Category: Law School News

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.

Drake Law School's Whitfield and Eddy, P.L.C. National Moot Court team recently finished second in the regional rounds of the National Moot Court Competition. Drake will advance to the finals for the 16th time since 1990.

Phoebe Haddon, an expert on racial and gender bias, will deliver Drake Law School's Constitutional Law Distinguished Lecture.

One of Drake Law School's mediation teams recently won second place competing against teams from six colleges and universities at the International Mediation Tournament in London, England.

Stephen Rapp, a former U.S. attorney in Iowa and a 1974 Drake Law School graduate, is returning to Drake Law School to give a special lecture.

This year, as part of its constitutional law lecture series, Drake will host an international human rights advocate, a criminal law expert and a legal scholar who studies gender and equality.

Drake Law School faculty members Luke Meier and Peter K. Yu visit China; the Law School welcomes scholars and students from China; and the Intellectual Property Law Center makes global connections.

Cathy Lesser Mansfield, a classically trained musician and a nationally recognized expert on the subprime lending crisis, has composed an opera about the Holocaust.

Ten Drake law students offered legal assistance to homeless veterans during the Veteran's Administration StandDown last weekend.