On Wednesday, Feb. 23, Peter K. Yu, the Kern family chair in intellectual property law at Drake University Law School, will return to the United Nations to teach diplomats and U.N. personnel about the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights. His presentation will focus on the basic principles of copyright.
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Drake Law places second and third in client counseling competition
Two Drake University Law School teams finished second and third in the Regional American Bar Association Client Counseling Competition held at the University of South Dakota Law School last weekend.
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Need moral, legal, scientific perspectives on stem cell research
Featured in the Des Moines Register
By Jennifer Bard, visiting professor of law
The current debate in Iowa and many other states over whether embryonic stem cell research should be made illegal is not only appropriate but important. But it needs to take place within the context of facts.
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Professor Jerry Anderson fights for animal welfare reform
Ten years ago, Drake University law professor Jerry Anderson traveled to northwest Iowa to meet with a farmer who was concerned about an animal confinement being built across the road from his house.
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Drake Law to host one of two national law school diversity programs
Some 40 students from across the nation will participate in the program at Drake next summer.
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Drake law student receives Outstanding Trial Advocate Award
Peter Blink, a third-year law student, was one of two law students from Iowa to receive the award from the American Board of Trial Advocates.
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Four recent grads team up to launch a startup law firm
The founders of Kemp, Eason, Sease & Dyer set out to be their own bosses.
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French exchange student develops project to compare international treatment of juvenile delinquents
Coralie Martin is analyzing how juvenile delinquents are treated under the United States and French judicial systems.
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Drake law professor’s new book on death penalty cases a ‘must read’
Professor David McCord is co-author of "Death Penalty Cases, 3rd Edition," a text Drake law students will read in McCord's Death Penalty course next fall semester.
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Drake Legal Clinic receives federal grant for new Domestic Violence Immigration Clinic
Students will gain hands-on legal experience in the new clinic while helping some of Iowa's immigrants take legal action against domestic violence.