Category: Law School News

Dean Allan Vestal and retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor also warned against injecting politics into the court system.

Neil Hamilton, professor of law and the Dwight D. Opperman chair of law and director of the Agricultural Law Center, was featured for his contribution to the field of sustainable agriculture.

The Drake Law School welcomed three visiting faculty members to campus in August.

The event, titled "Debating the Living Constitution," will feature a discussion of David Strauss' book "The Living Constitution."

A commissioned article by Peter K. Yu has been published and translated into multiple languages by the U.S. State Department.

Four Drake University law students offered legal assistance to more than 30 homeless veterans during the Veteran's Administration StandDown last month.

Michael Eganhouse, LW'10, won fourth place in the Mary Moers Weing Writing Competition.

Televising hearings would impact the nature of arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court and may require changes to the way the Court conducts business.

Republican and Democratic student groups at Drake Law School will band together with the bipartisan Iowans for Fair and Impartial Courts on Tuesday, Oct. 5, for a community forum. The event, which is free and open to the public, will focus on Iowa's court system and the influence of campaign money and politics in judicial retention elections.

Renaud Colson Renaud Colson, vice dean of international relations at the University of Nantes in France, will deliver a lecture at Drake Law School on "France and the Gypsies" on Wednesday, Sept. 29.