Graduates, families, friends, faculty, and staff gathered on Monday to celebrate the WashULaw Class of 2024. The law school recognition ceremony at the Field House was hosted by Dean Osgood, who welcomed the graduating class and announced the student-selected faculty and staff awards. Benjamin Levin is the David M. Becker Professor of the Year, and…
Professor Leila Sadat received the Charles R. English Award, which is given to judges, prosecutors, the defense bar, academics, and other attorneys who are members of the American Bar Association (ABA) Criminal Justice Section and have distinguished themselves by their work in the field of criminal justice. The award was presented during the ABA Criminal…
Professor Brian Tamanaha now appears as an entry in the Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. The encyclopedia covers all topics in the philosophy of law and social philosophy, including the history, theory, and leading theorists in both fields, and it is the definitive reference work on the Philosophy of Law and…
Congratulations to Professor Karen Tokarz for receiving the William Pincus Award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS)! The award recognizes outstanding contributions to clinical legal education and was presented during the AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education on Friday, May 3. Professor Tokarz is the co-founder and President of the St. Louis Mediation…
The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) is hosting the 2024 Conference on Clinical Legal Education in St. Louis this week. WashULaw faculty are hosting sessions on a variety of clinical education topics at the conference. Peter W. Goode Session: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Teaching Students to Read, Recognize, Understand, and Present Data in Client…
Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law Pauline Kim has been elected to the 2024 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation…
Congratulations to Macy Cecil and Rachel Sharma! Both second-year students have been selected by the American Constitution Society (ACS) for the 2024 class of Next Generation Leaders. These leaders are recent and forthcoming law school graduates who have demonstrated special leadership in their work with ACS’s student chapters and have the interest, skills, and ability…
Recipients of the Clinical Education Program 50th Anniversary Award were honored at a ceremony in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom last week. The Clinic’s 50th Anniversary Award honors individuals who have made a significant impact on the Clinical Education Program, who have dedicated their careers to public service, and who have obtained a distinction in…
Professors Elizabeth Hubertz and Tara Rocque of WashULaw’s Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic were recognized as finalists for the William H. Danforth St. Louis Confluence Award at the 2024 Confluence Research Showcase on April 10. The Clinic, working with community partners, is continuing its four-stage project to address environmental racism in St. Louis. St. Louis’s history of…
Congratulations to the National Moot Court Team on their incredible performance at the National Finals of the ABA’s National Appellate Advocacy Competition! With one team in the top eight and another in the top sixteen, no other school in the country showed such consistent success in this year’s National Finals. 3Ls Rachel DiSibio, Nyla Khan,…
WashULaw recently hosted its Election Law Conference at Anheuser-Busch Hall. Fifteen scholars from across the U.S. gathered to present and discuss scholarship with their peers. Discussion topics included: Election Law and Race, Election Law after the 2020 Election, Election Law and Quantitative Methods, and Election Law and Democratic Theory. The keynote panel was moderated by…
The WashULaw Jessup team competed in the International Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup World Cup Moot Court competition, held from March 30 to April 6, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Congratulations to Mina Nur Basmaci, who was awarded the second-best oralist in the World Cup competition. This is an impressive achievement given that the competition…