School of Law opens First Amendment Clinic
The School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis has launched a new First Amendment Clinic, aimed at allowing students to gain experience by providing legal assistance to organizations, students, journalists and citizens.
Obituary: Merton Bernstein, emeritus professor of law, 96
Merton C. Bernstein, the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, died at his home in Brewster, Mass., on Aug. 3, 2019. He was 96.
Five years after Ferguson, let’s make sure frontline activists don’t become ‘living casualties’
Imagine how many more leaders, ideas, and solutions we will have access to from our local and national discourse when we make it possible for movement leaders to return to the classroom, grow their leadership, and incubate their best work.
Empress of the stage
Reminding her audience that she could put on and take off roles as she chose, Bessie Smith sidestepped an old type, making room for the new.
Police violence a leading cause of death among specific U.S. groups, ‘sobering’ study finds
Police violence is a leading cause of death for young men in the United States, finds a new study from Washington University in St. Louis. Over the life course, about 1 in every 1,000 black men can expect to be killed by police.
How Toni Morrison changed fiction
It is by her literary invocations of an unlovely past and troubling anticipations of the present that Morrison’s narratives can make even the harshest tale bearable and perhaps just a little more knowable.
Protect our human rights, not gun rights
Missouri voters have shown they care about their human rights, and that they want the Legislature to adopt the kind of reasonable gun control measures the state had throughout most of its history. The Legislature must do so before a tragedy in this state becomes just another grisly episode on the nightly news.
WashU Expert: How to save the Supreme Court
During the July 30 Democratic presidential debate, candidate Pete Buttigieg renewed his calls to “depoliticize the Supreme Court with structural reform.” Buttigieg has endorsed a Supreme Court reform proposal offered by Daniel Epps, associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis.
Missouri needs new plan to tackle opioid crisis
The people of Missouri deserve and should demand immediate change. Change of leadership. Change of plan. And change in attitude.
Cyber capabilities are not weapons of war? A closer look at the analogy to biological weapons
So far, cyber capabilities and operations have not generated fears about such grave, gruesome, and repugnant threats to human life, health and social order.
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