Please join leading legal scholars for a virtual six-week event series about policing, Black lives, and racial inequality over Zoom This event series will address recent and past incidents of police violence against African-Americans, as well as the roots of institutional racial violence, its contemporary manifestations, and anti-racist protests. Click to learn more about this…
Thousands of mourners have taken to the streets in Iran following the Jan. 3 death of Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force. Many questions remain following the U.S. drone strike in Iraq and Iran’s posturing about potential retaliation. Chief among them: Was the strike legal? “Unless there is much more to the story than…
Rachel Sachs ( published as: “Prescription Drug Policy: The Year in Review, And the Year Ahead, ” Health Affairs Blog, January 6, 2020. DOI: 10.1377/hblog20200103.861605) This past year, prescription drug policy issues remained at the forefront of the national health policy conversation. With widespread public agreement across the political spectrum that action must be taken…
Leading law firm Armstrong Teasdale recently named 18 new partners to begin service in 2020, including four WashULaw alumni: Daniel Burke, JD ’06, Laura Bentele, JD ’12, Patrick Coyle, JD ’12, and Tod Stephens, JD/MBA ‘13. With 10 offices across the country, Armstrong Teasdale is well-known for representing Fortune 100 and 500 companies alongside a variety…
Washington University in St. Louis Assistant Professor of Practice Kathryn Banks has been elected to the national Clinical Legal Education (CLEA) Board of Directors. The organization advocates for clinical legal education as fundamental to a lawyer’s education, and is one of the largest organizations of law professors. Professor Banks, who is also Assistant Dean for…
A comprehensive privacy law should protect people as well as data, privacy law expert says America needs an internet privacy bill. However, Congressional inaction or even its best intentions could lead to an Americanized version of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a move that would be insufficient and ineffective, argues a leading privacy law…
Professor Brian Tamanaha has received a Washington University in St. Louis Founders Day Distinguished Faculty Award and was recognized at the recent dinner. The award recognizes outstanding commitment to the intellectual and personal development of students. Click here to view his video.
Blake Emerson and Ronald M. Levin (Opinion published in The Regulatory Review October 30, 2019) A new ACUS recommendation on interpretive rules largely aligns with a prior one on policy statements. At its June 2019 plenary session, the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) adopted Recommendation 2019-1, “Agency Guidance Through Interpretive Rules.” The recommendation…
The Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic at Washington University School of Law recently published a report titled “Environmental Racism in St. Louis”. This report detailed that in St. Louis, blacks suffer from poor environmental regulations at a greater rate than their white peers. In summary, black families are more likely to visit the emergency room due to asthma, test…
As part of the 174th Period of Sessions for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Harris Institute has been invited to present at a hearing on “The Impact of Gun Violence in the United States” on Tuesday, November 12 in Quito, Ecuador. The Institute will present alongside Amnesty International, the Center for American…
Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey recently tweeted in support of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, causing reaction from the NBA and from China. Following Morey’s tweet, NBA commissioner Adam Silver expressed support for Morey’s freedom of speech. But in response, China’s state broadcaster CCTV punished the NBA by canceling broadcasts of two preseason NBA games….
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