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Chicago-Kent Librarian Receives National Minority Leadership Award
When applying for the American Association of Law Libraries award for minority leadership, Chicago-Kent College of Law librarian Mandy Lee started off by relating a painful and embarrassing attempt to...
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Chicago-Kent Professor Measures Quantifiable Growth of Modern Law
As the world grows more complex and diverse, how does the law change? The short answer: It gets bigger. Quantifiably bigger. Daniel Katz, director of The Law Lab at Illinois...
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Voting Rights Supreme Court Decision Has Eviscerated Voting Rights Act, SCOTUS Expert Available for Analysis
Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro, co-director of the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States, says that the Supreme Court decision in the Arizona voting rights...
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Chicago-Kent Student Takes "Pitch@IllinoisTech" Competition's Top $30,000 Prize for Urban Farm
Access to fresh, healthy, culturally relevant food can be severely limited on the South Side of Chicago, something Ashley-Marie and Gyasi Sutherland found out firsthand when the couple moved to...
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Student Who Turned Labor and Immigration Hardships into Strengths Receives National Fellowship
Enrique Espinoza was making a decent living but yearned for a purpose. He’d been working in the hospitality industry since he arrived in the United States in 2007 and made...
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Peers Honor Chicago-Kent’s Law Librarian for Decades of Work
“The important thing is, for attorneys, information is really the stock and trade,” says Jean Wenger , the director of the Chicago-Kent College of Law Library. “Being able to understand...
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Student Honored for Exemplary Work in Chicago-Kent Immigration Law Clinic
Every year at least one student working at Chicago-Kent College of Law’s law clinics is recognized for their stellar work. Hussein Nofal’s efforts within the college’s Immigration Law Clinic, where...
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Chicago-Kent College of Law Student Zoe Appler Wins “Top Gun” National Trial Advocacy Competition
CHICAGO, June 15, 2021—Chicago-Kent College of Law student Zoe Appler ’22 has won the 2021 Top Gun National Mock Trial Competition, which features the best trial advocates in the country...
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How Chicago-Kent's Environmental and Energy Law Clinic Became a South Side Legacy
This story appears in the Chicago-Kent College of Law's Spring 2021 Alumni Magazine. To read the entire magazine online, follow this link. Those who know Keith Harley call him cerebral...
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Chicago-Kent Student Takes “Top Gun” Title Against Best Trial Advocacy Competitors in the Country
It’s the trial competition to end all trial competitions—a one-on-one virtual courtroom battle to determine the best of the best student advocates in the country. Chicago-Kent College of Law student...