Congratulations to Professor Emerita Maxine Lipeles, who received the Lifetime Achievement and Career Award at the 2023 Albert P. and Blanche Y. Greensfelder Forum on February 11. Hosted by the university’s International Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, the forum “honors alumni and friends committed to addressing the global challenges of energy, environment and sustainability…
The installation ceremony of Professor Rafael I. Pardo as the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law took place yesterday in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom. The event included remarks from Dean Russell K. Osgood, Professor David Hoffman of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and Provost Beverly Wendland. Professor Pardo also gave an address titled…
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Sheldon A. Evans, Professor of Law, beginning July 1, 2023. Joining us from St. John’s University, Professor Evans teaches Criminal Law, Immigration Law, Professional Responsibility, and seminars on race and literature. Professor Evans’ research focuses on criminal sentencing and its intersection with immigration policies. His work has…
WashULaw has appointed Peter Hook as director and associate dean of the Law Library, beginning July 1. Hook joins us from the University of Notre Dame Law School, where he served as associate director for faculty services, instruction, and outreach. He succeeds Joyce McCray Pearson, who retired in the spring of 2022 after having served…
Congratulations to Benjamin B. Ferencz, the last living Nuremberg prosecutor, who will be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. The award is Congress’s highest honor, and was granted via a bill of bipartisan support. Ferencz participated in the founding of our Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute in 2001 and was also awarded WashULaw’s “World Peace…
Newsweek recently showcased the Law School in their latest feature, “The Importance of Attending a Top School for a Career in Law.” “The Law School’s most recent class, the Class of 2025, has a median LSAT in the top 98 to 99th percentile and a median GPA of 3.94,” the article reads. “However, the Law…
Alumna Jordan Hoffman Kahle (JD ’22) was recently named a 2023 Skadden Foundation fellow, one of the most distinguished awards available to public interest law school graduates. Jordan will work at the Heartland Center for Jobs & Freedom in Kansas City, where she will provide direct representation on workplace legal issues. Congratulations, Jordan! Learn more…
Dean Russell Osgood spoke with Law.com for the article “No. 16-Ranked Washington University Law Says It Will Not Bail on the US News Ranking.” “Prospective law students should have multiple robust sources of information about law schools, and I am generally in favor of making information available,” Dean Osgood told the publication. “School websites can…
Our law clinics draw many students to WashULaw, as their impactful work can change the course of a client’s life. We have compiled some of these client stories in our new 2022 Clinical Education Program newsletter, which you may read below. In its pages, you will find stories featuring: Immigration Law Clinic student Dinora Orozco,…
Dean Russell Osgood sat down with Talks on Law for a video interview about freedom of speech on the law school campus. Click below to watch.
Dean Russell Osgood recently spoke with The New York Times about law schools choosing not to participate in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. “Russell Osgood, dean of Washington University Law School (No. 16), said he had been through several efforts to get rid of the rankings, as dean of Cornell’s law school and…
2L student Abigail Hunt recently returned to St. Louis after having attended the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, held November 6 through the 18th. An environmental law student, Abigail attended the conference as a delegate for RINGO (Research and Independent NGOs), and was recently interviewed by KSDK-TV about…