Drake University Law School announces the selection of Jennifer Zwagerman as the next director of the Drake Agricultural Law Center. Neil Hamilton, the Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law, has served as the director since the founding of the center in 1983 and will retire later this year. “Drake Law School leads the nation in...
Recent Drake University Law School graduates Danielle Holmes, Mackenzi Nash, and Samantha Nordstrom are distinguishing themselves early in their legal careers. The three alumnae, all native Iowans, began clerkships with the Iowa Court of Appeals in August. Traditionally, each of the nine judges on the Iowa Court of Appeals employs a law clerk. Clerkship duties...
Ask any current or former law student which course had the biggest impact on their career and they will likely tell you legal writing. Drake Law School’s legal writing program has regularly set the standard for providing students with exactly what they need to communicate effectively. One reason for the success of that program is...
Drake Law School Professor Allan Vestal will present the Constitutional Law Center’s Judge James Grant Iowa Constitution Lecture on Nov. 15, 3-4 p.m., in Cartwright Hall, Room 213. Vestal’s lecture is titled “Two Tenets of Religious Liberty in the Constitutions of Iowa.” The event is free and open to the public. “The talk will focus...
Erin Lain, AS’06, LW’08, ED’16, associate provost for campus equity and inclusion and associate professor of law at Drake University, has received the Council on Legal Education Opportunity, Inc. (CLEO) EDGE Award for Greater Equality.
Agriculture has always been a part of Andrew Lauver’s life. Now this Drake Law 2L is helping advocate for Iowa’s agriculture industry.
Drake Law School received an A+ ranking for family law by preLaw magazine, placing Drake among the top three law schools in the nation for this field.
Professor Michael Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas School of Law will present "The Constitutional Power of Impeachment: Congress’s Ultimate ‘Trump'" as part of the Drake Constitutional Law Center’s Distinguished Lecture Series on Nov. 1.
Drake Law School will host International Law Week Oct. 1-5. Events include an international food fair, presentations on international law opportunities for students, and more.
The Drake Agricultural Law Center is hosting a statewide conference Sept. 19 titled “SOIL 2018: Turning Our Vision for Iowa’s Water and Land into Action" featuring experts in agriculture and the environment.