Articles from 2025

Artful Gifts

Artful Gifts

Thursday, January 30, 2025
Donated artworks enrich the law school environment and will inspire students and scholars for generations to come
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Real Estate Reformer

Monday, January 27, 2025
Michael Ketchmark (90JD) radically transformed the way realtors’ commissions are determined.
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Paying it Forward

Thursday, January 16, 2025
Rob Youle (76JD) has spent decades supporting two institutions that changed his life for the better—the American Cancer Society and Iowa Law

Professor Gregory Shill joined the University of Iowa Center for Social Science Innovation as a Researcher Affiliate

Wednesday, January 15, 2025
As the University of Iowa’s premier interdisciplinary social science research center, the Center for Social Science Innovation provides faculty, staff, students, and community members across the state of Iowa and beyond the resources and support they need to investigate the most important issues facing our society.

Professor Gregory Shill presented a paper, "Flames of Scale? Law Firm Clustering after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871" to the AALS Section on Agency, Partnership, LLCs, and Unincorporated Business Associations Works in Progress Session.

Wednesday, January 15, 2025
The Section on Agency, Partnerships, LLCs, and Unincorporated Associations promotes the communication of ideas, interests, and activities among members and to make recommendations to the Association on matters of interest in the teaching, research, and improvement of the law relating to Section on Agency, Partnerships, LLCs, and Unincorporated Associations.

Professor Gregory Shill was elected Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on State and Local Government Law.

Wednesday, January 15, 2025
The Section on State and Local Government Law promotes the communication of ideas, interests, and activities among members of the section and makes recommendations to the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) on matters concerning state and local government law.

Professor Charles Williams' article, "A Call for Canceling Compassionate Release and Restoring Federal Probation" was accepted for publication by Washington & Lee Law Review.

Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Compassionate release is the process by which those incarcerated may seek early release, whether to community supervision or to their communities, due to extraordinary or compelling circumstances.
Criminal Justice Trailblazers

Criminal Justice Trailblazers

Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Three members of the Iowa Law community are driving change in the national parole and probation systems