School of Law

Lack of “complete crime” hampered conviction chances in federal corruption trial of Rod Blagojevich, says WUSTL law professor Peter Joy.

A recent article by Laura Rosenbury, JD, professor of law, examines laws governing child custody, sex toys and off-hours affairs. All are the result of legal rulings from a Supreme Court decision once expected to broaden sexual rights, Rosenbury writes in the article “Sex In and Out of Intimacy,” published in July in the Emory Law Journal.

Fourteen Washington University in St. Louis School of Law faculty, led by Gregory Magarian, JD, professor of law, played a prominent role in vetting new U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.

Kent D. Syverud JD, dean of the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and the Ethan A. H. Shepley University Professor, has been named an independent trustee of the $20 billion BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust. He is one of two appointees who will oversee the newly established trust designed to settle claims against BP resulting from the Deepwater Horizon explosion April 20.

A district judge’s decision to overturn California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage technically puts the issue one step away from the U.S. Supreme Court. But Washington University in St. Louis experts say a final ruling may wait until other, similar cases work their way through the legal system.

The Senate’s approval of Elena Kagan as a U.S. Supreme Court justice marks the first time three women will serve together and gives the court its youngest member, among other shifts.

A comprehensive study by an intellectual property law expert published in the journal Science may guide global climate change and other scientific policy-makers in developing rules for research data release. 

Four School of Law faculty members have received Fulbright awards for the 2010-11 school year. They are Dorsey D. Ellis Jr., JD; ; David Law, JD, PhD; Jo Ellen Lewis, JD; and Leila N. Sadat, JD.

The U.S. Justice Department lawsuit filed July 6 against Arizona’s controversial new immigration law will likely see partial success, according to a Washington University in St. Louis law professor. But he predicts the legal battle will extend beyond Arizona.

Hillary A. Sale, JD, securities law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, talks with Steve Chiotakis of Marketplace Public Radio about whether it’s difficult to prosecute derivatives trading and what she’s watching closely about cases coming down the pike.