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2008

SEC Selects Drake Alum for Management Team

Drake Expert On Immigration Law To Discuss Immigration In Iowa

Drake Law Students Fundraise For Natural Disaster Victims; Celebrate Asian Community

Benjamin Ullem Named Dean for 2008-09

Drake Agricultural Law Center Sponsors Booklet on Land Protection

Drake University and Pioneer Hi-Bred Host Successful Biotech Institute

Commencement Brings Drake Law School Graduates Diplomas, Opportunities

Law Student Receives Rotary Scholarship To Study In Egypt

Drake Law School Commencement Set for Saturday

Drake Law Professor Honored With Visiting Chair Professorship In China

Drake Recognized as Curricular Innovator

Associate Dean of Drake Law School Honored By Iowa Legal Aid

Drake Law Prof Teaches Iowa's First Wind Law Course

Drake Law Students Find Success In Promoting Children's Rights

Drake Ranks in Top 25 Schools Granting Substantial Scholarships

Drake Law Students Plan Economic Development Project In Nation's Poorest County

Boston Scientific Appoints Drake Graduate as General Counsel

Law Professor Joins Board of Legal Writing Institute

Drake Students Help Immigrants

Drake Journal Announces Writing Competition

Rankings Show Improvements In Bar Passage Rate, Student/Faculty Ratio

Peace Activists To Challenge Polk County 'Jail Rent'

Former Justice On South African Court Headlines Law Series

Drake Students Offer Tax Assistance

Law Symposium To Explore Forgotten Constitutional Amendments

Agriculture Experts Speak on Renewable Energy and Rural Development

Iowa Supreme Court Holds Special Session at Drake Law School

Drake Law School Plans Supreme Court Celebration

Journals Announce Editorial Staffs for 2008-09

Law Professor Quoted In NPR Story On Urban Sprawl

Lawyer Returns From Afghanistan Meeting With Guantanamo Detainee

Constitutional Law Chair Reaches Wide Audience

Intellectual Property Law Roundtable To Bring Scholars From Around The World

Drake Law School's Trial Practicum Begins Monday With Armed Robbery Case

Governor Appoints Center Director to Post

Dean Lovell's Civil Rights Work Featured in NAACP Award

Drake Law In Top Ranks In Both Advocacy and Dispute Resolution & Intellectual Property

Drake Law Prof Honored As Oxford Speaker and Chair

Drake Law School Hosts National Moot Court Tourney

Rapp Presides Over Trial -- Hears "Blood Diamond" Expert

Vilsack To Deliver Speech On Health Care

Visiting Chinese Scholar Earns Award

1L Iowa Legislature Tour & Program

Voter Education Guide on Hunger Issues

Walker To Step Down As Law School Dean, May 2008


2007

Middleton Center Mourns Loss of Benefactor

Des Moines' Vibrancy Praised By The New York Times

Drake Moot Court Teams Win National Awards

Alum Becomes President and CEO of Black Web Enterprises

Drake/AJS Justice System Program To Explore The Rule Of Law

NAACP Report By Lovell Catalyst for Governor's Diversity Directive

National Journal Includes Professor's Intellectual Property Analysis

NYU Prof To Discuss 'Democracy At War' In Drake Lecture

Foxhoven To Receive 'Champion For Children' Award

Drake Law Graduate Receives National Honor For Helping Older Adults

ACT Names Drake Law Grad As Assistant Vice President In Legal Department

Princeton Review Highlights Law School's Qualities

International Agricultural Law Workshop Set For Oct. 15-16

School of Journalism Alumni to Host "Legal and Ethical Issues of New Media" Forum

Law Professor To Speak At Conference On Intellectual Property

Alum Named Vice President for CenterPoint Energy

Rural Lands Conference Assessed Opportunities For Rural Iowa

Two Fellows Join Drake To Tackle Anti-Hunger Projects

Recent Graduate Defending Soldiers in Iraq

Drake Law To Host 2007 Midwest Clinical Conference

Drake Law Grad Confirmed As Budget Director

Using Land and Natural Resources to Revitalize Rural Iowa

Drake Expert Discusses Same-Sex Marriage Case

Library Faculty Member Elected to Executive Board

Drake Law Grad Named Among 2007 Super Lawyers

International Tribunal Focuses Spotlight on Drake Graduate

Enjoy An Exciting Evening With Twin Cities Drake Law Alumni

Drake Student Bar Association Named Best In The Nation

Roundtable Discussion on Sustainability Education To Be Held At Drake

Former SBA President Embraces Public Service

Drake Law School Report Shows Hunger Increasing In Iowa

Drake Professor Wins Trial Involving First Amendment

Drake Alum To Serve As Co-Vice Chair of National Telecommunications Committee

Drake Journal of Agricultural Law Announces Writing Competition Winners

Drake Law Alum Joins Butzel Long Law Firm As Senior Attorney

Honors Accumulate for Drake Alums

Drake Law Alum Recognized For Service To Community

Iowa Supreme Court Awards Funds To Poverty Law Internship Program

Supreme Court Justice & Drake Law Alum Have Article Published by Cornell Law School

WSBA Names Drake Law Alum 2007-2008 President-Elect

Six Law School Grads Honored for Pro Bono Services

Drake Law Library Faculty Recognized For Multiple Achievements

Drake Debuts 2007 Buy Fresh Buy Local Directory

Drake Law Grad Recognized As 'Million Dollar Solo'

Drake Law Faculty Share Their Work With Law Professors From 9 Law Schools

Drake Law Alum Admitted To American College of Trial Lawyers

Drake Law Students Tour Rural Iowa With Vilsack, Hamilton

Drake Law School Celebrates The Local Asian Community

Iowa Supreme Court Justice Addresses Law Graduates

Renewable Energy Symposium Offered By Drake and APLF

Drake Law Graduate Fills Texas Court of Appeals Seat

Drake Law Professor Travels To India To Discuss Contract Farming

Iowa Supreme Court Justice To Address Drake Law Graduates

Drake Law School Names First Intellectual Property Law Professor

Legal Scholars Discuss U.S. Constitution At Drake Symposium

Drake Professor Selected For Prestigious Holocaust Seminar

Drake Seeks Farmers To Join Buy Fresh Buy Local Campaign

Graduate Becomes Youngest Lawyer to Serve on Board

Professor Teaches US Law to French Audience in French

Drake Law Students To Chow On Wings Of Charity

Gov. Culver Signs Bill Championed By Drake Law Students

ConLaw Symposium Provides Controversial Debate

Professor Mansfield Interviewed for NPR's All Things Considered

Prosecutor In UN Special Court For Sierra Leone Returns To Drake

Senator Joe Biden speaks at Drake Law School

Faculty, Alumni, Students Recognized For Achievements

Student’s Article To Be Published In Georgetown Journal Of International Law

Drake Law Grad To Head South Dakota Department Of Agriculture

Iowa Senate Approves Foster-Care Bill Drafted By Drake Law Students

Student's Work Published in Harvard Journal

Vilsack To Give Keynote Address At Supreme Court Celebration

Drake Program To Address Moral Dilemmas In Law And Medicine

Iowa Supreme Court Holds Special Session At Drake Law School

Student To Present Oral Arguments Before Iowa Court of Appeals

Iowa Supreme Court To Judge Writing Competition

Drake Law Students Reach Quarterfinals In National Contest

Drake Professor Slotted for Tonight Show Thursday

Second-Degree Murder Case Takes Center Stage In Drake Law School’s Cutting-Edge Trial Practicum Experience

Drake Law School Dedicates National Bar Association Archives

Foster Children Work With Drake Law Students To Pass Unique Sibling Visitation Law In Iowa

Tom Vilsack Appointed Visiting Law Professor At Drake Law School

Drake Law Professors Sign Contract With LexisNexis/Matthew Bender Publishing

Drake Law School Expands Innovative Ethics Program

Drake Law Faculty Assume Leadership Roles in the AALS

Law Students To Receive First-Hand Introduction To The Legislative Process

Faculty Work Highlighted in Chronicle of Higher Education

Partnership Promotes Support For Iowa Food Businesses

Drake Law Grad Elected President of New Mexico State Bar


2006

Law Professor Keith Miller Offers New Class

Drake Law Grad Appointed Chief Prosecutor for UN-backed Court in Sierra Leone

Students, Faculty Join In Exchanges With Chinese University

Drake Law Grad Elected County Attorney In Write-In Campaign

Middleton Center for Children's Rights Celebrates Its Fifth Birthday

Christine Branstad, LW'94, Appointed As Director of Legal Network Management and Development

Magistrate Louis A. Gresh, LW'82, Receives The 2006 Judicial Excellence Award

Robert Wright, '54 Graduate of Drake Law School, Receives NAACP Award

Drake Law School National Moot Court Team Places First In Regionals

Adoption Saturday Set For Nov. 18 at Polk County Courthouse

Robert Buckley, '96 Graduate of Drake Law School, Receives Award

Students’ Papers Accepted For Publication In Esteemed Law Reviews

Faculty Address Professionalism and the Internet

Drake Lecturer To Discuss Women's Equality vs. Traditional Cultures

Experts To Discuss How Courts Shape The Election Process

Drake Relay: Chief Justice Lavorato Passes Gavel To Ternus

Garden Policy Conference Attracts International Audience

Joel A. Miller, '05 Graduate Of Drake Law School Appointed Associate Judge

Gubernatorial Candidates To Discuss Health Care At Drake Forum

Justice Ternus Named Chief Justice of Iowa Supreme Court

Munns Among Those Honored Nationally For Energy Leadership

Constitution Day Talk Draws Large Crowd

Drake Law Alum Appointed Secretary of Mid-America Regulatory Conference

Drake Law Grad Takes First In National Writing Competition

Professor Weresh Receives Distinguished Community Service Award

Patent Lawyer Features Drake Program

Kristi Bowman To Discuss The Teaching Of Intelligent Design In Public Schools

Lecture Series Features Yale Law School Professor Jack Balkin

Drake Law Professor To Present Oral Argument Before The Iowa Supreme Court

Drake Law Alum Named State Economic Development Director

Drake's Student Bar Association Receives National Award

Experts Say Gardening Can Fight Childhood Obesity And Other Health Issues

Law School Alum Named Super Lawyer in New Jersey

Drake Alumnus Honored at 14th Annual Trumpet Awards

$5.25 Million in Gifts Bolsters Offerings

Drake Law Professor Elected to American Law Institute

Drake Law Student Selected for Prestigious Fellowship

Photos From Law Library Featured In National Publication

Opperman Center Featured on Historic Home Tour

Wisconsin Chief Justice to Speak at Drake Law School Commencement Ceremony

Law School Alumnus to Receive Distinguished Service Award

Law Professor Appointed to Levitt Professorship

Portions of Law Professor's Opera to be Performed on May 13

Law Professor's Exercise Regimen Inspires Staff

Nation's Strictest Zoning Board Make-Up Law Doesn't Prevent Conflict-of-Interest Problems, Study Finds

Professor Emeritus Ed Hayes Remembered

Drake Aims to Make Law School One of the Best in the Midwest

Chief Prosecutor in Rwanda Genocide Trials to Visit Drake

Drake Law Alumnus Nominated For Federal Judgeship

BBC Journalist to Speak at Drake's Supreme Court Celebration

Drake Agricultural Law Center to Host 2007 Farm Bill Discussion

Iowa Supreme Court Holds Special Session at Drake Law School

Panel of Judges to Examine Patent Law

Symposium Examines Supreme Court's Role in Social Change

Drake Law Alum, Federal Judge Discusses Presiding Over Iowa Death Penalty Cases

Judges Recognize Founders' Roles in National Bar Association

Law School Series Looks At Judicial Independence

Drake Law Students Win Regional Contest in Client Counseling

Des Moines Bar Fight Trial Takes Center Stage in Drake Law School's Cutting -Edge Trial Practicum Experience

Justice Thomas Wows Students as Distinguished Jurist in Residence

Buffalo Bills name Drake alumnus vice president of football administration

Drake Moot Court Team reaches semi-finals in national competition

Justice Thomas Teaches at Drake as Distinguished Jurist in Residence

Ethics Expert Extols Virtues of Principled Lawyers

South African Constitutional Conference Hits Close to Home for Kende

Constitutional Law Series Speaker Looks At Children's Rights

Drake Law Professor Garners National Attention For Views On Intelligent Design

Legal Clinic Receives $15,000 To Help Children In Need

Series On Justice System To Focus On Pro Se Litigation Reform


2005

Law Library Offers Free Coffee During Finals

Drake Law Professor Makes List Of People Making a Difference

Drake Law Professor Named CALI Fellow

Drake Law Student Earns Central Iowa Activist Award

Drake To Host Panel On Domestic Violence And Show Excerpts From ‘Breaking The Silence: Children's Stories’ Documentary

Drake Honored By Des Moines NAACP For Community Service

Drake Law School National Moot Court Team Places Second in Regionals

Drake Legal Clinic Wins Case Before Iowa Supreme Court

Alumnus Describes His Experiences As An International Judge In Kosovo

Series on Justice System Presents Program on Pro Se Litigation Reform

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Professor Discusses Voting Rights Act

Drake Law Students Help Compile Manual for Lawyers with Clients Devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Justice Breyer delights 1,700 in speech at Drake

Renowned Scholar, Lawyer Draws Full House

Drake Law Professor to Receive National Award

Supreme Court Justice Breyer to Give Opperman Lecture

Prominent Litigator Barry Scheck to Speak at Drake Law School

Voting Rights Panel and Town Hall Meeting Set for September 15

Katrina Response: Drake Law School invites Tulane and Loyola (NO) Law Students as Visitors for Fall 2005 Semester

Drake Law School System Administrator Receives Levitt Employee Excellence Award

Clout Growing, Small-Scale Natural Farmers Are Being Courted By Big Food

Voting Rights Panel and Town Hall Meeting - September 15

Trio with Drake Ties Honored by NAACP for Civil Rights Record

Alumnus Honored by Deputy Judge Advocate General

Replacing O'Connor Will Likely Tilt the Court to the Right, Says Drake Constitutional Law Professor

Court Strikes Down Agriprocessors' Wastewater Permit

Drake Legal Clinic Hosts Forum on Protecting Children

Student Honored for Saving Life

Law School Alumnus Donates Nuremberg Transcripts

Opperman Gift to Provide Grants to Scholarship Recipients

Live Commencement Stream

Drake Law Professor's Opera To Be Performed May 7

Students Hear Supreme Court Arguments

Drake's Criminal Defense Clinic Ensures Justice for Clients

Law School Symposium Explores Vital Issues

Drake Law School Honors Air Force General, Alumnus

Drake Law Students Revise Lawyer’s Oath

Attorney for Enemy Combatants to Speak at Drake Law Symposium

Drake Law Student Elected to National Leadership Position

Drake Law Professor Honored with Portrait

Drake University Law Students Aid Alumnus in Preparation for Arguments Before U.S. Supreme Court

Plantiff's Attorney Portrayed in "A Civil Action to Speak at Drake Law School Banquet March 12

Drake Environmental Moot Court Team Advances to Quarterfinals in National Competition

Georgetown Associate Law Dean to Speak at Drake University

Anita Allen Draws Crowd For Lecture on Law and Ethics

Law School Receives Intellectual Property Scholarship Gift

1L's Watch Slam Dance Trial

Law Library Public Service Staff Turn Blue

Moot Court Team Second in Nation

Child Welfare Conference March 2

Dean Walker quoted in National Law Journal

Renowned Ethicist to Speak at Drake Law School

"The Exonerated" Events Bring Academics, Exonerees, Attorneys, Actors and the Public Together

Drake Law School Ranks Near the Top in Technology


2004

Alumnus Dwight D. Opperman Receives National Award

Drake Legal Clinic to Benefit From Performance of The Exonerated

Panel to Explore Ways to Reduce Wrongful Convictions

Drake Law Student Named Outstanding Mediator

Drake Wins Regional Moot Court Competition

Drake Law Review Ranks Among Top 25 Most-Cited Journals

Drake to Host Regional Moot Court Competition

Lovell receives President's Award at NAACP banquet

Drake Law School Study: Zoning Board Makeup Paves Way for Bias

Constitutional Law Lecture Cancelled

Negotiations section added; Trial Ad seat limit raised

National Ethicist To Speak at Drake Law School

Agricultural Law Center and Food Policy Council Recognized For Battling Hunger

Constitutional Law Center Welcomes New Director

Drake Announces Distinguished Constitutional Law Lecturers

Drake Law ranks in top 25 lowest tuition increases

Drake Law School again named best for the money

Drake Law School mock trial team No.2 in nation

Drake Law school names new Associate Dean

Drake Law students gain passage of juvenile court bill

Drake's Ag Law Center launches State Food Policy Web Site

Law School Alumnus Donates Congressional Archives to Law Library

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Speaks at American Judicature Society dedication

Des Moines Named Among Top 10 U.S. Cities

Drake Law Professor Composes Holocaust Opera

American Bar Association President to Deliver Keynote Address at Drake Law School Commencement

Drake Law Professor Featured on "Booknotes"

Make Plans to Attend Drake Law School's 67th Annual Supreme Court Celebration

Drake Law Professor Accepts Dean's Position


2003

Supreme Court Celebration Welcomes Massachusetts Senator John Kerry

Drake Law School Moot Court Team Takes First Place at Competition

Drake Law Student Wins National Essay Contest

Drake Law School Grads' Bar Passage Rate Highest in Region

Freedom of Religion Expert to Lecture at Drake Law School

Panel Discussion Seeks Solutions to Child Welfare in Iowa

Drake Law School Hosts "Human Rights in a Time of War"

Drake Law School Offers Summer Study Abroad in France

Erwin Chemerinsky To Teach/Lecture at Drake Law School

Drake Law Students To Compete in Environmental Law Competition

Remembering Professor Emeritus Jack Yeager

David Walker Named Drake Law Dean

Drake Joins Forces with American Judicature Society

Certificate in Litigation and Dispute Resolution Now Offered

Derrick Bell to Give National Public Interest Law Day Lecture

Law School Welcomes Mari Matsuda


2002

Justice Antonin Scalia Delivers Opperman Lecture

Opperman Donates 300,000th Volume to Law Library

Drake Law School Invited to Tournament of Champions

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Teaches Course at Drake

Drake Law Grad Receives John Adams Award

Drake Law Students Get Money's Worth

Distinguished Speaker Series Participants Announced

Drake Law School Welcomes Gerald Torres as Professor in Residence

Drake Law Mock Trial Team Defeats Creighton for Regional Title

Constitutional Law Center Symposium - Judicious Choices: Nominating and Confirming Supreme Court Justices

Technology Takes Toil Out of Test Taking


2001

Most Wired Law Schools: Drake Ranks Among the Top 40

Wireless Network Installed at Law School

Drake Law Library ranked in the Top 25 by National Jurist magazine.