Faculty

Program in Public Interest Law

Chicago-Kent's public interest faculty brings as much innovation as experience to the classroom and beyond. Professor Ron Staudt, for instance, heads the Center for Access to Justice and Technology, which uses the Internet to make legal resources more readily available to low-income individuals. Professor Lori Andrews has earned considerable media attention for her groundbreaking litigation on reproductive and genetic technologies. And Henry Perritt and his students have provided refugee aid and promoted the rule of law in Eastern Europe through Project Bosnia, Operation Kosovo, and Destination Democracy.

Full-Time Faculty

Ronald W. Staudt, Director of the Certificate in Public Interest Law Program

Professor of Law and Associate Vice President for Law, Business and Technology
B.A., Philosophy/B.S., Mathematics, St. Joseph's College; J.D., University of Chicago Law School

Vivien C. Gross

Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Legal and Judicial Externship Programs
B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., French Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; J.D., Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington

Lori B. Andrews

Distinguished Professor of Law; Director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology; and Associate Vice President
B.A., Psychology, Yale University; J.D., Yale Law School

Elizabeth De Armond

Professor of Legal Research and Writing
B.S., Information & Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology; J.D.; University of Notre Dame Law School; LL.M.; Harvard Law School

Jonathan Decatorsmith

Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; J.D., University of Colorado Law School

Howard C. Eglit

Professor of Law
B.A., History, University of Michigan; J.D., University of Chicago Law School

Richard J. Gonzalez

Clinical Professor of Law
B.A., Political Science and Speech, Northwestern University; J.D., Ohio State University College of Law

Steven J. Heyman

Professor of Law
A.B., Social Studies, Harvard University; J.D., Harvard Law School

Nancy S. Marder

Professor of Law, Director of the Jury Center, Co-Director of the Institute for Law and the Humanities, and Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar
B.A., English & Afro-American Studies, Yale University; M.Phil., International Relations; University of Cambridge; J.D.; Yale Law School

Sheldon H. Nahmod

Distinguished Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Law and the Humanities
A.B., University of Chicago; LL.B., Harvard Law School; LL.M., Harvard Law School; A.M.R.S. (M.A. in Religious Studies), University of Chicago Divinity School

Henry H. Perritt, Jr.

Professor of Law and Director of the Graduate Program in Financial Services Law
S.B., Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center

Carolyn Shapiro

Associate Professor of Law
B.A., English, University of Chicago; M.A., University of Chicago, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy; J.D., University of Chicago Law School

Joan E. Steinman

Distinguished Professor of Law
A.B., Philosophy, University of Rochester; J.D., Harvard Law School

Adjunct Faculty

Patricia A. Wrona, Adjunct Professor, Legal Writing IV—Public Interest Law

Mary Neal, Adjunct Professor, Legal Writing IV—Public Interest Law

Raghav Murali, Adjunct Professor, Legal Writing IV—Public Interest Law

Jessica Frank, Center for Access to Justice & Technology Program Coordinator, Justice & Technology Practicum

Andrew Medeiros, Center for Access to Justice & Technology Fellow, Justice & Technology Practicum