Alumni Class Notes | July 2021
1955 Leo Melamed was a guest speaker at the Democratizing Data & Financial Services Solutions Forum. 1967 Lee Daniels was nominated to continue serving as an Independent Director on the Board of...
View ArticleProfessor Hugh Mundy, Mohena Kaur (’21) Address Course of Conduct Testimony...
Professor Hugh Mundy and recent graduate, Mohena Kaur, published an article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin focusing on “course of conduct” testimony. Kaur is a 2021 graduate of UIC Law and an...
View ArticleFaculty Activities & Publications | August 2021
Faculty Professor Alicia Alvarez She was appointed to the ABA Council on Legal Education & Admissions to the Bar for a three-year term. Professor Sonia Bychkov Green On August 13, she provided...
View ArticleStudent Success Report | August 2021
3Ls Radhika Aggarwal published an article for the Chicago Bar Association titled, “A Call to Action as The Illinois Eviction Moratorium Phases Out.” Steven Angell accepted a two-semester externship...
View ArticleClass Notes | August 2021
1981 Paul A. Bradley was included in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. 1994 Daniel Cotter is serving as the 2021-2022 Secretary for the National Conference of Bar Presidents. 2002 Lance...
View ArticleStudent Success Report | September 2021
3Ls Natalie Elizaroff published an article for the Chicago Bar Association titled, “Much Ado About Cryptocurrency.” Denise Luna started an internship with the Cook County Public Defender. Stephanie...
View ArticleFair Housing Legal Clinic Honored by ISBA for “Excellence in Legal Education”
The Illinois State Bar Association has awarded UIC Law’s Fair Housing Legal Clinic its 2021 Illinois State Bar Association’s Excellence in Legal Education Award, which honors a law school program that...
View ArticleSeven Alumni on 2021 “40 Under Forty” List
Seven graduates of the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law have been added to the 40 Under Forty list for 2021 issued by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and Chicago Lawyer. The honorees are...
View ArticleUIC Law Welcomes 318 New Students To Its Fall Class
UIC Law has welcomed its 2021 entering class with 318 JD students, up from 316 JD students last year. This is the first fall class to start under Interim Dean Julie Spanbauer, whose appointment as Dean...
View ArticleProfessor McMurtry-Chubb’s “Strategies & Techniques for Integrating DEI into...
Prominent critical-race-and-gender scholar Professor Teri McMurtry-Chubb has published a new, comprehensive pedagogical how-to on diversity, equity and inclusion teaching methods. Strategies &...
View ArticleAlumni Profile: Joseph D. Ament (’62)
Recently retired after more than 58 years in law practice, Joseph D. Ament’s resume speaks for itself— Valedictorian of the Class of 1962, a successful CPA, a founding member of Much Shelist Freed...
View ArticleClass Notes | September 2021
1985 Antonio Romanucci received the Inaugural Dominic DiFrisco Lifetime Achievement Award. 1990 William Nicholas Fahy was selected, by vote of Cook Country Circuit Court judges, as an Associate Judge...
View ArticleFaculty Activities & Publications | September 2021
Faculty Professor Teri McMurtry-Chubb On September 14, she was featured on the New Books Network “History” podcast about her book, “Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the...
View ArticleSenator Carol Moseley Braun Gives 2021 Keynote at Constitution Day Lecture
On September 17, former Senator Carol Moseley Braun joined UIC Law and the greater UIC Community and presented the 2021 Constitution Day Lecture, “Race and the Constitution in the 21st Century.” UIC...
View ArticleStudent Success Report | October 2021
2Ls Benjamin Blekhman accepted a Summer 2022 Associate position in Kirkland & Ellis’s Chicago office. Andrea Carro accepted a 2L Summer 2022 Associate position at Jones Day. Meaghan Mahoney...
View Article65th Annual IP Law Conference Highlights Nexus of Forward-Thinking IP Legal...
Registration is now open for the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law’s 65th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference, to be held virtually on Thursday and Friday, November 4–5, 2021....
View ArticleWashington and Lee Ranks UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law as a Top 5...
The Law Library at Washington and Lee School of Law has ranked UIC Law’s Review of Intellectual Property Law fifth in the world in its latest law journal rankings. The UIC Review of Intellectual...
View ArticleUIC Law Launches First-Year Antiracist Curriculum Project
Recognizing the opportunity to critically address legal inequities in the traditional core law courses, the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law (UIC Law) launched a 1L Antiracist Curriculum...
View ArticleClass Notes | October 2021
1975 Mary Ann Hynes was recognized by Crain’s Chicago as a “2021 Notable Nonprofit Board Leader” for her work as Founding Board Member and Board Development Committee Co-Chair of Girls Inc. of Chicago....
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