Author: Taylor Johnson (Taylor Johnson)

Charles Monterio Jr., intellectual property partner at Blank Rome LLP in Washington, D.C., will discuss patent litigation strategy as part of the Intellectual Property Law Center’s Big IDEA Speaker Series on March 30.

The Drake Constitutional Law Center will welcome experts from across the country to discuss “President Obama’s Constitutional Law Legacy,” at the annual Constitutional Law Symposium on April 8.

The three-day celebration includes student and alumni events, concluding with the Supreme Court Celebration Banquet and Awards Ceremony, where The Hon. Solomon Oliver Jr., chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, will serve as keynote speaker.

Drake Law School is pleased to announce this year’s alumni award winners. Pat Houlihan, LW’82, and Dan Jacobi, LA'76, LW’86, were named 2017 Alumni of the Year, and Nate Boulton, LW’05, GR'05, and Kathleen Law, LW’05, were named 2017 Recent Alumni of the Year.

Drake Law School’s student organizations have planned various events for Diversity Week Feb. 27-March 3. Events include diversity panels, lectures, tabling, prizes, and more.

Three visiting professors from the University of Havana, Cuba, will present “The Impact of the Blockade on Cuban Society and Perspectives on the New Policy on Foreign Investment in Cuba" on March 8 at Drake Law School.

Professor Kurt Lash of the University of Illinois College of Law will deliver a lecture titled “On the 150th Anniversary of the Reconstruction Amendments: The Two Thirteenth Amendments” on March 2.

Wilson L. White, public policy and government relations senior counsel at Google, will give a free lecture on artificial intelligence as part of the Drake Intellectual Property Law Center’s Big IDEA Speaker Series.