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Defining Design: Chicago-Kent Professor Cited in Federal Judicial Ruling
“I’m gratified and honored when a judge finds my work to be helpful—especially where, as here, they’re dealing with new and novel legal questions,” says Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor...
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Law Professor Named a Top Legal Innovator
Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Daniel Martin Katz has been named among the 2026 Top 50 Legal Innovators in Academia, which was recently published by National Law Review and Wickard...
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Chicago-Kent Professor Wins Best Paper Award for New Theory Explaining the Hidden Power of Law
“I’m really excited,” Chicago-Kent Associate Professor Noah Smith-Drelich says. “It’s always good to get recognition. This is a project that I’ve been actively working on for over two years but...
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Chicago-Kent Student Earns CHIWIP Scholarship
When Olivia (Villamagna) Staib (LAW 3rd Year) talks about the Chicago intellectual property community, she doesn’t start with patents or trademarks. She starts with the people. “Everyone is so warm...
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Polarization and Punishment: Stanford Professor Awarded 2025 Palmer Prize
“The most sensible ways to approach criminal justice often are approaches that draw support from across the political divide,” says David A. Sklansky, Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford...
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Chicago-Kent Professor Daniel Martin Katz Co-Authors New Book on the History, Design and Governance of AI Agents
“We are moving into this world of increasingly autonomous systems operating on our behalf,” says Professor Daniel Martin Katz. “People need to know what that means.” Katz, with co-authors Michael...
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Chicago-Kent Climbs to No. 7 in IP Law Rankings
Chicago-Kent College of Law has been ranked the 7th-best law school in the nation for intellectual property law by U.S. News & World Report in the publication’s 2026 Best Law...
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Migrant Mercy: Pedro Gerson Awarded Prize for Immigration Law Scholarship
“I was very surprised,” says Chicago-Kent College of Law Assistant Professor of Law Pedro Gerson. “I think more than anything, it’s the fact that the ideas in the paper resonated...
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Black Markets and Contraband: Chicago-Kent Hires Expert in Human Trafficking
Alexandra F. L. Yelderman joined the faculty at Chicago-Kent College of Law in fall 2025. Between 2012 and 2020, Yelderman practiced at the Human Trafficking Legal Center in Washington, D.C...
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The Constitutionality of Social Mobility: Lucien Ferguson Joins Chicago-Kent Faculty
“There’s all of this research—sociological, economic, political—showing that social mobility is crucial for a strong, stable democracy,” says Chicago-Kent Professor of Law Assistant Professor Lucien Ferguson, who joined the college’s...