Assistant Professors of Law Shontavia Johnson and Jonathan Rosenbloom joined the Drake Law School faculty this August.
Category: Law School News
Professor McCord receives Madelyn M. Levitt Award for Community Service
David McCord received the award during the University's recent Fall Faculty and Staff Convocation.
Drake Law dean serves as panelist on Iowa’s merit system of selecting judges
Dean Allan Vestal and retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor also warned against injecting politics into the court system.
Professor Hamilton featured in DSM Magazine
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.
Law students offer legal advice for homeless veterans
Four Drake University law students offered legal assistance to more than 30 homeless veterans during the Veteran's Administration StandDown last month.
Recent law graduate places in writing competition
Michael Eganhouse, LW'10, won fourth place in the Mary Moers Weing Writing Competition.
Justice Alito lectures on televised hearings at Drake
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.
Drake to host bipartisan forum on politics, campaign money, Iowa courts
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.
French professor to give guest lecture on legal status of Roma
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.
Drake law dean, faculty speak up on judicial selection process
Drake University Law School Dean Allan Vestal and former Dean David Walker co-published an op-ed in the Des Moines Register on rejecting the efforts to change Iowa's judicial selection process.