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Dome improvement
School of Law installs canopy over courtyard
May 8,
2008 -- On May 5 and 6, 2008, construction crews raised a massive steel canopy structure up two stories over the School of Law's Anheuser-Busch Hall using the largest crane in Missouri.
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Quincy Jones among recipients
Washington University to award six honorary degrees at 147th Commencement
May 1,
2008 -- Six distinguished individuals, including a pioneer of women in medicine and a multimedia entrepreneur, will receive honorary degrees May 16 during Washington University's 147th Commencement ceremony. The university also will bestow academic degrees on more than 2,500 students during the ceremony, which begins at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle.
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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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Adam Rosenzweig
Associate Professor of Law
Adam Rosenzweig has done extensive work in the area of tax law and policy. He previously worked as a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University School of Law and clerked for Judge James L. Dennis, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. While working in New York, Rosenzweig ...
Direct contact: (314) 935-4419
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arosenzweig@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Gerrit De Geest
Professor of Law
De Geest specializes in comparative law and in law and economics. As a member of the European Group on an Integrated Contract Law and of the Economic Impact Group of the Common Principles of European Contract Law, De Geest has delved extensively into these issues and has served as the president of ...
Direct contact: (314) 935-7839
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degeest@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Carl Minzner
Associate Professor of Law
Carl Minzner is well known for his work in Chinese law and politics. Before joining the law faculty, he served as senior counsel on the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and was an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Minzner's experiences abroad while working ...
Direct contact: (314) 935-6273
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cminzner@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Cheryl Block
Professor of Law
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Cheryl Block is an expert in tax law and policy. Author of a leading book on corporate taxation, she has also written numerous articles on taxation, public policy relating to federal bailouts, legislative voting rules, social choice theory, federal budget process, and the interplay between tax and ...
Expertise: tax law and policy, corporate taxation, federal bailouts
Direct contact: (314) 935-6444
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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
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Backed patent bill in trouble in U.S. Senate
The Guardian (UK)
and 10 others
April 15,
2008 -- A long-negotiated patent overhaul bill sought by technology companies and opposed by big pharmaceutical makers ran into trouble in the U.S. Senate. Scott Kieff, WUSTL law professor and patent law expert, comments.
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Commentary: Let The Markets Regulate Microsoft
Forbes.com
March 12,
2008 -- WUSTL law professor Scott Kieff writes a commentary about regulating Microsoft.
He is also a research fellow at Stanford University' s Hoover Institution, where he runs the Hoover Project on Commercializing Innovation, which studies the law, economics and politics of innovation.
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Clemens Autograph Seekers May Have Broken Federal Law
The New York Times
Feb. 14,
2008 -- WUSTL 's Kathleen Clark, law professor, comments on members of the House oversight committee who asked Roger Clemens for an autograph during his tour of the Capitol. The requests may have violated a federal law against soliciting things of value from people with interests before the committee,
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Drug Informant Fights Deportation
NPR Day to Day
Feb. 8,
2008 -- A Nigerian immigrant here facing deportation says he's going to be tortured and killed if he is, in fact, sent back home. Frank Enwonwu was caught smuggling heroin 22 years ago. Since then he's lived the dangerous life of an informant for federal drug authorities.
He claims part of the deal was a promise to allow him to stay in the U.S. and escape revenge from the Nigerian drug dealers. Professor Stephen Legomsky, an immigration law expert at Washington University in St. Louis, comments.
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Saggy Pants Bans May Not Be Lawful
Associated Press
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Dec. 3,
2007 -- Pine Lawn, a mostly black municipality outside St. Louis, is among a growing number of U.S. cities enacting laws that ban low-slung pants.
Critics say the bans amount to government attacks on youthful fashion that some find offensive. And constitutional scholars say they may not be lawful.
WUSTL law professor and First Amendment expert Neil Richards comments.
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