The MU School of Law offers a collegial environment, reinforced by a small student body and a low faculty-student ratio. The intimacy of this setting, coupled with reasonable cost, consistently high bar passage rates, a network of alumni around the globe and access to top scholars in the legal world, make MU Law one of the best values in the nation.
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BA (1986) Rice University
JD (1991) Stanford Law School
Kevin Haynes joins the School of Law this fall as a visiting professor of law. Formerly an assistant professor of law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, Haynes has also taught in the law schools at Seattle, Duke, Chicago-Kent, and American University, and is Faculty Director of the Philip G. Hubbard Law School Preparation Program at the University of Iowa College of Law. Haynes clerked for J. Dickson Phillips of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and has practiced corporate law at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, in Palo Alto, California, and Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Haynes received his undergraduate degree from Rice University and his law degree from Stanford Law School, where he was managing editor of the Stanford Law Review, and was a graduate student in English at Duke University. He has held fellowships in law and the humanities at Cornell University and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.
At the School of Law, Haynes teaches Business Basics for Law Students, Contracts, and Business Organizations.