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Harold J. Krent , who will step down as Chicago-Kent's dean next year, has been named 2018 Person of the Year by Chicago Lawyer magazine. Congratulations, Dean Krent! Read the Chicago Lawyer feature [PDF]

Anthony Joseph '18 has published a scholarly paper in the November 2018 issue of the University of Pennsylvania's Journal of Constitutional Law. Anthony Joseph, a 2018 graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law, has published a scholarly paper in the November 2018 issue of the University of...

The 2018 Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize has been awarded to Timothy H. Edgar , a senior fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, for his book Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA (...

Professor Evelyn Brody accepted the 2018 Distinguished Achievement in Leadership and Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research Award from ARNOVA during the organization’s 47th annual conference, held November 15 to 17 in Austin, Texas. Professor Evelyn Brody accepted the 2018 Distinguished...

Illinois Appellate Judge Mary Mikva (right) presented Jack Etchingham '20 with the 2018 Ilana Diamond Rovner Award for Outstanding Appellate Advocate. Jack Etchingham, a second-year student at Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Tech, has won the 27th annual Ilana Diamond Rovner Appellate...

The Chicago-Kent team of Noor Abdulmassih '20 and Gina Cesario '20 will advance to the national rounds of the 2018 Thomas Tang National Moot Court Competition, sponsored by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. The team placed second in the central regional tournament, held October...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel G. Martin ’84, described by Judge David Erickson as “one of the rock stars of our law school,” taught trial advocacy to more than 1,000 students during his 30 years as an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent, also coaching several of the law school’s most successful...

Yuting Li '18 is the recipient of the 2018 Sandra P. Zemm Labor Law Prize, awarded annually to an outstanding student in labor and employment law. The prize was established in 2009 at Chicago-Kent College of Law by the law firm of Seyfarth Shaw LLP to honor the memory of Sandra P. Zemm, who died in...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will hear arguments in the Marovitz Courtroom at Chicago-Kent College of Law on Wednesday, Oct. 3, from 10 a.m. to 12:10 p.m., followed by Q&A sessions with Federal Circuit law clerks at 12:15 p.m. and with Federal Circuit judges at 12:40 p.m...

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...