Category: Law School News

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 School student Emiliano Lerda, 28, has been appointed to the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service on the heels of winning the Governor's Volunteer Award.

Drake Law School officials recently accepted the E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award from the American Bar Association at the ABA's annual meeting in New York City.

Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts Jr. will deliver the 11th Dwight D. Opperman Lecture in Constitutional Law Thursday, Oct. 2.

Iowa Court of Appeals Judge Larry J. Eisenhauer, LW'74, recently received the Iowa Judges Association Award of Merit.

Robert Rigg, BN'75, AS'75, LW'78, associate professor of law and director of the Law School's Criminal Defense Program, recently was quoted in the Washington Post and New York Times and testified before Congress on recent illegal immigrant raid trials.

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.

Associate Professor of Law Stacey Tovino joined the Law School faculty on Aug. 1.

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.