Category: Law School News

Two Drake University law professors will speak as part of Drake Law School's Constitution Day celebration in a program on Friday, Sept. 17, titled, "The Constitution as a Conversation."

Drake Law School Dean Allan Vestal and retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor were among four panelists who defended Iowa's merit system of selecting judges and warned against injecting politics into the court system during a discussion Wednesday, Sept. 8, at the Hotel Fort Des Moines.

A commissioned article by Peter K. Yu, the Kern family chair in intellectual property law at Drake University, has been published and translated into multiple languages by the U.S. State Department.

The Neal and Bea Smith Law Center at Drake University Law School can be seen several times during a trailer for the movie "Smitty."  

Russ Lovell, professor of law, and Rachel Paine Caufield, associate professor of politics, were quoted in the National Law Journal on Monday, Aug. 23.

Romonda Belcher Ford, a 1995 graduate of Drake University Law School, recently was selected as Iowa’s first female African-American judge.

Legal insurer ARAG® has announced the creation of the ARAG Chad Hensley Diversity Scholarship at Drake Law School in honor of Chad Hensley, a former company executive, ARAG board member and Drake Law School graduate.

Peter K. Yu, director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University Law School, will speak at the Digital Interactive Symposium in Edinburgh, Scotland on Aug. 27.

Melissa Heames Weresh, professor of law at Drake University, recently was elected president-elect for 2010-12 to the Legal Writing Institute, a national legal writing organization.

An article by Martin Begleiter, the Ellis and Nelle Levitt professor of law at Drake Law School, recently was listed on the Social Science Research Network's (SSRN) Top Ten download list for Wills, Trusts and Estates Law eJournal.