Writing in the New York Times, columnist Jamelle Bouie writes that former President Donald Trump’s actions make him an insurrectionist by any reasonable definition and that the Supreme Court should uphold Colorado’s decision to bar him from the ballot. To support his case, he cites extensively from an amicus brief submitted the Supreme Court by […]
As part of the observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year, Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson took part in a panel discussion arranged by the Illinois Department of Corrections Kewanee Life Skills Re-Entry Center. The event was put on in partnership with Wilson’s Tolerance Means Dialogues organization, which aims to bring together students and […]
Transfer rules and the changes to those rules have played an outsized role in college athletics in recent years. The federal government joining 10 states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit against the NCAA that seeks to make permanent a temporary restraining order prohibiting the governing body from imposing penalties on student-athletes that […]
In his role as the College of Law’s first Leader in Residence, Michael Strautmanis ’94 is ready to embrace the opportunity to inspire students and spark dialogue about the role lawyers play in society. There’s one thing he’s most excited to do, though. “It gives me a chance to tell a lot of great stories,” […]
On February 1, 2024, College of Law students Cree Medley and Richard J. Sammartino were sworn in by the Honorable Eric I. Long, United States Magistrate Judge for the Central District of Illinois, at the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Urbana.Under the supervision of the University of Illinois College of Law First Amendment Clinic Director Lena […]
Congratulations to 3L Alban Beqiri on the publication of his article, “When a Nonfiling Spouse’s Support of an Adult Child Prevents Relief,” in the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal. In his article, Beqiri takes a deep look at the issue of supporting adult children while pursuing bankruptcy, writing “If these payments for adult children are not […]
The strength of Professor Ralph Brubaker’s scholarship provided “considerable force” in the mind of Bankruptcy Judge J. Craig Whitley of Charlotte, N.C., and he cited Brubaker’s work extensively when denying a motion to dismiss a pair of “asbestos” chapter 11 cases where the family of companies could pay $250 million in current and future liability. […]
In late December 2023, U.S. bankruptcy court in North Carolina denied motions to dismiss the Texas Two-Step mass-tort bankruptcy cases of entities created to resolve the asbestos liability of the Trane companies. This type of maneuver involves splitting a company into two, moving the liabilities to one company, and then seek bankruptcy protections to absolve […]
When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted life in unprecedented ways, one of the most consequential was the suspension of eviction hearings and moratorium on evictions imposed by the CARES Act. When evictions proceeded again, many predicted a housing crisis would follow, but this was not borne out in Census Bureau survey data from 2020 through 2023, […]
When it comes to speech, “There is legal freedom and there is practical freedom,” Professor Lena Shapiro explained. The director of the First Amendment Clinic explained how the freedoms related to speech in the United States are applied on college campuses, especially in the wake of the October 7 attacks in Israel and the ensuing […]