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Thomas Lambert

Thomas A. Lambert holds the Wall Family Chair in Corporate Law and Governance at the University of Missouri Law School. His scholarship focuses on antitrust, corporations, and regulatory theory. He has published more than twenty law review articles and is co-author of a leading antitrust casebook. His current book project, How to Regulate, is slated for publication by Cambridge University Press. At Mizzou, Lambert teaches Contracts, Business Organizations, Publicly Held Corporations, and Antitrust Law. He is a graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois) and the University of Chicago Law School.

Articles by Thomas Lambert

Feb 3, 2016 ·

Post-Protest Mizzou: Adverse Consequences of the Capitulation

Nearly three months have passed since student protests upended the institution where I teach law, the University of Missouri (Mizzou). There have been several changes on the Columbia campus. We now have a highly regarded African-American interim president, Michael Middleton, who has a long history at the university. Our interim chancellor seems far more attuned to the campus climate and hosts weekly “chats with the chancellor” to foster a more open atmosphere. On the surface, things seem to have returned to normal or perhaps even improved. Recent trends, however, suggest that the protesters’ “success” may prove ephemeral.