Chicago-Kent News

The law school will remain open this afternoon and evening, but individual faculty members may cancel or delay their classes due to the snowstorm. Students will be notified by email of any cancellations or delays, and we will post notices here as we receive them. Commercial Law: Secured...

From left: The team of Jenna Kim, Maxwell Eichenberger and Kathleen Karnig won the national championship and best brief award at the 2016 William E. McGee National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition. For the third year in a row, Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Tech has won the national...

From left: Ariel Olstein, Briana Mayes and Debora Barbosa, all third-year students, will represent Chicago-Kent in the 2016 National Moot Court Competition in Child Welfare and Adoption Law. Third-year students Debora Barbosa, Briana Mayes and Ariel Olstein will represent Chicago-Kent College of...

David Springer and Margaret Wojkowski will compete on one of two teams representing Chicago-Kent in the 2016 ABA Mediation Regional Competition. Jennifer Snyder (left) and Robyn Lang comprise the other team representing Chicago-Kent in the 2016 ABA Mediation Regional Competition. Two teams from...

The most recent issue of the Seventh Circuit Review is available online at www.kentlaw.iit.edu/7cr . Articles in this issue analyze recent decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dealing with appellate procedure, civil rights law, criminal procedure and Second Amendment law...

From left: Second-year students Emily Linehan, Jeff Michalik and Alyssa Jutovsky will compete on one of two teams representing Chicago-Kent in the 2016 National Cultural Heritage Law Moot Court Competition. From left: Second-year students Alexandra Reitzner, Karen Vaysman and Karolen Younan will...

Caitlin Ajax '17 and David Love '17 will compete on one of two Chicago-Kent teams participating in the 2016 ABA National Appellate Advocacy Regional Competition. Alex Halaska '17 and Theresa Starck '17 will comprise the other Chicago-Kent team participating in the 2016 ABA National Appellate...

Second-year students Daniel Ristau (left) and Nick DeRyke will represent Chicago-Kent at the 2016 Evan A. Evans Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition. Nick DeRyke and Daniel Ristau, second-year students at Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Tech, will represent the law school at the 2016...

From left: Benjamin Jacobs '17, Whitney Williams '16, Brandi Burton '16 and Dion Beatty '17 will represent Chicago-Kent in the 2016 Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Midwest Regional Competition. Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Tech will enter the 2016 Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Midwest...

Third-year students Kenneth Matuszewski and Stephanie Crigler will advance to the national finals of the 2016 Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition. The Chicago-Kent team of Stephanie Crigler and Kenneth Matuszewski will advance to the national finals of the 25th annual Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court...

From left: The team of Hung Pham, Yuchen "Ivy" Zhang, Huy Nguyen and Rebecca Charles will represent Chicago-Kent in the 2016 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Regional Competition. Rebecca Charles '17, Huy Nguyen '16, Hung Pham '17 and Yuchen "Ivy" Zhang '16 will represent Chicago-Kent...

From left: Third-year students Kenneth Matuszewski, Stephanie Crigler, David Mucci and Eliot Gusdorf will represent Chicago-Kent in the Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition's 2016 Midwest regional tournament. Two teams from Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Tech will participate in the 25th...

From left: Second-year students Kelsey Weyhing, Ryan Suniga and Rebecca Horgan will comprise the other team participating in the 2016 McGee National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition. Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Tech will send two teams to defend its 2014 and 2015 championships at the...

From left: Ana Montelongo '16 and Nicolette Ward '16 will compete on one of two teams representing Chicago-Kent at the 2016 National Trial Competition Region 8 tournament. Evelyn Hernandez '16, Natalie Adeeyo '16 and Paige Olsen '17 will comprise the other team. Chicago-Kent College of Law at...

Second-year student Jennifer Ellenby (center) recently received an award endowed by Dean Harold Krent (left) and his wife, Nancy, to encourage students to strive for excellence. Jennifer P. Ellenby, a second-year student at Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Tech, is the recipient of the law...

From left: Third-year students Brian Hannon, Steve Gross and Anthony Bonagura will represent Chicago-Kent in the 2016 Professional Football Negotiation Competition. Third-year students Anthony Bonagura, Steve Gross and Brian Hannon will represent Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Tech in the...

Alex Beehler, Peter Cheun and Alexandra McNicholas, third-year students at Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Tech, will represent the law school in the ninth annual Andrews Kurth Moot Court National Championship January 28 to 30, 2016, at the University of Houston Law Center's Blakely...

Entries will be accepted through July 1, 2016, for the Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize . Established in 2007 at Chicago-Kent College of Law by alumnus Roy C. Palmer and his wife, Susan M. Palmer, the prize honors a work of scholarship that explores the tension...

A panel of experts will address allegations of police misconduct and civil rights violations, calls for reform, and the fallout in the police department, City Hall and Springfield at Chicago-Kent's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Forum on Civil Rights and the Chicago Police Department. The forum will be...

Chicago-Kent students Andrew Bisping '16, Daniel Haze '18 and Mark Reel '17 will represent the law school in the 2016 National Baseball Arbitration Competition January 20 to 22 at Tulane Law School in New Orleans. From left: Andrew Bisping '16, Daniel Haze '18 and Mark Reel '17 will represent...