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.

Harry T. Edwards, chief judge emeritus and judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, will deliver the School of Law’s 2004 Tyrrell Williams Lecture. “A Conversation With Judge Edwards” will begin at 4 p.m. Feb. 18 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. Edwards is expected to […]

She was recognized with a Teaching and Mentoring Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.

He will succeed David M. Becker as the Zumbalen professor; the formal installation will be Feb. 27 in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

The respondent in the U.S. Supreme Court affirmative action cases Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger and a member of the American Society on International Law’s executive counsel are part of the fall lineup for the School of Law’s sixth annual Public Interest Law Speaker Series. This popular series, titled “Access to Justice: The […]

James W. Ellis, the National Law Journal’s 2002 Lawyer of the Year, will deliver the keynote address during the School of Law’s fourth annual access to equal justice conference, titled “Mental Health and the Law,” March 19 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. Ellis, professor of law at the University of New […]

Photo by Kevin LowderSchool of Law students rehearse a re-enactment of the second Dred Scott trial for the University’s 150th Birthday Party Sept. 14.

Jordanian Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein will lecture on “The International Criminal Court: Future Challenges” at noon March 18 in Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 309. Al-Hussein is the permanent representative of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United Nations and president of the Assembly of States Parties for the International Criminal Court. His lecture is […]