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During a national trial advocacy “battle of the experts” team competition, a Chicago-Kent student was dubbed the best advocate of the bout. Cole Gunter ’23 took the title at the Drexel Battle of the Experts, hosted by the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law in September. Sixteen teams...

A team of Chicago-Kent College of Law students reached the finals of the most renowned civil trial competition in the country this month.

Heightened student demand for an immigration clinic at Chicago-Kent led to immediate action by the college. New clinic director Victoria Carmona has earned high marks from students, outside agencies, and clients for her passion and knowledge of the law.

Update: A memorial service at Chicago-Kent College of Law for Professor Steven L. Harris has been scheduled at 4 p.m. Thursday, May 5, 2022, at the Conviser Law Center, Morris Hall (10th Floor), 565 W. Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois. A renowned commercial and bankruptcy professor who contributed...

In her first law school competition, Kaitlyn Kloss ’23 successfully argued her way past five opponents to win Chicago-Kent College of Law’s 30th annual Ilana Diamond Rovner Appellate Advocacy Competition. “It’s a huge honor to argue with such great advocates,” says Kloss of the competition, which...

Read Chicago-Kent Magazine's Fall 2021 cover story, which focuses on immigration law.

CHICAGO, October 29, 2021 —Raff Donelson, a legal philosophy and criminal law scholar, is joining Chicago-Kent College of Law as an associate professor of law in fall 2022. Donelson’s research interests include moral philosophy, criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and race and law. In...

With his career and scholarship deeply rooted in the twin fields of philosophy and criminal law, Raff Donelson has dedicated himself to “unexplored questions” about the fundamental concepts of law, punishment, and policing. And come August 2022, Donelson will start teaching those concepts as an...

Though it was their first competition and only the second appellate brief they had ever written, a pair of Chicago-Kent College of Law students secured the best brief award at a national moot court competition this month. Teammates Esteban Valtierra ’23 and Ben Levine ’23 advanced to the semifinals and won best brief in the University of Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Freedom Moot Court Competition over the weekend of October 10, 2021.

A paper exploring the lasting impact of federal redlining in Chicago neighborhoods, from before the Great Depression to today, has won Chicago-Kent College of Law’s first-ever racial justice writing competition.