Congratulations to our students for their impressive showing at this past weekend’s National Technology and Telecommunications Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C.! Coached by Professor Richard Finneran and WashULaw alumnus Giles Howard, the team included 3Ls Bryce Beal, Adeline Miller, Rob Servilio, and Adrian Spencer-Smith and 2Ls Derek Lee and Sean Mangan. Mr. Lee, Mr….
Congratulations to WashULaw alumna and U.S. District Court Judge Stephanie Dawkins Davis (JD ’92), who was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals! Full story here: https://bit.ly/3HDHCGE
In memory of her late husband, Warren Billhartz (JD ’51), we are thrilled to announce that Marcia Billhartz has created the Marcia and Warren Billhartz Endowed Scholarship in Law. This $1 million gift allows WashULaw to provide a nearly full-tuition scholarship to one of our exceptional students next fall and each year in perpetuity, benefiting…
WashULaw student Edward Ahanmisi, JD ’23, is one of 18 recipients to be awarded the prestigious Roscoe Trimmier Jr. Diversity Scholarship, offered by the Ropes & Gray law firm. Chosen for their exceptional commitment to academic, experiential, and extracurricular pursuits, each scholar receives a $25,000 award to offset the expenses of a legal education. Edward…
Professor Peter Joy joins Talks On Law for a video interview about the history of racial discrimination in jury selection and its ramifications from a legal ethics perspective. Approved for CLE credit. Full story here. See part two, “Investigating the Client,” here. Also available for CLE credit.
Angela Smith, Director of Operations and Diversity in the Career Center at WashULaw, will serve as the law school’s Interim Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer to help improve cultural competency and racial justice within the law school. Smith will work with the Office of Student Life, Career Center, and Office of Admissions to implement…
According to “Texas Standard,” “U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says Texas’ new redistricting maps ‘deny or abridge the rights of Latino and Black voters to vote on account of their race, color or membership in a language-minority group.’” In an interview with the publication, voting rights expert Professor Travis Crum says, “Texas has been a…
As one of the world’s leading experts in privacy law, Professor Neil Richards argues that privacy is not dead, but it is up for grabs. Here, he sits down with “The Source” for a Q&A about his new book, “Why Privacy Matters” in which he shares why privacy is important, why we need new privacy…
Congratulations to our alumna Eunkyong Choi, who has been selected to serve as a Special Trial Judge by the United States Tax Court! She also served as a Supervising Attorney with our Low Income Taxpayer Clinic from 2014 to 2016. Read the full press release here.
The final round of the 2021 Wiley Rutledge Moot Court Competition took place on Friday, November 19, at WashULaw in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom with Judges Michael Y. Scudder, Gilbert C. Sison, and Stephen R. Welby in attendance. They were deeply impressed by our students’ skillful oral arguments, presented by two teams of finalists:…
Leila Sadat, our James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, was honored today for her 13 years of service as director of the Whitney R. Harris Law Institute. With a ceremony led by the School of Law’s Interim Dean Russell Osgood, Sadat’s friends and colleagues joined together to celebrate her achievements to the legal field…
Congratulations to Professor Neil Richards, who was recently named one of The University of Chicago Law Review’s most-cited younger legal scholars! Read the full story here. Professor Richards will also be hosting an in-person launch event for his new book, Why Privacy Matters, at Anheuser-Busch Hall in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom on Thursday December…