University of Missouri-Kansas City
Lumen “Lou” N. Mulligan, J.D., M.A., begins July 10 as the new dean of the School of Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Mulligan served as Interim Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at the University of Kansas, as well as the Earl B. Shurtz Research Professor of Law.
Mulligan is an award-winning classroom professor and prolific researcher, including authoring five books and treatises. He ran KU Law’s bar passage initiative, which lead that school to the 11th-best passage rate in the nation last year. He founded KU’s successful state-wide 3+3 program. He also oversaw KU Law’s Medical-Legal Partnerships, which aid low-income clients and provide law students with field placement experiences at both the Lawrence Memorial Hospital and the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas.
“I am thrilled and honored to serve as the next dean of my hometown’s law school,” Mulligan said. “I look forward to teaming with faculty and staff colleagues, students and alumni as we strengthen our community engagement and expand our programs, while embracing UMKC School of Law's student-focused and justice-centered mission. I am also thankful for the strong and thoughtful leadership of Dean Glesner Fines, which places UMKC School of Law as one of the nation's leading best-value law schools.”
In his legal practice, Mulligan served as a clerk on the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, practiced with Polsinelli (a UMKC School of Law alumnus-founded firm), and opened his own two-person firm. He continued to practice as a professor, where he engaged in complex civil matters, Criminal Justice Act appointments, U.S. Supreme Court amicus briefing and representing the Kansas governor in her COVID litigation.
Mulligan received his J.D. Magna Cum Laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 2002. He also has a master’s in philosophy from University of Colorado and a bachelor’s in philosophy from KU.
Mulligan frequently assists Hutch Post in understanding of decisions made by the United States Supreme Court and the Kansas Supreme Court and their applications to ongoing Constitutional law.
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