Category: Law School News

Russell Lovell, Drake University Law School associate dean and professor of law, will give a talk on Drake alumnus Charles P. Howard, a renowned civil rights attorney and co-founder of the National Bar Association, at the African American Museum of Iowa.

Drake Law Library will be receiving a Community Betterment Grant of $6,800 to further develop the law school archives.

Luke Meier, assistant professor of law at Drake University, recently was appointed by the Iowa Supreme Court to serve on the state's Task Force for Civil Justice Reform.

Drake law professors Peter K. Yu and Neil Hamilton are sharing commentary through Des Moines Register opinion columns on topics addressed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Drake Law School Professor Melissa Heames Weresh is on a mission to help law students and young lawyers behave professionally and with the degree of formality expected in law practice.

Halley Griess, a third-year law student at Drake University, was elected to the Des Moines City Council during Tuesday's Ward 1 run-off.

Neil Hamilton, professor of law and director of the Agricultural Law Center, and two Drake law students will attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference from Dec. 12-19 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Matt Russell, state food policy project coordinator at Drake University Law School, recently was appointed to the Iowa Farm Services Agency (FSA) Committee under the Obama administration.

The conference drew nearly 50 scholars from more than five regions in China and five countries.

Scholars will debate about the Iowa Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision and the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.