Chicago-Kent College of Law
Chicago-Kent Leading Legal Innovation
Chicago-Kent College of Law is uniquely positioned at the cutting edge of a rapidly changing legal industry in the heart of the nation’s third-largest legal market. We are the only law school in the country associated with a technology-focused university.
Our faculty of expert practitioners, legal professionals, and experienced academics are ranked 40th in the nation for scholarly impact—and we are one of only three law schools in Chicago to be recognized on the scholarly impact ranking.
Our innovative clinical model, which is centered on practical experience, is at the forefront of a Chicago-Kent education, offering students the opportunity to work in our very own in-house law firm (the C-K Law Group) as they train for the legal industry. Chicago-Kent also has an extensive externship program; trial advocacy program, which is consistently ranked among the best in the nation; and award-winning moot court teams that emphasize practical training and the rhetorical skills necessary for students to conquer any case, practice, or courtroom. In 2024, Chicago-Kent was ranked #12 in nation for trial advocacy, #18 for intellectual property law, and #108 in the nation overall by U.S. News & World Report.
To continue the legacy of experiential learning and developing real-world skills, we also offer our pioneering legal research and writing program—the first three-year program in legal research, writing, and analysis to be developed at a law school in the nation.
And with more than 10 centers and institutes housed within Chicago-Kent—such as our Law Lab, Public Interest Center, or Martin H. Malin Institute for Law and the Workplace—students can engage in any social or legal issue they are passionate about, conduct cutting-edge research, or accumulate practical experience to understand the legal profession on an intimate level.
Chicago-Kent News
Andrew Carnegie Foundation Awards $1.5 Million to Chicago-Kent College of Law to Expand Civic Mission Schools Network Across Three States
CHICAGO—June 18, 2026—The Andrew Carnegie Foundation, formerly known as Carnegie Corporation of New York, has awarded $1.5 million over 24 months to Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of...
‘Help Those People’: Chicago-Kent Celebrates Public Interest at 19th Annual Awards
According to the Law School Admission Council, a not-for-profit organization that is committed to promoting quality, access, and equity in law and education, 49 percent of 2024–25 LSAT takers were...
Law Student Honored by American College of Bankruptcy
The American College of Bankruptcy has chosen Rachel Lehmann ’26 as its 2026 Seventh Circuit Distinguished Student. The Distinguished Bankruptcy Student program aims to “identify and promote prospective leaders in...
Our Alumni Success
Not Your Typical Lawyer
Monica Whitten ’23 was not the typical Chicago-Kent College of Law student. “I was the oldest person in my graduating class, definitely in my section by a lot of years,”...
Featured Faculty
Anita K. Krug
- Professor of Law
Raff Donelson
- Professor of Law
- Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Nancy Kim
- Professor of Law
- Michael Paul Galvin Chair in Entrepreneurship and Applied Legal Technology
Graeme B. Dinwoodie
- Co-Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law
- University Distinguished Professor
- Global Professor of Intellectual Property Law
David A. Erickson
- Sr Instructor Assoc Dir Trial Advocacy
- Co-Director of the Program in Criminal Litigation
- Teaching Professor
Nancy S. Marder
- Professor of Law
- Director of the Justice John Paul Stevens Jury Center
- Co-Director of the Institute for Law and the Humanities
Harold J. Krent
- Professor of Law
- Interim Dean
Marsha Ross-Jackson
- University Ombudsperson
- Associate Dean, Office of Access and Community Outreach
- Executive Director, Martin H. Malin Institute for Law and the Workplace
- Teaching Professor
Carolyn Shapiro
- Professor of Law
- Co-Director of the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States