WashU Law’s Admiralty Moot Court team earned top honors at the annual Judge John R. Brown Admiralty Moot Court Competition in Charleston, South Carolina, taking first place overall against more than 30 law schools. 3Ls Chris Murphy, Perri Wilson, and Rob Smoot secured the championship with a strong final-round performance. Murphy was named Best Advocate…
Barbara Flagg, Professor of Law Emerita, whose scholarship helped shape conversations around race, equality, and constitutional interpretation, has died. Flagg was a leading voice in constitutional law, critical race theory, federal jurisdiction, and jurisprudence. At WashU Law, she introduced into the curriculum courses in critical jurisprudence and seminars examining social justice, white privilege, and sexuality…
WashU Law Professor Sheldon Evans has been named to the National Bar Association’s 40 Lawyers Under 40 list, a national recognition honoring rising leaders in the legal profession. The National Bar Association is the oldest and largest organization of Black and African-American attorneys in the country, with over 65,000 members and 80+ local and affiliate…
A new article, “The Top 100 Legal Scholars of 2026,” co-authored by Rob Willey and Melanie Knapp, highlights the continued strength of WashU Law faculty, recognizing three professors among the nation’s most-cited legal scholars during a recent three-year window. Professors Daniel Epps (No. 43 and No. 72), Benjamin Levin (No. 59 and No. 28), and…
WashU Law’s Admitted Student Days included a live taping of Divided Argument, bringing prospective students into the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom for a real-time look at how legal scholars break down the Supreme Court’s latest decisions. Hosted by Daniel Epps, Howard and Caroline Cayne Distinguished Professor of Law, and William Baude, Harry Kalven Jr. Professor…
WashU Law has named Montrece Ransom as the new Executive Director of the Cordell Institute. The Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law is a first-of-its-kind collaboration established to facilitate the emergence of ethical data-driven healthcare. By bringing together medical and health experts with legal and policy experts, the Cordell Institute seeks to reimagine…
Utah has enacted a first-of-its-kind digital identity law that includes a “duty of loyalty,” requiring companies and government actors to act in the best interests of individuals when handling their data. In addition to the duty of loyalty, the framework also allows people holding a digital ID to selectively reveal some rather than all of…
WashU Law’s Post Conviction Relief Clinical Practicum’s co-director, Professor Joseph Perkovich, stood before the Supreme Court of the United States this week, marking his first appearance at the nation’s highest court as he argued on behalf of death row inmate Terry Pitchford. Perkovich, with the assistance of his students in the Post-Conviction Relief Clinical Practicum…
WashU Law’s recent Spring 2026 On-Campus Immersion welcomed 13 online students, representing 10 states and an overseas military base in Okinawa, Japan, to St. Louis for an in-person experience centered on connection and collaboration. The weekend began with a welcome reception at The Bear Pub, where Dean Stefanie Lindquist addressed attendees alongside faculty and staff,…
WashU Law and the university’s board of trustees recently granted tenure to Professor Andrea Katz. Andrea Scoseria Katz’s teaching and scholarship focus on constitutional law, particularly presidential power and the development of the modern administrative state. Drawing on legal history, political theory, and comparative politics, her work has appeared in leading journals such as the Columbia…
WashU Law and the university’s board of trustees has granted tenure to Jens Frankenreiter, recognizing his contributions to scholarship and teaching in business and contract law. Professor Frankenreiter’s research uses tools from economics, statistics, and data science to study how legal rules and governance practices emerge, spread, and shape economic behavior. Much of his recent…
Brian Z. Tamanaha, John S. Lehmann University Professor, recently delivered the 2026 Dewey Lecture in the Philosophy of Law at University of Minnesota Law School. The lecture honors the legacy of John Dewey and showcases significant contributions to jurisprudence. Professor Tamanaha organized his lecture around three core themes. He first examined the enduring tension between…