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Fall 2022
In this issue of the SLU LAW Brief, learn how new ideas and perspectives brighten the field of law. Featuring professor and faculty advisor of the Intellectual Property concentration, Yvette Joy Liebesman, and the launch of the Diversity and Inclusion Advocacy Program.

Spring 2022
In awareness of global issues, this issue of the SLU LAW Brief follows students, faculty and alumni who look across borders and contribute to international outreach.

Summer 2021
This issue features alumni at all levels of elected public service, who discuss their paths to government positions and what lawyers can uniquely contribute to the public square. It also spotlights the Legal Clinics.

Fall 2020
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the SLU LAW community responds to the call to serve through leadership, scholarship and advocacy.

Winter 2019
Following the retirement of Prof. John Ammann ('84), who taught and directed in the Litigation Clinic for 25 years, this issue features the voices of his former students and also spotlights employment law.

Fall 2018
This issue celebrates the School of Law's dodransbicentennial, or 175 years. It features more alumni than any issue in recent memory, highlighting lawyers, judges and scholars pursuing "higher purpose, greater good" every day.

Spring 2018
This issue spotlights the intersection of health law research and practice, from the Clinics' efforts to secure access to hepatitis C medication for MO residents on Medicaid, to students' original research in an FDA seminar.

Fall 2017
This issue covers SLU and Catholic Legal Assistance Ministry (CLAM)'s efforts responding to recent changes in U.S. immigration law and rhetoric.

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The Next Big Idea: The Expanding Intellectual Property Concentration at SLU LAW
07/01/23- Highlighting SLU LAW's expanding Intellectual Property concentration's faculty advisor, Professor Yvette Liebesman, and current faculty and students.

Monica Eppinger Feature: Navigating History
07/11/22- Monica Eppinger, professor and co-director of the Center for International and Comparative Law (CICL), and her role of assisting Americans understand Ukraine.

Spotlight: The Center for Health Law Studies
07/23/20- The School of Law's health law faculty has risen to the challenge to help craft the public health response to COVID-19.

Faculty View: Ana Santos Rutschman
07/23/20- Prof. Ana Santos Rutschman, who specializes in issues at the intersection of health law and intellectual property, weighs in on the legal issues at play in the race for a COVID-19 vaccine.

Feature Story: Legal Education in a Pandemic II
07/23/20- Students in the new Human Rights at Home Litigation Clinic serve immigrant clients facing desperate circumstances.

Alumni Feature: Hon. Lisa Van Amburg
07/23/20- Just after the pandemic broke out, Judge Lisa Van Amburg received a call asking her to come out of retirement to co-chair the Missouri Bar's COVID-19 Task Force.

Feature Story: Legal Education in a Pandemic I
07/23/20- In Moot Court courses, students learn how to make virtual appellate arguments.

Feature Story: Life Lessons Learned in the Civil Litigation Clinic
11/01/19- Prof. John Ammann (’84) taught in and directed the Clinic for 25 years before retiring in 2019. This article features some of his former students, their memories of their time in the clinic under his mentorship, the lessons they learned and where they are now.

Alumni Reflection: Hon. Nicole Colbert-Botchway
11/01/19- Judge Colbert-Botchway says SLU LAW prepared her to achieve the professional success and personal satisfaction she now enjoys 23 years later, as the associate presiding judge for the 22nd Judicial Circuit of the City of St. Louis.

Alumni Feature: Jay Krupin
11/01/19- Jay Krupin, partner at BakerHostetler, was recently named a 2019 inductee of the Corporate Employment Lawyers Hall of Fame by Lawdragon. Here, he chats about his 40 years of practice in labor relations, his SLU LAW experience and his family.

Faculty View: Brendan Roediger
11/01/19- Prof. Brendan Roediger shares a reflection on the occasion of Prof. John Ammann’s retirement.

Spotlight: The Wefel Center for Employment Law
11/01/19- The Wefel Center has been receiving exciting national recognition this year.

Feature Story: Celebrating 175 Years
12/27/18- For this special issue, we reached out to some of our notable alumni in different areas of practice with a question: “What do you hope the future holds for SLU LAW, its graduates and its role in the legal landscape?”

Alumni Feature: Doreen Dodson
12/27/18- This employment lawyer made state history in 1990 by being elected the first woman president of the Missouri Bar.

Alumni Feature: Hon. Jimmie Edwards
12/27/18- The former circuit judge and current public safety director of the City of St. Louis has received accolades from the highest court in the land for his work helping at-risk youth get their education.

In My View: Marie Kenyon
12/27/18- Marie Kenyon ('86) describes how her education at Saint Louis University School of Law shaped not only her career but her life's purpose.

Faculty Spotlight: Dana M. Malkus
12/27/18- Today, Malkus is the associate dean for experiential education, an associate professor and the director of the Entrepreneurship and Community Development (ECD) Clinic.

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