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August 20-22, 2018

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August 27, 2018

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Chicago-Kent faculty ranked 44th in United States

The faculty of Chicago-Kent College of Law has been ranked 44th among American law school faculties for the scholarly impact of their published work. In a study published this week on the Social Science Research Network, U.S. law school faculties were ranked for the frequency with which their scholarly publications are cited in American legal journals. The “scholarly impact score” for a law faculty was calculated from the mean and the median of total law journal citations to the work of tenured faculty members for the years 2013 to 2017, inclusive. There are currently 204 ABA-accredited law schools in the...
Distinguished Professor Sheldon Nahmod honored with 2018 Abner J. Mikva Award from American Constitution Society Chicago Lawyer Chapter

Distinguished Professor Sheldon Nahmod received a 2018 Abner J. Mikva Award from the Chicago Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society at a luncheon July 24 at the Union League Club in Chicago. The award, renamed in 2016 in honor of the late Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, recognizes attorneys who have advanced the American Constitution Society’s progressive mission. Distinguished Professor Sheldon Nahmod (left) accepts a 2018 Abner J. Mikva Award, presented by Geoffrey Stone, co-chair of the ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors. Photo: Andrew Collings | Chicago Lawyer...
Distinguished Professor Lori Andrews wins American Association of Law Libraries’ Article of the Year Award

Distinguished Professor Lori Andrews won the 2018 AALL Spectrum Article of the Year Award from the American Association of Law Libraries for her article iSpy: Threats to Individual and Institutional Privacy in the Digital World . She accepted the award July 17 at the association’s national meeting in Baltimore. Professor Lori Andrews received the 2018 AALL Spectrum Article of the Year Award at the American Association of Law Libraries' annual meeting. Photo courtesy of the American Association of Law Libraries. The award honors outstanding achievement in writing an article, published in the AALL Spectrum during the previous year, that contributes...
Dean Harold J. Krent receives Chicago Bar Foundation's Schrager Award

Harold J. Krent , dean of Chicago-Kent College of Law, is the recipient of the 2018 Leonard Jay Schrager Award for Excellence, conferred July 12 by the Chicago Bar Foundation. The award recognizes attorneys in academia who have made significant contributions to improving access to justice for the less fortunate. Dean Harold Krent accepted the 2018 Leonard Jay Schrager Award for Excellence on July 12 at the Chicago Bar Association and Chicago Bar Foundation's Pro Bono & Public Service Awards Luncheon. | Photo: Bill Richert for the Chicago Bar Foundation Dean Krent was recognized for his leadership role in a...
Chicago-Kent Welcomes New Library Director

Chicago-Kent Law Library Director Jean Wenger Jean M. Wenger has been appointed Director of the Law Library and Senior Lecturer at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Her appointment is effective July 1, 2018. Ms. Wenger earned her J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law, her master’s degree in library and information science from Dominican University, and her bachelor of arts degree in public administration and economics from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. She is a member of the State Bar of Illinois. Ms. Wenger is a well-known leader in the law library community, where she served as president of...
In Memoriam: Professor Margaret Stewart

The Chicago-Kent community mourns the death of Professor Emeritus Margaret Stewart , an astute legal scholar who taught civil procedure, federal courts and constitutional law to generations of future lawyers during her 35 years on Chicago-Kent’s faculty. Professor Emeritus Margaret Stewart “All of us at Chicago-Kent will remember Margaret as an inspiring teacher, a perceptive scholar, a caring mentor and an institutional force for reason,” said Chicago-Kent Dean Harold Krent . Professor Stewart joined Chicago-Kent’s faculty in 1977, after serving for three years as an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. A graduate of Kalamazoo...
Alanna Elinoff '18 and Stefanie Ferrari '18 receive the 2018 Gary Laser Professionalism Award

Alanna Elinoff and Stefanie Ferrari, both May 2018 graduates of Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Tech, have been selected to receive the 2018 Gary Laser Professionalism Award. Alanna Elinoff '18 was selected to receive the 2018 Gary Laser Professionalism Award. Created in 2017, the endowed prize recognizes students working in the Law Offices of Chicago-Kent who have best exemplified promise as practitioners as well as the highest standard of ethics. The award is named in honor of Professor Gary Laser , who founded Chicago-Kent's in-house clinical education program , the nation's first fee-generating teaching law firm, in 1976. Winners...
Three Chicago-Kent students named 2018 Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Summer Fellows

Chicago-Kent students Joanna Martin '19, Carl Sessions '19 and Rebecca Spira '19 have been awarded 2018 Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Summer Fellowships. The students have received $7,000 each to support their public interest work this summer. Chicago-Kent students Carl Sessions '19, Joanna Martin '19 and Rebecca Spira '19 (far right), pictured here with faculty adviser Professor Nancy Marder, received 2018 Stevens Fellowships to support their public interest work this summer. "The fellowship seeks to promote the public interest and social justice values that have characterized Justice Stevens' work throughout his long career," said Chicago-Kent Professor Nancy S. Marder...

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In February 2018, Chicago-Kent celebrated the launch of its new Center for Design, Law & Technology (cDELTA or c∆), which will promote research, scholarship and instruction at the intersection of design, creativity, technology and the law.

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Meet Professor Bernadette Atuahene

Professor Bernadette Atuahene has been researching land restitution and advocating for dispossessed peoples since 2002, when she clerked for the South African Constitutional Court as a Fulbright Scholar. Professor Atuahene teaches courses on international business transactions, property, and international development law and policy. She is director of Chicago-Kent's new Center on Socio-Legal Approaches to Property.

Meet Karl Haraldsson

Karl Haraldsson '19 is a Chicago-Kent Honors Scholar in the evening division. He works as a consultant for law firms that are transfoming their practice models to provide services more cost effectively for clients.

Welcome Members of the 2018 Entering Class

News

Chicago-Kent faculty ranked 44th in United States

Distinguished Professor Sheldon Nahmod honored with 2018 Abner J. Mikva Award from American Constitution Society Chicago Lawyer Chapter

Distinguished Professor Lori Andrews wins American Association of Law Libraries’ Article of the Year Award

Dean Harold J. Krent receives Chicago Bar Foundation's Schrager Award

Chicago-Kent Welcomes New Library Director

In Memoriam: Professor Margaret Stewart

Alanna Elinoff '18 and Stefanie Ferrari '18 receive the 2018 Gary Laser Professionalism Award

Three Chicago-Kent students named 2018 Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Summer Fellows

Events

Get to Know Chicago-Kent

Learn About 1L Your Way

Expansive Areas of Study

Meet the C-K Law Group

Why Chicago-Kent?

Prospective Students

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"Design Rights: Functionality and Scope of Protection" - Christopher Carani

"You Don't Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie’s Dark Side" - Prof. Orly Lobel

Centennial Lecture 2018: "Train Wreck: U.S. Immigration and Border Policy, 1965-2010"

"Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America" - Prof. James Forman Jr.

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