From Army to Attorney

A veteran’s journey from military officer to KU Law student While most of her classmates were studying and participating in extra-curricular activities in high school and undergrad, KU Law 2L Stacy Zaleski was stationed in Korea, Virginia, Colorado and Hawaii. With two degrees and a decade of military service under her belt, the Army veteran decided there was only one …

Giving Story Stephen W. Mazza Dean's Opportunity Fund

Dean establishes opportunity fund to assist successors

When University of Kansas School of Law Dean Stephen Mazza was a boy in Huntsville, Alabama, the legacy of his family’s giving towered over him. “When my great uncle immigrated from Italy and settled in Alabama he helped build the Catholic church in town with a significant donation,” Dean Mazza explains. “Every generation of my family since has made a …

Hands-On Learning Q&A: Logan Quackenbush, Criminal Prosecution Field Placement Program

During her time as a legal intern for the Shawnee County District Attorney’s Office, third-year KU Law student Logan Quackenbush put the skills she learned from her professors in Green Hall to real-world use. Quackenbush participated in the internship as part of the Criminal Prosecution Field Placement Program at the University of Kansas School of Law in the summer of 2024. …

What Do I Choose?

On the Process of Making Life Choices in Law School The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre said that human beings are “condemned to be free.” While I suppose there are many meanings one could take from that quote, I like to think of it as describing one of the many wonderful and terrible things about life: the tension between the joy …