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  1. CBS2 Chicago

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Katherine Baker Explains Legal Obligations for Family That Keeps Getting Misdelivered Packages

    “There’s a limited amount you can do,” said attorney Katherine Baker, who teaches contract law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “It is not the responsibility of the receiver to figure out where this came from. It's definitely not their responsibility to load up their car and bring all of this stuff to FedEx or UPS.” Since the family has made some effort to reach the person to whom the packages are supposed to be going, Baker said, “at some point, they can just discard it.”

  2. Financial Times

    Assistant Professor Jordana Goodman Highlights Gender and Race Gaps in Patent Applications

    Jordana Goodman, an assistant professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law who studies equity in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, points to experiences of Bruce Boyd and Brigitte Gopou as indications of underlying factors in patent gaps. Their hair sculpting tool used to style dreadlocks ultimately secured a patent “only for the method of using the product and not the product itself, so it’s easier for people to produce knock-offs in the United States and not get in as much trouble with litigation”.

  3. NBC News

    Recordings Show Alito Doesn't Think of Himself as 'Neutral Umpire' in Culture Wars, Says Chicago-Kent Professor Carolyn Shapiro

    Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, said Alito’s comments that conservative Christians are under attack from liberals in a culture war that grips the United States provide further evidence that he does not necessarily see himself as a “neutral umpire” in the conflict. “I think he sees himself as a partisan in this fight,” she added.

  4. Washington Post

    Trump Attacks Judicial System, but ‘Jury Trial as Good as We Can Do,’ Says Chicago-Kent Professor Nancy Marder

    “Human beings have their weaknesses, and our institutions have their weaknesses, but a jury trial is as good as we can do,” Nancy Marder, a Chicago-Kent College of Law professor who studies jury trials, said in an interview.

  5. Salon

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Nancy Marder Says Judge's Instructions Provide 'Important Roadmap' to Jury in Trump Trial

    “Judges use what has been done before and what has been accepted in the past, so they’re not doing this from scratch,” said Nancy Marder, a professor at Illinois Tech Chicago Kent College of Law and director of the Justice John Paul Stevens Jury Center. “So I do think it provides an important roadmap for the jurists once they get into the jury room and start deliberating.”

  6. CBS2 Chicago

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Richard Kling Explains Recent Spike in Smash-and-Grabs

    “People are desperate,” said Richard Kling, a clinical professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “They want things. They see things on TV that you and I may be able to afford to buy and they're not able to afford to buy it. So they decide they want to take it. I think part of it is the educational system. I think part of it is parental control.”

  7. WTTW

    As Former Marine Appeals Murder Conviction, Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent Explains Why It's Important for Other Torture Cases

    “That’s why this opinion is very important, it’s recognizing that torture comes in many forms, not just the classic knife to throat, or threat to kill your mother,” explains Harold Krent, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “It also comes in the form of sleep deprivation, of depriving someone of medicine, not allowing him to speak to an attorney. The sort of events that go on and on and build upon each other that coerce someone’s will, and then force them to sign a confession falsely.”

  8. Washington Post

    Nancy Marder, Director of Justice John Paul Stevens Jury Center, Says Question About Impartiality Allowed Potential Trump Jurors to Opt Out

    “In some cases it could be that some prospective jurors do not want to sit on a six-week jury trial that will be in the public eye,” said Nancy S. Marder, jury expert professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “They might have such strong feelings because the defendant is in the public eye. Or, it might be that New Yorkers are not afraid to express their strongly held views. But in either case, this is exactly what should happen.”

  9. Bloomberg Law

    AI-Generated Art’s Murky Copyright Status May Discourage Some Creators, Says Chicago-Kent Professor Ed Lee

    “Artists and creators who are interested in using AI generators will potentially use them but not register their works, waiting, hopefully, for a change in the legal position,” said Edward Lee, an intellectual property law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “But some might shy away from even using AI at all.”

  10. Law360

    Chicago-Kent's Noah Smith-Drelich Explains How State Abortion Bans Are Teeing Up Constitutional Fights

    Noah Smith-Drelich, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology, said the right to travel is “well-established” in the law and a fundamental right protected under different parts of the U.S. Constitution. But amid a patchwork of contradictory laws and widespread uncertainty about enforcement policies, “I think it’ll be one of the major issues” in the post-Dobbs landscape, Smith-Drelich said.