University of Missouri–Kansas City

The University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law is a public law school located on the main campus of the University of Missouri-Kansas... City in Kansas City, Missouri. It was founded in 1895 as the Kansas City School of Law, a private, independent law school located in Downtown Kansas City, and was purchased by the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1938. The law school moved to UMKC's main campus soon after, where it is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. It is one of three law schools in Missouri . It is one of eight American law schools to have produced both a President of the United States and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States . Truman attended but did not graduate from the law school and never practiced law.
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Juris Hartmanis is a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist who, with Richard E. Stearns, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in... recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory". Hartmanis was born in Latvia. He was a son of Mārtiņš Hartmanis, a general in the Latvian Army. After the Soviet Union occupied Latvia in 1940, Mārtiņš Hartmanis was arrested by Soviets and died in a prison. At the end of World War II, the wife and children of Mārtiņš Hartmanis left Latvia as refugees, fearing for their safety if the Soviet Union took over Latvia again. They first moved to Germany, where Juris Hartmanis received the equivalent of a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Marburg. Then he moved to the United States, where he received Master's degree in Applied Mathematics at the University of Kansas City in 1951 and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Caltech under the supervision of Robert P. Dilworth in 1955.
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