Articles from 2024
Nathan Frederick’s Everest: A Peak Experience
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
University of Iowa College of Law alumni Nathan Frederick (JD04) recently climbed to the peak of Mount Everest. He reached the very top of the planet, gathering a lifetime of memories in ten minutes. Of course, he can’t wait to freeze again. He and Tammy have more mountains to climb as they scale the Seven Summits of the world.
In early October, Dean Kevin Washburn was the guest lecturer for a three-hour session of the class Native Nations and Contemporary Land Use at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
He gave a talk on tribal co-management and land back for tribal nations.
Professor Kate Melloy Goettel has been appointed to the advisory board of the Federal Bar Association's Immigration Law Section
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
The Federal Bar Association Immigration Law Section is organized to promote the practice of immigration law as a federal specialty among judges and private, government, and public interest attorneys.
Professor Diane Lourdes Dick elected as a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy
Friday, October 4, 2024
On September 25 and 26, Professors Bram Elias and Kate Melloy Goettel took five clinic students to St. Louis, Missouri, to watch oral arguments in Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice v. Bird and United States v. Iowa
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
This was a pair of cases addressing the legality of Iowa's illegal reentry bill, SF 2340. While there, the students met with Eighth Circuit Judges Duane Benton, Morris Arnold, and Jonathan Kobes, and District Judges Catherine Perry and Henry Autrey.
On September 26th, Professor Kate Melloy Goettel was a panelist on a webinar hosted by the American Immigration Council titled, "Unpacking the Supreme Court Immigration Cases in the '23-'24 Term and Looking Forward to What's Ahead."
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
The Supreme Court had a significant impact on immigration law during its last term. What do the rulings mean for immigration law and policy, both now and moving forward? And what do this term’s non-immigration cases tell us about the future of immigration cases before the High Court?