Author: Jessica Roberts Martin

An American Indian Pow Wow, a traditional food tasting and a discussion on the therapeutic benefits of tribal ceremonies are among the highlights of the University’s American Indian Awareness Week March 31-April 5. All events are free and open to the public. The celebration culminates April 5 in the Field House with the 18th annual Pow Wow, a festival of American Indian dancing, singing, drumming, arts, crafts and food.

Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotoAn American Indian Pow Wow, a traditional food tasting and a discussion on the therapeutic benefits of tribal ceremonies are among the highlights of the University’s American Indian Awareness Week March 31-April 5. All events are free and open to the public. The celebration culminates April 5 in the Field House with the 18th annual Pow Wow, a festival of American Indian dancing, singing, drumming, arts, crafts and food. This year’s theme is “Honoring Our Native Veterans and All Those Who Serve.”

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez recently appointed F. Scott Kieff, J.D., professor of law, to serve a three-year term on the nine-person Patent Public Advisory Committee of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Congress created the committee in 1999 to advise the under secretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the […]

The Interfaculty Initiative for American Indian Affairs is sponsoring Witaya Lecture Series, a program that focuses on topics related to American Indian and Alaskan Native studies. Witaya means coming together as a community in the Lakota language. The series begins at noon March 4 with a lecture by Puneet Sahota, Washington University M.D./Ph.D. candidate, on […]

A team of five students from the School of Law recently traveled to Chicago, where they competed in and won the Midwest Super-Regional of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Twenty-four teams from throughout the Midwest participated in the super-regional. In the preliminary rounds, Washington University faced Chicago-Kent College of Law, Saint […]

The Interfaculty Initiative for American Indian Affairs (IIAA) is sponsoring the Witaya Lecture Series, a program that focuses on topics related to American Indian and Alaskan Native studies. Witaya means “coming together as a community” in the Lakota language. The series was scheduled to begin March 4 with a lecture by Puneet Sahota, an M.D./Ph.D. […]

LegomskyA recent academic study confirmed empirically what many immigration experts had already suspected: The chance of winning an asylum case often hinges as much on the luck of the draw as on the merits of the case. Some adjudicators grant asylum liberally while others grant it only rarely, and the disparities are dramatic. The Stanford Law Review asked Stephen Legomsky, J.D., D.Phil., leading immigration and asylum law expert and John S. Lehmann University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, to write an article analyzing the policy implications of this study. Legomsky offers a controversial conclusion: “There are times when we simply have to learn to live with unequal justice because the alternatives are worse.”

Third-year law students Andrew Nash and Samir Kaushik won the prestigious D.M. Harish Memorial International Law Moot Court Competition (DMH), held in Mumbai, India. The two defeated teams from around the world en route to the championship and eventually defeated a team from Cornell Law School in the championship round.

The School of Law is hosting a roundtable discussion on transnational law titled “Globalization of Law and the Future of Legal Education” at noon on Feb. 26 in Anheuser-Busch Hall. WUSTL’s new Transnational Law Program, a U.S./European combined degree offering, is a cooperative initiative among Washington University School of Law, Utrecht University in The Netherlands, Catholic University of Portugal, Queens University Belfast and the University of Trento in Italy. “We are excited to offer this unique new program that will benefit both our students and faculty, and students and faculty at our partner schools,” says Michael Peil, executive director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute. “The integrated aspect of the curriculum makes it unlike any other offering at our peer institutions. Both our American and European graduates will be prepared for rewarding professional lives in an increasingly globalized world.”

A team of five students from the School of Law recently traveled to Chicago where they competed in and won the Midwest Super-Regional of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Washington University’s team will now advance to the Shearman & Sterling International Rounds of the Jessup Competition in Washington, DC. The International Rounds are the championship stage of the competition, and will pit the law school team against about 100 regional and national champions from around the world.