School of Law

Distinguished Law Alumni Award honorees were John W. Kozyak, Sanford S. Neuman, Joan M. Newman and Maury B. Poscover; Pamela H. Bucy and R. Mark McCareins received Young Alumni Awards.

SadatInternational lawyers, human rights advocates, top government officials and, most recently, the U.S. House of Representatives have urged that Saddam Hussein and other top Iraqi leaders be indicted for the massive atrocities they have committed during the past two decades. Leila Nadya Sadat, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis and an expert on international war crimes tribunals, notes that the current military action could make effective and legitimate war crimes prosecutions much more difficult.

John O. Haley leads the law school’s Whitney Harris Institute.

Jerome A. Cohen, a leading American specialist on Chinese law, will present a lecture on “Criminal Justice & U.S.-China Relations” at 3 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. Cohen, professor of law at New York University and of counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, has expertise in […]

Titled “Bankruptcy and Reorganization: Current Events and Future Outlook,” the F. Hodge O’Neal Corporate and Securities Law Symposium is April 2.

The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and the Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies in the School of Law and the Department of Political Science in Arts & Sciences will present a conference called “Globalization, the State, and Society” Nov. 13-14 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. This event is part […]

Photo by Kevin LowderVarious dinners were held at the University, including at the Olin School of Business, the School of Law and Lien House.

Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in topics relating to labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are being invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held biweekly through April. Now in its eighth year, the “Work, Families and Public Policy” series […]

The Department of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science moved up two spots to 14th in the nation.

The School of Law’s sixth annual Public Interest Law Speaker Series is held in Anheuser-Busch Hall; all lectures are free and open to the public.