Category: Law School News

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 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.