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.
Category: Law School News
Q&A with SBA President Chas Cahill
Meet Chas Cahil, the newly elected 2017-18 president of the Drake Law School Student Bar Association (SBA).
Drake Law School announces 2017 alumni award winners
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 Diversity Week 2017 is Feb. 27-March 3
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.
Visiting University of Havana professors to lecture on impact of Cuban embargo
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.
Constitutional Law Center Distinguished Lecture Series to explore Thirteenth Amendment
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 White of Google to lecture at Big IDEA Speaker Series
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.
Drake Law School forms partnership to update Sustainable Community Development Code
Drake is part of a project to update the Sustainable Community Development Code, which provides local governments with the most innovative, up-to-date land use standards to promote sustainable development.
Drake introduces new compliance and risk management program
Drake Law School and the College of Business and Public Administration are offering a new compliance and risk management program, which includes a professional certificate, a Master of Jurisprudence degree, and a Master of Laws degree.
Jurs named chair of AALS Section on Evidence
Andrew Jurs, professor of law at Drake Law School, was recently named chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Evidence.