Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

Director: John Drobak

Home Page: http://law.wustl.edu/centeris/index.html Location: 586 Anheuser-Busch

Created in 1999 at the Washington University School of Law, the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies supports interdisciplinary legal research and scholarship. Rather than concentrating on the interaction between law and one other academic discipline, the Center sponsors annual programs and activities that focus on cutting-edge legal issues and that require expertise, exploration, and discussion from other disciplines. The University has long advocated interdisciplinary learning. Several of the law school's faculty members hold joint appointments. The Center builds upon this premise, offering more than eight different joint-degree programs and a number of courses taught, or co-taught, by faculty from other university departments. John N. Drobak, the George Alexander Madill Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, serves as the Director of the Center located in the law school's state of the art building, Anheuser-Busch Hall.

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Crucial clearinghouse Elusive civil rights court records now just a click away with new online database Nov. 9, 2006 -- Photo courtesy Library of Congress. Thurgood Marshall (center) with George E.C. Hayes and James Nabri celebrating the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Download For the past 50-plus years, civil rights litigation has greatly affected Americans' lives. It has secured our Constitutional rights, and it has dramatically improved many of our public and private institutions. Information about these cases, however, has been exceedingly difficult to locate. Until now. More...

Convicted, executed but not guilty? Wrongful executions to be examined at WUSTL law conference Nov. 17 Nov. 8, 2006 -- The WUSTL School of Law's Clinical Education Program and Center for Interdisciplinary Studies will host the sixth annual Access to Equal Justice conference Nov. 17 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. The conference will focus on "Examining the Risks of Wrongful Executions and the Role of Prosecutors, Defense Attorneys, Academia and the Press." Panelists will examine four criminal cases that many critics believe ended in the executions of innocent defendants.

Access to Justice WUSTL law school speaker series focuses on public interest Sept. 19, 2006 -- A lead counsel in the Guantanamo Bay detainees U.S. Supreme Court case, an expert on pornography in feminism and law, and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee for his work in international criminal justice are part of the fall lineup for the School of Law's ninth annual Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series.

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John Drobak George Alexander Madill Professor of Law and Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Drobak Download John N. Drobak is a pioneer of interdisciplinary study who has embraced the value of looking to other fields to study long before it became popular to transcend academic boundaries. Drobak has brought his enthusiasm for interdisciplinary learning to the classroom as he teaches courses in the fields ... Expertise: antitrust, civil procedure, economic regulation, law and the economy, political economy, property rights, constitution of Rebuplic of Georgia, … Direct contact: (314) 935-6487 / drobak@wulaw.wustl.edu

Pauline Kim John S. Lehmann Research Professor and Professor of Law Pauline Kim Download Kim specializes in employment law,employment discrimination law, the litigation process and the role of the courts. She teaches courses in civil procedure, employment law and pretrial practice and procedure. Kim is one of the researchers on the Supreme Court Forecasting Project and one of the co-founders ... Expertise: civil procedure, employment law, pretrial procedure, racial discrimination in employment, sexual discrimination in employment, disability discrimination, employment discrimination law, … Direct contact: (314) 935-8570 / kim@wulaw.wuatl.edu

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State unable to prove KCP&L violated rules Kansas City Star and 14 others Feb. 2, 2006 -- The evidence that would show whether a coal-fired power plant near Weston violated its permit is inconclusive, according to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Kansas City Power & Light got a permit and plans to build a second coal-fired power plant next to it. In their argument, Sierra Club and other opponents used a study by WUSTL law school's Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic. Evidence of a boiler upgrade came largely from an analysis conducted by the Washington University Law School's Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic.