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KU Law to honor 3 alumni with top award
LAWRENCE — Three University of Kansas School of Law alumni will receive the law school’s highest alumni honor, the Distinguished Alumni Award, this year. The award celebrates graduates for their professional achievements, contributions to the legal field and service to their communities and the university. ...
U.S. News & World Report ranks 51 KU graduate programs in top 50 among public schools
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Meet Paul Cope, new director of the Master of Science in Homeland Security: Law and Policy Program
Education privacy law failing, including racialized 'dirty data,' KU law professor writes
LAWRENCE — Congress passed the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, known as FERPA, in 1974 in large part due to concerns about inaccurate and misleading data collected in schools that could negatively affect students. New research from Najarian Peters, associate professor of law at the University of Kansas, argues...
Law students offer assistance with free tax preparation
LAWRENCE — As tax season is underway, the University of Kansas School of Law is offering free tax preparation services for those who qualify. ...
Suspension of normal trade relations with Russia justified, international trade law expert says
LAWRENCE — President Joe Biden announced today that the United States will join other G-7 nations and the European Union in moving to suspend normal trade relations with Russia. The move is a continuation of the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and will raise tariffs on Russian products. ...
KU Law team wins championship at national Indian law moot court competition
SEC likely doesn't have authority to enact new regulations on 'unicorns,' law professor writes
KU Legal Aid Clinic, Douglas County DA’s Office to host Expungement Clinic
LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas School of Law’s Legal Aid Clinic and the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office will host a virtual Clean Slate Criminal Record Expungement Clinic in March. ...
Meet Irma Russell, distinguished visiting professor
Sanctions on Russia chance for US to improve on 'checkered history,' international trade law expert says
LAWRENCE — As the United States and its European allies impose sanctions on Russia for the escalating conflict with Ukraine, talk has centered on the economic ramifications not just for Moscow, but for the global economy. International trade law expert Raj Bhala of the University of Kansas School of Law...
KU team to compete at national bankruptcy moot court competition
LAWRENCE – Two University of Kansas School of Law students will compete at the 30th Annual Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition in New York City later this month. ...
Law Journal Symposium to explore post-pandemic privacy in law, public health, technology, cybersecurity
LAWRENCE — Scholars and experts in law will focus on post-pandemic privacy implications concerning the disparities in the health system, technology and cybersecurity for a University of Kansas School of Law event. ...
KU law expert can discuss retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer, 'best hope of true advocates'
LAWRENCE — Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has announced he will retire, giving President Joe Biden his first opportunity to make an appointment to the high court. Stephen McAllister, a University of Kansas professor and expert in constitutional law who has argued before the Supreme Court nine times, can comment...
KU Law students win grants, committed to serving rural Kansas
LAWRENCE – Two third-year students at the University of Kansas School of Law will receive grants from the Kansas Farm Bureau Legal Foundation. Mary McMullen and Luke Sunderland are recipients of the foundation's Rural Law Practice Grant. ...
2021 KU Law Annual Report
KU Law graduate selected for prestigious Skadden Fellowship
LAWRENCE – D.C. Hiegert, a 2021 graduate of the University of Kansas School of Law, will serve as a 2022 Skadden Fellow. ...
Parallel pandemics of illness, racial inequality must be acknowledged for progress, law professor writes
University community remembers Bruce Hopkins, law professor of practice
LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas community mourns the passing of Bruce Hopkins, professor of practice from the School of Law. Hopkins died Oct. 31. He was 80. ...
'Unicorniphobia' may be a rush to regulate big money private companies, professor says
New online homeland security graduate programs equip students with specialized industry knowledge
OVERLAND PARK — The University of Kansas is wrapping up the first semester of the new online Master of Science in Homeland Security: Law & Policy degree and an online Graduate Certificate in Homeland Security: Law & Policy. These KU School of Law programs allow military, government and other professionals...
KU alumnus gives $2M gift for engineering, law schools
LAWRENCE — A gift from the estate of University of Kansas alumnus Dean Frisbie provides $1 million to the School of Law and $1 million to the School of Engineering. ...
Law Review Symposium to investigate judicial conduct and misconduct
LAWRENCE – Tasked with resolving all matters before them, judges are perceived to be impartial, fair and just. Their authority, however, has prevented some judges from always seeing the consequences of their actions. A panel of judicial ethics experts from across the country will discuss “Judicial Conduct & Misconduct: A...
KU Law welcomes Class of 2024
KU Law graduates outperform statewide bar pass rates in Kansas, Missouri
LAWRENCE – University of Kansas School of Law graduates who took the Kansas and Missouri bar exams for the first time in July 2021 passed at rates well above the state averages. ...
KU Law, Wichita State partner to expand accelerated bachelor's, law degree program
LAWRENCE – Students at Wichita State University will have an opportunity to accelerate their legal education and save a year of tuition, thanks to an expansion of the Legal Education Accelerated Degree (LEAD) program at the University of Kansas. ...
Proposed law changes show less financial transparency may be good in some cases, professor writes
LAWRENCE — For nearly 50 years, mutual funds, hedge funds and other institutional investors have been required to file quarterly reports identifying the companies they have invested in and how much stock they hold in each one. Last summer, when the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed dramatically curtailing this disclosure...
KU Law ranks 16th for faculty scholarly impact among public law schools
LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas School of Law ranks 16th in the nation among public law schools and 40th overall for scholarly impact, according to a new study. ...