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Samuel Buell
Associate Professor of Law
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Samuel Buell writes and teaches in the area of regulation of behavior in corporations and financial markets. His courses include Criminal Law and Securities Regulation. Buell frequently comments on white collar crime and federal criminal law for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington ...
Expertise: securities regulation, criminal law, white collar crime, corporations, federal criminal law
Direct contact: (314) 935-6406
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swbuell@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Steven Gunn
Associate Professor of Law
Gunn, an expert on American Indian law, has extensive experience in public interest litigation and has written numerous articles on Indian law and on the intersection of poverty and law and economics. Prior to becoming a professor, Gunn was a staff attorney for the Volunteer Lawyers Project of the ...
Expertise: American Indian law, Federal Indian law, tribal courts, tribal law
Direct contact: (314) 935-6413
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sjgunn@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Laura Rosenbury
Associate Professor of Law
Rosenbury focuses her research and teaching on family law and anti-discrimination law. She has practiced in the areas of criminal, antitrust, securities, and consumer law. Rosenbury serves on the board of Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD, Inc.), a national nonprofit organization that seeks ...
Expertise: anti-discrimination law, family law,
Direct contact: (314) 935-5935
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larosenb@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Kimberly Jade Norwood
Professor of Law and Professor of African and African American Studies
Kimberly Norwood, an expert on the impact of race on education and the legal profession, also is available to discuss products liability and torts issues. In addition to her work at the law school, Norwood teaches a workshop for St. Louis public school teachers as part of a grant provided by the U. ...
Expertise: products liability, torts, race and the legal profession, race and education, civil procedure, civil justice, stereotypes and biases in the courtroom
Direct contact: (314) 935-6416
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norwood@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Katherine Barnes
Associate Professor of Law
Barnes is an expert on statistical evidence and forms of proof. She is the co-author of "Road Work: Racial Profiling and Drug Interdiction on the Highway." Barnes has also written on the relationship between crime rates and American attitudes towards the death penalty and deterence and the death ...
Expertise: statistical evidence, forms of proof, racial profiling, discrimnation law, labor and employment law, civil procedure, criminal procedure, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-6273
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kybarnes@wustl.edu
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A tale of two artists
A Challenge to Democracy explores legacy of Japanese internment camps
Sept. 17,
2009 --
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| Ansel Adams, Smiling Girl (Oriental Type), 1943 |
In the 1930s, the photographer Ansel Adams struck up a friendship with California painter Chiura Obata. Yet the arrival of World War II would set these two celebrated artists on radically divergent paths — paths that would, in very different ways, lead both to the now-infamous "war relocation centers" at which the U.S. government forcibly interred approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans. Next month their sons, Michael Adams and Gyo Obata, will explore the impact of internment on their respective families in a public dialog at Washington University.
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ACORN controversy
Voter fraud allegations are pure bluster, says election law expert
Oct. 24,
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"No evidence exists of any serious threat of voter fraud, at present or in any recent election cycle," says Greg Magarian, J.D., election law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. The current cries of 'fraud' focus on the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a public interest organization that advocates for low- and moderate- income and minority citizens. "Filing false registration forms does not constitute voter fraud," he says. "Voter fraud requires voting by a person who is not legally entitled to vote. That is a difficult trick to pull off, and simply turning in a registration form for 'Captain Crunch' does almost nothing to enable it."
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Blue-ribbon steering committee drafting international treaty
Harris World Law Institute kicks off landmark Crimes Against Humanity Project
April 25,
2008 -- The Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute of Washington University School of Law announced a two-year project to study the international law regarding crimes against humanity and to draft a multilateral treaty condemning and prohibiting such crimes. Leila Sadat, J.D., the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law and director of the Harris Institute, recently convened the first meeting of the project's steering committee.
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Defendants, With Assets Frozen, Find It Tough to Hire Attorneys
The Wall Street Journal
April 3,
2009 -- Some defendants with frozen assets are having trouble hiring lawyers. WUSTL law professor Sam Buell, a former federal prosecutor comments.
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Settlements In Mental Health Cases Face Scrutiny
NPR All Things Considered
March 31,
2009 -- In some cases the Justice Department can intervene to make state-run institutions comply with civil rights laws. The statute is known as CRIPA -- the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act. WUSTL law professor Margo Schlanger, who used to work on CRIPA cases as a Justice Department attorney comments.
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Briefing: A rocky start for war crimes world court
The Christian Science Monitor
March 6,
2009 -- The arrest warrant for Sudan's president for war crimes is indicative of the mounting pressure on the International Criminal Court to show results. Includes comments by WUSTL law professor Leila Nadya Sadat, who was a delegate to the diplomatic conference at which the ICC was established.
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UBS Pressed for 52,000 Names in 2nd Inquiry
The New York Times
and 7 others
Feb. 20,
2009 -- A UBS memo, along with dozens of e-mail messages like it, were disclosed on Thursday in a blistering court document filed by the Justice Department, which sought to compel UBS, based in Switzerland, to divulge the identities of 52,000 Americans whom the authorities suspect of using secret offshore accounts at the bank to dodge taxes. WUSTL criminal and securities law professor Samuel Buell, who helped to prosecute Enron, comments.
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Federal judge wants his polygraph used in Houston trial
Houston Chronicle
and 2 others
Nov. 3,
2008 -- WUSTL law professor and former Enron prosecutor Samuel Buell, comments on U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent's Houston trial.
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Commentary: Jailing Executives Is One Thing Bush Did Right
Bloomberg.com
Oct. 31,
2008 -- WUSTL law professor Samuel Buell comments on prosecuting white-collar crimes.
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FBI Paints Chilling Portrait of Anthrax-Attack Suspect
The Wall Street Journal
Aug. 7,
2008 -- In a series of court documents that were at turns chilling and bizarre, federal investigators said U.S. Army microbiologist Bruce Ivins misled government agents investigating the 2001 anthrax mailings, sent emails with language closely matching the handwritten letters sent to victims and had access to the strain of anthrax used in the crime. WUSTL microbial genetics expert George Weinstock, who was not involved in the investigation, comments.
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Whose pants on fire?
The Economist
May 12,
2008 -- The latest technology in lie detection technology is called voice risk analysis (VRA). WUSTL psychology professor Mitchell Sommers, who is a specialist in speech perception, says the findings confirm what other studies have shown about VRA: that it is not particularly good at detecting liars, but that it does act as an excellent deterrent.
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Experts Study Neuroscience Use in Courts
Associated Press
and 82 others
March 3,
2008 -- Brain scans have emerged as potentially powerful tools in court battles over defendants' sanity. More defense attorneys are seeking scans showing brain damage or abnormalities that might have made it difficult for their clients to control violent impulses. Marcus E. Raichle, researcher of neurology and radiology at the School of Medicine, comments.
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Two plead guilty in dogfighting case tied to vick
The New York Times
and 4 others
Aug. 17,
2007 -- Two more individuals who pleaded not guilty last month along with Michael Vick to charges stemming from a dog fighting ring agreed to plea agreements with the government. He faces three felony charges related to dog fighting and could face up to five years in prison and as much as a $250,000 fine if found guilty. Christopher Bracey, a professor of law and African American Studies at WUSTL, comments in a telephone interview.
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Court Settles Fight Between Boehner, McDermott
NPR: All Things Considered
May 2,
2007 -- A 10-year-old case about politics, free speech and privacy rights that started with an illegally recorded telephone conversation, was resolved at the D.C. federal appeals court.
WUSTL law professor Neil Richards, an expert in First Amendment and privacy law, comments on the court's decision.
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What Will Senate Hearings Mean for Gonzales?
NPR - Talk Of The Nation
April 24,
2007 -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced tough questions during the Senate Judiciary Committee over his role in the firing of eight federal prosecutors.
WUSTL law professor Samuel Buell, who is a former Enron prosecutor, was one of the experts speaking in this broadcast.
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Charges filed in HP spying scandal
NPR Marketplace
Oct. 5,
2006 -- California's attorney general today filed criminal charges against former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn and four others involved in the corporate spying scandal.
WUSTL law professor Samuel Buell comments on the case.
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Organ trade in China raises alarm over human rights
Kansas City Star
and 16 others
Aug. 24,
2006 -- As transplant lists grow longer, more Americans are traveling to China for organs. The trend alarms ethicists and U.S. doctors concerned about the human rights of donors and the health and safety of recipients.
Includes comments by Jeffrey Crippin, president of the American Society of Transplantation and medical director of WUSTL's liver transplant program, and Ira Kodner, a colorectal surgeon and director of the WUSTL's Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values.
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Political pros sharpen their knives in press release wars
Associated Press State & Local Wire
and 5 others
July 26,
2006 -- Article on the increasingly common attack fare in news releases from political operatives desperate to spin news coverage to their advantage.
WUSTL political rhetoric expert Wayne Fields, who directs the American Culture Studies program, says these tactics threaten to drain the substance out of political debate.
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U.S. prosecutors playing 'hardball' with Black
National Post (Canada)
July 10,
2006 -- Conrad Black's legal team is to give a Chicago judge an updated financial portrait today of the former press baron after U.S. prosecutors two weeks ago accused Lord Black of deliberately understating his assets during bail negotiations last year.
WUSTL law professor Samuel Buell comments.
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Hussein presents a spirited defense
Los Angeles Times
and 3 others
April 6,
2006 -- Article covers events from Wednesday in the Saddam Hussein trial.
His savvy take on contemporary Iraqi politics took some observers by surprise.
WUSTL international law professor Leila Nadya Sadat, who watched segments of the trial on the Internet, comments.
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California prisons uneasily prepare to desegregate cells
Wall Street Journal
March 22,
2006 -- Prison culture dictates that inmates stick with their own kind, associating almost exclusively with other inmates from their race or ethnic group, defending them to the death if necessary. And that is why prison officials, inmates and scholars are uneasy as California's prison system prepares to introduce a formal policy desegregating its double cells, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that prisoners may not be routinely segregated in cells by race. The ruling has ramifications for state correctional systems nationwide.
WUSTL law professor Margo Schlanger, who specializes in incarceration litigation, comments.
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Commentary: Private insecurities
Wall Street Journal
Feb. 20,
2006 -- U. Pittsburgh professor Ken Lehn looks at the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act on its 10th anniversary. He mentions a recent study co-authored by WUSTL business professor Anjan Thakor which reveals a fundamental problem: The compensation investors receive in settlements of federal securities class-actions does not correspond to the harm investors incur from alleged securities fraud.
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Saddam on trial
PBS – NewsHour
and 1 others
Feb. 16,
2006 -- PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer features a discussion of the trial of Saddam Hussein. Following a background report from Independent Television News, two lawyers give their reactions to the proceedings. WUSTL law professor Leila Sadat is one of the lawyers.
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Missouri executes 60th inmate despite call for all states to review capital punishment
February, 2003 - As Missouri's Supreme Court and its governor review a death penalty conviction in the aftermath of the state's 60th execution since 1989, both sides of the death penalty debate across the country will be closely monitoring Missouri's next moves.
Kenneth Kenly, 42, was executed at 12:01 a.m. Feb. 5 for murdering tavern patron Ronald Felts during a 1984 robbery in Poplar Bluff, Mo. The day before Kenly's execution, the Missouri Supreme Court began reviewing the death penalty conviction of Joseph Amrine, 45, who is appealing his conviction for the 1985 murder of fellow prison inmate Gary Barber. Full Story
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