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Joe Cordell, a distinguished lawyer and co-founder of Cordell & Cordell, the nation’s largest domestic litigation firm, has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Honorary Order of the Coif by WashU Law.
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A panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit unanimously ruled to revive a First Amendment retaliation lawsuit brought by a client of WashULaw’s Appellate Clinic.
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In a heartfelt celebration this May, the faculty and staff of WashULaw gathered to honor Hyla Bondareff’s remarkable 31 years of dedicated service to the library.
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“The Fallacy of ‘We Can’t Afford More Clinical Legal Education for Our Students’,” an article authored by Professor Bob Kuehn has been published in the Clinical Legal Education Association’s Spring Newsletter.
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William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law Ronald M. Levin authored a CNN opinion article on the Supreme Court’s Chevron deference.
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WashULaw welcomes Stefanie Lindquist as its new dean, effective.
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Three WashULaw faculty members participated in the 2024 Law and Society Association Annual meeting in June.
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Graduates, families, friends, faculty, and staff gathered on Monday to celebrate the WashULaw Class of 2024.
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“Ditching ‘DNA on Demand’: A Harms-Centered Approach to Safeguarding Privacy Interests Against DNA Collection and Use by Law Enforcement” written by 3L Emma Kenny-Pessia, received an Honorable Mention for Student Paper in The Future of Privacy Forum’s 14th Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers (PPPM) Awards.
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There is no good reason to abandon the Chevron deference, a landmark Supreme Court decision in place for 40 years that says courts must defer to federal agencies’ expertise in interpreting laws, according to Professor Ron Levin, an expert on administrative law and regulatory reform.
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Leila Sadat, James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, was interviewed on PBS News Hour.
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Professor John Inazu recently filed an amicus brief in the case of Mckesson v. Doe.
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“Limitations of the ‘Four-Fifths Rule’ and Statistical Parity Tests for Measuring Fairness,” an article coauthored by Professor Pauline Kim of WashULaw and Manish Raghavan of MIT Sloan and EECS, has been published in the Georgetown Law Technology Review.
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Professor Leila Sadat recently participated on a panel to discuss the challenges of defining, investigating, and prosecuting war crimes.
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Dick Helmholz, the Mel and Pamela Brown Family Visiting Professor of Law, was greeted by applause from students, faculty and staff as he exited his final class at Anheuser-Busch Hall in late November.
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Travis Hill, JD ’05, currently serves as Senior Trial Counsel for the SEC’s New York Region. Previously, he was a partner at Nixon Peabody where he specialized in white collar defense and government investigations.
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“Becoming the Administrator-in-Chief: Meyers and the Progressive Presidency,” an article coauthored by Professor Andrea Katz of WashULaw and Noah Rosenblum of the NYU School of Law, has been published in the Columbia Law Review.
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Congratulations to Elizabeth Schlesinger, JD ’08, who was elected to chair the national Board of Directors of the Human Rights Campaign!
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According to experts at the Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine and Law, parents should consider privacy implications when adding their adult children to their health insurance plan.
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The St. Louis 22nd Judicial Circuit Court reported the following activity on Jan. 27 in the suits below:
