Category: Law School News

Former Drake football player and Law School graduate Bob Holliday recently received the Drake Double D Award during halftime of last Saturday's men's basketball game vs. Northern Iowa at the Drake Knapp Center.

Since the Iowa caucuses last January, the chocolate chunk cookie from Baby Boomers Café in Des Moines has become a nationwide sensation -- even being referred to as the "Obama cookie."

Drake Law School's 72nd annual Supreme Court Celebration will culminate with the Supreme Court Banquet on Saturday, March 7.

Phoebe Haddon, an expert on racial and gender bias, will deliver Drake University Law School's Constitutional Law Distinguished Lecture at 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, in room 213 of Cartwright Hall.

Governor Chet Culver has selected Edward Mansfield to serve on the Iowa Court of Appeals.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Drake Law Review ranks among the top 30 law reviews nationally for the number of times courts have cited its articles.

Drake again reached the top rankings in Intellectual Property and Advocacy and Dispute Resolution, according to preLaw magazine.

At the end of this February, intellectual property and technology law scholars from around the world will gather at Drake Law School for the 2009 Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable.

More than 45 attorneys from across Iowa attended a Wind Rights Legal Forum sponsored by the Drake Agricultural Law Center in November at the Neal and Bea Smith Law Center.

Erik Helland, third-year Drake law student and lifelong resident of Iowa District 69, recently assumed a legislative seat in District 69.