Category: Law School News

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.

Drake's Law School recently gained a new organization for law students -- the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund. The University is the 131st law school with a chapter of SALDF.

The petitioners' briefs in two cases going before the U.S. Supreme Court, cite and quote heavily from an article in the 1993 issue of the Virginia Environmental Law Journal called "The Hazardous Waste Land," written by Drake Law Professor Jerry Anderson.

Drake Law School's 72nd annual Supreme Court Celebration will culminate with the Supreme Court Banquet and a keynote speech by Stephen Rapp, LW'74, prosecutor of the United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone.

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.

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.

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.

Drake law student Theresa E. Hassler recently was appointed to the Section of Dispute Resolution of the American Bar Association's National Student Liaison Division.

Recent Drake University Law School graduate Sean Bagniewski has won the 2008 Student Bar Association President of the Year Award from the American Bar Association/Law Student Division.