Chicago-Kent College of Law Archive

IIT Chicago-Kent Distinguished Professor of Law Lori Andrews talked with Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” about online privacy and a new phenomenon of debt collectors posing as models on Facebook.

January 30, 2013
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IIT Chicago-Kent Professor and Intellectual Property Law Program Director Edward Lee published “The Day Wikipedia Went Dark” in Boston Review, looking back one year at January 18, 2012, when many of the most popular websites went “black” to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a controversial bill that was abandoned shortly thereafter.

January 22, 2013
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IIT Chicago-Kent’s Bruce M. Kohen Courtroom to be dedicated January 24

January 22, 2013
The Bruce M. Kohen Courtroom at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law will be dedicated at a public reception on January 24 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the law school's Lewis Collens Atrium, 565 West Adams Street (between Clinton and Jefferson streets) in Chicago.
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“Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy” wins 2012 IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize

January 10, 2013
Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy, by Brooklyn Law School professor and national ACLU president Susan N. Herman, has won the 2012 IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize.
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IIT Chicago-Kent Professor Mark Rosen spoke with Illinois lawmakers about language in the Illinois Constitution protection pensions and a proposed solution to the state’s unfunded pension liability, the largest in the country, Associated Press reports.

January 8, 2013
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IIT Chicago-Kent Professor Douglas Godfrey spoke with Christian Science Monitor about a preliminary hearing concerning the shooting attack at a movie theater in Aurora, CO in 2012, commenting that such hearings have been used more in recent years to give the victims a chance to testify.

January 8, 2013
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IIT Chicago-Kent Clinical Professor of Law Richard Kling spoke with several news outlets about Daley nephew Richard “RJ” Vanecko’s not-guilty plea to an involuntary manslaughter charge in connection with the 2004 death of David Koschman.

December 11, 2012
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First Business News spoke with several attorneys who attended a panel discussion hosted by IIT Chicago-Kent’s Sports & Entertainment Law Society on December 5 about growing concern of career-ending brain injuries in the NFL. Panelists interviewed included William Gibbs of Corboy & Demetrio, a 2004 IIT Chicago-Kent graduate who represents three former NFL players as well as the estate of the late Chicago Bears player Dave Duerson.

December 7, 2012
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IIT Chicago-Kent Associate Professor of Law William Birdthistle provides the Wall Street Journal with some tips on predicting the performance of mutual funds for the personal finance article, “Ten Things Mutual-Fund Companies Won’t Say.”

November 19, 2012
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IIT Chicago-Kent Distinguished Professor of Law Sheldon Nahmod spoke with ABC 7 News about the verdict in the trial stemming from the videotaped beating of a bartender by an off-duty Chicago police officer in 2007, which the jury found was covered up by an unofficial code-of-silence policy in the police department.

November 14, 2012
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Chicago-Kent College of Law Archive

IIT Chicago-Kent Distinguished Professor of Law Lori Andrews talked with Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” about online privacy and a new phenomenon of debt collectors posing as models on Facebook.

IIT Chicago-Kent’s Bruce M. Kohen Courtroom to be dedicated January 24

“Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy” wins 2012 IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize

IIT Chicago-Kent Professor Mark Rosen spoke with Illinois lawmakers about language in the Illinois Constitution protection pensions and a proposed solution to the state’s unfunded pension liability, the largest in the country, Associated Press reports.

IIT Chicago-Kent Professor Douglas Godfrey spoke with Christian Science Monitor about a preliminary hearing concerning the shooting attack at a movie theater in Aurora, CO in 2012, commenting that such hearings have been used more in recent years to give the victims a chance to testify.

IIT Chicago-Kent Clinical Professor of Law Richard Kling spoke with several news outlets about Daley nephew Richard “RJ” Vanecko’s not-guilty plea to an involuntary manslaughter charge in connection with the 2004 death of David Koschman.

IIT Chicago-Kent Associate Professor of Law William Birdthistle provides the Wall Street Journal with some tips on predicting the performance of mutual funds for the personal finance article, “Ten Things Mutual-Fund Companies Won’t Say.”

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