Press Releases
May 23, 2019
Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Trial Advocacy Program , known for its nationally ranked trial advocacy teams, has been awarded an A by preLaw Magazin e in its rankings of trial advocacy and litigation programs in its spring 2019 issue. The magazine evaluated trial advocacy programs throughout the...
May 22, 2019
Chicago-Kent’s Program in Intellectual Property Law , known for its influential faculty and broad array of course offerings, is one of 17 American law schools recently awarded a grade of A+ by preLaw Magazine . The ratings, published in the magazine’s spring 2019 issue, evaluate IP programs at law...
May 20, 2019
Chicago-Kent College of Law students Breana Brill ’21 and Caitlin Sinclair ’21 have been awarded 2019 Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowships. The students have received $7,000 each to support their public interest work this summer. Breana Brill ’21 (left) and Caitlin Sinclair ’21 (...
May 16, 2019
Michael P. Galvin, president of Galvin Enterprises, Inc., will deliver the keynote address at Chicago-Kent College of Law’s 2019 Commencement on Sunday, May 19. The ceremony will begin at 2:30 p.m. at the Chicago Theatre, 175 North State Street, in Chicago. Michael P. Galvin, president of Galvin...
May 10, 2019
Johnny Derogene, a May 2019 graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology, has been selected for a one-year fellowship with the AFL-CIO’s legal department in Washington, D.C. Johnny Derogene ’19 has been selected for a one-year fellowship with the AFL-CIO’s legal...
Apr 29, 2019
Mahira Musani ’19 is the recipient of Chicago-Kent's 2019 Marc Grinker Student Commitment Award. Mahira Musani ’19 has been chosen to receive the 2019 Marc Grinker Student Commitment Award for her dedication to Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Moot Court Honor Society. The award was created in memory...
Apr 24, 2019
Volume 14 of the Seventh Circuit Review is available at kentlaw.iit.edu/7cr . Articles in this volume analyze recent decisions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dealing with civil procedure, constitutional law, criminal procedure, immigration, and labor and employment...
Apr 24, 2019
The law firm of Jackson Lewis P.C. and the Institute for Law and the Workplace at Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology have announced the winners of the 2018–19 Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition in Employment and Labor Law . Awards were presented to the... Apr 17, 2019
The Chicago-Kent College of Law trial advocacy team of Timothy Cho ’20, Saman Haque ’20, Lilly Mashayek ’20, and Jane Morrison ’19 finished as national quarterfinalists and won the best technology award at the 2019 Capitol City Challenge at American University in Washington, D.C. At this year's...
Apr 10, 2019
Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology is hosting the Thirteenth Amendment and Racial Justice Conference on November 9–10, 2019. The conference focuses on the ways that the Thirteenth Amendment can be used in legislation and litigation, or in the context of social movements...