School of Law

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.

Photo by Mary ButkusPeter J. Wiedenbeck was installed as the Joseph H. Zumbalen Professor of the Law of Property Feb. 27 in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Ever since his stint as a naval officer, Charles R. McManis, J.D., the Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law, has repeatedly traversed new and complex waters. McManis’ unusual path to the law and teaching has taken him from sailor and burgeoning philosopher to the forefront of biopiracy prevention and digital intellectual property law in […]

During the Age of Imperialism, historical art pieces such as the Bust of Nefertiti were taken from their home countries and installed in major world museums. Leading academics, authors and curators will examine whether these works should be returned to their source nations at the “Imperialism, Art & Restitution” conference March 26-27 at the School […]

Seligman draws on extensive personal interviews to provide a comprehensive examination of the SEC.

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.