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  1. Bloomberg Law

    Supreme Court’s Emergency Decisions Can Have Permanent Impact for Many, Says Chicago-Kent Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro

    “They may describe these decisions as temporary. But for many people, and in some instances for everybody, this is it,” said Carolyn Shapiro, the founder and co-director of Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States. “There is no more.”

  2. Chicago Tribune

    Professor Emerita Lori Andrews: People Are Turning to AI Chatbots for Companionship. Is This Robot Love Risky?

    “Alexa, will you marry me?” When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reported in 2016 that over 250,000 people had proposed to their Alexa devices, commentators laughed it off. But by 2026, people have said, “I do,” to avatars, chatbots and robots in ceremonies around the world.

  3. Investigative Project on Race & Equity

    Law Professor Raff Donelson Says County Should Consider Criminal Penalties if Municipalities Fail to Follow Tax Foreclosure Rules

    “Seized properties should be put up for public auction, or there should be some other suitably public way that everyone has a fair chance of getting at the property,” said Raff Donelson, professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “If that doesn’t happen, that really ought to be a crime.”

  4. The Bulwark

    X’s Latest Terms of Service Change Is Part of Long History of Eroding Users’ Rights, Says Chicago-Kent Law Professor Nancy Kim

    “This has been going on for like twenty years—not with X in particular, but with data privacy in general,” said Nancy Kim, a law professor and expert on contract law at Illinois Tech’s Chicago-Kent College of Law. “We’re just getting our rights slowly eroded, and these platforms are just increasingly getting more and more powerful, and they’re doing this through terms of service.”

  5. WTTW

    VP Incorrect About Federal Agents’ Immunity from Prosecution, Says Chicago-Kent Law Professor Harold Krent

    “There have been a number of cases and judicial pronouncements that say individuals are not absolutely immune, and no Supreme Court decision has ever held that,” says Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Harold Krent. “That being said, the road to a prosecution by state officials is tough.”

  6. Bloomberg Law

    Professor Harold Krent Discusses Judge Ordering Lindsey Halligan to Explain Why She's Still Claiming to Be U.S. Attorney for Eastern District of Virginia

    “There have been five interim U.S. attorneys appointed by President Trump who’ve been disqualified simply because the president has decided not to follow the statute and not to present the name of the candidate to the Senate for ratification,” said Harold Krent, constitutional law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “Now in this case, after the judge has found her to be improperly appointed, she just decided to stay on pending appeal.”

  7. Chicago Tribune

    Federal Agents Don't Have Absolute Immunity from Prosecution, Says Chicago-Kent Law Professor Noah Smith-Drelich

    “One of the narratives that has come out of this administration in recent months is ‘we are immune,’ and that’s incorrect,” said Noah Smith-Drelich, an assistant professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law.

  8. Talking Points Memo

    Don’t Read into Timing on Supreme Court’s Lack of Tariff Decision, Says Constitutional Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro

    “The Court very much resists the idea that what it’s doing is political in a number of senses, but one sense is in the kind of daily work of politics,” said Carolyn Shapiro, founder and co-director of the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “So I think that also could be some of it, that for some of them they want to convey this view of themselves as being somehow writing ‘for the ages.’”

  9. WTTW

    Unclear Whether Trump Administration’s Freeze of Social Safety Net Funds Is Legal, Says Professor Carolyn Shapiro

    “The fact that the administration has singled out five states that are Democratically led raises questions about whether this is retaliatory for other things, and if so, is that illegal?” says Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro. “We haven’t seen that particular claim raised as to a state, I don’t believe, but I think there are very strong arguments to be made that that would be illegal.”

  10. Law.com

    Professor Sarah Fackrell Explains How Schedule A IP Infringement Cases May Turn Conventional Judge Shopping Wisdom on Its Head

    “One reason why the amend down to one and refile (strategy) seems to work seems to be exactly because it is a large district and everything is diffuse. If there were only three judges, you might notice what's going on a little (more quickly) than you would if there were 30,” said Chicago-Kent College of Law professor Sarah Fackrell.