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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Drake Law students help secure commutation for inmate
Students in Drake Law School’s Federal Criminal Law course helped one man secure a commutation by President Barrack Obama, reducing a life sentence to 30 years.
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Rosenbloom named Distinguished Environmental Scholar
Jonathan Rosenbloom, professor of law at Drake Law School, was named a Distinguished Environmental Scholar by Vermont Law School as part of its 2017 Distinguished Summer Scholars program.
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Drake Law alumna balances military, law practice
In 2003, Kristina Stanger was sitting in Professor Matthew Doré’s class when she got a phone call—she was being deployed to Iraq. Stanger returned to finish law school; today, she continues to serve while practicing law and raising a family.