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Please join us in welcoming the 2020 Editorial Board for Volume 89! https://umkclawreview.org//editorial/2020-editorial-board/

We are excited to introduce our next issue: Volume 87.3! Fresh off the press, this issue covers our second symposium issue focusing on Administrative Law. If you're a current subscriber, we appreciate your support and we look forward to your feedback. If you are interested in subscribing to the UMKC Law Review, please follow the link, https://umkclawreview.org/subscribe/. Yours truly,... The UMKC Law Review Board

On behalf of the UMKC Law Review board and faculty, we would like to say congratulations and welcome to our new staffers for Volume 88!

On behalf of UMKC Law Review, it is our pleasure to announce the Fall 2018 Student Comments that have been selected for publication! Jessie Peel, The GDPR: The Biggest Threat to the Implementation of Blockchain Technology in Global Supply Chains John Pipes, Slaying Zombie Debt: Missouri Rule 55.03 Can Prevent Time-Barred Debt Claims Through Sanctions, ... Ali Barrett, How Long is Life: Defining a Life Sentence for Convicted Juveniles in Missouri Megan Sword, To Err is Both Human and Non-Human Joseph Salazar, An End Run on Mandamus Jaclyn Alcantara, The Impact of Implicit Bias on Female Patent Applicants in an Age of Increasingly Vague Patent Standards Bayli Martin, Catching Up to Science: State Law on the Enforceability of Surrogacy Agreements Joseph Findley, Partisan Gerrymandering and the Show Me State: Applying the Standard in Whitford v. Gill to the Context of Missouri’s State and Congressional Districts We appreciate all of your hard work!

UMKC Law winter commencement is today! The attached link provides the schedule and a link to live stream the ceremony, if you aren't able to be there to "Roo"t for your favorite law student! Congratulations graduates, from your friendly Law Review Editorial Board!

We are currently sold out of Vol. 87.1 paper copies. We will not be reordering single copies of 87.1. However, all articles included in the 87.1 Issue are available online at Westlaw, Lexis Nexis, and HeinOnline. For those who have recently ordered a single issue of 87.1, we process mailing orders weekly and orders take approximately one to two weeks to fulfill.... We appreciate your support and welcome feedback. For questions, please contact [email protected].

The UMKC Law Review is pleased to announce a call for submissions relating to the law of blockchain technologies and cryptoassets. Selected papers will be published in the Special Topics Symposium, Summer 2019 edition of the UMKC Law Review. Please follow the link below to learn more or to submit materials.

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Please join us in welcoming the 2019 Editorial Board for Volume 88! #aroundofapplause #passingthetorch #umkclaw #umkclawreview

CHECK YOUR MAILBOX -- Vol. 87.1 is on its way! As a reminder, 87.1 is a symposium issue focusing on criminal sentencing reform. If you are a current subscriber, we appreciate your support and we look forward to your feedback! If you are interested in subscribing to the UMKC Law Review, please follow the link, https://umkclawreview.org/subscribe/

On behalf of the UMKC Law Review, We are excited to announce the summer comment writers whose papers were selected for publication: Rachel Zender, Bud, Bongs & Bank: The impact of state legalized marijuana on financial institutions Cody Weyhofen, Scaling the Meta-Mountain: Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms and the Computer-Authorship Debate... Jessica Lile, FCC Privacy Protection and the Carpenter Decision Renee Warden, Where is the Empathy? Understanding Offenders' Experience of Empathy and its Impact on Restorative Justice We are so thankful for all of your hard work!

Congratulations to our very own, Jonathan Brown! Winner of the Warren E. Burger Prize for Writing! The Warren E. Burger Prize for Writing is a writing competition designed to promote scholarship in the areas of professionalism, ethics, civility, and excellence. The American Inns of Court invites judges, lawyers, professors, students, scholars, and other authors to participate in the competition. One of our Managing Editors, Jonathan Brown is the 2018 winner. Jonathan will rec...eive a cash prize, his essay will be published in the South Carolina Law Review, and the prize will be presented to him at the American Inns of Court annual Celebration of Excellence at the Supreme Court of the United States. Jonathan's essay "Two Approaches to the Modern Reality of Temporary Cross-Border Legal Practice: The United States and the European Community" can be found in Volume 70 of the South Carolina Law Review. Jonathan would like to say thank you to his wife, Megan, for her support and encouragement and Professor Nanney for his expertise and valuable input.