RIGEL OLIVERI

Professor of Law
University of Missouri

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Professor Rigel Oliveri is the Isabelle Wade and Paul C. Lyda Professor of Law at the University of Missouri, and a nationally recognized expert on fair housing law. Her scholarship focuses on housing discrimination, residential segregation, zoning and property rights, and sexual harassment. Her published work has appeared in a number of journals, including the Stanford Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Florida Law Review, and the Wisconsin Law Review. She recently contributed a chapter to The Fight for Fair Housing: Consequences, and Future Implications of the 1968 Federal Fair Housing Act, and is co-authoring a casebook of Sexual Harassment Law. She teaches Fair Housing, Employment Discrimination, Constitutional Law, and Civil Procedure, and she serves as a Commissioner for the Columbia Public Housing Authority.

Prior to joining the Missouri faculty, Professor Oliveri served as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice through the Honors Program. She practiced in the Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section. She litigated and tried a number of significant cases involving housing discrimination and sexual harassment in housing. In 2003 she was awarded a Special Commendation from the Attorney General for outstanding service. Professor Oliveri attended Stanford Law School, where she was an Articles Editor for the Stanford Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Following her graduation, Professor Oliveri clerked for the Honorable Stephanie K. Seymour, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in Tulsa, OK.

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