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…
Congratulations to Pauline Kim, Joseph Cordell, and Yvonne Cordell, who were honored at the university’s annual Founders Day celebration! Professor Kim, our Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law, was recognized with the Distinguished Faculty Award, while Joseph Cordell (LLM ’08) and Yvonne Cordell (JD ’88) each received Distinguished Alumni Awards for their contributions. Read about…
On Oct. 22-23, our National Trial Team competed at the annual Buffalo-Niagara Mock Trial Competition, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious law school trial competitions. The 2021 competition was held over Zoom, attracting teams from 28 top law school trial advocacy programs. The WashULaw team earned a winning record in the preliminary rounds…
Judge David C. Mason, a graduate of the School of Law, recently appeared as a featured guest on the podcast “Unscripted Direct: A Podcast for the Law School and Trial Advocacy Community.” Judge Mason also graduated in 1980 from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, and was appointed a Circuit Judge in August of…
The School of Law and the university’s board of trustees recently granted tenure to three superstar professors: Daniel Epps, Trevor Gardner, and Rachel Sachs. Congratulations! Professor Daniel Epps is an expert on the criminal justice system and the U.S. Supreme Court. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M….
Russell K. Osgood, visiting professor of law, has been named interim dean of the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, announced Beverly Wendland, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs. He will succeed Nancy Staudt, dean of the School of Law and the Howard & Caroline Cayne Distinguished Professor of Law, who has…