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  1. The Guardian

    Most Extreme Version of Independent State Legislature Theory Dead, but Questions Remain, Says Chicago-Kent Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro

    “There are still questions that have yet to be worked out, and there will be litigation,” said Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, who has written extensively about the theory. “The court has absolutely put a nail in the coffin of the most extreme versions of the ISLT.”

  2. Bloomberg Law

    Supreme Court 'Soundly Rejected' Independent State Legislature Theory, Says Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro

    The court “soundly rejected the entirely lawless notion that state legislatures don’t have to follow their own state constitutional restrictions when they regulate federal elections,” said Carolyn Shapiro, a law professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law who has written about the independent state legislature theory. “They have staved off an enormous amount of potential chaos that would have ensued if they had gone the other way.”

  3. Forbes

    Mogul Byron Allen Could Lose Lawsuit, but McDonald's Has Much at Stake, Says Chicago-Kent Law Professor Harold Krent

    “You can file a lawsuit to win. You can file a lawsuit for publicity. You can file a lawsuit to inflict harm on another party,” Harold Krent, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, told Forbes. “But also you can file a lawsuit in hope of incremental social change. And so I think this underlying lawsuit really is both about getting more money to Byron Allen’s companies but also trying to pave the way for some kind of beneficial social change.”

  4. Daily Herald

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Comments on Court-Appointed Lawyer Asking to Withdraw from Freund Case

    A Finley motion is filed when an appellate lawyer wants to withdraw from a case because there is belief that it is frivolous or "there are no meritorious issues to raise on appeal," said Richard Kling, a defense attorney and clinical professor of law at Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law.

  5. Talking Points Memo

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro Tries to Decode Supreme Court's Silence in Independent State Legislature Theory Case

    “I think one of two things is happening: (1) they’re going ahead and deciding it on the merits or (2) there is at least one justice who thinks they should be deciding it on the merits and so is writing a dissent to the dismissal,” says Carolyn Shapiro, law professor and founder of Chicago-Kent’s Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States.

  6. IEEE Spectrum

    Dynamic Nature of Cryptocurrency Complicates SEC's Mission, Says Chicago-Kent Professor Nelson Rosario

    “You can have tokens that look like securities and commodities and money and property all at once,” says Nelson Rosario, a technology lawyer and adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “There aren’t a lot of assets out there that are as dynamic as these things.”

  7. Reuters

    Law Professor and AI Expert Daniel Martin Katz Comments on Lawyer Caught Using ChatGPT to Write Error-Riddled Brief

    “You are ultimately responsible for the representations you make,” said Daniel Martin Katz, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law who teaches professional responsibility and studies artificial intelligence in the law. “It’s your bar card.”

  8. Bloomberg Law

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Harold Krent Breaks Down Supreme Court's Decision Upholding California's Humane Pork Law

    “The majority held that you cannot parse a state regulation and say that it’s having to do mostly with morals as opposed to protection for the citizens of the state,” says Harold Krent, law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “So that distinction that was forwarded by the pork producers was clearly rejected by a majority of the court, which is the controversial aspect of the decision because it does then open up other states to enact morals legislation which has an impact on out-of-state commerce.”

  9. Hyde Park Herald

    Author and Chicago-Kent Law Professor Reflects on 80th Anniversary of Sit-In at Kenwood Cafe

    “Legal change does not make change on the ground, does not make social change. This is the lesson of history, certainly in the case of race relations,” says Christopher Schmidt, a professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and author of “The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era.” “But what we need, and what the sit-ins show us, is that when we have legal change in conjunction with social protest, then you can actually get changes on the ground.”

  10. Chicago Sun-Times

    Chicago-Kent Professor: 'Incredibly Difficult' to Prove That Father Signing Highland Park Shooter's FOID Card Legally Caused Deaths

    “Causation is links in a chain, and that’s a very long chain,” says Doug Godfrey, professor of legal writing and research at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “There’s also intervening causes, which can break the chain. I’m sure the defense can point to many other things or people that may have contributed.”