Category: Law School News

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.

Drake Law School welcomed a diverse group of prominent speakers to campus this spring. The Law School aims to bring lawyers, scholars and professionals to speak to and interact with students to prepare outstanding lawyers who will promote justice, serve as leaders in their communities and the legal profession and respond to the call of public service.

Benjamin B. Ullem, a senior partner at the Des Moines law firm of Whitfield & Eddy PLC, has been appointed to a one-year term as dean of Drake University Law School.

Instead of joining a law firm after graduation, two Drake University law students are teaming up with the head of one of the nation's largest insurance companies. Their goal is to spur economic development on the Crow Creek Reservation in the nation's poorest county -- Buffalo County, S.D.

Peter K. Yu, the Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Drake University, recently accepted the Wenlan Scholar Chair Professorship at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China. Yu also serves as the director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake.