Category: Law School News

In its fourth annual collaborative issue with the American Judicature Society, the Drake Law School published the proceedings of their joint symposium on judicial selection and judicial independence. The issue titled "Symposium on Judicial Independence: The Continuing Effect of White on State Judicial Selection," was nationally distributed and well received by both federal and state judges.

From publishing articles to winning cases to preparing students, the Drake University Legal Clinic faculty members deserve a round of applause.

The Student Bar Association at Drake University Law School recently received the SBA of the Year award from the American Bar Association/Law Student Division.

Nationally known legal scholars, attorneys and government leaders gathered Sept. 7, at Drake University Law School for a conference on risk and responsibility convened by former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, a visiting distinguished professor of law at Drake.

Bonnie Campbell, LA'82, LW'84, and Wayne Kern, LW'72, were named Alumni of the Year at this spring’s Supreme Court Celebration.

Robert, LW'62, and Nancy Landess have announced a substantial planned gift to the Drake Law School that will provide funding for the Landess Endowed Faculty Research Fund.

Drake Law School left a visible impact on the estimated 30,000 festival-goers who attended CelebrAsian, the fifth annual Asian Heritage Festival that recently took place in Des Moines.

A dozen Drake law students recently trekked around southern Iowa via tour bus with former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, Drake visiting distinguished professor of law, and Neil Hamilton, the Dwight D. Opperman distinguished professor of law.

Professor Neil Hamilton, the Opperman chair and director of the Agricultural Law Center, spent five days in India in early May as part of a U.S. delegation taking part in a bilateral Indo-U.S. Workshop on Contract Farming: Methods and Experiences.

Cathy Lesser Mansfield, Drake professor of law, has been accepted as one of 20 law professors nationwide to participate in the 2007 Silberman Seminar, which is funded and conducted by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.