News featuring a faculty member
Former President Donald Trump’s bid for a second term is generating a lot of constitutional questions, which is keeping Professor Jason Mazzone busy. Writing at the News-Gazette, Mazzone explores the question of whether a state has the power to exclude a candidate from the ballot because of the insurrection act. He examines what the U.S. […]
A recent $2.5 billion bankruptcy settlement between the Boy Scouts of America and childhood sexual abuse survivors seemed to put a close to an awful chapter in the victims lives, until the settlement was halted by the U.S. Supreme Court due to concerns over the legality of mandatory releases of claims against nondebtor third parties. […]
Cook County Judge Tracie Porter’s decision to remove Former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot made Illinois one of three states barring him from the ballot. Similar to cases in other states, Trump’s lawyers argued that the insurrection clause doesn’t apply to the president, and the Trump campaign criticized Porter’s decision. Professor Jason Mazzone, […]
Quadrangle, the magazine of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, profiled the Illinois Scholars at Risk program in its Spring 2024 issue. The profile highlights the work done by the program, chaired by Professor Colleen Murphy. The program offers assistance to scholars who face danger at home, and the Illinois group has brought seven […]
The United States Bankruptcy Court Western District of North Carolina recently denied a motion to dismiss the bankruptcy of companies implicated in asbestos liability cases, citing and quoting from several articles by Professor Ralph Brubaker. The case involves Texas Two-Step mass-tort bankruptcy, a topic in which Brubaker has researched and published extensively. The decision cites […]
In early 2024, a federal district court judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Disney Corporation against Florida officials for alleged retaliation against Disney’s opposition to certain Florida laws and policies by altering the board that regulates the land where Disney World is located. Professors Vikram Amar, Jason Mazzone, and Lena Shapiro collaborated in an […]
Professor Ralph Brubaker has received the Lawrence P. King Award for Excellence in the Field of Bankruptcy by the Commercial Law League of America. Below is the text of the press release announcing the award. Commercial Law League of America Announces 2024 Lawrence P. King Award Recipient Rolling Meadows, IL, February 29, 2024 – The […]
The famous system of breaking down legal analyses into ordered subparts, Issue-Rule-Analysis-Conclusion, needs an updated focus on the last part, according to Professor Jacob Sherkow. In his new paper, available for download on SSRN, he argues that lawyers need to be experts in conclusions, writing “good conclusions – clear, reasonable, workable, plausible, probable conclusions – […]
On February 17–18, 2024, the College of Law’s Program in Constitutional Theory, History and Law co-sponsored a conference at Harvard Law School on the Supreme Court’s uses of “history and tradition” in determining the existence and scope of constitutional rights. The conference, organized by Program Director Professor Jason Mazzone and Richmond Law Professor Kurt Lash, […]
Robin Fretwell Wilson has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for the academic year 2024-2025. She will spend the year in Lisbon, Portugal at the NOVA School of Law. The Fulbright Program is appropriated by the U.S. Congress annually with goal of developing international understanding and establishing open communication and long-term cooperative relationships. As […]