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  1. WTTW

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Harold Krent Discusses Biden’s Proposed Ethics Reforms for Supreme Court

    “There is at the minimum an appearance of a conflict of interest,” said Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Harold Krent, “and that’s something that should be avoided by the court. It wasn’t. And so if the justices are going to thumb their nose at this kind of written ethics rule, then maybe Congress has to do something more stringent.”

  2. Axios

    Supreme Court’s Jarkesy Decision Strikes Serious Blow to the Administrative State, Says Chicago-Kent Assistant Professor James Tierney

    The SEC had already taken the hint from a 2018 case that the Supreme Court wasn't thrilled with in-house judges and cases and brought its most serious types of fraud cases to the courts, says James Tierney, assistant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law and a former staff attorney for the agency. “The SEC doesn't have infinite resources, and so if the cost of settlement goes up, it means they're going to have fewer resources to bring enforcement actions,” Tierney says.

  3. ABC7 Chicago

    Law Professor Richard Kling Breaks Down Ex-Alderman Burke's Sentence, Possible Implications for Other Politicians

    “I think everybody knows intellectually, you have to decide not to do it,” said Chicago-Kent Professor Richard Kling. “You realize if you get caught, you’re going to get in trouble. You see that with governor after governor and other politicians. The bottom line is they know if they get caught they’re in trouble, but like many other people, their thought is, I’m not going to get caught,”

  4. Business Insider

    Thomas' Dissent in Gun Case Highlights Failings of Originalism, Says Chicago-Kent Professor Carolyn Shapiro

    “This is a court that claims to be an originalist court and, if nothing else, these opinions establish that originalism is not a straightforward approach and does not lead to greater certainty, despite the claims that originalists make,” said Carolyn Shapiro, the founder of Chicago-Kent College of Law's Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States. Originalism “can lead to different results depending on who is doing the analysis," she said, continuing: “It just simply does not provide the certainty that originalists claim.”

  5. CBS2 Chicago

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Katherine Baker Explains Legal Obligations for Family That Keeps Getting Misdelivered Packages

    “There’s a limited amount you can do,” said attorney Katherine Baker, who teaches contract law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “It is not the responsibility of the receiver to figure out where this came from. It's definitely not their responsibility to load up their car and bring all of this stuff to FedEx or UPS.” Since the family has made some effort to reach the person to whom the packages are supposed to be going, Baker said, “at some point, they can just discard it.”

  6. Financial Times

    Assistant Professor Jordana Goodman Highlights Gender and Race Gaps in Patent Applications

    Jordana Goodman, an assistant professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law who studies equity in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, points to experiences of Bruce Boyd and Brigitte Gopou as indications of underlying factors in patent gaps. Their hair sculpting tool used to style dreadlocks ultimately secured a patent “only for the method of using the product and not the product itself, so it’s easier for people to produce knock-offs in the United States and not get in as much trouble with litigation”.

  7. NBC News

    Recordings Show Alito Doesn't Think of Himself as 'Neutral Umpire' in Culture Wars, Says Chicago-Kent Professor Carolyn Shapiro

    Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, said Alito’s comments that conservative Christians are under attack from liberals in a culture war that grips the United States provide further evidence that he does not necessarily see himself as a “neutral umpire” in the conflict. “I think he sees himself as a partisan in this fight,” she added.

  8. Washington Post

    Trump Attacks Judicial System, but ‘Jury Trial as Good as We Can Do,’ Says Chicago-Kent Professor Nancy Marder

    “Human beings have their weaknesses, and our institutions have their weaknesses, but a jury trial is as good as we can do,” Nancy Marder, a Chicago-Kent College of Law professor who studies jury trials, said in an interview.

  9. Salon

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Nancy Marder Says Judge's Instructions Provide 'Important Roadmap' to Jury in Trump Trial

    “Judges use what has been done before and what has been accepted in the past, so they’re not doing this from scratch,” said Nancy Marder, a professor at Illinois Tech Chicago Kent College of Law and director of the Justice John Paul Stevens Jury Center. “So I do think it provides an important roadmap for the jurists once they get into the jury room and start deliberating.”

  10. CBS2 Chicago

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Richard Kling Explains Recent Spike in Smash-and-Grabs

    “People are desperate,” said Richard Kling, a clinical professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “They want things. They see things on TV that you and I may be able to afford to buy and they're not able to afford to buy it. So they decide they want to take it. I think part of it is the educational system. I think part of it is parental control.”