The American Museum of Tort Law in Winsted, Conn., hosted a Tort Law Education Day on October 5. Professor Philip G. Peters Jr. was on the program, speaking about medical malpractice. This first annual event was intended to serve as a model for future programs around the country to foster public education about the law of torts. The American Museum…
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Professor Myers Shares 2019 U.S. Supreme Court Highlights with Missouri Bar and SEALS
Professor Gary Myers discussed “2019 United States Supreme Court Highlights (2018-2019 Term)” as a speaker/panelist for the Missouri Bar as part of the MobarCLE program, presented to Bar members by teleconference on August 7. He focused on cases related to antitrust, the commerce clause, intellectual property, and the U.S. census. He also spoke on a panel, “Supreme Court and Legislative…
Multicultural Law Student Association (MLSA) Hosts Deputy Consul of the Mexican Consulate in Kansas City
On September 18, the Mexican Consulate in Kansas City visited the University of Missouri School of Law. The Multicultural Law Student Association (MLSA), in conjunction with the Career Services Office, celebrated Mexican Independence with traditional sweets during a meet and greet with consular staff. During the visit, Deputy Consul Lee Wong-Medina conducted an information session for law students focused on…
Professor Drake Selected as Panelist for Symposium at American University
Veterans Clinic Director Angela Drake selected as a panelist for American University Law Review Volume 69 Federal Circuit Symposium. The event will take place on Friday, November 1, 2019 at the American University Washington College of Law in Washington,…
Bailey Appointed to Committee to Study Third-Party Funding of Litigation
Assistant Dean Emeritus Bob Bailey has been appointed by the Uniform Law Commission to serve on the Study Committee on Third-Party Funding of Litigation. This committee will study the need for and feasibility of a uniform or model law governing third-party funding of litigation and arbitration. Bailey continues to serve on the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Study Committee and the…
Veterans Clinic’s Brent Filbert and Sarah O’Connor Attend Interment in Arlington Cemetery
Veterans Clinic Director Brent Filbert, his wife Maggie Filbert, and Support Specialist Sara O’Connor joined the Combs family in Virginia as their patriarch Major General Roger E. Combs was interred at Arlington National Cemetery. Major General Combs was a 1975 graduate of Mizzou Law and his family has provided generous support for the Veterans Clinic. O’Connor said she appreciated being…
Professor Bowman – Kelly v. United States: There is no political exception to fraud
In a symposium written for SCOTUSblog, Professor Frank Bowman writes about Kelly v. United States, a case that came from the scandal known at “Bridgegate.” William E. Baroni, Jr., deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Bridget Anne Kelley, an aide to then Governor Chris Christie, conspired to create a major traffic jam…
Book Edited by Professor Esbeck Chronicles Disestablishment and Religious Dissent in the New States at America’s Founding and Early Republic
Professor Carl H. Esbeck and historian Jonathan Den Hartog are the editors of a new book containing 21 essays that detail disestablishment in the original 13 states, as well as similar events in soon-to-be-admitted states like Vermont and Kentucky, and three Catholic disestablishments including Missouri. Myths, half-truths, and downright errors surround popular notions of American church-state relations. Disestablishment and Religious…
BOA donated $750 to Heart of Missouri CASA today
Each fall the MU Law Board of Advocates hosts a Fall Social and Trivia Night. The purpose is to get the students of the law school to interact with each other and the faculty in a fun, off the clock setting. For 1L’s, it can be their first time getting to know their professors and 2L or 3L peers outside…
Professor Uphoff teaches at Harvard workshop
Professor Rodney J. Uphoff recently taught at Harvard Law School in its Trial Advocacy Workshop course. The workshop brings in experienced trial lawyers and judges to evaluate and critique the students. Content covers trial analysis, skills and techniques over a three-week period. Professor Uphoff was selected to do an evening demonstration that involved cross-examination of an expert…