May 4, 2026

Professor Shores Pelikan discusses new paper on Tax Notes podcast

Professor Lauren Shores Pelikan recently appeared on the Tax Notes Talk podcast to discuss her forthcoming article, “Toddlers, investors, and Tax Policy.” Professor Shores Pelikan’s paper has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of the Southern California Law Review. You can listen to the podcast episode here.