News featuring a faculty member
For the first time in the 30-year history of the Sawyer Seminar Program, a team of Illinois faculty researchers have been awarded the prestigious grant, including College of Law Professor Jason Mazzone. The grant is given through Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to groups studying the challenges to democracy and academic freedom confronting US universities now. […]
In addition to her role as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Law, Professor Colleen Murphy has also been appointed as Interim Associate Chancellor and Vice Provost for Global Affairs & Strategies Designate. She recently spoke with Illinois International about the role, her vision for global engagement at the University, how she […]
Professor Richard Ross recently published an essay about how the Patriots’ use of law facilitated political mobilization for the American Revolution. The essay, “Legal Orders,” was co-authored with Steven Wilf, and appears in Cambridge History of the American Revolution, Volume 1: Revolutionary Contexts, ed. Marjoleine Kars, Michael A. McDonnell, and Andrew M. Schocket (New York: […]
Leading bankruptcy law expert and professor Bob Lawless recently sat down with the students behind the independent, student-run production The UIUC Talkshow. Lawless discussed the student debt crisis, the history of bankruptcy law, and some proposed solutions. View the full conversation on youtube.com.
As artificial intelligence technology becomes more commonplace, questions about its ethical use are of more salience. In the AMA Journal of Ethics, Professor Sara Gerke examines one area of interest in this field: how ambient listening and transcription technology influences medical doctors’ documentation practices and clinical encounters. In her article, Gerke and her co-author seek […]
“Infringement by label” is when a court treats drug labels as if they were patent claims, assessing whether their text merely “contains” a patented method of use, and it is also the subject of the latest scholarly research from Professor Jacob Sherkow. Writing in the Stanford Law Review, Sherkow explains how infringement by label threatens […]
“The weight of society’s expectations of working moms on a normal day is crushing,” Professor Lauren Aronson writes in a new editorial published by Ms. Magazine. “With the added obligation that moms ensure our families experience a quintessential holiday season, this weight feels insurmountable.” From her role as an immigration lawyer as well as a […]
Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) Section on Jurisprudence has selected Professor Bill Watson as the 2026 recipient of its Future Promise Award. The award is given annually to recognize the research accomplishments of junior scholars working in the area of jurisprudence whose work reflects future promise in both philosophy and law. Watson was be […]
In terms of impact, the biggest case before the United States Supreme Court in its current term is Trump v. Barbara, Professor Jason Mazzone predicted in the News-Gazette. The case, which will consider the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order denying birthright citizenship to individuals born in the United States, is “plainly unconstitutional,” he […]
Writing in The George Washington Law Review, Professor Suja Thomas contrasts the ways in which employment cases are adjudicated in United Kingdom and the United States. Though the United States modeled its system on that of the United Kingdom, “the U.K. has more heavily circumscribed the right to a jury trial in both criminal and […]