Paredes appointed to SEC

Troy Paredes, J.D., professor of law, was nominated by President George W. Bush May 6 to serve as one of five commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Law professor Troy Paredes nominated to SEC

On May 6, President George W. Bush nominated Troy Paredes, J.D., professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, to serve as commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission. “Troy Paredes is an extraordinary lawyer, teacher, and scholar who cares about well-functioning securities markets,” said Kent Syverud, J.D., dean and the Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor. “He will make an excellent SEC Commissioner.”

Haley conference to draw scholars from around the world

The School of Law will bring together top comparative law scholars from around the world for “Law in Japan: A Celebration of the Works of John Owen Haley” Friday and Saturday, May 9 and 10, in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. “John Haley is this nation’s leading Japanese legal scholar and a […]

Haley conference to draw scholars from around the world

Top comparative law scholars from around the world will gather at the School of Law for “Law in Japan: A Celebration of the Works of John Owen Haley” Friday and Saturday, May 9-10, in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Dome improvement

Photo by David KilperOn May 5, construction crews began raising a massive steel canopy structure up two stories over the School of Law’s Anheuser-Busch Hall, using the largest crane in Missouri.

Crimes Against Humanity project to draft international treaty

The Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute of the 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 […]

Excerpts from “What We Believe”

Newsboys of St. Louis: In 1910, Ina T. Tyler, a student and researcher in the St. Louis School of Social Economy (now the Geroge Warren Brown School of Social Work), studied a third of the 1,800 local newsboys, more than half of them children of immigrants, to see what their lives were like— and how this work affected their education. Her findings showed that limits on this work, which involved children as young as nine years old, were urgently needed.
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