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May 1, 2016
John Henry Wigmore and the Rules of Evidence
At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was reeling from the effects of rapid urbanization and industrialization. Time-honored verities proved obsolete, and intellectuals in all fields sought ways to make sense of an increasingly unfamiliar reality. The legal system, in particular, began to buckle under the weight of its anachronism. In the […]
March 7, 2016
Prof. Marvin Overby on the Senate’s Obligation to Vote on a Supreme Court Nominee
In one of the first installments of the Kinder Institute’s ongoing collaboration with Newsy, Political Science Professor and Institute core faculty member Marvin Overby sat down with journalists at the video news service to discuss a pair of questions regarding the current vacancy in the U.S. Supreme Court. The first video segment, “Could a Senate Recess […]
March 7, 2016
Prof. Marvin Overby on Recess Appointments to the Supreme Court
In one of the first installments of the Kinder Institute’s ongoing collaboration with Newsy, Political Science Professor and Institute core faculty member Marvin Overby sat down with journalists at the video news service, to discuss a pair of questions regarding the current vacancy in the U.S. Supreme Court. The first video segment, “Could a Senate Recess […]
March 1, 2016
Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation
In 1935, Lloyd Gaines’ application to the University of Missouri Law School was denied, based solely on the grounds that the state’s constitution called for “separate education of the races.” Along with the NAACP, Gaines challenged the university’s admissions policies in the nation’s high court, and Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938) became the first in a long […]
November 17, 2015
The Future of the Kinder Institute
It’s with great pleasure, and greater gratitude, that we get to share the news that the Kinder Foundation, a family philanthropic foundation started by Rich and Nancy Kinder, has pledged $25 million to the University of Missouri to support programming at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy for years (and generations) to come. An MU […]
October 8, 2015
Kinder Foundation Gift Announcement
It’s with great pleasure, and greater gratitude, that we get to share the news that the Kinder Foundation, a family philanthropic foundation started by Rich and Nancy Kinder, has pledged $25 million to the University of Missouri to support programming at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy for years (and generations) to come. An MU […]