Congratulations to 3L Elena LeVan, the second-place winner of the eighteenth annual Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights & Justice! This honor is awarded by the If/When/How, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law. The prize recognizes work that exhibits exceptional writing…
Travis Hill, JD ’05, currently serves as Senior Trial Counsel for the SEC’s New York Region. Previously, he was a partner at Nixon Peabody where he specialized in white collar defense and government investigations. But before he began his career as a litigator, he was a student in Professor Peter Joy’s Criminal Justice Clinic. As…
Dick Helmholz, the Mel and Pamela Brown Family Visiting Professor of Law, was greeted by applause from students, faculty and staff as he exited his final class at Anheuser-Busch Hall in late November. “Dick Helmholz is one of the greatest scholars of medieval canon and common law. Our students were lucky to have him teach…
“Becoming the Administrator-in-Chief: Meyers and the Progressive Presidency,” an article coauthored by Professor Andrea Katz of WashULaw and Noah Rosenblum of the NYU School of Law, has been published in the Columbia Law Review. In the introduction, they write: In a series of recent cases, the Supreme Court has reconfigured the administrative state in line…
Professor Andrew Tuch participated at a conference of the North American Securities Administrators Association, a body that represents state and provincial securities regulators in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Professor Tuch spoke to regulators on the reasons for and the consequences of the growth of private securities markets and the expansion of offering exemptions….
Congratulations to Elizabeth Schlesinger, JD ’08, who was elected to chair the national Board of Directors of the Human Rights Campaign! Schlesinger is counsel at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, where she is a member of the firm’s Private Client group. Her practice is focused on estate planning and administration, with an emphasis on wealth transfer…
Jessica Feinberg, JD ’08, recently returned to WashULaw for a faculty workshop where she presented her paper Multi-Parent Custody for comments and discussion. Professor Feinberg teaches at the University of Maine School of Law and is a nationally recognized expert on family law and gender and sexuality law. Professors Karen Tokarz, Susan Frelich Appleton, and Neil…
Last week the School of Law hosted the Twelfth Annual Law and Economic Theory Conference at Anheuser-Busch Hall. Scholars from renowned universities across the U.S. gathered to present and discuss their scholarship with peers. Presentations included: Plaintiffs’ Choice Between Delegation the Filing and Strategic Lawyer-Client Communication; Agreeing to be Fooled: Optimal Ignorance about Information Sources; Board…
Professor MJ Durkee recently participated in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) 10th meeting of the Partnership of International Organizations for Effective International Rulemaking, in Paris. Professor Durkee spoke at an expert roundtable related to a report she prepared for this project. The report is “Private Sector Participation in International Rulemaking: Governance Models,” and…
“The False Promise of Jurisdiction Stripping,” an essay coauthored by Professor Daniel Epps of WashULaw and Alan Trammell of W&L Law School has been published in the Columbia Law Review. In the introduction, they write: Jurisdiction stripping can still prove beneficial, but only in subtle and indirect ways. Congress can regulate jurisdiction to tweak the…
According to experts at the Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine and Law, parents should consider privacy implications when adding their adult children to their health insurance plan. “Under the Affordable Care Act, young adults can stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26,” said Mary Mason, MD, associate director of the university’s Cordell Institute….
Head to the Opinion Section of The Hill for a recent piece by Professor Sheldon Evans. Titled “It’s not just Trump – crime and punishment are inherently political,” the article reflects on how criminal policy has been used as a bipartisan tool. Read here: