How do you teach immigration law during an immigration crisis?
What is it like to teach immigration law during an immigration crisis? Not easy. Katie Herbert Meyer, director of the Immigration Clinic at the law school, discusses the major challenges.
Baugh selected as Bellagio Center resident scholar
John Baugh, the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences, will begin research for a new book on linguistic profiling as part of an April 2016 scholar-in-residence program at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center on Lake Como in Italy.
Lecture series examines intersection of religion, medicine, law
Issues at the crossroads of religion, medicine and law will be the focus as the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics opens its fall lecture series Thursday, Sept. 10, with a talk on “Obamacare and American Values.”
Law’s Richards elected to Freedom to Read Foundation board
Neil Richards, JD, professor of law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, was one of six people recently elected to a two-year term on the Freedom to Read Foundation Board of Trustees.
WashU Experts: Texas abortion clinic ruling offers chance to clarify ‘undue burden’ standard
Does a recently upheld Texas abortion law impose an “undue burden” if it forces some women to drive as much as 600 miles to obtain an abortion at a state-approved clinic? That’s a question the U.S. Supreme Court may be asked to decide, suggests legal experts at Washington University in St. Louis.
New SCOTUS brief argues Hobby Lobby’s request is unconstitutional
The popular arts and crafts store Hobby Lobby is seeking a religious exemption from covering certain forms of contraception it would be required to provide under the contraception mandate of the Affordable Care Act. The case is headed to the Supreme Court, with oral arguments set to begin this spring. “Granting the exemption would shift the cost of accommodating Hobby Lobby’s religious exercise to employees who do not share its beliefs,” argues Elizabeth Sepper, JD, associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. “Such cost-shifting violates the Establishment Clause.” Sepper is one of several experts who have authored an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court arguing the unconstitutionality of Hobby Lobby’s request.
Contraception mandate debate leads to worrisome ‘corporate conscience’ concept, law professor warns
The controversy and legal battles surrounding the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act have led to a new – and worrisome – legal concept: the idea of a “corporate conscience,” warns Elizabeth Sepper, who teaches at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.
Washington University School of Law collaborates with Husch Blackwell for professional development
Washington University School of Law and Husch Blackwell announce the launch of an intensive professional development program designed to enhance Husch Blackwell attorneys’ client relations and financial and legal business skills. Husch Blackwell University at Wash U will begin in fall 2013, when 25 to 30 of the firm’s attorneys will converge upon the Washington University in St. Louis campus for a series of three, three-day sessions.
Supreme Court decision closes loophole in Monsanto’s business model
The Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion in Bowman v. Monsanto
holds that farmers who lawfully obtain Monsanto’s patented, genetically
modified soybeans do not have a right to plant those soybeans and grow a
new crop of soybeans without Monsanto’s permission. “The Court closed a
potential loophole in Monsanto’s long-standing business model, prevents
Monsanto’s customers from setting up ‘farm-factories’ for producing
soybeans that could be sold in competition with Monsanto’s soybeans, and
it enables Monsanto to continue to earn a reasonable profit on its
patented technology,” says Kevin Collins, JD, patent law expert and
professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis
Political scientist Cohen to speak April 9
Author and political scientist Cathy Cohen studies American politics and particularly how they affect African-Americans, women and the LGBTQ community – never ignoring the intersections between these identity categories. She will be on campus April 9 to give a lecture titled “Race, Sex and Neoliberalism in the Age of Obama.”
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