Regent Law News

On May 21, 2021, Professor Lynne Marie Kohm, along with Peyton Farley ('22, pictured below) and Katrina Sumner ('21, via Zoom). presented “Empowering Black Wealth in the Shadow of the Tulsa Race Massacre” at the Tulsa Law Review Symposium remembering the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Their paper will be published by the Tulsa Law Review this fall.   View their presentation below: Tulsa University School of Law held the symposium to mark 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre, a violent, destructive, tragic event that devastated lives in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, OK in 1921.  Professor Kohm, Farley, and Sumner were honored to present our scholarship and excited to help create change. Their work, entitled “Empowering Black Wealth in the Shadow of the Tulsa Race Massacre,” presents the following: A suggestion that the massacre and the wealth destruction that followed present a quintessential example of Black families being prevented from wealth protection and transfer beca

On Monday, March 29, Professor James Duane and the students in the Honors Section of Civil Procedure at Regent Law School were joined by a special guest speaker: the Honorable Rowan D. Wilson, Associate Judge on the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state. Judge Wilson and Prof. Duane in front of a photo taken at the copy center for their brief for a moot court competition. Judge Wilson spoke with students and answered questions concerning the subject of pretrial discovery and then shared some more general comments about civil procedures.    Judge Wilson was recently appointed to the court after a long and distinguished career in the litigation department of Cravath, Swain & Moore in New York City. He and Professor Duane were roommates in college and classmates in law school.