News featuring a faculty member
On July 7, 2023, the iSchool at the University of Illinois announced the recipients of their 2022 Alumni Awards. Pia Hunter (MSLIS ’14) is the recipient of the Leadership Award, which is given to an alum who has graduated in the past ten years and shown leadership in the field. Since earning her MSLIS, Hunter has […]
Professor Arden Rowell recently spoke to Stateline about the lack of federal regulations to protect outdoor workers from wildfire smoke. Rowell, who has studied respiratory safety regulations, said that only three states — California, Oregon and Washington, which is in the process of finalizing its rules — have developed their own enforceable standards on worker […]
Cash bail is set to end in Illinois on September 18th, and Professor Andrew Leipold joined WLS AM radio to discuss what the new law means, the measures judges will take to ensure that dangerous offenders remain behind bars, and how cash bail ending will benefit residents of Illinois. Listen to the interview at wlsam.com.
Should states or the federal government have control over the National Guard? A recent ruling from the 5th Circuit has set up a battle over this question and made the matter more complicated than before. Army Times spoke to Professor Jason Mazzone, who was cited in the 5th Circuit opinion, to help clarify some of […]
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn affirmative action earlier this summer, Professor Jason Mazzone speculated that it would be harder for universities to achieve diversity goals, especially for schools that are more selective in their admissions process. “If those schools became less selective in their admissions, then they wouldn’t have a […]
The proposed bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma, which would allocate billions of dollars to help ease the nation’s opioid crisis but shield the Sackler family from future lawsuits, has been placed on hold by the Supreme Court. Speaking to The Washington Post, Professor Ralph Brubaker, an expert in bankruptcy law, called the case one of the […]
In his decision this week, Judge Philip Bentley of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan ruled a bankrupt Holiday Inn in downtown Manhattan can’t use chapter 11 to maintain its low-rate mortgage without paying penalty interest linked to its default. The case arose after the owner failed to make payments on its loan after the hotel […]
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Following a national search, Jamelle Sharpe has been selected as the 14th dean of the College of Law, effective Aug. 16, 2023, pending University of Illinois Board of Trustees approval. Sharpe’s title will be dean of the College of Law designate and Guy Raymond Jones Faculty Scholar until board approval. Sharpe, who […]