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One Case at a Time: Immigration Attorney Joins Chicago-Kent Faculty
Amidst all the noise around immigration, Chicago-Kent College of Law Assistant Professor Pedro Gerson keeps sane by focusing on the Jewish concept of tikkun olam, or healing the world. “One...
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At the Epicenter: Design Patent Expert Joins Chicago-Kent Faculty
“Chicago is a great city for intellectual property law,” says Sarah (Fackrell) Burstein, one of Chicago-Kent College of Law’s newest faculty members. Burstein joined the Chicago-Kent faculty as a professor...
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A Real-World Approach: New C-K Professor Takes on Copyright Law by Exploring It
“I love teaching,” says Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Cathay Y. N. Smith. “I find that my research speaks to my teaching, and my teaching often speaks to my research.”...
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Associate Clinical Professor Named NCJI Academic Fellow
Chicago-Kent College of Law Associate Clinical Professor Jamie Franklin has been selected as an academic fellow of the National Civil Justice Institute. Franklin joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in August 2020...
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A Reasonable Accommodation: Strubbe Prize-Winning Paper Examines Remote Work
“It’s harder to tell an employer, ‘I can’t physically be in the office because of my mental disorder,’ than it is to say, ‘I can’t physically be in the office...
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‘How Is This Even Possible?’: Racial Justice Writing Competition Winner Examines AI’s Impact on Credit Scores
“You need money? Borrow it.” That’s how Jay Esparza Castillo ’24 defines the current financial landscape in the United States in his paper titled “Fair Lending in the Age of...
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Jury Duty: Professor Wins Award for Co-Editing Book on Lay Participation Around the World
“If you ever need conversation at a cocktail party, ask somebody if they’ve served on a jury,” says Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Nancy Marder. “If they did, they will...
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Michael J. Sandel Wins Chicago-Kent’s 2023 Palmer Prize
“Our civic life is not going very well.” So opens Democracy’s Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times (Harvard University Press 2022), a book written by Michael J. Sandel...
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Lewis Collens Honored with Order of Lincoln
Lewis Collens, professor emeritus at Chicago-Kent College of Law and president emeritus of Illinois Institute of Technology, is one of the 2024 recipients of the Order of Lincoln, Illinois’ highest...
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A New Standard: Sungjoon Cho Wins Best Book Award
“In Western countries, somehow intellectuals tend to believe their legal system is standard,” says Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Sungjoon Cho. “That, we try to problematize.” Cho’s latest book—co-written with...