Professor Leila Sadat recently participated on a panel to discuss the challenges of defining, investigating, and prosecuting war crimes. The discussion was hosted by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and included David Scheffer, Former U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues; and Anjli Parrin, Director of the Global Human Rights Clinic at the…
“Limitations of the ‘Four-Fifths Rule’ and Statistical Parity Tests for Measuring Fairness,” an article coauthored by Professor Pauline Kim of WashULaw and Manish Raghavan of MIT Sloan and EECS, has been published in the Georgetown Law Technology Review. In the abstract, they write: To ensure the fairness of algorithmic decision systems, such as employment selection tools, computer…
The Clinical Education Program’s Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) was recently the beneficiary of a cy pres award. Cy pres was awarded in the case of Pearlstone v. Walmart, a class action lawsuit related to an under-refunding of sales tax on returned purchases. The LITC provides students with the opportunity to develop real-life lawyering skills…
Stefanie A. Lindquist, Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science in the School of Global Politics and the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (ASU), has been appointed dean of the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. Chancellor Andrew D. Martin announced Lindquist will assume the role July…
Visiting Professor Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin recently spoke at the Yale Law School Wasserman Workshop in Law & Finance. The event was jointly hosted by the Center for The Study of Corporate Law and Paul Tsai China Center. The title of Professor Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin’s talk was “The Spectrum of Control: Unveiling Layers of State Influence…
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…