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Christina E. Wells

Christina E. Wells
  • Freedom of speech
  • Gender and the law
  • Administrative law
  • Government secrecy
  • Executive and judicial action in wartime and times of crisis
  • Freedom of Information Act
  • Control of information
Enoch H. Crowder Professor of Law

BA cum laude (1985), University of Kansas Phi Beta Kappa
JD with honors (1988), University of Chicago Law School

  • Phone Number: (573) 882-8375
  • Room Number: 310 Hulston Hall
  • E-Mail Address:
  • Web Address: http://law.missouri.edu/wells/

Professor Wells joined the faculty in 1993 after having been an associate with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom in Chicago and Heller, Ehrman, White and McAuliffe in Los Angeles, primarily in the area of business litigation. While in school, she was Comment Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.

In 2001, Professor Wells was a Fulbright Scholar in the Czech Republic, studying and lecturing on constitutional rights at Masaryk & Palacky Universities. In 2002, she was invited back to present a series of lectures on American constitutional decision making. In 2003, Professor Wells received the Sustained Outstanding Achievement Award presented by the University of Missouri Law School Foundation.

Professor Wells focuses her research on issues involving free expression and access to government information and teaches Freedom of Speech, Gender and the Law, Remedies and Administrative Law.

Recent Publications

Books

First Amendment: Cases & Theory with Ron Krotoszynski, Steve Gey and Lyrissa Barnette Lidsky, (Aspen 2008).
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Academic Journals

Privacy and Funeral Protests, 87 NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW 151 (2008).
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Katrina and the Rhetoric of Federalism, 26 MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 127 (2006).
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CIA v. Sims: Mosaic Theory and Government Attitude, 58 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW 845 (2006).
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