Author: Neil Schoenherr

Elizabeth Katz, associate professor of law at Washington University School of Law, has been selected as the 2021-2022 Haub Law Emerging Scholar in Gender & Law by Pace University for her paper “Sex, Suffrage, and State Constitutional Law: Women’s Legal Right to Hold Public Office.”

The Washington University School of Law’s Clinical Education Program held its first pro bono estate planning clinic July 26 and 28 to serve low-income members of the St. Louis community.  

Disparities in cancer stage at diagnosis among racial and ethnic minority children and adolescents may be partially explained by health insurance coverage, finds a study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Jin Huang, research associate professor at the Brown School and professor at Saint Louis University, delivered a keynote address before the 2022 Financial Literacy Education Forum in mainland China. The event drew an audience of nearly 2.7 million viewers.

One of the top medical journals in the world, The Lancet Global Health, recently launched a new initiative focused on urban design, transport and health. Several members of the Brown School’s Prevention Research Center have taken on a lead role.

Jeremy Goldbach, the Masters & Johnson Distinguished Professor in Sexual Health and Education at the Brown School, has received a five-year $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to better understand intimate partner violence among LGBTQ adolescents.

While the ruling in the Maine case is unsurprising given the court’s recent decisions around freedom of religion, some of the rhetoric around the case misrepresents the role of constitutional protections for religion in a pluralistic society, said John Inazu, expert on law and religion at Washington University in St. Louis.

A community-based rehabilitation program may be an effective way to provide services to people with disabilities even in places with conflict such as Afghanistan, finds a new study from the Brown School and the School of Medicine at Washington University.

The single-year health burden associated with physical intimate partner violence in the South American country of Columbia was $90.6 million, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Jason Jabbari, research assistant professor with the Social Policy Institute at Washington University, received a $512,000 grant from The William T. Grant Foundation to understand if and how the Choice Neighborhood Initiative reduces racial inequalities in academic outcomes for children and youth.