University of Kansas Law School Blog
Graduate Profile: Tara Mollhagen Shepherd, L’20
Tara A. Mollhagen Shepherd, L’20Exemplary student to pursue career in business and tax lawTara A. Mollhagen Shepherd, L’20, plans to use what she learned in the classroom at the University of Kansas School of Law to succeed at a career in business and tax law.“I’m excited to…
Graduate Profile: Sasha Raab, L’20
Sasha Raab, L'20Nontraditional student balances law school, being a momWhen Sasha Raab sat for the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), her daughter Edith was six weeks old. Now, Raab is wrapping up her law school career in the top 10% of her class and Edith is 3 years old.Raab was able to balance law…
Graduate Profile: Harrison Rosenthal, L’20
Harrison Rosenthal, L'20Dual-degree student pursues law, journalism and well-beingOn the way to earning KU degrees in law and journalism, recent graduate Harrison Rosenthal made well-being a priority.In 2018, he founded the Mindfulness in Law Society of the University of Kansas, a student…
Graduate Profile: Terra Brockman, L’20
Terra Brockman, L’20 Outstanding graduate distinguishes herself through leadership, serviceTerra Brockman has distinguished herself through leadership and service at the University of Kansas School of Law. Brockman, a third-year law student, will graduate this month. She has led the…
Former Naval Aviator Uses Flight School Lessons to Succeed in Law School
Second-year law student Jared Jevons spent 11 years in the Navy before coming to law school. Jevons is pictured over Wake Island in the western Pacific Ocean. Photo courtesy of Jared Jevons.Naval aviators consider themselves professionals. We did so (and Naval aviators continue to do so)…
Graduate Profile: Cara Beck, L'20
Dedicated student is headed to federal clerkship after graduationCara Beck’s favorite memory of her time in Green Hall is a noisy one.Her 1L small section, taught by Professor Ellen Sward, was competing in the 2017 Barber Emerson Bluebook Relays, an annual tradition that tests first-year…
Graduate Profile: Denise Dantzler, L'20
3L Denise Dantzler delivers the welcoming address at the 2020 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy Symposium. Dantzler is the editor-in-chief of the publication. Photos by Ashley Golledge.Accomplished student to pursue career in patent lawThird-year law student Denise Dantzler is a trailblazer…
Hovey Williams Establishes New Student IP Award
A new award fund at the University of Kansas School of Law aims to encourage first- and second-year students to pursue careers in intellectual property law.The Hovey Williams Award for Inclusion and Diversity in Intellectual Property is intended to support students interested in pursuing IP law and…
Ellen Sward to Retire After 36 Years at KU Law
Photo courtesy of Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.After 36 years at the University of Kansas School of Law, professor Ellen Sward is retiring after the spring semester.“I like it here. I like the students, my colleagues on the faculty, the University and…
Public Service in Changing Times
Photo by Ashley GolledgeI didn’t want to write this blog post about coronavirus. I had a whole spiel prepared about career paths and joy and risk and success. But as my friend Jake Schmidt laid out, everything is uncertain right now. It feels dishonest not to talk about the seismic shift that…