2006-2007 - John Marshall Law School

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CATALOG
2006-2007
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CONTENTS
Academic Programs .......................................6
Juris Doctor .......................................................................7
Joint Degrees......................................................................7
Advanced Degree Programs.................................................9
LL.M. in Employee Benefits............................................9
LL.M. in Global Legal Studies......................................10
LL.M. in Information Technology and Privacy Law.......10
LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law................................11
LL.M. in International Business & Trade Law ..................11
LL.M. in Real Estate Law.............................................12
LL.M. in Tax Law ........................................................12
M.S. in Employee Benefits Law ....................................13
M.S. in Information Technology Law ...........................13
M.S. in Real Estate Law ...............................................14
M.S. in Tax Law ..........................................................14
Research Program (Fair Housing Legal Support Center) ...15
Facilities &
& Services
Services ...................................1 6
Facilities
Career Services ................................................................1 7
Writing Resource Center ..................................................1 8
Academic Achievement Program .......................................19
Alumni Relations ............................................................20
Library ............................................................................21
Student Life
Life .........................................................23
Student
Honors Programs & Co-Curricular Activities...................28
Interscholastic Competitions ...........................................30
36.........................................................................38
Faculty
& Administration
Full-Time Faculty ...........................................................39
Adjunct Faculty ..............................................................62
Administration ...............................................................68
Admission...............................................................72
Admission
Financial Aid ..................................................................75
Tuition & Fees................................................................76
Academic Rules ...............................................................77
Curriculum......................................................................81
Clinical and Externship Programs....................................82
Courses ....................................................................91
Courses
LL.M. Course Listings .....................................................91
M.S. Course Listings ......................................................95
J.D. Course Listings........................................................97
J.D. Course Descriptions .................................................98
LL.M. Course Descriptions ............................................110
M.S. Course Descriptions .............................................125
Rights ......................................................................133
Rights
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Rights&
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CALENDAR
Fall 2006
Accelerated Trial Advocacy
Orientation for new J.D. students
Orientation for new LL.M. & M.S. students
First day of regular classes
Last day to drop individual courses with tuition refund
Labor Day (no classes)
Last Day to withdraw passing from a course
Yom Kippur (no classes)
Thursday classes meet (Thanksgiving make-up)*
Friday classes meet (Thanksgiving make-up)*
Thanksgiving recess (no classes)
Monday classes meet (Yom Kippur make-up)*
Make-up day
Last day of regular classes
Reading Period
Final Exams
Make-up exam day
Commencement
August 2–11
August 14 –17
August 17
August 21
September 1
September 4
September 29
October 2
November 21
November 22
November 23–26
November 30
December 1
December 2
December 3– 4
December 5–18
December 19
January 21
Spring 2007
Accelerated Trial Advocacy
Orientation for new J.D. students
Orientation for new LL.M. & M.S. students
Martin Luther King Jr. Day observed
First day of regular classes
Last day to drop individual courses with tuition refund
Last day to withdraw passing from a course
Spring Break (no classes)
Last day of regular classes
Make-up class day
Reading Period
Final Examinations
Make-up exam day
Commencement
January 3–12
January 8–11
January 11
January 15
January 16
January 26
February 23
March 11–18
April 30
May 1
May 2–3
May 4–17
May 18
May 20
Summer 2007
First day of early session
First day of regular Summer session
Last day to withdraw passing from a course
Holiday (no classes)
Make-up for 4th of July
Last week of early session
Last day of regular session
Final Examinations
May 21
June 4
June 15
July 4
July 6
July 2
July 19
July 23–26
* Due to Thanksgiving, Thurs. classes meet Tues. before Thanksgiving; Fri. classes meet Wed.
before Thanksgiving.
Due to Yom Kippur, Mon. classes meet both Mon. & Thurs. after Thanksgiving.
NOTE: Only those holidays listed above will result in class cancellation.
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MESSAGE
ACTING DEAN
FROM THE
Welcome to The John Marshall Law School!
I’d like to tell you a few things about our law school
that you might not know.
John Marshall is a good place to study law. The faculty
are friendly and approachable. They enjoy teaching
and interacting with students. They have a wide
variety of experience and interests and publish articles
based on their research and their community service.
One of our teachers, Professor Timothy O’Neill, was
named one of the Top Ten Law Professors in Illinois by the
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. You can learn more about our faculty
on our website at www.jmls.edu.
John Marshall’s mission is to provide access and opportunity to
qualified students in a diverse and inclusive atmosphere, one that is
conducive to producing effective and responsible members of the
bar. We have students from a broad range of backgrounds. Many
have just finished college but many are also second-career students.
Our students are involved in co-curricular and extra-curricular
activities; we have a dynamic Student Bar Association and more
than 40 student organizations.
Our students publish three journals, the John Marshall Law Review,
the Journal of Computer and Information Law, and an online
journal, the Review of Intellectual Property Law. Each fall, we put on
an international moot court competition in information technology
and privacy law—this year we celebrate the competition’s 25th
anniversary—and each spring, in conjunction with the American Bar
Association, we host the National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy
Competition, inviting 20 teams from among the top law schools in
the nation.
Because of our commitment to working students, we offer an
evening program that allows students to complete their studies in
four years (rather than the usual three years for the day program).
We admit entering classes in both August and January of each year.
John Marshall offers a wide array of financial aid and scholarships to its
J.D. students. We also have awarded an annual $25,000 Lucy Sprague
Public Interest Scholarship to a graduating student who demonstrates
a commitment to public service work (the money is used to defray the
student’s educational loans), and have awarded a $5,000 Elmer
Kissane scholarship each semester to a graduating student who goes to
work for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.
For the last few years, our employment rate has been at
approximately 90% nine months after graduation. Our Career
Services Office is headed by Assistant Dean Laurel Hajek, a lawyer
herself, who, along with her staff, works to help all students connect
with a job that is right for them. The school provides a wide array of
career services and offers students, from the first year on,
help with drafting and directing résumés, developing
networking skills, and finding jobs.
The John Marshall Law School is nationally ranked in
the areas of intellectual property, legal writing, and trial
advocacy and dispute resolution. This year we celebrated
the 65th anniversary of offering instruction in intellectual
property by presenting a conference on “The Role of the
United States in World Intellectual Property Law,” which
was cosponsored by several leading IP firms. We offer a
large number of IP courses in our J.D. program and also have one of
the nation’s largest Master of Laws (LL.M.) programs in IP.
In addition to offering an advanced degree in intellectual property,
John Marshall also offers LL.M. degrees in employee benefits law,
global legal studies, information technology and privacy law,
international business and trade law, real estate law, and tax law. If you
decide, early on, that you are interested in one of these legal specialty
areas, John Marshall offers you the opportunity to earn a joint
J.D./LL.M. degree, with a significant savings in time and tuition.
The John Marshall Law School is located in the heart of Chicago’s
legal, business, government, and commercial district, right across the
street from the U.S. District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Seventh Circuit, and literally right next door to the Chicago Bar
Association. Surrounded by the actual day-to-day practice of law in its
many phases, our students take advantage of the many opportunities
open to them for practical experience in externships, clinics, and
summer employment.
Although our students are serious about their studies, they still find
time to enjoy the many cultural attractions that the city of Chicago
has to offer. Our students often form bonds of friendship with
classmates that last well after graduation and into their professional
lives. John Marshall supports these connections and assists in
fostering networking and mentoring opportunities. I am constantly
impressed by the energy and commitment shown by the law school’s
alumni association, which has alumni chapters throughout the
country. Moreover, our terrific career services offerings are available
to all alumni, not just to current students.
If you would like to know more, I invite you to read through this
catalog and also to visit our website at www.jmls.edu. If you have any
questions, I would be happy to hear from you, or you could contact
William Powers, associate dean for Admission and Student Affairs.
John E. Corkery
Acting Dean
YESTERDAY, TODAY,
& TOMORROW
A
t its founding more than 100 years ago, The John Marshall
Law School offered the promise of an excellent legal education to
two groups of students whose opportunities at that time were
otherwise severely limited: people whose gender or background
prevented them from gaining admittance to established law schools,
and people whose economic position required them to study law
part-time, while continuing to work to support themselves and their
families. It is gratifying to note that mainstream legal education has
followed a course pioneered by The John Marshall Law School’s
guiding principles — diversity, opportunity, and balance between
theory and practice. In 2003, as a testament to our tradition of
opportunity and legal excellence, The John Marshall Law School
community celebrated the 100th anniversary of the law school’s
first woman graduate, Jessie Cook. In 2004, we celebrated the
100th anniversary of the first African-American graduate, James
Randle.
John Marshall continues to embrace change and innovation as we
train our students of today to be excellent lawyers of tomorrow.
Over the years, The John Marshall Law School has earned a
national reputation for excellence in legal writing, intellectual
property, and advocacy. In recent years, John Marshall has been a
leader in establishing advanced law degree programs in specialized
areas, as well as offering practical experience through a variety of
clinical and externship programs.
We take great pride in our nationally recognized advocacy program,
which generates exceptional trial lawyers. Our students benefit from
excellent lawyering skills training and have proven their mettle
through recent national moot court championships in criminal law,
patent law, tax law, and trademark law competitions.
Looking forward, The John Marshall Law School is poised to build
on its strengths and to continue to prepare excellent lawyers. We
welcome you and look forward to your participation in our vibrant
and friendly legal education community.
M ISSION
H
onoring its history, The John Marshall Law School
upholds through its varied juris doctor and advanced degree
programs a tradition of diversity, innovation, access, and
opportunity, and consistently provides an education that
combines an understanding of both the theor y and the
practice of law.
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
L
egal education at The John Marshall
Law School is designed to prepare
students to practice law now and for the
rest of their lives. Our courses stress
analysis of issues, mastery of material,
the importance of ethical considerations,
and the ability to think and write clearly
about the law. The goal is to provide our
students with the skills they will need to
meet the evolving demands of the practice
of law, and the needs of the diverse
society in which they will soon play an important role.
Students first take a set of core courses and then choose
from a broad array of electives. National recognition
for the law school’s programs in intellectual property
law and trial advocacy has made these very popular areas
of study for our students. Many other electives are
offered in areas such as employee benefits, global legal
studies, information technology and privacy law,
international business and trade, real estate, and
taxation, and in other areas that provide a solid
foundation for the practice of law. The school also has
a nationally recognized comprehensive lawyering skills
program that offers courses over four semesters in legal
writing, advocacy, and drafting.
The curriculum is augmented by opportunities for
students to take part in numerous moot court and mock
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trial programs and three law reviews: the
John Marshall Law Review, the Journal of
Computer and Information Law, and our
online journal, the Review of Intellectual
Property Law.
Since 1899, the law school has maintained
a diverse student body. Today we continue
that commitment through efforts to
encourage women, minorities, and secondcareer students to attend John Marshall as
part of our day or evening programs.
John Marshall has one of the largest advanced degree
programs in law in the nation, offering seven LL.M
degrees, as well as Master of Science degrees for nonlawyers in employee benefits, information technology
law, real estate law, and taxation.
A joint degree program is available for J.D. students who
wish to pursue a J.D. and LL.M degree at the same time,
and John Marshall students may also study at Dominican
University for a joint J.D./M.B.A. or at Roosevelt
University for a joint J.D./M.P.A. (public administration)
or J.D./M.A. (political science) degree.
The law school also prides itself on the strength of its
clinical and extern programs. Through these programs,
students experience first-hand the challenges and
rewards of practicing law.
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Degree Programs
D
egrees will be conferred by the Board of Trustees with
the recommendation of the faculty.
To receive a recommendation, a student must have
satisfactorily met the requirements of the degree for which
the student is a candidate.
Each student is responsible for ensuring that he or she has
fulfilled the credit and course requirements of The John Marshall
Law School. No student will be graduated unless all tuition and
fees have been paid.
Juris Doctor Requirements
The degree of Juris Doctor is conferred upon candidates
who have fulfilled the following requirements:
earned credit for at least 90 semester hours
of law study.
obtained a cumulative grade point average of at
least 2.25.
The maximum period of time for a law student to complete
requirements for the degree is seven years.
Admission to the Bar
Successful completion of the Juris Doctor program at The John
Marshall Law School will qualify a graduate to sit for the bar
examination in any state. However, because some jurisdictions
have specific course or registration requirements, the student
should obtain a copy of the rules for admission from the board
of law examiners of the state where he or she plans to practice.
In Illinois, students commencing law school in the fall semester
are required to register by March 1. The corresponding
deadline for students commencing law school in the spring
semester is the following July 1. Students who may need special
testing conditions should check with their board of law
examiners at the time of their admission to law school.
Joint J.D./LL.M. Degree Program
Some students know early on in law school that they wish to
specialize in a particular area of law. For those students, The
John Marshall Law School offers joint J.D./LL.M. degrees in
employee benefits law, information technology law, intellectual
property law, international business and trade law, real estate
law, and tax law. The program builds upon John Marshall’s
broad base of required courses—both in substantive areas and
in skills training—to permit students to specialize in one of six
areas of law, without giving up the benefits of a traditional legal
education. Joint degree students are permitted to apply the
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first 10 credit hours satisfactorily completed in the LL.M.
program toward the 90 credits required for the J.D. degree.
Thus, joint degree students, in most instances, will be able to
complete the requirements of both programs with 104 credit
hours (80 J.D. + 24 LL.M.). A J.D. student must have at least
a 2.5 grade point average, and must have completed 29 credit
hours to be considered for admission to the joint degree
program. Each of the joint J.D./ LL.M. programs has different
qualifications beyond these minimum requirements. Interested
students should meet with the director of the program they
wish to enter. With quality counseling and careful planning,
J.D. students can complete coursework that enables them to
participate equally with the lawyer students in LL.M. courses.
The completion of a joint J.D./LL.M. degree program will not
only provide an in-depth educational experience in a particular
area of the law, but it will allow law students to distinguish
themselves from other recent graduates in order to compete
successfully for jobs.
The Illinois Bar Exam
The Illinois Bar Exam is a two-day exam.
The first day has three parts:
1 one 90-minute Multistate Performance Test (MPT) question
2 the six-question Multistate Essay Exam (MEE)
3 three questions drafted by Illinois examiners
The second day consists of the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE),
a 200-question, multiple-choice exam.
MBE Subjects
Constitutional Law, Contracts/Sales, Criminal Law/Procedure,
Evidence, Real Property, Torts
MEE/Illinois Essay Subjects
Agency, Commercial Paper, Conflict of Laws, Corporations,
Equity, Family Law, Federal Jurisdiction & Procedure, IL Civil
Procedure, Partnerships, Personal Property, Sales, Secured
Transactions, Suretyship, Trusts & Future Interests, Wills
(Decedents’ Estates)
Multistate Performance Test
“Closed universe” practical problem using instructions,
factual data, cases, statutes and other reference material
supplied by examiners.
The essays are worth approximately 43%, the MPT is worth
approximately 7% and the MBE is worth approximately 50%.
The required passing score is revised each year to account
for exam difficulty.
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Degree Programs
J.D./M.B.A.
The John Marshall Law School and Dominican University in River
Forest, Illinois, cooperate in offering a combined credit program
leading to the degrees of Juris Doctor and Master of Business
Administration. Up to nine hours of M.B.A. courses taken at
Dominican may be counted toward the J.D. degree and up to nine
hours of law courses may be counted toward the M.B.A. degree.
Not all courses are available for credit. A list of acceptable electives
is available in the Registrar’s Office.
Each candidate must meet all degree requirements of each school.
Students apply to John Marshall and Dominican separately. Upon
acceptance to both schools, students gain entrance into the
combined program. A candidate may begin the program either at
Dominican or John Marshall. In either case, the required first-year
curriculum of law courses will be taken solely at John Marshall.
No M.B.A. courses may be taken simultaneously. If a candidate
begins the program at John Marshall, the student must complete
the remaining equivalent of three full-time years jointly at this
school and Dominican. If a candidate begins the program with
one year taken solely at Dominican, followed by a year solely taken
at John Marshall, the remaining credit hours may be taken jointly
at John Marshall and Dominican.
Students in the combined program will pay The John Marshall Law
School for law courses and pay Dominican University for business
courses. For more information about the combined J.D./M.B.A.
program, contact Professor Glenn P. Schwartz at 312.987.2368.
J.D./M.P.A. and J.D./M.A.
The John Marshall Law School and Roosevelt University cooperate
in offering combined credit programs leading to the degrees of
Juris Doctor (J.D.) and either the Master of Public Administration
or the Master of Arts in Political Science (M.P.A. or M.A.).
In these programs, The John Marshall Law School and Roosevelt
University each accept a certain number of credit hours earned at
the other institution as electives, which shortens the time in which
a student can earn both degrees. John Marshall will accept up to
nine credit hours of Roosevelt courses, provided a) these hours are
comprised of courses designated by John Marshall as acceptable for
this purpose, and b) are taken after enrollment as a law student at
John Marshall, and c) after completion of the first year of law study
at John Marshall.
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Roosevelt will accept up to nine credit hours of John Marshall
courses, provided these hours are composed of courses designated
by Roosevelt as acceptable for this purpose. Students participating
in this joint program may not count additional non-law school
courses toward the J.D. degree.
Students wishing to enroll in the combined degree program must
meet the admission requirements of both cooperating institutions.
Joint Degree with Roosevelt University
The John Marshall Law School and Roosevelt University offer a
joint degree program leading to both the baccalaureate and juris
doctor degrees. Under this program, the first year of law study may
be credited toward the completion of the baccalaureate degree,
which allows students to complete both degrees in six years, rather
than the normal seven years if both degrees were earned separately.
Students must be admitted separately to each institution. They
may begin their courses at The John Marshall Law School after
completing 90 credit hours at Roosevelt, successful completion of
certain required pre-law courses, and successful application to the
law school program.
The minimal qualifications necessary for admission will vary
according to standards established periodically by the Admission
Office at John Marshall.
Guaranteed Law School Admission
Program (GPPA) with the University
of Illinois at Chicago
A joint program between the law school and the University of
Illinois at Chicago (UIC) permits a UIC student to be guaranteed
admission to the law school if the student fulfills the program’s
requirements while at UIC. The requirements for this program,
known as the GPPA (Guaranteed Professional Program
Admission), include taking certain required UIC courses, enrolling
in the UIC Honors College and maintaining that enrollment each
term, taking a minimum of 12 semester hours each term,
maintaining a 4.5 cumulative grade point average (on a 5 point
scale), completing an undergraduate degree within five years,
taking the LSAT, filing a formal application with the law school,
and meeting the law school’s character and fitness requirements.
For further information about this GPPA program, please contact
the law school’s Admission Office or the UIC Office of
Admissions, Special Projects Unit, 312.996.8365.
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Advanced Degree Programs
P
rofessionals know it’s not possible to cover more than the bare fundamentals within the time limits of a J.D.
program. This limitation, in addition to the need to develop knowledge and skills in an area of specialization,
makes advanced degree study imperative.
The John Marshall Law School offers seven LL.M. programs, making John Marshall the largest graduate law school in
the Midwest. Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees are available in Employee Benefits, Global Legal Studies, Information
Technology and Privacy Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Business and Trade Law, Real Estate Law, and
Tax Law. In 1998, John Marshall began offering a Master of Science (M.S.) in Information Technology Law for nonlawyers and began offering M.S. degrees in Employee Benefits Law, Real Estate Law, and Tax Law in 2005.
These programs are open to qualified applicants either as a comprehensive curriculum, leading to a graduate degree,
or as individual courses, benefiting the practicing professional. Each of the programs is designed to give specialized
training in a certain discipline. Thorough and intensive curricula enable professionals to enhance their skills and
knowledge in the programs described on the following pages.
LL.M. & M.S. Admission
Applicants for the LL.M. programs are required to meet one of the following criteria:
member of the bar of any state or territory of the United States, including the District of Columbia
graduate of a law school approved by the American Bar Association if not a member of the bar
J.D. student at The John Marshall Law School wishing to pursue a joint J.D./LL.M. degree (see page 7)
member of a foreign bar or graduate of a foreign law school with an acceptable score on the TOEFL (Test of
English as a Foreign Language) and a sample of legal writing
Applicants for the M.S. programs are required to meet one of the following criteria:
graduate of an accredited college or university, holding at least a bachelor’s degree
graduate of a foreign educational institution, holding at least the equivalent of an American four-year degree.
Applicants must present an acceptable score on the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) and a writing
sample. An acceptable score on the TOEFL is 250 (computer test) or 600 (paper test) or higher.
Additional information can be found under Advanced Degree Admission, beginning on page 74.
Employee Benefits Law
T
he LL.M. Program in Employee Benefits is responding to the high demand, both locally and nationally, for
experienced employee benefits practitioners. As a result of our comprehensive and thorough overview of the law,
graduates acquire the skills necessary to successfully practice in this area of law. The program stressed a transactional
approach and deals with actual problems encountered in the practice of employee benefits law.
This program, the only one of its kind in the nation, was developed in consultation with an Advisory Board consisting
of nationally recognized experts and highly ranking governmental officials from the IRS and the Department of Labor
(DOL), as well as continuous input from our faculty. The curriculum reflects the tax, labor and employment aspects of
employee benefits plans, as well as the interplay of these rules on the administration and maintenance of such plans.
The faculty consists of knowledgeable employee benefits practitioners, as well as current and former members of the
IRS’ Office of Chief Counsel. Without exception, they all bring extraordinary commitment to teaching. To
accommodate students, classes are held in the late afternoon or evenings and on Saturdays. Externships with the IRS,
DOL, PBGC, Pension Rights Center, and the Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America are also available.
REQUIREMENTS
Competition of 24 semester hours, including 6 required courses and a publishable paper
Final cumulative grade point average of 2.5 or higher.
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Global Legal Studies
T
he John Marshall Law School’s LL.M. Program in Global Legal Studies provides a flexible program of study
for foreign lawyers who wish to deepen their knowledge of specific areas of the law, and an expansive
curriculum in U.S. and international law for foreign lawyers wishing to broaden their scope of legal knowledge.
At John Marshall, students are permitted to choose from a large selection of courses in U.S. and international law,
and to combine them to suit their individual interests and abilities. Each student, with the aid of the director, is
free to choose from virtually the full range of John Marshall’s extensive J.D. and LL.M. law curricula.
In pursuing individual concentrations, each student is required to take Introduction to the United States Legal
System, and Comparative Legal Systems, the program’s two required courses. Students are also required to take
Lawyering Skills for Foreign Lawyers, a research and writing course designed to improve students’ communication
skills in English. Each student consults with the director in designing an individual schedule of additional courses in
his or her chosen field, including such fields as information technology law, intellectual property law, international
business and trade law, real estate law, or tax law.
A foreign graduate student can enter any one of these six programs directly. If a student wishes to take some, but
not most, coursework in these fields, he or she can enter the LL.M. Program in Global Legal Studies and take as
many of the specialized tax, real estate, international business and trade, information technology, or intellectual
property courses as appropriate. A Certificate of Concentration is available upon completion of 13 credits of
related courses.
REQUIREMENTS
Completion of a minimum of 24 semester hours.
Completion of Comparative Legal Systems (Law 256), Introduction to the United States Legal System
(FL 500), and Lawyering Skills for Foreign Lawyers (FL 501).
Information Technology and Privacy Law
A
s the world grows increasingly dependent upon computers and international communication systems,
the need for lawyers and policymakers conversant in information technology law and policy has never
been greater.
The John Marshall Law School proudly offers the first and most comprehensive LL.M. in Information
Technology and Privacy Law. The program is designed for practicing lawyers seeking specialized knowledge
in this rapidly growing arena, as well as for individuals pursuing an academic interest in the field.
The program’s substantive focus is the law and policy related to emerging technologies, the Internet, electronic
commerce, privacy, telecommunications, and information access and control. It is the only advanced degree law
program to incorporate privacy issues throughout its curriculum. The program is led by members of John
Marshall’s full-time faculty, who are nationally and internationally recognized for their expertise in these areas.
They are joined by a group of adjunct professors and lecturers who bring into the classroom practical knowledge
and experience from their cutting-edge law practices. Visiting faculty from institutions around the world also
contribute actively to the educational program.
In addition to the core curriculum, students may select from a wide variety of elective courses, many of which
will change from year to year in order to keep pace with rapid developments in technology and the law.
Independent research projects and clinical practicum experiences are also available.
Courses are offered year-round, usually in the evening, although workshops and other intensive courses may
be taught on an accelerated schedule as weekend seminars.
REQUIREMENTS
Completion of 24 semester hours.
Completion of Computers and the Law (IT 803), Copyright Law and Practice (IP 406), Cyberspace Law
(IT 808) and Information Law and Policy (IT 801).
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Intellectual Property Law
T
he John Marshall Law School offers one of the nation’s oldest and most extensive LL.M. programs in
intellectual property law. The program is designed for lawyers who want to obtain specialized, advanced
training in all aspects of intellectual property law.
The program offers two alternatives: a comprehensive patent program designed for students with a technical
background, and a comprehensive intellectual property program for students with a non-technical background.
The patent program includes advanced courses in substantive patent law, patent office practice, advanced patent
application preparation, interference practice, patent litigation, licensing, and international aspects of patent law.
An advanced trial advocacy course trains students in trial techniques unique to patent cases.
The intellectual property program includes courses in patent law, copyright law, trademark law, trade secret law,
unfair competition, trademark litigation, licensing, antitrust, taxation of intellectual property, international
intellectual property law, advertising law, business franchise law, trademark transactions, and rights of publicity
and privacy.
Independent study, a dissertation, clinical internships and master classes on advanced topics in intellectual property
law are also available. Clinical internships allow students to work with an intellectual property law firm, a corporate
law department, or relevant governmental agencies.
The LL.M. program is taught by five members of the John Marshall faculty and more than 50 adjunct professors
selected from among the top practitioners in the Chicago intellectual property bar, as well as visiting scholars,
practitioners, and judges. Most classes are held in the evening, with occasional daytime seminars. Several classes are
taught in a Friday– Saturday weekend configuration.
REQUIREMENTS
Completion of 24 semester hours; or
Completion of 21 semester hours and completion of an approved dissertation under the supervision of
an advisory committee.
Completion of Substantive Patent Law I (IP 400) or Law of Patents (IP 415).
International Business & Trade Law
T
he LL.M. in International Business and Trade Law was designed for lawyers seeking to advance their
knowledge of the rules, regulations, and legal approaches underlying international business and trade.
The Midwest, as the industrial, financial, and agricultural heartland of the United States, plays a major role in
international economic activity. Our lawyers are some of the global leaders in regulating and facilitating trade,
investment, and corporate activity.
John Marshall’s LL.M. in International Business and Trade Law program is designed for lawyers seeking to
enhance their understanding and their skills in the fast-developing field of international economic law.
In the LL.M. in International Business and Trade Law program, students are exposed to a wide range of subjects
relating to international economic activity. Classes are taught by leading international business and trade law
practitioners and academics in the United States—people who have practiced international business law and who know
the cutting-edge issues involved in trade, investment, and regulation.
There are more than 40 courses available to degree candidates in subjects ranging from International Banking &
Finance Law and International Trade Remedies Law to NAFTA and Chinese Business and Investment Law.
Lawyers graduating with an LL.M. in International Business and Trade Law will be well prepared to practice in
today’s competitive global legal market, both in the United States and throughout the world.
REQUIREMENTS
Completion of Import and Export Law (IBT 700) or Multinational Corporations Law (IBT 730) or
International Trade Remedies Law (IBT 705).
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Real Estate Law
I
n today’s real estate market, attorneys must have a working knowledge of many areas of the law in order to
advise clients and to structure and close transactions. Real estate attorneys must possess skills in negotiating
and drafting and be knowledgeable in matters pertaining to environmental, bankruptcy, tax, and securities law
in addition to the more traditional areas of mortgages, land use, and landlord-tenant law.
The LL.M. in Real Estate Law addresses the demands of the increasingly complicated practice of real estate.
The program, the only one of its kind in the Midwest, was developed in consultation with an advisory committee
of nationally known practitioners. The program prepares students to meet the challenges posed by today’s real
estate transactions. The curriculum enables students to acquire the knowledge and to develop the skills required
to become successful real estate attorneys.
Students have the opportunity to learn from attorneys who are involved in transactions on the cutting edge
of real estate law, and who are active members in the ABA Real Property Section and the American College
of Real Estate Lawyers. Courses are taught by a combination of full-time and adjunct professors who are
experienced practitioners in the field of real estate law. Professors draw on their unique professional experiences,
and practitioners add a practical element to the course offerings.
Consistent with Chicago’s focus on real estate, John Marshall offers its students an exceptionally wide array of
courses dealing with real estate. The school also operates a nationally acclaimed Fair Housing Legal Clinic in
which LL.M. students have an opportunity to work.
REQUIREMENTS
Completion of Commercial Real Estate Transactions (RE 602), Leasing, Ownership and Management
(RE 605), Real Estate Finance (RE 607), Drafting and Negotiation Skills Workshop (RE 608),
Environmental Controls and Concerns Affecting Real Estate (RE 609), Construction Law (RE 612)
and Federal Income Tax Aspects of Real Estate (RE 603).
Tax Law
T
he LL.M. in Taxation is one of the oldest tax programs in the nation. It provides a practical and extensive
grounding in all major areas of taxation, with in-depth specializations in certain areas. All courses are taught
by experienced tax practitioners who are engaged in the cutting-edge aspects of their specific field of tax law
expertise. Without exception, they all have an extraordinary commitment to teaching. Their method of
instruction is principally problem-based and transactional in nature. The courses emphasize the identification of
issues and problems, as well as instilling the ability to apply the law creatively and practically.
The program has two tracks: a degree track and a specialization track. The degree tracks offers a Master of Laws
in Taxation (LL.M. in Taxation). The specialization track offers intensified, in-depth training in four different
areas of tax law: Corporation Taxation, Estate & Personal Financial Planning, Taxation of Closely Held
Businesses, and Employee Benefits. Students completing the necessary 6 to 8 semester hours of credits in one
of these specializations will receive a Certificate; students may also complete the 24 semester hours of tax law
for an LL.M. degree.
The faculty consists of knowledgeable tax practitioners. Without exception, they all bring extraordinary
commitment to teaching. To accommodate students, classes are held in the late afternoon or evenings and on
Saturdays. Externships with the IRS are also available.
REQUIREMENTS
Completion of 24 semester hours, including 6 required courses and a publishable paper.
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M.S. Programs
M.S. in Employee Benefits Law
T
he John Marshall Law School offers a unique opportunity for actuaries, accountants, and human resource
executives to become conversant in the law and policies issues affecting employee benefits.
John Marshall proudly offers the first and only Master of Science in Employee Benefits Law, designed for
non-lawyers who wish to become proficient in the specialized field of employee benefits. Once taking two
introductory law courses, students pursuing this degree will be assimilated into the same employee benefits
courses available to LL.M. students. The faculty consists of knowledgeable employee benefits practitioners,
as well as current and former members of the IRS’ Office of Chief Counsel. Without exception, they all bring
extraordinary commitment to teaching.
Classes are offered year-round, usually in the evenings or on weekends; certain courses may be taught on an
accelerated schedule as weekend seminars or summer session classes.
REQUIREMENTS
Completion of 24 semester hours, including eight required courses and a publishable paper.
M.S. in Information Technology Law
T
he John Marshall Law School offers a unique opportunity for business professionals and policymakers
to become conversant in the law and policies affecting privacy, computers, communication, and
information technology.
The law school proudly offers the first and only M.S. in Information Technology Law. Designed for non-lawyer
business and government professionals dealing with legal and policy issues involving information technology,
as well as scholars pursuing an academic interest in the field, the M.S. program is led by nationally and
internationally recognized experts who bring their cutting-edge experience into the classroom. The program’s
focus is the law and policy of information, computers, and communications technology.
Courses are offered year-round, usually in the evening, although workshops and other intensive courses may
be taught on an accelerated schedule as weekend seminars. Students enrolled in the program on a full-time basis
may complete the program in one year. On a part-time basis, the program typically requires two to three years.
REQUIREMENTS
Completion of Introduction to Legal Analysis (IT 805) and Substantive Law Overview (IT 800),
Computers and the Law (IT 803), Copyright Law and Practice (IP 406), Cyberspace Law (IT 808),
and Information Law and Policy (IT 801).
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M.S. Programs
M.S. in Real Estate Law
T
he John Marshall Law School offers a unique opportunity for business professionals, community leaders, and
government officials to become conversant in the law and policies affecting commercial real estate transactions.
John Marshall proudly offers the first and only Master of Science in real estate law. Designed for real estate
business, community, and government leaders who do not hold a J.D. degree, the M.S. program is led by
nationally and internationally recognized experts who bring their cutting-edge experience into the classroom to
discuss and collaborate on the most advanced knowledge and skills in commercial real estate transactions. The
program’s focus is the law and practice of commercial real estate, alternative dispute resolution, and drafting and
negotiating skills, whereby the transactional nature of practice is emphasized.
Courses are offered year-round, usually in the evening; although workshops and other intensive courses may be
taught on an accelerated schedule as weekend seminars or summer session classes. Offered only on a part-time
basis, the program typically requires two to three years to complete.
REQUIREMENTS
Completion of 24 semester hours, including 14 required semester hours and 10 elective semester hours.
Completion of Introduction to American Law (RE 634), Introduction to Real Estate Law (RE 635),
Introduction to Legal Materials and Analysis (RE 636), Alternative Means of Dispute Resolution (RE 611),
Drafting and Negotiation Skills Workshop (RE 608), and Commercial Real Estate Transactions (RE 602).
M.S. in Tax Law
T
he John Marshall Law School offers a unique opportunity for accountants and financial planners to become
conversant in the law and policies affecting the field of tax law.
John Marshall proudly offers a Master of Science in Tax Law, designed for non-lawyers who wish to become
proficient in the specialized field of taxation. After taking two introductory law courses and courses on tax
accounting and consolidated returns, students pursuing this degree will be taking the same tax courses available
to LL.M. students. The faculty consists of knowledgeable tax practitioners. Without exception, they all bring
extraordinary commitment to their teaching.
Students may also pursue one of the four specialization tracks offered under the LL.M. Tax program:
Corporation Taxation, Estate & Personal Financial Planning, Taxation of Closely Held Businesses, and Employee
Benefits. Students completing the necessary six to eight semester hours of credits in one of these specializations
will receive an additional Certificate.
Classes are offered year-round, usually in the events or on weekends; certain courses may be taught on an
accelerated schedule as weekend seminars or summer session classes.
REQUIREMENTS
Completion of 24 semester hours, including 7 required courses and a publishable paper.
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Research Program
Fair Housing Legal Support Center
T
he primary goal of The John Marshall Law School Fair
Housing Legal Support Center (FHLSC) is to educate
the public about fair housing law and to provide legal assistance
to private and public organizations that seek to eliminate
discriminatory housing practices. Besides developing educational
materials and training programs, the FHLSC also provides legal
assistance and support to groups and organizations that need help
enforcing compliance with the Fair Housing Act. Professor
Michael P. Seng and Clinical Professor F. Willis Caruso are the coexecutive directors of the center. Both have extensive experience in
fair housing law and civil rights litigation. They are nationally
recognized experts and have lectured and published extensively on
these subjects. RoseMarie Knight is the administrative director.
The FHLSC coordinates the Fair Housing Legal Clinic and the
Predatory Lending Project. These projects provide students with
the opportunity to take courses in fair housing law enforcement,
and in predatory lending law, and the opportunity to work with clients who have been the victims of
discrimination or predatory lending practices.
The FHLSC has organized a panel of experts and litigators to assist housing groups in combating
discrimination. The expertise and materials they develop are available to HUD investigators, state and
local human rights commissions and the Justice Department and private fair housing groups.
The Fair Housing Legal Support Center also engages in the following activities:
Conducts legal research, offers advice on trial strategy, and provides sample forms and briefs to help
groups fight housing discrimination
Develops materials and brochures that educate the public about fair housing law.
Provides civic associations, community-based organizations, the real estate, banking and insurance
industries and private fair housing groups with legal information about rights and responsibilities under
the fair housing laws
Arranges conferences, mock trials, and develops courses and training materials. Two national conferences
are held each year at The John Marshall Law School. Conference topics have included discussions of
mortgage lending discrimination, insurance redlining, discrimination against families with children,
architectural barriers to the disabled, discriminatory advertising, and proof of damages in a fair housing
case. The center conducts an annual skills training program for 36 attorneys who litigate fair housing
cases. The center also participates in regional conferences around the country.
Cooperates with the Louis L. Biro Law Library at John Marshall in computerizing materials about fair
housing law to assist national, state, regional, and local housing groups in their legal research. The library
is assembling materials and studies about fair housing law in order to serve as a comprehensive resource
for research on fair housing law.
Center personnel also participate in teaching programs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development Training Academy in Washington, D.C, as well as other training programs throughout the country.
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FACILITIES & SERVICES
W
ith 1600 students, The John
Marshall Law School strives to
provide the highest quality of facilities
and services to one of the largest law
school student bodies in the country.
This commitment is at the heart of our
student-centered mission.
Students and faculty benefit from stateof-the-art computer technology, not just in the
library and our modern computer classrooms, but
throughout the school, by virtue of our wireless
connectivity network.
The law school’s facilities include a mock courtroom
complex with videotape recording and editing facilities,
two state-of-the-art computer classrooms with 20 work
stations in each, redesigned faculty offices, and a fullservice conference facility seating more than 150.
With more than 391,000 volumes in its collection,
and more than 75 research and reference computers, the
five-floor Louis L. Biro Law Library is staffed by 16
full-time employees. A unique partnership with the
Chicago Bar Association gives our library the
responsibility of meeting the research needs of the
CBA’s 20,000 members. Through this partnership,
John Marshall can claim a fully professional, totally
integrated facility—a true benefit for our students.
Our students also take full advantage of our Career
Services Office. The office plans more than 70
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programs throughout the academic
year to assist students with summer
opportunities and the mechanics of
job searches, and publishes a series
of informative handouts covering
employment-related topics. The Career
Services Resource Center is available to
both students and alumni, offering upto-date information about job openings
and legal employers, as well as Internet access for
employment-related online research.
John Marshall’s commitment to students includes a fully
staffed Writing Resource Center that helps students
develop their writing skills. Writing advisors conduct
workshops, visit classes, and assist individual students
concerning the demands of legal writing and the
importance of preparing for the legal profession.
From the transition to law school learning methods in
the first semester to the anxious anticipation of the bar
exam in the last semester, the Academic Achievement
Program presents many programs to ease confusion and
alley fears about the process of becoming a lawyer.
John Marshall’s commitment to student services does
not stop at graduation. The law school’s Office of
Alumni Relations organizes events around the country
each year and works with 21 alumni chapters in 12
states and the District of Columbia. Alumni also are
encouraged to use the law school’s library and Career
Services Office throughout their legal careers.
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Career Services Office
J
ohn Marshall’s Career Services Office (CSO) is committed to
assisting students proactively in their job searches. It is essential
to get as much legal experience as possible while in law school.
To that end, the CSO offers practical advice, encouragement,
and support during the job search process. The CSO is dedicated
to helping all John Marshall students, whether in the full-time or
part-time program.
INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING
Students may make appointments for individual counseling
sessions to help identify their skills and accomplishments and
possible job options. The sessions can address all aspects of the
career development process, including reviewing the student’s
resume and cover letter, learning about the importance of
making contacts early in one’s law school career, learning
how to do informational interviews, as well as how to handle
actual job interviews. The CSO has contacts throughout the
Chicago and national legal markets and can refer students and
graduates for advice to John Marshall alumni who practice in
particular areas.
J O B FA I R S
John Marshall students participate in a number of job fairs
such as the Patent Law Interview Program, the Cook County
Minority Student Job Fair, and the Midwest Public Interest
Law Career Conference.
CSO R E S O U R C E C E N T E R
The CSO staff works hard to make the office a friendly, welcoming
place. The Resource Center, located on the 4th floor, offers a
wealth of useful information, such as job postings for various clerk
and attorney positions in Chicago and throughout the country,
periodicals, background information on legal employers, and
books to help students and alumni with networking and
interviewing. Two computers are designated for student use for
resume drafting and job hunting. A fax machine, photocopier,
scanner, and telephones also are available for career-related use.
PROGRAMMING
Each semester, the CSO staff plans dozens of programs on
topics such as diversity, small firm employment, government
jobs, alternative careers, and mock interviews, to help students
meet graduates and other practitioners in various areas of law.
Many programs are videotaped or offered twice to
accommodate the needs of evening students.
ALUMNI MENTOR PROGRAM
The Alumni Mentor Program is geared to match students
with graduates who practice in their areas of interest so that the
students can learn about the day-to-day practice of law and
make initial contacts that will help them in their job searches.
More than 100 alumni volunteered last year to mentor John
Marshall students. The program begins in early fall and
continues throughout the school year.
CSO P U B L I C AT I O N S
ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEWING
The CSO staff hosts prospective employers, mostly larger law
firms or large government agencies, for on-campus interviews,
which usually take place during the fall recruiting season.
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WEB
SITE
The Career Services Office publishes various career resource
guides, including handbooks on resume and cover letter
writing, interviewing, and judicial clerkships. These resources,
as well as daily job postings and announcements about
upcoming programs and important policies, can be found on
the Web at www.jmls.edu/careersvcs. Students can use the CSO’s
Web site to access EASElaw, the CSO’s online career center,
where they can search job postings, create a job search profile,
and research the employment market.
S TAT I S T I C S
Eighty-nine percent of John
Marshall’s 2005 graduates were
employed or pursuing advanced
degrees within six months after
graduation.
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John Marshall has graduates in all
of the 40 largest law firms in
Chicago, as well as in many small
and mid-sized firms.
John Marshall graduates clerk at
both trial and appellate levels of the
state and federal judiciary.
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Writing Resource Center
T
he John Marshall Law School recognizes the importance of writing in the legal
profession and understands that students need to excel in this new discourse.
The school, therefore, offers students an in-house Writing Resource Center.
The Center is staffed by three professional writing advisors and is directed by a
full-time writing specialist. Writing advisors in the Center help students develop
their writing skills through
individual conferences where advisors can tailor their assistance to an individual
student’s needs
interactive group workshops held throughout the semester.
Students use the Writing Resource Center throughout their legal education. New
students adapting to the demands of legal writing often find it particularly helpful
to talk with a writing advisor. Typically, more than one-third of all new students
take the opportunity to work with an advisor during their first year of law school.
Continuing students, especially those enrolled in Lawyering Skills or paper
courses, regularly use the Center to fine-tune their writing.
Writing Resource Center advisors also help advanced degree students and
graduating students who are seeking jobs. Further, the advisors are available to
help with basic grammar questions and have experience working with students for
whom English is a second language.
The Writing Resource Center works closely with the Lawyering Skills Department
to learn about student assignments and individual professors’ writing preferences.
Advisors also attend seminars and workshops to stay abreast of new trends in legal
writing. Lawyering Skills faculty and Writing Resource Center advisors work
together toward the common goal of helping all John Marshall students achieve
excellence in legal writing.
Lurene Contento
Director, Writing Resource Center
B.A., summa cum laude, Loyola University
J.D., magna cum laude, The John Marshall Law School
Lurene Contento is a licensed attorney who has been advising in
the Writing Resource Center since 2001 and became the director
in 2005. She also teaches Writing for the Practice of Law, a course
designed to help students write under extreme time pressure.
Prior to teaching at John Marshall, Contento worked in a general
practice law firm, researching and writing on a wide range of legal
topics. She is dedicated to The John Marshall Law School and its
students. She brings enthusiasm, experience, and empathy to the
Writing Resource Center and welcomes students to use the
Center for all their writing needs.
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Academic Achievement Program
J
ohn Marshall’s Academic Achievement Program
is designed to provide assistance to all students
at crucial points in their law school careers. The
Academic Achievement Program provides advice
and resources as the situation warrants, with its
primary efforts being directed toward three key
phases of the law school experience:
traditional undergraduate essay. Academic
Achievement provides first-semester students
with opportunities to practice writing law
school exams before the first actual examinations
take place.
The Academic Achievement Program assists
students with the many problems and difficulties
that arise during the entire law school experience.
These challenges may be personal, academic, or
work-related. Students on probation work with
the Academic Achievement personnel to
strengthen their skills. The program also assists
students with advice on appropriate courses, and
Academic Achievement staff are available for both
day and evening students.
the transition from undergraduate school or
the workplace to the rigors of law school
the many challenging experiences students
encounter during their three or four years of
law school
the transition from law school to the workplace
through the experience of taking the bar
examination
Law school classes, which typically are conducted
with the Socratic Method—teaching by asking
rather than by telling—are quite different from undergraduate
classes. Academic Achievement helps students prepare for class
through workshops on briefing cases and note-taking. The program
also helps students prepare for class examinations through
workshops on outlining the subjects being tested. Law school essay
exams require a writing approach that differs from that of the
The Academic Achievement Program is also
the source for the bar preparation programs
offered by The John Marshall Law School. Bar applicants can
practice taking multiple choice questions for the 200-question
Multistate Bar Examination. They can attend lectures on bar exam
essay topics and practice writing actual bar examination essay
questions. The program engages a nationally renowned expert
on bar examinations who helps bar applicants be fully aware of
the challenges the examination presents.
Corinne Morrissey
Director, Academic Achievement Program
B.A., Swarthmore College
J.D., Loyola University School of Law
Prior to enrolling in law school, Corinne Morrissey worked as an administrative assistant in the litigation
department at the Chicago offices of Baker & McKenzie. She kept that job while in law school, attending the
night program at Loyola University School of Law. After passing the bar, she was hired as an associate by Baker &
McKenzie, where she worked until 1989. The following year she accepted an offer to become John Marshall’s first
full-time academic support person. Drawing on her experience grading bar exams, she has worked with students
to prepare them for taking the bar, which has involved creating and teaching the Writing for the Practice of Law
course and offering workshops on such topics as outlining and exam-taking. In addition, Morrissey maintains an
active pro bono practice, working on cases through Chicago Volunteer Legal Services.
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Alumni Relations
T
he John Marshall Law School’s alumni are its finest
legacy. The law school is proudly represented by more
than 11,000 graduates, who practice in 1200 different cities
and in all 50 states. The law school’s alumni include more
than 250 federal and state judges, as well as partners at some
of the most prestigious law firms in Chicago, throughout the
United States, and in 14 foreign countries. John Marshall
alumni also have excelled in corporate practice, banking,
business, government service, and as solo practitioners.
Collectively, they form the backbone of an international
network that continues to expand the presence of the law
school around the world.
C H A P T E R L O C AT I O N S
PRESIDENT
Central Illinois
DuPage County
Kane County
Peoria Area
Will County
Gen. A. Mark Rabin ’65
Michael Hennessy ’64
Frederick J. Steffen ’62
James M. Rochford ’83
Robert E. Kuzma ’82
N AT I O N A L
Texas–South
Washington, D.C.
Wisconsin
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Hon. James E. Padish ’81 (ret.)
Bruce E. Krell ’71
Richard S. Paddor ’79
Alan D. Kalinoski ’92
contact the Alumni Relations Office
Mary L. Martin ’90
Carol Green-Fraley ’84
Mark DiPietro ’76
Valerie Caldwell ’98
Jim Moeller ’02
Joseph B. Diehl ’79
Leonard Lundy ’71
Bruce Alan Danford ’01
Evan Janowitz ’91
Tom Beaton ’99
Camille Knight ’00
Kimbley L. Muller ’74
Michael Kaydouh ’76
Frank T. Pasternak ’94
John C. Scheller ’95
You may reach the Office of Alumni Relations by calling
312.427.2737 ext. 350 or e-mail: [email protected].
Judge Jesse Reyes (J.D. ’82) (third from left) and Professor Timothy P. O’Neill (center)
networked with students (from left) Adrian Zeno, Krusha Patel, Lana Zaretsky, Jennifer
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PRESIDENT
Arizona
California (northern)
California (southern)
Florida–Central
Florida–Southern
Hawaii
Indiana (northwest)
Minnesota
New England
New York
Pacific (northwest)
Philadelphia Area
Rocky Mountain
Silver State–Nevada
Texas–North
Membership in The John Marshall Alumni Association is
automatic for all graduates and entitles these members to use
the law library facilities and to participate in all alumni
association activities. Alumni maintain their relationship with
the law school by serving as mentors for current students and
recent graduates, helping to recruit prospective students and
to place current students and graduates, and by judging
student competitions. The 89-member alumni association
board of directors sponsors a number of events throughout
the year, including the annual Freedom Award Luncheon.
Chapters of The John Marshall Law School Alumni
Association are located throughout the country and continue
to form in cities across the globe. Involvement in a chapter
provides both local networking opportunities for graduates
and an important way for the law school to follow the
contemporary practice of law.
ILLINOIS
Meghan Riley (center) graduated first in the evening
division class. She is joined by her father, Cook
County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Riley (J.D. '75), and
her aunt, Cook County Circuit Court Judge Barbara
Riley (J.D. '85).
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Library
T
he Louis L. Biro Law Library provides support services for
the study of law and for legal research. Library materials are
housed on five floors and two mezzanines that have been
designed to assist library clientele in making the best use of the
collection. The collection includes more than 391,000 volumes
and 2300 audiovisual tapes.
The Chicago Bar Association headquarters building is located
adjacent to the law school, allowing for a unique partnership:
The John Marshall library has assumed responsibility for the bar
association’s needs through a totally integrated, professional
library facility.
The library maintains a computer services department with
seven full-time employees and a staff of part-time student
employees to assist students in using the law school’s
computer resources.
The full-time library staff of 16 helps all students use this
excellent collection of resources.
Reserve Collection
Library Services
Heavily used or class-assigned materials are shelved for easy
access in the reserve collection, located behind the circulation
desk on the sixth floor. Materials in this area may be checked
out for periods ranging from three to 24 hours.
Computerized Resources
The John Marshall Law School was the first law school in
Chicago to teach legal research on computers. Today its library
continues to provide students with the most up-to-date computer
research and reference services. The library has more than 75
Windows-based computers available for student use.
John Marshall has installed a school-wide computer network.
The backbone of this network is a web of high-speed, digital
fiber-optic cabling which allows all students, faculty, and staff
access to word processing software, LEXIS, WESTLAW, CALI,
and the Internet. In addition, a wireless network has been added
to the backbone, allowing laptop users, anywhere in the school,
to connect to the Internet without being tethered by cords.
The law school has installed two computerized classrooms, each
consisting of 20 work stations. Internet access to grades and
online registration are among the ways the law school is using
technology to make students’ lives easier.
Computerized research and reference resources are available to
students through the law school’s Web site (www.jmls.edu).
Among them are:
CALI (Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction) —
interactive instructional exercises in more than 20 legal
subject areas, designed to complement the curriculum and
reinforce substantive legal concepts
Video and Audio Cassettes
Located at the circulation desk, this collection contains more
than 2300 video and audio cassettes covering everything from
John Marshall classes and special events to commercially
produced, in-depth studies of specific topics. These tapes
can be checked out for use at home or in the library.
Copying Facilities
Photocopy machines are located on each floor of the library.
Copiers are operated by photo ID cards or by cards purchased
from the card dispenser in the library.
Carrels
Study carrels may be requested by students engaged in extended
research projects, honors programs, and faculty research projects.
These assignments are made by the circulation coordinator.
Students are welcome to use non-reserved carrels on a first-come,
first-served basis.
Study Rooms
Three study rooms are available for group study and discussion.
They may be reserved at the circulation desk.
Government Documents
In 1981, the library was designated a U.S. Government
Documents Depository. Many government publications have
been acquired for this collection in both hard copy and in
microform. The library has also established a computer
workstation at which depository publications in electronic format
may be used.
LEXIS/NEXIS and WESTLAW — online legal and nonlegal databases (tutorial programs for each database are also
available)
LEGALTRAC — an index of nearly 800 legal periodicals
OCLC — a network of the holdings of thousands of libraries
for inter-library loans of materials
Microform Collection
The library has an extensive microform collection and two
microform readers and reader/printers.
DOLLY — John Marshall’s online catalog, a computerized,
public-access database of all library holdings
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O P E R AT I O N
The library is open 52 weeks a year. While classes are in session and during
exam periods, the library is open Monday through Sunday for a total of 100
hours a week, providing research reference assistance for 62 hours a week.
During the spring and fall semesters and the summer term, the library is open:
Monday–Thursday: 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Friday: 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Saturday–Sunday: 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
During interim periods between semesters, the library is open:
Monday–Sunday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Library Personnel
Claire Toomey Durkin
Acting Director
Associate Director for Public
Services
B.A., University of Portland
J.D., The John Marshall Law School
M.L.I.S., Dominican University
Anne Abramson
Reference Librarian
B.A., Stanford University
J.D., Northwestern University School
of Law
M.L.S., Southern Connecticut State
University
Thomas Keefe
Associate Director for Instruction
and Computer Services
B.A., University of Minnesota
J.D., Loyola University School of Law,
Chicago
Kym Ogden
Associate Director for Technical
Services
B.S., Indiana University
M.A.L.S., Dominican University
Liping Qin
Cataloger
B.A., Nanjing University, China
Victor Salas
Assistant Reference Librarian
William A. Wleklinski
Curator
A.B., Wabash College
M.A.L.S., Dominican University
J.D., Northwestern University School
of Law
Raizel Liebler
Reference Librarian
B.A., Beloit College
M.S.L.I.S., University of Illinois
J.D., DePaul University College of Law
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ohn Marshall students actively
pursue academic and social
endeavors to enhance their law school
experience. Academically, students
participate in three law journals and
various national competitions and
moot court activities. Socially, student
involvement includes fraternal and
legal organizations and social mixers.
The law school’s three journals—the John Marshall Law
Review, the Journal of Computer and Information Law, and
the online Review of Intellectual Property Law—are staffed
and edited by more than 100 students. These student-led
publications bring both a national and international
reputation to the law school. Students also assist faculty
with two nationally regarded competitions, the John
Marshall/ABA National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy
Competition and the annual Moot Court Competition in
Information Technology and Privacy Law. Through these
activities, students engage in practical learning that
enhances their classroom experiences.
John Marshall is represented by nearly 100 students in
more than 30 moot court and mock trial competitions
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place finish in the national patent law
competition in 2001, in tax law and
trademark law in 2002, and in criminal
law in 2003 —highlight the talents of
our student body.
Also well known are the visitors and
scholars John Marshall welcomes
each year. In addition to the typical lectures and/or
presentations, these distinguished guests can be found
meeting with individual classes or holding roundtable
discussions with interested students and faculty. Recent
guests have included columnist and film critic Richard
Roeper, President of the International Human Rights Law
Institute Cherif M. Bassiouni (LL.M. ’66), attorney Bela
Lugosi Jr., former Secretary of Commerce William Daley
(J.D. ’75), and Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
The Student Bar Association heads the long list of student
organizations. These groups (there are more than 50)
engage in social awareness, community service, legal issues
discussions, and social activities. They reflect the diversity
of our student body and offer a glimpse at the opportunities
available to John Marshall students. The highlight of the
social year is the annual Barrister’s Ball.
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caucus. LSD members are also eligible to be
appointed as liaisons to sections and committees of
the ABA, as well as to hold appointed and elected
offices in the national organization of the LSD.
Benefits include a one-year subscription to Student
Lawyer magazine and the ABA Journal, an
opportunity to become a member of the various
sections of the ABA at reduced membership cost,
and an opportunity to participate in the ABAsponsored insurance plan. The membership fee for
law students is $20 per year.
ohn Marshall is proud of its diverse student body.
The person seated next to you in class may be the
mother of five, a highly respected physician, or a
police officer. He or she may be from Manitoba,
Miami, or the south side of Chicago. He or she
may be 24 or 64. The rich mix of students creates
vitality in the intellectual and social environment of
the law school.
The large number of fraternal and legal student
organizations reflects the broad variety of interests
among John Marshall students.
Chicago Bar Association
Student Bar Association
The student governing body at John Marshall is the Student Bar
Association. The Executive Board is elected annually and consists
of the President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, ABA
Representative, CBA Representative, and ISBA Representative.
The SBA focuses on enhancing both communication and interaction
among the students, faculty, deans, and staff in the John Marshall
community. This includes student/faculty/ administration socials and
open meetings, and the First-Year Orientation and Advisor Program.
The SBA hosts many events throughout the year, such as a student
organization day, faculty/student socials, a holiday party, the annual
Barrister’s Ball, and much more. These events are an excellent chance
to get to know your classmates and professors in a relaxed
atmosphere and break away from the rigor of law studies.
The SBA offers a scholarship to a John Marshall student through
monies raised by profits from the annual Faculty Auction held in
the fall. The SBA runs a student advisor program for first-semester
students so that they may have a “contact person” of whom they
may ask all sorts of questions while going through the first-year of
law school.
Other Bar Associations
In addition to the SBA, students at The John Marshall Law School
have an opportunity to become members of various other bar
associations, including:
Law student membership offers the unique opportunity to become
familiar with day-to-day operations of the legal profession before
being admitted to practice. By attending committee meetings and
seminars, law students are exposed to current legal issues and recent
developments in the law. In addition, they can learn about practices
and procedures prevailing in the courts and various administrative
agencies. Furthermore, participation in CBA activities allows students
to develop contacts and networks with leading practitioners in the
organized bar. The CBA is easily accessible to Chicago area law
students and offers the following benefits for only $8 per year: halfprice admission to continuing legal education seminars; participation
in Young Lawyer Section committees, activities, and sports leagues;
opportunities to participate in law-related community service projects;
subscriptions to CBA Record, YLS Journal, and the YLS seminars and
activities booklet; cash use of the CBA’s dining facilities; discounts on
car rentals, health club memberships, and magazine subscriptions; and
various entertainment coupons. Law student members also are invited
to attend special programs designed to meet their particular needs.
Such programs include seminars on career options, interviewing
techniques, and the bar examination.
Decisive Utterance
The Decisive Utterance is the student newspaper. Students do not
need to have previous journalism experience to work on the paper.
The Decisive Utterance welcomes all volunteers.
Fraternities
Illinois State Bar Association
Law Student Division membership provides many practical benefits,
as well as opportunities to meet with Illinois attorneys and become
active in the state bar association. Benefits include subscriptions to
the Illinois Bar Journal, the Law Student Division newsletter, the
Young Lawyers Division newsletter, and seven of the 37 substantive
law section newsletters. Education seminars sponsored by the Law
Student Division, Young Lawyers Division, and the Law Ed Series
programs held throughout the state are free with membership.
Law student members are eligible to participate in ISBA-sponsored
insurance plans and association discount programs. Membership is
only $11 per year or $25 for up to four years of law school.
American Bar Association
The Law Student Division (LSD) provides activities for the student
body throughout the year, most notably the Law Day program. The
group also participates in the LSD convention in the summer and in
the 7th Circuit activities, such as the fall roundtable and the spring
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The Stephen A. Douglas Senate of Delta Theta Phi is one of
more than 300 chapters worldwide. The mission of the senate is to
provide academic and business assistance for its members, to provide
its members with social and networking opportunities and to
encourage charitable work in the community. Delta Theta Phi is the
only legal fraternity with its own law review.
The Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, Abraham Lincoln Chapter,
is the largest professional law fraternity in the United States. The aim
of the chapter is to provide service to the student, the school, the
profession and the community.
The Phi Delta Phi Law Fraternity, Justice John Paul Stevens Inn,
is the oldest and largest international legal fraternity, with inns in the
United States, Canada, Guatemala, and Mexico. The Justice John
Paul Stevens Inn of Phi Delta Phi at The John Marshall Law School
emphasizes high professional standards and requires all of its members
to be in good academic standing.
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Graduation Awards
Order of John Marshall
During the school year 1927–1928, an honorary society
was established that is open to all students displaying high
scholarship. Members are elected upon graduation and must
rank in the upper 15 percent of their class.
John N. Jewett Scholarship Award
In honor of the first dean of the school, who occupied that post
from 1899 to 1904, a scholarship award of $500 is presented
to the member of the graduating class who received the highest
grade point average during his or her first year of law school.
Arba N. Waterman Scholarship Award
In honor of Judge Waterman of the Illinois Appellate Court
and the second dean of the school, who held that office from
1905 to 1909, a scholarship award of $500 is presented to the
member of the graduating class who received the highest grade
point average during his or her second year.
Edward T. Lee Scholarship Award
In honor of the third dean of the school, who guided John
Marshall’s course from 1909 until his death in 1943, a
scholarship award of $500 is presented to the member of
the graduating class who received the highest grade point
average during his or her third year of law school.
Elmer C. Kissane Public Service
Award
This award was established by the family, friends, and
colleagues of Elmer Charles Kissane (J.D. ’45). Mr. Kissane
devoted 43 years of his professional career to public service in
the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. This award is given
to a graduating student who has accepted an offer and made a
commitment to working in the State’s Attorney’s Office.
Lucy Sprague Public Service
Scholarship
This scholarship was established to honor the memory of
Lucy Sprague, John Marshall 1995–96, and the things she
cared deeply about. It is made possible by a grant from Lucy’s
mother and father, Lee T. Sprague and the Honorable
George R. Sprague, Cambridge, Massachusetts District Court
Judge, and Lucy’s sister and brother, Cynthia Sprague and
Alexander Sprague.
The scholarship award will be used to help pay the educational
loans of a graduating senior who makes a commitment to
public service work and obtains employment in furtherance of
that commitment. Up to $25,000 is available annually for this
scholarship. It is likely the scholarship will be awarded to only
one person each year. The award will be paid directly by the
law school to the scholarship recipient’s lender.
LexisNexis Prize
The book Effective Legal Negotiation and Settlement is
presented to the graduating student who attained the highest
rank during his or her senior year.
Dean’s Award (LexisNexis)
LEXIS Law Publishing will award a complete set of the 55volume Illinois Compiled Statutes Annotated to the graduating
senior who makes the most progress from the end of the first
semester, first year, to the end of the graduating semester.
Ambassador of the Year Award
This award recognizes dedicated service to the Admission
Office and to the school by individuals who have conducted
tours for applicants, assisted at open houses, and served as
advisors to first-year students.
Graduation Honors
Summa Cum Laude
Magna Cum Laude
J.D. students in the top 1%
of their graduating class are
awarded the designation
summa cum laude.
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receive their degrees magna
cum laude.
Cum Laude
With Honors
of their graduating class
graduate cum laude.
LL.M. and M.S. students
with a grade point average
of 3.60 or above graduate
with honors.
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Societies and
Other Organizations
The Advocates Society consists of lawyers and judges of Polish
heritage. The membership is open to law students of that heritage
at the school and will enable them to form relationships with each
other and the Polish community as a whole.
The Alternative Dispute Resolution Society supports
and promotes the use of procedures for settling disputes by
means other than formal litigation, offering information in areas
of primary and hybrid dispute resolution processes, such as
arbitration and mediation.
The purpose of the John Marshall Student American Civil
Liberties Union is to raise awareness of civil rights/liberties
issues in the law.
The John Marshall Law School Chapter of the American
Constitutional Society is dedicated to maintaining a rigorous
exchange of ideas about the law with the focus on its effects on
the lives of ordinary people.
The goal of Amnesty International is to increase student
awareness of human rights issues locally, nationally, and
internationally.
The Animal Law Society’s goal is to educate and increase
the public awareness of how the law pertains to animals and
their rights and welfare.
The Asian American Law Students Association
affords members the opportunity to work together to provide
services to the Asian community as well as to interact with the
legal community.
The Association of Western Students has several purposes:
to provide camaraderie and fellowship for John Marshall students
from western states; to assist in recruiting John Marshall students
from western states; to augment alumni activity for students, and
to promote western states as places for employment.
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America/Student
Division is the national organization for law students and
lawyers involved in civil litigation.
The Black Law Students Association articulates and
promotes the professional needs and goals of the African-American
student body.
The Brehon Society is an Irish cultural, historical, and
social club.
The Canadian Law Society is for students interested in learning
about law and legal developments in Canada, welcoming students
and visitors from Canada, keeping in touch with Canadian alumni,
and developing professional contacts with our northern neighbors.
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The Central and Eastern European Student Bar
Association, formerly the Masaryk Law Society, was formed so
that students of Bohemian background may have a forum for
exchanging ideas and socializing with fellow students.
The Children’s Law Society targets programs that review
children’s rights and the effects current laws have on their lives.
The Christian Legal Society is directed towards students who
wish to further their relationship with other Christians through
community, fellowship, and accountability.
The Corporate Law Association focus includes providing a
platform for students interested in corporate law in the classroom
and outside of the classroom.
The Criminal Law Society strives to increase awareness of the
criminal law field among students, faculty, and the legal community.
The Decalogue Society strives to provide networking
opportunities to meet lawyers and judges within the Jewish
community.
The Employee Benefits Law Student Association strives to
provide a forum for John Marshall students to meet and network
outside of their classes, as well as relevant education in Employee
Benefits law.
The Entertainment, Media, and Sports Law Society is
interested in all facets of entertainment and media law. Members
strive to bring together interested students, entertainment lawyers,
and representatives of the entertainment industry.
The Environmental Law Society strives to educate The John
Marshall Law School community about current environmental issues
and to inform its members of opportunities in environmental law.
The Fair Housing Association promotes student interest in
The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Clinic.
The John Marshall Family Law Society provides the student
body the opportunity to learn more about issues regarding estate
planning, elder law, and divorce.
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The Federalist Society is a group of conservatives and
libertarians who promote the belief that the separation of
governmental powers is central to our Constitution and that it is
emphatically the province and the duty of the judiciary to say what
the law is, not what it should be.
The Foreign Law Students Association helps foreign students
adjust to life in the United States.
The Gavel Society is a prominent not-for-profit honorary
organization that recognizes leadership in the school community.
The Gay and Lesbian Legal Alliance is an organization of law
students that explores the legal issues surrounding sexual orientation
and seeks to diminish negative stereotyping of gay, lesbian, bisexual,
and transgendered persons.
The Graduate Tax Society allows students to learn about specific
tax issues through lectures, prepares them to seek a career in taxation,
and allows them an opportunity to meet outside the classroom. This
organization is open to LL.M. and J.D. taxation students.
The John Marshall Law School Habitat for Humanity chapter is
the only law school chapter in the Midwest. The chapter offers
real estate legal assistance as well as hands-on assistance for Habitat’s
home-building projects.
The Health Law Society fosters the interaction of students with
special interests in health-related issues and the law.
The Hellenic Law Student Association is an organization
composed of law students of Greek descent. It is both academic and
community oriented.
The Hispanic Law Students Association comprises primarily
law students with Hispanic ancestry. It tries to provide assistance and
encouragement to first-year students.
The Information Technology Society focuses on issues of
interest in the field of computer law, which includes privacy,
trademark, copyright, patent, free speech, encryption, clipper chip,
and the information superhighway.
The Institute for Peace and Justice promotes issues of
international peace, justice, and human rights within The John
Marshall Law School community and the Chicago legal community.
The Labor and Employment Law Society’s goal is to assist
its members in understanding and entering the field of labor law.
The Real Estate Law Student Chapter of Lambda Alpha
International is an honorary society designed to promote
scholarship and networking among students and land professionals
in considering problems of land economics.
The Latter-Day Saint Student Association proposes to aid
students in living a balanced life and provide them with
opportunities for service, social, and religious activities.
The Law Enforcement Students Organization provides
support and networking opportunities to members working in
the law enforcement community, as well as those who support
the law enforcement community.
The Lex Liaison Society strives to facilitate a deeper
understanding between John Marshall students and their spouses
or significant others concerning the challenges and demands of
law school.
The Muslim Law Student Association provides Muslim law
students with a place to discuss issues that are particularly relevant
to them.
The Public Interest Law Council encourages students to
incorporate the area of public interest law into their legal careers.
The Thurgood Marshall Society promotes students’
accessibility to the legal community in civil rights issues, education,
health care, and poverty.
The Intellectual Property Society was organized because
The John Marshall Law School has one of the nation’s most
comprehensive programs in intellectual property law. As a result,
large numbers of students who have an interest in that area of law
come to the school.
The Vocal Ensemble is a drama and music group that promotes
relations between faculty, staff, and students in a non-academic
environment and provides an atmosphere for relaxation,
camaraderie, and departure from the daily rigors of legal study.
The International Law Society seeks to promote greater
interest in international law.
The White Collar Criminal Defense Club allows each member
the opportunity to make a presentation regarding effective defense
strategies for a particular “white collar” criminal charge.
It is the intent of John Marshall Students for America’s
Protection to address changes in the law regarding the threats
of terrorism.
The Justinian Society provides law students of Italian descent
the opportunity to network with their peers as well as with
established professionals.
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The goal of the Women’s Bar Association/Student Division
is to help students discover how to deal with issues of women in
the law.
The purpose of the Women’s Law Caucus is to raise awareness
about women’s issues, to promote equality between the genders,
and to provide a forum for exchanging ideas.
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Honors Programs
The John Marshall Law School is proud of its five dynamic and successful honors programs.
Of the five, three are publications
The John Marshall Law Review
The Journal of Computer and Information Law
The Review of Intellectual Property Law
and two involve interscholastic trial competition
Moot Court Honors Program
Trial Advocacy Honors Program.
The John Marshall
Law Review
Membership on the John Marshall Law
Review board is one of the highest
academic honors the law school offers
and provides excellent training for the
practice of law. The Law Review
publishes scholarly works on a broad
range of current legal topics written by
legal scholars, practitioners, and John
Marshall students. A 13-member
student editorial board, selected from
the staff membership, manages and
edits the Law Review. Staff members
assist the editorial board in preparing
articles for publication.
Invitations to write for the Law Review
are extended to the top 15 percent of
students who have completed at least
25 but fewer than 38 credit hours and
to those who successfully complete the
write-on program. To be appointed to
the Law Review staff, those invited to
write must complete one acceptable
article. Membership presupposes a
student’s commitment to legal
research, writing, publishing, and a
willingness to work long hours. Staff
members may earn academic credit.
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The Journal of
Computer and
Information Law
The Journal of Computer and
Information Law is an international
law review that examines recent
developments in information
technologies and privacy law. Students
enjoy editorial responsibilities for the
Journal, with faculty oversight.
The Journal of Computer and
Information Law is one of the few legal
publications of its kind. By combining
commentary from experts in the
technology and privacy fields as well as
from students, the Journal is able to
fully address the techno-legal issues of
today, reaching subscribers in more
than 35 countries. Recent issues of the
Journal have focused on how
technological changes affect such
diverse areas as torts, contracts,
copyright, First Amendment, privacy,
and antitrust law.
Invitations to write for the Journal are
extended to the top 20 percent of
students who have completed at least
25 but fewer than 38 credit hours and
to those who successfully complete the
write-on program. Applicants must
complete an acceptable article in order
to be appointed to the Journal staff.
Membership presupposes a student’s
commitment to legal research, writing,
publishing, and a willingness to work
long hours. Staff members may earn
academic credit. The Journal of
Computer and Information Law invites
students to visit its offices and learn
more about the organization.
The Review of
Intellectual
Property Law
The Review of Intellectual Property
Law is an outgrowth of John
Marshall’s strong reputation in
intellectual property law. The Review
of Intellectual Property Law is an online
journal, founded in 2001 by a group of
students interested in intellectual
property law. Managed by a student
editorial board, the Review of
Intellectual Property Law publishes
two to three issues annually, containing
scholarly articles on topics such as
patent, trademark, copyright, and
trade secret law.
Students are eligible to participate in
the candidacy program if they have
completed at least 24 hours and have
at least 52 credit hours remaining.
Students within this credit range will
be invited to become “grade-on”
candidates if they possess specific
intellectual property-related
qualifications. Students ranked in
the top half of their class will be
invited to participate in the write-on
program. All candidates are required
to write a scholarly paper during their
candidacy semester.
The Review of Intellectual Property
Law invites interested students to read
the current issue at www.jmls.edu/ripl,
where additional information can also
be found.
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Moot Court
The John Marshall Moot Court Honors Program offers
students an opportunity to practice the appellate advocacy
skills of conducting research, writing briefs, and arguing in
front of judges. Each year, John Marshall enters student teams
in approximately 25 interscholastic competitions nationwide.
These competitions involve a wide spectrum of topics from
civil rights to trademark law (see page 32).
In 2001, a team from John Marshall won the Giles Sutherland
Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition in patent law. In
2002, teams won two competitions: the Saul Lefkowitz
Trademark Law Competition and the Albert R. Mugel
National Tax Moot Court Competition. In 2005, the
memorials (briefs) written by the Jessup Moot Court team
received the Third Place Hardy C. Dillard Award in a
competition among 543 teams from 87 countries.
The Moot Court Honors Program has three components:
the Herzog Competition, Executive Board and Council,
and Interscholastic Competitions. See page 31 for more
information.
Trial Advocacy
The John Marshall Trial Advocacy Honors Program is one of
the cornerstones in the law school’s nationally recognized trial
advocacy concentration. See page 33 for more information.
John Marshall Sponsored Competitions
International Moot Court
Competition in Information
Technology and Privacy Law
The John Marshall Law School, in conjunction with the
Moot Court Honors Program, hosts the annual International
Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and
Privacy Law. The competition is funded by an endowment
from the Estate of Carl W. Carlson. The competition is one
of the nation’s most widely respected moot court competitions,
drawing teams from around the world. Nationally recognized
judges from federal courts and state supreme courts adjudicate
the oral arguments. Students in the Information Technology
and Privacy Law program design the problem, write the
bench memorandum, and serve as ambassadors throughout
the competition.
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The National Criminal Justice
Trial Advocacy Competition
The John Marshall Law School and the Criminal Justice
Section of the American Bar Association annually co-host this
national invitational mock-trial competition. The competition
received a special award from the American Bar Association in
1995, and is widely recognized as one of the finest law school
events in the U.S. In the past six years, more than 60 different
law schools from throughout the nation have participated.
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WINNING APPELLATE ADVOCACY TEAMS
The John Marshall team earned First Place Memorial honors for the North Central Region
for its brief at the 2005 Phillip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition. The brief
was then entered in the Hardy C. Dillard World Competition, earning team members (back
row, from left) Julia Bikbova, Linda Burns, Sara Boyd, and Shama Patari third place honors
among more than 500 teams from around the world. Professor Mark Wojcik (seated, left),
the team’s coach, and Michael Peil (seated, right), executive director of the International
Law Students Organization, presented the award to the team.
At the 2005 Hispanic National Bar Association Moot Court
Competition, team members (from left) Jason Kendziera and Luz
Toledo won Best Petitioner’s Brief honors. Congratulating them is
their coach, Professor Damien Ortiz.
2005–2006 I NTERSCHOLASTIC C OMPETITIONS
Children and Family Law
Entertainment and Sports
Dominic L. Gabrielli Family
Law Moot Court
Competition
Octofinalists
Second Place Brief
Pepperdine University
National Entertainment Law
Moot Court Competition
Fifth Place Oralist
Civil Rights and Civil
Liberties
Frederick Douglass
Quarterfinalists (Regional)
Hispanic National Bar
Association Moot Court
Competition
Quarterfinalists
Thomas Tang Moot Court
Competition
Best Brief (Regional)
Tulane Invitational National
Sports Law Competition
Quarterfinalists
Best Brief
Illinois Law
Chicago Bar Association
Third Place
Second Best Oralist
Best Brief
International Law
Philip C. Jessup International
Law Moot Court
Competition
Semifinalists (Regional)
Third Best Oralist
International Environmental
Law Moot Court
Competition
Quarterfinalists
Third Place Petitioner’s Brief
Constitutional Law
Giles Sutherland Rich
Memorial Moot
Court Competition
Best Appellee Brief
Tax
Albert R. Mugel National Tax
Quarterfinalists
Patent
Niagara Cup International
Moot Court Tournament
Second Best Oralist
Labor
Midwest Moot Court
Competition
Second Place
Best Brief
Patent
Giles Sutherland Rich
Memorial Moot
Court Competition
Quarterfinalists (Regional)
Best Oralists (Regional)
Robert F. Wagner Sr. National
Labor Law Moot Court
Competition
Octofinalists
Third Best Petitioner’s Brief
Evan A. Evans Constitutional
Law Moot Court
Competition
Octofinalists (Regional)
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HERZOG MOOT COURT
COMPETITION
EXECUTIVE BOARD
COUNCIL
The Moot Court Honors Program
conducts the Dean Fred F. Herzog Moot
Court Competition. All third-semester
students participate in this competition.
This one-credit course is held during the
first seven weeks of each semester as well
as during the summer term. Recent topics
have included the constitutionality of gay
marriage, a celebrity’s right of publicity,
and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The Herzog Competition is a prerequisite
to selection to the Moot Court Council
and Executive Board. Herzog award
winners and students in the top 33 percent
of their class (after completing at least 25
but fewer than 38 hours) are eligible to
participate in Moot Court Council.
AND
The Moot Court Executive Board and
the faculty Moot Court director administer
the Moot Court Honors Program. The
Executive Board consists of a Chief Justice,
an Executive Justice, and 10 Associate
Justices All Executive Board members
compete on inter-scholastic teams, judge
preliminary rounds of the Herzog
Competition, and perform a variety of
administrative duties. Board members
receive partial tuition waivers for their
service. Participation on Moot Court
Council is a prerequisite to application
for a position on the Executive Board
Council members participate in a candidacy
program on appellate advocacy and assist
board members with their administrative
responsibilities.
INTERSCHOLASTIC
COMPETITIONS
The capstone of the Moot Court Honors
Program is participation in interscholastic
moot court competitions. The
competitions, on topics as diverse as
Criminal Procedure and International
Environmental Law, are hosted by law
schools and bar associations across the
country. The two-to-four-student teams
write briefs and present oral arguments at
the competitions. Students may choose to
receive academic credit for participation.
All students may try-out for these
competitions after completing the Herzog
Competition. Candidates prepare an oral
argument and interview with members of
the Executive Board and faculty.
MOOT COURT E XECUTIVE BOARD
The 2005 –2006 members of the Moot Court Executive Board (standing, from left): Jeffrey Hoskins, Jacqueline Aldrich, John
Ryan, Michael Lindinger, Michael Corsi, and Catherine Howard, and (seated, from left) Bryan Jones, Adrienne Detanico,
Daniel Taylor, Jeffrey Bora, and Karen Simon.
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Moot Court Competitions
Business Law
Judge Conrad B. Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot
Court Competition
(St. John’s University Law School and American
Bankruptcy Institute)
Irving R. Kaufman Memorial Securities Law
(Fordham University School of Law)
Octofinalists, 2001
Children and Family Law
Dominic L. Gabrielli Family Law Moot Court
Competition
(Albany Law School)
Second Place Brief, 2006
Octofinalists, 2006
National Juvenile Law Moot Court
Competition
(Whittier Law School)
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition
(National Black Law Students Association)
Semifinalists, 2002 Regional
Second Best Brief, 2002 Regional
Quarterfinalists, 2006 Regional
Octofinalists, 2001 Regional
Benjamin N. Cardozo/BMI Entertainment
and Communications Law Moot Court
Competition
(Yeshiva University and Broadcast Music Inc.)
Quarterfinalists, 2005, 2003, 2000
Pepperdine University National Entertainment
Law Moot Court Competition
Fifth Place Oralist, 2005
Tulane Invitational National Sports Law
Competition
Best Brief, 2006
Semifinalists, 2001
Quarterfinalists, 2005, 2006
Octofinalists, 2000
National Health Law Moot Court Competition
(Southern Illinois University School of Law)
Illinois Law
Chicago Bar Association Moot Court
Competition
Finalist, 2002
Best Brief, 2005
Third Place, 2005
Second Best Oralist, 2005
Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition
(National Asian Pacific American Bar
Association)
Regional Champion, 2002
Semifinalists, 2000 Regional
Best Brief, 2004 Regional
Best Brief, 2005 Regional
Midwest Moot Court Competition
(Illinois Appellate Lawyers Association)
Second Place, 2006
Best Brief, 2006
Semifinalists, 2000
Constitutional Law
Evan A. Evans Constitutional Law Moot
Court Competition
(University of Wisconsin Law School)
Quarterfinalists, 2004
Octofinalists, 2006
International Law
International Environmental Law Moot Court
Competition
(Stetson University College of Law)
Third Best Memorial, 2005
National Appellate Advocacy Competition
(American Bar Association)
Octofinalists, 2000 Regional
Second Best Oralist, 2005 Regional
National Moot Court Competition
(Association of the Bar of the City of New York)
Criminal Law
John J. Gibbons National Criminal Procedure
Competition
(Seton Hall University Law School)
Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence
Competition
(Brooklyn Law School)
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Labor Law
Robert F. Wagner Sr. National Labor Law Moot
Court Competition
(New York Law School)
Octofinalists, 2006
Third Best Petitioner’s Brief, 2006
Patent Law
Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot
Court Competition
(American Intellectual Property Law
Association)
National Champion, 2001
Semifinalists, 2004
Finalists, 2001 Regional
Best Appellee Brief, 2002, 2006
Best Oralists, 2005 Regional
Products Liability
August A. Rendigs Jr. National Products
Liability Moot Court Competition
(University of Cincinnati College of Law)
Best Brief, 2002
Health Law
Hispanic National Bar Association
Competition
Best Petitioner’s Brief, 2005
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Herbert Wechsler National Criminal Law
(State University of New York at Buffalo
School of Law)
Semifinalists, 2003
Best Oral Advocate, 2003
Fourth Best Brief, 2005
Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot
Court Competition
(International Law Students Association)
Scribes Brief Award, 2006
Third Place Hardy C. Dillard Award, 2005
First Place Memorial, 2005 Regional
Semifinalists, 2001 Regional, 2006 Regional
Second Place Memorial, 2003 Regional
Third Best Oralist, 2006
Space Law
International Institute of Space Law Moot
Court Competition
(Association of U.S. Members of the
International Institute of Space Law)
Best Brief, 2000
Third Place, 2000
Tax Law
Albert R. Mugel National Tax Moot Court
Competition
(University of Buffalo School of Law)
First Place, 2002
Second Place, 2005
Best Oralist, 2002, 2003, 2006
Semifinalists, 2003
Quarterfinalists, 2004, 2006
Best Written Brief, 2003
Trademark Law
Saul Lefkowitz Trademark Law Moot Court
Competition
(Brand Names Education Foundation of the
United States Trademark Association)
Second Best Brief, 2002
Regional Champion and Best Brief, 2002
Niagara Cup International Moot Court
Tournament
(Canada-United States Law Institute)
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Trial Advocacy Honors Program
TRIAL ADVOCACY AND
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
HONORS BOARD
MOCK TRIAL, CLIENT
COUNSELING, NEGOTIATION,
MEDIATION, AND
ARBITRATION COMPETITIONS
The John Marshall Law School’s recently
established Trial Advocacy and Dispute
Resolution Honors Board (Barristers’
Board) offers a variety of activities for
students selected to serve as either Board or
Council members. Whether a student’s
interest lies in trial work, arbitration,
negotiation, mediation, or client counseling,
the members of both the Honors Board and
its supporting Council have numerous intraand interscholastic competitions and
programs that welcome their participation.
In addition to other duties and
responsibilities, the Barrister’s Board also
administers programs such as a national
collegiate-level mediation competition and
hosts intrascholastic trial and alternative
dispute resolution competitions.
Each year the law school enters teams in
interscholastic competitions involving trial
advocacy, client counseling, mediation,
arbitration, and negotiation. Students
compete for the privilege of representing
the law school in each national and regional
competition. Students may earn one or two
semester hours of graded credit for
visitation on each team. John Marshall’s
trial team won the 2003 National
Championship at the National White Collar
Crime Mock Trial Invitational, sponsored
by Georgetown University Law Center and
the American Bar Association, and took
semifinalist’s honors at the 2006 ATLA
competition in Miami, Florida.
1L M O C K T R I A L
COMPETITION
The John Marshall Law School recognizes
the value of exposing students, at an early
stage in their law school careers, to the
basic skills necessary for them to become
competent trial lawyers. A prime example of
this principle in practice is the annual 1L
Mock Trial Competition, conducted by the
Center for Trial Advocacy and Dispute
Resolution in conjunction with the
Barristers’ Board and Council. The most
recent 1L Mock Trial Competition
included more than 80 students competing
for first and second place awards and the
opportunity to attend the Introduction to
Trial Advocacy pilot course over the
summer. The competition is offered
annually in the spring semester.
TRIAL ADVOCACY AND DISPUTE
RESOLUTION HONORS BOARD
The 2005–2006 board members (standing, from left): Morgan Stogsdill (J.D. ’06), Keith Meister (J.D. '06), Tiffany
Freeman, and Anne Littlejohn, and (seated, from left) Daniel Jackson (J.D. ’06), Christina Brewer (J.D. '06),
Benjamin Burnham, and Sarah Staszak Miller (J.D. '06).
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Trial Advocacy Competitions
Trial Advocacy
Alternative Dispute
Resolution/Counseling
Lone Star Classic National Mock Trial
ATLA National Trial Advocacy Competition
Semifinalists, 2003
Semifinalists, 2005
Regional Champions, National
Semifinalists, 2006
Buffalo Niagara Invitational Mock Trial
Competition
Georgetown University National White Collar
Crime Mock Trial Competition
Best Advocate, 2002
Best Written Motion, 2002
Best Oral Advocate, 2003
Best Advocate, 2004
ABA Arbitration Competition
National Association of Criminal Defense
Lawyers Mock Trial Competition
ABA Client Counseling Competition
National Black Law Student Association
Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition
National Law School Mediation Tournament
Champions, 2006
St. John’s University School of Law National
Civil Rights Trial Competition
Texas/ABA National Mock Trial Competition
Semifinalists, 2004
ABA Negotiation Competition
Wilhelm C. Vis International Commercial
Arbitration Moot Competition
Finalists, 2004
Honorable Mention Best Oralist, 2004
Honorable Mention Best Oralist, 2005
Wm. W. Daniels Mock Trial Competition
Sponsored by the State Bar of Georgia
Most Professional Team, 2004
John Marshall/ABA National Criminal
Justice Trial Advocacy Competition
TRIAL ADVOCACY AWARDS
AMERICAN TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL TRIAL ADVOCACY COMPETITION
ATLA team members (from second from left) Daniel Jackson, Keith Meister, and Morgan Stogsdill are congratulated by their
coaches (from right) Michael Mahoney and Lisa Damico, and Professor Kenneth Kandaras (left), director of the Center for
Advocacy and Dispute Resolution. Not pictured is team member Beth Heffernan.
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DISPUTE RESOLUTION AWARDS
2006 FIFTH ANNUAL NATIONAL
LAW SCHOOL MEDIATION TOURNAMENT
Coach and Adjunct Professor Elizabeth Simon (second from left) congratulates team members (from
left) Jeffrey Hertz, Robert Bressler, Curtis Vosti, and Sorah Kim. The other members were Joshua
Wolkomir and Peter Lynch. John Marshall’s team took first place in the event, and individual honors
were won by Vosti (First Place, Best Mediator), Bressler (Third Place, Best Mediator), and Wolkomir
(Tenth Place, Best Mediator).
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VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Vis team members (from left) Kevin Kelly, Christopher Kahler, and Sarah Staszak Miller, with coach and
faculty advisor Professor Karen Halverson Cross, celebrate Staszak Miller’s selection as Honorable
Mention Best Oralist in the 2005 competition. Not pictured is the team’s co-coach, Director of the
Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution Ken Kandaras.
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Colleges and Universities
Represented in the Student Body
Agnes Scott College
Allegheny College
American University
Appalachian State University-NC
Aquinas College-MI
Arizona State University
Augustana College-IL
Aurora University-IL
Ball State University-IN
Beloit College-WI
Benedictine University-IL
Bethany College-KS
Bethel College-MN
Boise State University
Boston College
Boston University
Bowling Green State University-OH
Bradley University-IL
Brandeis University
Butler University
California State University-Fullerton
California State University-Long
Beach
California State UniversityNorthridge
California State UniversitySacramento
California State University-San
Diego
Calumet College of Saint Joseph-IN
Capital University-OH
Cardinal Stritch University-WI
Carleton College
Carnegie-Mellon University/PA
Carthage College-WI
Case Western Reserve University
Central Michigan University
Chicago College-Ostepathic
Medicine/Midwestern University
Chicago State University
Claremont McKenna College-CA
Clark University-MA
Clarke College-IA
Clarkson University
Clemson University-SC
Colgate University
College of the Holy Cross-MA
Colorado College
Colorado State University
Columbia College-IL
Columbia University, IL
Concordia University-WI
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Cornell College-IA
Cornell University
Creighton University-NE
Culver-Stockton College-MO
Dartmouth College-NH
Denison University
De Paul University
De Vry Institute of Technology-IL
Depauw University-IN
Dominican University/Rosary
College
Drake University-IA
Drew University-NJ
Earlham College-IN
East Carolina University
Eastern Illinois University
Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Tennessee State University
Elmhurst College-IL
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical-FL
Emory University-GA
Emporia State University-KS
Fairfield University-CT
Florida Agricultural & Mechanical
University
Florida Atlantic University
Florida International University
Florida State University
Franklin and Marshall College-PA
Franklin University-OH
George Mason University-VA
George Washington University-DC
Georgetown University-DC
Georgia State University
Glassboro State College/Rowan
Governors State University-IL
Grand Valley State College-MI
Gwynedd-Mercy College
Hamilton College-NY
Hampton University-VA
Hillsdale College
Hope College-MI
Howard University
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois State University
Illinois Wesleyan University
Indiana Central
University/University of
Indianapolis
Indiana State University-Evansville
Indiana State University-Terre
Haute
Indiana University-Bloomington
Indiana University-Northwest/Gary
Indiana University-Purdue
University/Fort Wayne
Indiana University-Purdue
University/Indianapolis
Indiana University-South Bend
Indiana Wesleyan
University/Marion College,
Marion
Iowa State University
Ithaca College-NY
John Carroll University-OH
Johns Hopkins University-MD
Judson College-IL
Kalamazoo College-MI
Kansas State University
Kent State University-OH
Kentucky State University
Kenyon College-OH
Kettering University
Knox College-IL
Lafayette College-PA
Lake Forest College-IL
Lawrence University-WI
Lewis and Clark College-OR
Lewis University-IL
Loras College-IA
Louisiana State University-Baton
Rouge
Loyola College-MD
Loyola Marymount College-CA
Loyola University-Chicago
Loyola University-LA
Macalester College-MN
Manhattan College
Marquette University-WI
Marycrest College-IA
Marymount University-VA
McGill University-Canada
Miami University-Oxford, OH
Michigan State University
Michigan Technological University
Middle Tennessee State University
Midwestern State University
Millikin University-IL
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Minnesota State University-Mankato
Monmouth College-IL
Montana State University
Montana State University-Billings
Morgan State University-MD
Mount Union College
Mundelein College/Loyola
University-IL
Murray State University-KY
National College of
Education/National Lewis
University-IL
New England College-NH
New York University
Newcomb College of Tulane
University-LA
North Carolina State University at
Raleigh
North Central College-IL
North Park University-IL
Northeastern Illinois University
Northeastern University-MA
Northern Arizona University
Northern Illinois University
Northern Kentucky University
Northwestern University-IL
Northwood Institute
Nova Southeastern University-FL
Oakland University-MI
Ohio State University-Columbus
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Colleges and Universities Represented in the Student Body (continued)
Ohio University-Athens
Oklahoma State UniversityStillwater
Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity Park
Plymouth State College
Providence College-RI
Purdue UniversityCalumet/Hammond
Purdue University-West Lafayette
Queens University-Canada
Quincy University-IL
Radford University-VA
Rider University-NJ
Robert Morris College, IL
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rockford College-IL
Roosevelt University Illinois
Roosevelt University
Rutgers University-NJ
St. Ambrose College-IA
St. John’s University
St. Joseph’s College-IN
St. Joseph’s University-PA
St. Leo College
St. Mary’s College-IN
St. Norbert College-WI
St. Olaf College
St. Xavier University-IL
Salem State College-MA
Samford University
Smith College-MA
Skidmore College
Southeast Missouri State University
Southern Illinois UniversityCarbondale
Southern Illinois UniversityEdwardsville
Southern Methodist University-TX
Southwest Baptist University-MO
Southwest Missouri State University
Southwestern at Memphis/
Rhodes College
Spelman College-GA
Stanford University-CA
Stetson University
Suffolk University
SUNY-Center at Stony Brook
SUNY-College at Oswego
Swarthmore College
Syracuse University-NY
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Taylor University-Main/IN
Temple University-PA
Texas A&M University at College
Station
Trinity Christian College-Palos
Heights
Trinity University-TX
Tufts University/Jackson College-MA
Tulane University-LA
United States Merchant Marines
Academy-NY
United States Military Academy-NY
University of Alabama
University of Arizona
University of Calgary-Canada
University of California-Davis
University of California-Irvine
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-Riverside
University of California-San Diego
University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara
University of Central
Florida/Florida Tech. University
University of Chicago
University of Colorado-Boulder
University of Connecticut-Storrs
University of Dallas
University of Dayton-OH
University of Delaware
University of Dubuque
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Houston
University of Iowa
University of Illinois-at Chicago
University of IllinoisHealth Science Center
University of Illinois-Springfield
University of Illinois-UrbanaChampaign
University Of Kansas
University of Kentucky-Lexington
University of Maryland-College Park
University of MassachusettsAmherst
University of Miami-FL
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Michigan-Dearborn
University of Minnesota/
Minneapolis-St. Paul
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of Missouri/Kansas City
University of Missouri-Saint Louis
University of Mississippi
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
University of New Mexico & NM
School of Law
University of NC-Chapel Hill
University of NC-Greensboro
University of NC-Wilmington
University of North Florida
University of Northern Iowa
University of Notre Dame
University of Oklahoma-Norman
University of Oregon-Eugene
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania Law School
University of Pittsburgh
University of Richmond
University of Rochester-NY
University of Saint Francis-IL
University of Saint Thomas-MN
University of South Alabama
University of South Florida
University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles
University of Southwestern
Louisiana
University of the State of NYRegents College
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
University of Toledo-OH
University of Texas-Austin
University of Utah
University of Vermont
University of Washington
University of Western Ontario
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
University of WisconsinStevens Point
University of Wisconsin-Stout
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Valparaiso University
Vanderbilt University-TN
Villanova University
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. &
State University
Virginia State University
Wabash College-IN
Wake Forest University-NC
Washington University-MO
Wayne State University
Webster College-MO
Wesleyan University-CT
West Chester University of
Pennsylvania
West Virginia UniversityMorgantown
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Western Illinois University
Western Michigan University
Winona State University-MN
Wittenberg University
Xavier University-OH
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FACULTY & ADMINISTRATION
T
he John Marshall Law School
Marshall students in an extensive array
is proud of the accomplished
of trial advocacy and litigation skills,
men and women who make up its
and many practicing lawyers help train
faculty. The 56 full-time and more
our students in areas such as Intellectual
than 300 part-time faculty members
Property, Trial Advocacy, International
are committed teachers, grounded in
Business and Trade, Illinois Civil
the theoretical and practical aspects of
Procedure, Information Technology and
law and well-regarded in the academic
Privacy, Employee Benefits, Tax Law,
and legal communities.
Criminal Procedure, Real Estate, and
many other areas.
John Marshall faculty are some of the
top scholars in areas such as Intellectual Property,
Our faculty emphasizes teaching, scholarship, and
Information Technology and Privacy Law,
service to the law school and the community. Much
International Law, Trial Advocacy and Dispute
of their scholarship directly relates to the subjects
Resolution, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure,
they teach. This emphasis means that you will find our
Criminal Justice, Civil and Criminal Evidence,
faculty, both in their offices and in class, always willing
Contracts, Labor Law, Real Estate, Employee
to answer questions or discuss current legal issues.
Benefits, Tax Law, Legal History, Legal Writing,
and Fair Housing.
The law school is also proud of its administration
and staff. These talented professionals have
The John Marshall Law School has always had strong
contributed greatly to the success of John Marshall.
ties to the bench and bar in the Chicago area, which
On the following pages we introduce some of them,
enables students to benefit from the knowledge and
in the hope that, as you become a member of The
experience of the many distinguished practicing
John Marshall Law School community, you will get
lawyers and judges who make up its part-time faculty.
to know them better.
More than 20 judges and former judges train John
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Yvette M. Barksdale
Gerald E. Berendt
Associate Professor
Alberto Bernabe
Professor and Associate Dean for
Advanced Studies and Research
Professor
B.A., Oberlin College
J.D., Yale Law School
A.A., University of Florida
J.D., University of Puerto Rico
B.A., University of South Carolina
LL.M., Temple University
Before joining the faculty in 1989, Professor
Barksdale practiced with Carter, Ledyard and
Milburn in New York City, and taught legal
writing at University of Bridgeport School of
Law and IIT/ Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Before law school, Professor Barksdale
developed CAD-CAM software for General
Motors. Professor Barksdale’s scholarship focus
is governmental value selection. She has
presented her scholarship nationally and served
as a research consultant to the Administrative
Conference of the United States and as a
committee vice-chair of the ABA Section of
Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice.
She also writes a quarterly “Recent Articles of
Interest” column for that Section’s
Administrative and Regulatory Law News.
Professor Barksdale has been a board member
of the Black Women Lawyer’s Association of
Greater Chicago, receiving their President’s
Award for Outstanding Service in 1993. She has
served with the Chicago Scholars of Color, on
committees of the Alliance of Justice, the
Chicago Bar Association Alliance for Women,
and on the planning committee for the
American Association of Law Schools Midwest
Region Equal Justice Colloquium. Most recently
she chaired the 2003 Annual Meeting of the
Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship
Conference. Professor Barksdale teaches
Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, and a
Law and Diversity Seminar.
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B.A., Princeton University
J.D., University of South Carolina
LL.M., New York University
Associate Dean Gerald Berendt supervises the
graduate programs offered by the Centers for
Excellence, as well as the Global Perspectives
Group, the Foreign Alliances Programs, the
Fair Housing Center, and Distance Learning.
After law school, Dean Berendt was an attorney
with the National Labor Relations Board in
Washington, D.C. Over the last 25 years, he has
held several Governor’s appointments to Illinois
agencies, including chairman of the Illinois
Educational Labor Relations Board, chairman
and executive director of the Illinois Office of
Collective Bargaining, director of Labor Ad Hoc,
and member of the Illinois Impasse Resolution
Panel. In 2002–2003, he served as a member of
Governor Rod Blagojevich’s Labor Policy
Committee. He is active in a number of labor
relations organizations, including the American
Arbitration Association. He has authored or coauthored numerous books and law review articles
and frequently speaks before professional
associations and bar groups. Dean Berendt also
chaired the law school’s Arthur J. Goldberg
Conference, named for the late Associate Justice
of the United States Supreme Court, who was a
distinguished member of the John Marshall
faculty. Dean Berendt joined the law school
faculty in 1975 and was named associate dean in
2004. He teaches Collective Bargaining and
Arbitration, Contracts, Labor Law, and Public
Sector Labor Relations.
After graduating from law school, Alberto
Bernabe clerked for Associate Justice Federico
Hernandez-Denton of the Supreme Court of
Puerto Rico. He later entered private practice,
specializing in personal injury, mass disaster
litigation, and general media law practice. Before
joining the faculty at John Marshall, Professor
Bernabe was a teaching fellow at Temple
University, where he taught Mass Media Law
and collaborated in teaching Torts, Products
Liability, and Legal Ethics. He was awarded an
LL.M. in Legal Education in 1994. Professor
Bernabe has published articles and lectured on
many different topics, including the effects of
globalization on different aspects of the law,
legal ethics, the history of American legal
education, journalism ethics, the Socratic
method of teaching, the “marketplace of ideas,”
and the relationship between the media and the
judicial system. Professor Bernabe joined the
faculty in 1992. He teaches Professional
Responsibility, Mass Media Law, Products
Liability, and Torts.
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Donald L. Beschle
Cynthia D. Bond
Susan L. Brody
Professor
Clinical Professor of Legal Writing
Professor
B.A., Fordham University
B.A., magna cum laude, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
B.S., summa cum laude, Ohio State
University
M.F.A., Cornell University
J.D., cum laude, IIT/Chicago–Kent
College of Law
J.D., New York University
Order of the Coif
LL.M., Temple University
J.D., Cornell Law School
As a law student at New York University, Don
Beschle served as research editor of the Annual
Survey of American Law and was elected to the
Order of the Coif. After graduation, he spent
several years as an associate at the New York
firm of Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim &
Ballon, working on a wide range of civil matters.
From 1979 to 1981, he was a teaching fellow
at Temple University School of Law, where he
taught in both the law school and the
undergraduate college while earning his
LL.M. degree. His articles have appeared in
more than a dozen law reviews and have been
widely cited by both academic commentators
and the United States Supreme Court. Professor
Beschle joined the faculty in 1981. He teaches
Antitrust Law, Constitutional Law, Property,
and Religion and the Law.
After graduating from law school in 1993, where
she was on the staff of the Cornell Law Review,
Cynthia Bond worked as a research associate for
a solo practitioner in Ithaca, New York, while
also serving as a volunteer staff attorney for
Neighborhood Legal Services, a public interest
law office. From 1994–1995, she was a solo
practitioner in Ithaca, focusing on family law for
low-income clients. From 1995–1999, she was
an associate with True, Walsh & Miller, where
her practice areas included litigation, domestic
relations, and real estate. From 1999–2004, she
was on the faculty of Cornell Law School, where
she taught a first-year legal writing class, as well
as a seminar on law and film. Professor Bond
received the Tompkins County Bar Association
award for outstanding pro bono legal services in
1995, and the American Bar Association Journal
Ross Essay Award in 1998. She came to John
Marshall as a visiting professor in 2004 and
joined the full-time faculty in 2006. Professor
Bond teaches Lawyering Skills and “Images of
Law in Film,” which examines cultural
representations of law and lawyers from various
critical perspectives.
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After law school, Susan Brody served as law clerk
for the Honorable Lloyd A. Van Deusen of the
Illinois Appellate Court. She then practiced with
Beermann, Swerdlove et al., concentrating in
family law and appellate practice. Professor
Brody joined the John Marshall faculty in 1982
and served as director of the Lawyering Skills
Program from 1985–1995. She was associate
dean for academic affairs from 1995–1997 and
associate dean for institutional affairs during
1998–1999. She has served on law school
committees concerning strategic planning,
decanal search, and development. Professor
Brody also participates on committees and is
involved in activities of the American Bar
Association, Association of American Law
Schools, Illinois State Bar Association, and
SCRIBES (the American Society of Writers on
Legal Subjects). Professor Brody has spoken on
topics concerning legal education and lawyering
skills for numerous groups. She has consulted
for law schools and presented seminars at law
firms, corporate legal departments, and
governmental agencies. She also serves on bar
committees dealing with issues about women
and the law. Professor Brody teaches Civil
Procedure and a course on Women, the Law,
and Feminist Jurisprudence.
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Joseph R. Butler
William K. Carroll
Clinical Professor
Professor
B.A., Eastern Illinois
University
A.B., B.S., Quincy College
J.D., The John Marshall Law
School
S.T.L., Catholic University of
America
Joseph Butler attended The John
Marshall Law School, where he was
the first student ever in The John
Marshall Law School Fair Housing
Legal Clinic. Having learned the
value of clinical legal education, he
now supervises students at the
Clinic. Under his supervision, John
Marshall students have successfully
litigated fair housing cases in federal
court, state court, and before
various administrative agencies.
He has lectured nationally on fair
housing law and has conducted
trainings for the United States
Department of Housing and Urban
Development. Professor Butler
began teaching at John Marshall in
1995. He supervises students at The
John Marshall Law School Fair
Housing Legal Clinic and teaches
Fair Housing Law, Administrative
Law, and Lawyering Skills.
Ph.D., University of Strasbourg
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M.A., Duquesne University
J.D., Northwestern University
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Before joining the faculty at John
Marshall, Professor Carroll had varied
careers, among them university
professor of theology and psychology
and religion, clinical psychologist, trial
attorney as a federal defender, and
corporate counsel for a cable television
company and a supermarket chain. His
interest in law developed while he was
a post-doctoral visiting scholar at the
University of Chicago. He continues
his involvement with interdisciplinary
matters, serving as counsel to the
Illinois Psychological Association
Ethics Committee, consultant on legal
and policy issues to the American
Psychological Association, Reporter for
the American Bar Association Criminal
Justice Mental Health Standards, and
co-author of a controversial study on
human sexuality commissioned by the
Catholic Theological Society of
America. He is frequently consulted on
high-profile cases involving the mental
responsibility of the accused. Professor
Carroll joined the faculty in 1975. He
teaches Conflict of Laws, Criminal
Law, and Philosophy of Law.
F. Willis Caruso
Clinical Professor; Clinical
Director, Fair Housing Legal
Clinic
B.S., Northwestern University
F. Willis Caruso is co-executive
director of The John Marshall Law
School Fair Housing Legal Support
Center and the clinical director of
The John Marshall Fair Housing Legal
Clinic. He also serves as a clinical
professor of law at John Marshall.
Professor Caruso formerly practiced
law with Sidley & Austin; Caruso &
Caruso; Isham Lincoln & Beale; and
Keck, Mahin & Cate. He served as the
general counsel of the Chicago
Housing Authority from 1991 to 1994
and as the general counsel of the
Leadership Counsel for Metropolitan
Open Communities from 1970 to
1991. He has litigated more than
1,000 fair housing cases, including
Village of Arlington Heights v.
Metropolitan Housing Development
Corporation and Gladstone Realtors v.
Village of Bellwood. He has lectured at
a large number of legal seminars and
also authored many outlines,
pamphlets, and articles, and a
textbook, Cases and Materials on Fair
Housing and Fair Lending Laws, fifth
edition 2004.
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Maureen B. Collins
Clinical Professor of Legal
Writing
B.A., Northwestern
University
J.D., DePaul University
College of Law
After graduating from law school,
where she was an editor of the
DePaul Law Review, Maureen
Collins was an attorney with Sidley
& Austin in Chicago (1985–1990).
Her practice focused on trademark,
copyright, and advertising law.
Subsequently, she joined the faculty
at DePaul University College of
Law as a legal writing instructor and
became director of legal writing in
1993. Professor Collins was at
DePaul for 15 years and came to
John Marshall as a visiting professor
in 2005. For more than 10 years,
she has spent her summers as a
research and writing consultant at
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood,
working with 7,100 summer
associates. Professor Collins wrote
a monthly column, “Legal
Communications,” for the Illinois
Bar Journal from 1995–2004. She
teaches Lawyering Skills.
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Susan Marie Connor
John E. Corkery
Joel R. Cornwell
Professor
Professor and Acting Dean
Professor
B.A., Albertus Magnus College
B.S., St. Louis University
B.A., Duquesne University
M.A., University of Hawaii
M.Div., Yale University
M.A., University of Hawaii
Acting Dean John Corkery joined the John
Marshall faculty after several years with the
Chicago office of Lord, Bissell and Brook.
He is a former chairman of the Illinois State
Bar Association’s Standing Committee on
Professional Conduct and a member of the joint
Chicago Bar Association, Illinois State Bar
Association and Illinois Judges’ Association
Judicial Ethics Committee. He has spoken at,
and prepared materials for, numerous Illinois
Judicial Conferences and bar association
programs, and currently is a Reporter for the
Illinois Judicial Conference Committee on
Evidence. Dean Corkery has testified as an
expert witness in matters of professional
responsibility and has been a member of the
teaching faculty for the Attorney Registration
and Disciplinary Commission’s Professional
Responsibility Institute. He was a member of the
Chicago Bar Association’s Board of Managers
for two years and has been a co-writer of the
CBA’s annual Gridiron musical, “Christmas
Spirits,” since 1973. He is the author of Illinois
Civil and Criminal Evidence (2000). Dean
Corkery joined the faculty in 1973, was named
associate dean for academic affairs in 1998, was
named vice dean in 2004, and became acting
dean in 2005. He teaches Evidence, Family Law,
and Professional Responsibility.
J.D., University of Hawaii
Immediately after law school, Susan Connor was
engaged in private practice in Hawaii, focusing
on civil rights and land use law. She then served
as an assistant state’s attorney in Lake County
(Illinois), where she was responsible for the
county’s land use litigation. Professor Connor
has authored articles and books on zoning and
subdivision controls, housing discrimination,
and employment discrimination, most recently
contributing chapters to several land use and
municipal law books published by the Illinois
Institute for Continuing Legal Education.
For several years she wrote a monthly online
publication, Flashpoints: Employment Law,
which surveys current developments in the
field. In addition, she continues to do pro bono
litigation, mostly involving employment
discrimination and fair housing cases that
implicate zoning restrictions. She is a faculty
member of the State of Illinois Association of
Fire & Police Commissioners and chair of the
police commission in her hometown. Professor
Connor is also an urban planner and is active
with the American Planning Association, serving
for many years as chair of its Amicus Curiae
Committee. She joined the faculty in 1980.
She teaches Constitutional Law, Civil Rights,
Employment Discrimination, Evidence, and
Land Use Control.
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J.D., Saint Louis University
MLA, University of Chicago
Having cultivated an interest in analytical
philosophy during his undergraduate and
graduate studies, Professor Cornwell has focused
his legal scholarship on issues of law and
language. He formerly served as a judicial clerk
to the Hon. Moses W. Harrison, former Chief
Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who was
then sitting on the Illinois Appellate Court,
Fifth District. Professor Cornwell has served as
program chair for the AALS Section on Legal
Writing, Reasoning, and Research, and has been
a respondent at recent John Marshall
conferences on Law and Language and on
Animal Rights. Professor Cornwell joined the
faculty in 1985. He teaches Lawyering Skills,
Estates and Trusts, Property, Philosophy of
Law, Psychology and the Law, and Religion
and the Law.
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Linda R. Crane
Karen Halverson Cross
Professor and Associate Dean
for Faculty Development
Ronald Z. Domsky
Professor
Professor
B.B.A., University of Wisconsin
B.A.S., University of Illinois
B.A., University of Wisconsin,
Phi Beta Kappa
M.M., Northwestern University
J.D., cum laude, Harvard University
C.P.A., Illinois and Wisconsin
With a Bachelor of Arts in International
Relations, Karen Halverson Cross lived for a year
in Taipei, Taiwan, where she developed a legal
writing program for Baker & McKenzie's
Chinese legal staff. As a Harvard Law student,
she served as an editor of the Harvard Civil
Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review. Thereafter,
a Fulbright scholarship took her to Yugoslavia
to study economic reform in Eastern Europe.
Professor Cross returned to the U.S. to practice
with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton,
focusing on international joint ventures, project
finance, and various projects with the Russian
government. In 1993, Professor Cross worked at
Human Rights Watch, where she prepared case
files for presentation at the Yugoslav War Crimes
Tribunal at The Hague. The U.S. State
Department awarded her a summer grant in
1996 to conduct research on Russian methods
of dispute resolution at the Institute of State and
Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Professor Cross also has lived in the People’s
Republic of China and Brazil. Professor Cross
joined the John Marshall faculty in 1994.
She teaches Contracts, Alternative Means of
Dispute Resolution, International Commercial
Dispute Resolution, and International
Business Transactions. Her research focuses
on international business and economic law
and arbitration.
After receiving his baccalaureate and juris doctor
degrees, Ronald Domsky was admitted to
practice as both a Certified Public Accountant
and attorney in the states of Illinois and
Wisconsin. He was employed on the audit and
tax staff of Coopers and Lybrand and as a
supervisor in the tax department of Alexander
Grant and Company. Professor Domsky joined
John Marshall’s part-time faculty in 1962 and,
three years later, the full-time faculty. He served
as director of the Graduate School’s Taxation
Division from 1966 to 1991 and has served as
a part-time hearing officer for the City of
Chicago, adjudicating tax matters. Professor
Domsky also has served as both trustee and
treasurer of The John Marshall Law School and
MacCormac College. He was Associate
Chairman of the Lawyers’ Division of the Jewish
United Fund of Chicago and presently serves as
vice president and director of the American
Friends of Hebrew University. Professor
Domsky teaches Estates and Trusts, Income
Taxation, and Taxation of Estates and Trusts.
After receiving her graduate degrees, Associate
Dean Linda Crane was a strategic issues analyst
for International Harvester and practiced with
the firm Hill, Hubbard, Cole & Couch. Later,
she was a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch and a
vice president at Bear, Stearns & Co. She was
a named partner with the Chicago law firm of
Boyd & Crane from 1987 until 1999. Dean
Crane has held leadership posts with several
organizations, including Midwest People of
Color Legal Scholarship Conference, the 1st
National Meeting of the Six Regional People
of Color Conferences, the Central States Law
Schools Association, the Law Schools
Administration Council, and the Association
of American Law Schools Audit and Investment
Committee. She has been president of the
board of the Cabrini Green Tutoring Program;
she currently serves on the Chicago State
University Foundation Board and the board of
MacCormac College, and she was recently
elected to the board of the Greater Chicago
Food Depository. Dean Crane is a frequent
speaker on the subjects of mortgage lending
discrimination, legal education, and affirmative
action. She joined the John Marshall faculty
in 1989 and was named associate dean for
faculty development in 2004. She teaches
Property Law, Commercial Law, and Federal
Securities Regulation.
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J.D., University of Wisconsin
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William K. Ford
John D. Gorby
Visiting Professor
B.A., California State University,
Fullerton
M.A., C.Phil., University of California,
Santa Barbara
Assistant Professor and Associate
Director, Lawyering Skills
J.D., University of Michigan
B.A., University of Chicago
M.A., University of Chicago
After receiving his undergraduate degree,
William Ford was a summer intern at the U.S.
Supreme Court in the Office of Administrative
Assistance to the Chief Justice. He was a
research assistant and teaching assistant in the
Political Science department at UC Santa
Barbara from 1998–2000. During law school,
in addition to receiving numerous awards and
honors, he was symposium editor for the
University of Chicago Legal Forum and edited
the “Twenty-First Annual National Student
Federalist Society Symposium on Law and
Public Policy” for the Fall 2002 issue of the
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
After receiving his law degree in 2003, Professor
Ford worked for the Los Angeles firm Irell &
Manella and then returned to the University
of Chicago Law School as a Bigelow Teaching
Fellow and Lecturer in Law. His article,
“Judging Expertise in Copyright Law,” is
forthcoming in the Journal of Intellectual
Property, and he co-authored “The Phantom
Philosophy? An Empirical Investigation of
Legal Interpretation,” also forthcoming in the
Maryland Law Review. For the 2006–2007
academic year, Professor Ford will teach Federal
Courts and Unfair Competition.
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A.B., Knox College
The law’s ability to apply principled methods of
using state power to resolve human disputes in a
fair, thoughtful, and honest manner motivated
John Gorby to pursue a legal career. His interest
in the role of power and injustice led him, after
law school, to a German Exchange Fellowship
and an assistantship with Professor Herman
Mosler, a judge on the European Court of
Human Rights and, later, Permanent Judge on
the International Court of Justice. Thereafter,
Professor Gorby served as first assistant state’s
attorney for McHenry County, as public
defender of McDonough County, as legal
director of the AUL Legal Defense Fund, and as
an environmental lawyer. In choosing to teach
the law, Professor Gorby saw an opportunity to
convey to future lawyers his love and passion for
principled legal solution. Professor Gorby joined
the faculty in 1974. He teaches Counseling and
Negotiating, Scientific Evidence, and Philosophy
of Law.
J.D., Order of the Coif, University of
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J.D., University of Chicago Law School
Professor Green was previously Assistant
Professor of Legal Research and Writing at
IIT/Chicago–Kent College of Law, where she
taught legal writing, conflicts of law, and
international law. She also has taught legal
writing as an adjunct instructor at Loyola
University of Chicago School of Law. After
graduating from the University of Chicago Law
School, Professor Green practiced in insurance
and commercial litigation with McCullough,
Campbell & Lane, and Bates Meckler Bulger &
Tilson. Professor Green, who emigrated from
Russia to the United States as a young girl,
received a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science
and a Master’s degree in International Relations
from the University of Chicago. She also was a
Ford Foundation Scholarship recipient during
her law school career. She used the scholarship
for summer study at The Hague Academy of
International Law. She has examined how
legislatures and courts create and define laws
about language use and is now researching
bilingualism and English-only laws in the United
States. Professor Green joined the faculty in
2001. In addition to her Lawyering Skills
courses, she teaches Conflict of Laws.
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Ardath Hamann
Celeste M. Hammond
Associate Professor
Michael Gerald Heyman
Professor and Director, Graduate
Program in Real Estate Law
Professor
B.S., Purdue University
J.D., College of William and Mary
B.S., cum laude, Loyola University
M.A., University of Wisconsin
LL.M., The John Marshall Law School
J.D., George Washington University
Professor Hamann has been actively involved
with John Marshall's nationally recognized moot
court program for more than 20 years. As
director of Moot Court, she advises the Moot
Court Executive Board and Moot Court
Council. She also supervises the Fred F. Herzog
Moot Court Competition, teaches an advanced
advocacy seminar for team members, and
coaches moot court teams. Professor Hamann's
area of specialization is antitrust law. For six
years after graduation from law school, she was a
member of the Antitrust Division of the Illinois
Attorney General's Office, litigating criminal,
civil penalty, and civil treble damage actions in
both state and federal courts. In recent years
Professor Hamann has presented papers on
current developments in United States antitrust
law at conferences in Prague and Brno in the
Czech Republic. She also has conducted training
workshops on legal drafting for the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban
Development. Professor Hamann’s major
outside interest is counseling charitable
organizations. She has advised and served on
the boards of a number of religious and
educational institutions. Professor Hamann
joined the faculty in 1984. She teaches
Antitrust, Corporations, Estates and Trusts,
and Lawyering Skills.
Professor Hammond practiced law in Chicago
for eight years before joining the John Marshall
faculty. She was a leader in creating the Center
for Real Estate Law in 1995. Professor
Hammond is active in the American College
of Real Estate Lawyers, Lambda Alpha
International Land Economics Society, and
Commercial Real Estate Executive Women, and
has chaired several subcommittees of the ABA
Section on Real Property Probate and Trust
Law. She is a fellow of the American Bar
Foundation. Professor Hammond helped
establish the Section on Post-Graduate Legal
Education of the Association of American Law
Schools (AALS); most recently she helped
establish an AALS Section on Real Estate
Transactions and served as its first chairperson in
2004. She has published extensively on an array
of topics, her comments are solicited by the
news media, and she is a frequent speaker at
programs and conferences. She is one of the
authors of Modern Real Estate Finance and
Land Transfer—A Transactional Approach (3rd
ed.). She co-authored “Real Estate Auctions—
Legal Concerns for an Increasingly Preferred
Method of Selling Real Property” in the Real
Property Probate & Trust Law Journal (2006).
Professor Hammond joined the faculty in 1976.
She teaches Property, Alternative Dispute
Resolution in Real Estate, Real Estate Finance,
and Real Estate Transactions.
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B.A., Temple University
Before coming to John Marshall, Professor
Heyman was a judicial clerk for two judges and
was in private practice for several years. He was
a founding member of the AALS Section on
Immigration Law and served as both chair and
newsletter editor of the section for several years.
He serves as contributing editor of the Preview
of United States Supreme Court Cases for
immigration law and publishes widely on
immigration topics. His latest article, “Domestic
Violence and Asylum: Toward A Working Model
of Affirmative State Obligations,” appears in the
International Journal of Refugee Law (2005).
Professor Heyman served as national director of
Law Teachers for Legalization during the
amnesty program and spearheaded a project with
the Federal Bar Association to help as many as
175,000 area residents become citizens. He
founded the Immigration Law Clinic at John
Marshall and serves as its director. Professor
Heyman joined the faculty in 1976. He teaches
Criminal Law, Immigration Law, and Legislation
and Political Thought.
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Alicia Hilton
Joanne Simboli Hodge
Kevin L. Hopkins
Visiting Professor
Clinical Professor of Legal Writing
Associate Professor
B.A., University of California
at Berkeley
B.A., Swarthmore College
B.A., University of Delaware
M.A., Duke University
After law school, Joanne Simboli Hodge clerked
for the Honorable Luther Swygert on the
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. From
1986–1998, she was an assistant corporation
counsel with the City of Chicago Law
Department, working in the Appeals Division
(1986–89), the Labor and Personnel Division
(1989–93), and the Labor Division (1993–97).
Professor Hodge then spent a year and a half as
an Administrative Law Judge with the Illinois
Human Rights Commission. From 2000–2003,
she was an associate with Chicago-based firm
Neal Murdock & LeRoy, where she litigated,
consulted, and mediated on employment and
labor matters. Immediately prior to coming to
John Marshall, Professor Hodge was a writing
specialist at the DePaul University College of
Law, where she created a Writers’ Workshop for
1Ls, taught legal writing, and supervised the
teaching assistants in the writing center. She
came to John Marshall as a visiting professor in
2004 and joined the full-time faculty in 2006.
She teaches Lawyering Skills and Contracts II.
Before enrolling in law school, Alicia Hilton was
an FBI Special Agent. She graduated from the
FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia, and served
as a member of a foreign counterintelligence
squad. She was also a primary undercover agent
in two long-term criminal cases, posing as a drug
dealer with ties to organized crime. After
graduating from the University of Chicago Law
School, Professor Hilton was a litigator with the
New York firms Chadbourne & Parke and
Shearman & Sterling. Most recently, she has
worked as a consultant and lecturer on criminal
justice-related matters. Her legal scholarship
draws on her background in law enforcement
and her experience as an art dealer. Professor
Hilton’s current scholarship interests include
ethical standards for undercover agents, Title III
electronic surveillance minimization
requirements, and forfeiture of artifacts to
compensate victims of terrorist attacks. For the
2006–2007 academic year, Professor Hilton will
teach Criminal Procedure and offer seminars on
Undercover Operations and Informant
Management Law and on Cultural Property
and Museum Law.
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J.D., College of William and Mary
After graduating from law school, Kevin
Hopkins joined the law firm of Woodward,
Hobson & Fulton in Louisville, Kentucky, where
he practiced in the areas of tort law, corporate
defense, and civil litigation. He has taught at
Widener University School of Law (1991–1996)
and has been a visiting professor at John
Marshall Law School, Atlanta, Georgia (2004),
Rutgers University School of Law – Camden,
New Jersey (2000), Seattle University School of
Law (Summer 1999), East China University of
Politics & Law, Shanghai, China (Summer
2002) and the State Intellectual Property Office,
Beijing, China (Summer 2001). He has received
the Best Professor Award and the Georgetown
University Law Center’s W.M. Keck Award in
Legal Ethics for his essay, “Law Firms,
Technology, and the Double-Billing Dilemma.”
His scholarship has been published in several law
journals, including the Georgetown Law Journal,
the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, the
Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, the
Boston College Third World Law Journal and the
New York University Review of Law & Social
Change. He researches and writes in the areas of
privacy law, legal ethics, and race. In 2004,
Professor Hopkins was appointed director of
The John Marshall Law School Asian Alliance
(the law school’s foreign programs in China
and Asia). He joined the faculty in 1996. He
teaches Torts.
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Cecil J. Hunt II
John Dwight Ingram
Robert Gilbert Johnston
Associate Professor
Professor
Professor
A.B., Harvard University
J.D., Boston College Law School
C.L.U., American College of Life
Underwriters
After law school, where he was an editor of the
Third World Law Journal, Cecil Hunt worked in
private practice in the Boston area for eight
years, specializing in real estate and banking law.
He was an assistant professor at the University of
Puget Sound Law School from 1988–1991 and
an associate professor at Touro Law School from
1991–1997. He was a visiting associate professor
at Suffolk University Law School during the
1997–1998 academic year and then joined the
faculty as an associate professor the following
year. From 1998–2004, Professor Hunt taught
courses in Property, Banking Law, Lending
Discrimination, and Race and the Law, as well
as founding and directing a summer law school
preparatory program aimed at minority and
other nontraditional entering first-year students.
He also directed a four-week residential
summer program sponsored by the Council on
Legal Education Opportunity. Active as a faculty
adviser and moot court team coach, Professor
Hunt has received many teaching honors. In
addition to his community service work and
membership in various bar associations, he is a
frequent speaker and presenter at programs and
conferences, often appears on television, and has
hosted a weekly live radio show on legal issues.
Professor Hunt joined the John Marshall faculty
in 2004. He teaches Property and Secured
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After two years of service in the U.S. Army,
John Ingram joined the insurance agency of
Griffin, Ingram and Pfaff, eventually serving as
its president. After graduating from law school,
he practiced for more than seven years with the
firm of Simon and Ingram, specializing in
insurance litigation. From 1973 to 1994, he
taught a seminar in constitutional law for high
school seniors at the North Shore Country Day
School in Winnetka, Illinois. Professor Ingram
has often served as an expert witness, consultant,
or arbitrator in cases involving questions of
insurance law. He publishes extensively, most
recently in the Buffalo Intellectual Property Law
Review, University of Miami Business Law
Review, Oklahoma City Law Review, Penn State
International Law Review, and Tort Trial and
Insurance Practice Law Journal. He also is a
frequent speaker at bar association meetings on
insurance law. Professor Ingram joined the
faculty in 1966. He teaches Agency and
Unincorporated Business Entities, and
Insurance Law.
The son of Scottish immigrants, Robert Gilbert
Johnston was raised in Hawaii on a sugar
plantation. He first joined John Marshall as an
adjunct professor in 1963. He became a fulltime professor in 1965. He returned to Hawaii
in 1969 and spent two years as executive
director of Hawaii Legal Services, after which he
entered private practice, principally representing
institutionalized persons and community groups,
and private social service agencies, including
American Friends Service Committee, Hawaii
Association of Retarded Citizens, Hawaii League
of Women Voters, and Queen Liliuokalani
Children’s Center. Since returning to Chicago
and rejoining the John Marshall faculty in 1975,
Professor Johnston’s activities have included
reporter for numerous Illinois Judicial
Conferences and vice chair of the Jefferson Inn
of the American Inns of Court in 1993. He is
also active in bar activities in both Illinois and
Hawaii. He was associate dean for academic
affairs from 1988 to 1994, and on behalf of the
law school visited China and the Czech
Republic, where he lectured extensively, as well
as Lithuania and Ireland. He has appeared
before Illinois and Hawaii state and federal
courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor
Johnston was appointed dean in 1995 and
served until retiring from that post in 2003.
He teaches Civil Procedure II and Professional
Responsibility.
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Allen Kamp
Kenneth Kandaras
Diane S. Kaplan
Professor
Professor
Associate Professor
B.A., University of California–Berkeley
B.S., Southern Illinois University
M.A., University of California–Irvine
J.D., DePaul University
A.B., with highest honors, University
of California–Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa
J.D., Yale University
J.D., The University of Chicago
Prior to joining the John Marshall faculty,
Professor Kandaras was a staff attorney for the
Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc.,
and an adjunct professor at IIT/Chicago–Kent
College of Law. His published works include
Discovery in Illinois: Federal and Illinois Practice.
Professor Kandaras served as the professorreporter for the Illinois Supreme Court SubCommittee on the Selection and Administration
of Juries. He also has served as professorreporter to several Illinois Judicial Conference
committees dealing with issues of civil procedure
and tort law. In the past several summers,
Professor Kandaras has co-directed (with Chief
Justice Liam Hamilton of the Supreme Court of
Ireland) intensive training courses in Dublin,
Ireland, on comparative trial advocacy and
transnational legal negotiations. He is John
Marshall’s representative to the Chicago Inn of
Court and a former member of the Jefferson Inn
of Court. Professor Kandaras joined the faculty
in 1976. He directs the Advocacy program and
teaches Civil Procedure I and II, Conflict of
Laws, Federal Courts, Illinois Civil Procedure,
Trial Advocacy, and Torts.
Professor Kamp holds a bachelor’s and a
master’s degree in English. After graduating
from law school, he practiced with Vedder,
Price, Kaufman and Kammholz and with the
Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. He
began his teaching career at Capital University
Law School in Columbus, Ohio, and has been a
member of the John Marshall faculty for more
than 20 years. Professor Kamp has served as
advisor to the Client Counseling team, the
Negotiation team, the Mediations team, and the
Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition
team. His legal writings have considered the
history of the Uniform Commercial Code. He
recently published “The Missing Jurisprudence
of Merit” in the Boston University Public Interest
Law Journal, and is co-author of Secured
Transactions and Payment Systems, Problems and
Answers. Professor Kamp joined the faculty in
1981. He teaches Civil Procedure, Commercial
Law, Contracts II, and Lawyering Skills.
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Diane Kaplan was an editor of the Yale Law
Journal during law school. After graduation,
she clerked for the Honorable Hubert L. Will
of the U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of Illinois and practiced at the Chicago
law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt. Her
litigation experience includes state and federal
commercial, criminal, Native American, health,
mental health, and juvenile law. Professor Kaplan
is a member of numerous bar and professional
associations including the Illinois State Bar, the
State Bar of California, the District of Columbia
Bar, the Federal Trial Bar for the Northern
District of Illinois, and the American Bar
Association. In 1996, she was invited to teach
Corporations and Civil Procedure as a visiting
professor at Boston University School of Law.
In 1999, 2004, and 2006, she presented papers
on family law topics at Oxford University in
England. In the summer of 2005, she taught
law in Beijing, China. She has published in the
areas of health, mental health, Illinois and
federal procedure, juvenile, and corporate law.
Professor Kaplan joined the faculty in 1983.
She teaches Children in the Legal System,
Civil Procedure I, and Corporations.
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Walter J. Kendall III
Kathryn J. Kennedy
Professor
B.A., Brooklyn College
J.D., St. John’s University
During law school, Walter Kendall was an
associate editor of the St. John’s Law Review
and the Catholic Lawyer. After graduation, he
served as a trial attorney at the Federal Power
Commission, as house counsel at Baxter
Laboratories, and as assistant to the director
of the Illinois Department of Public Aid. He
has been an advisor to many community groups,
including the Institute for Community
Empowerment and the organization Interfaith
Worker Justice. He has served as chair of Access
Living (an advocacy group for people with
disabilities), as co-chair of Illinois Peace Action,
and as a member of the Cook County
Commission on Human Rights. Currently, he is
on the boards of Access Living, Illinois Citizen
Action and the Illinois Chapter of the American
Association of University Professors. Professor
Kendall is past chair of the ISBA’s Administrative
Law Section Council, and he has served as an
arbitrator for the National Futures Association.
Professor Kendall has lectured at universities in
Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Taipei. He
has been elected to his local school board and
as a committeeman of the Cook County
Democratic Party. Professor Kendall joined the
faculty in 1975. He teaches Administrative Law,
Constitutional Law, Economics and the Law,
Public International Law, and Disability Law.
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Kevin J. Kijewski
Professor and Director of the Graduate
Program in Employee Benefits and the
Graduate Program in Taxation
Visiting Clinical Professor
B.S., with honors, Drake University
J.D., summa cum laude, Northwestern
University, Order of the Coif
F.S.A., Society of Actuaries
Kathryn Kennedy completed her pension
actuarial training while associated with CNA
Insurance Company and the consulting firm of
Towers Perrin. After law school, she practiced
with McDermott, Will and Emery, and later
entered private practice. Since joining the John
Marshall faculty in 1996, Professor Kennedy has
expanded the employee benefits curriculum and
developed the LL.M. and M.S. programs in
employee benefits, the first and only programs in
the nation. She has testified before the Senate
Finance Committee numerous times and most
recently before the Presidential Panel for the
Simplification of the Tax Code. She is a member
of the Department of Labor’s ERISA Advisory
Board as the sole representative of the general
public.and was invited to participate in the 2006
SAVER Summit. She is the primary faculty
adviser for the John Marshall Law Review.
Professor Kennedy teaches Employee Benefits
Law and Elder Law at the J.D. level and several
of the advanced employee benefit courses at the
LL.M. and M.S. levels. Her textbook on
employee benefits law, designed for LL.M.
programs, will be published in fall 2006.
B.A., University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
While in law school at John Marshall, Kevin
Kijewski was a student-attorney in the Fair
Housing Legal Clinic for three semesters. This
clinical experience helped form his interest in
civil rights and fair housing law. After law school,
Professor Kijewski took a position as staff
attorney for the Fair Housing Council in
Louisville, Kentucky, where he litigated housing
discrimination, public school desegregation, and
insurance redlining cases. After five years in
Kentucky, he accepted a position as a trial
attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice
in Washington, D.C. At Main Justice, Professor
Kijewski worked in the Housing and Civil
Enforcement Section of the Civil Rights
Division prosecuting racial, disability, national
origin, and familial status civil rights matters.
In 2001, he was detailed as a Special Assistant
United States Attorney to the Office of the
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia in
the Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Section.
He returned to the Housing and Civil
Enforcement Section at Main Justice in 2002,
receiving a Meritorious Award in 2003 and a
Special Achievement Award in 2004. Professor
Kijewski is on leave from the Justice Department
and is a visiting clinical professor in the Fair
Housing Clinic for the 2006–2007 academic year.
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Maureen Straub Kordesh
Rogelio A. Lasso
Paul B. Lewis
Associate Professor
Professor
B.A., Kalamazoo College
B.S., magna cum laude, Mankato State
University
Professor and Director,
Graduate Program in International
Business & Trade Law
J.D., Indiana University–Bloomington
J.D., University of Minnesota School
of Law
B.A., with highest distinction,
Northwestern University
During law school, Maureen Straub Kordesh
was a member of the Indiana Law Journal.
After graduation, she represented the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of
General Services. In 1991 she joined the faculty
at Widener University School of Law, where she
directed the writing program and taught legal
writing, property, and land-use planning. One
of her articles, published in the Harvard
Environmental Law Review, was a finalist for
best land use planning article of 1996. She has
led workshops on drafting for HUD housing
discrimination investigators and has written
articles and made numerous presentations to
legal professionals on the practical and
pedagogical issues of legal writing, lawyering
skills, and the bar exam. She has made
presentations on pedagogy to law schools
internationally, and has designed Street-Lawstyle curricula for elementary and junior-high
students. Professor Kordesh is a former president
of the Association of Legal Writing Directors
and board member of the Legal Writing
Institute. She has served as an assistant editor for
the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute and a
reviewer for the Multistate Performance Test.
Professor Kordesh joined the John Marshall
faculty in 1996 and directed the Lawyering Skills
Program from 1996–2004. She teaches
Lawyering Skills and Property.
Professor Lasso came to John Marshall as a
visiting professor in 2004, and became a fulltime member of the faculty in 2005. Previously,
Professor Lasso taught at the University of
Missouri at Kansas City for two years and at
Washburn University School of Law from
1991–2003. From 1985 to 1991, he was in
private practice in two Chicago law firms where
he litigated cases ranging from medical
malpractice and products liability to breach of
contract and patent infringement. Before
enrolling in law school, Professor Lasso, with a
background in chemistry, worked as a research
scientist for Pillsbury, as an entrepreneur, and as
a consultant for American companies in Latin
America. His book, Products Liability and
Safety: an American and Comparative Approach,
has been accepted for publication, and his most
recent journal article was “Some Potential
Casualties of Moving Beyond the Black/White
Paradigm to Build Racial Coalitions,” published
in the fall of 2005 in the Washington and Lee
Race and Ethnic Ancestry Law Journal. A
frequent speaker at conferences, often on the
topic of technology and affirmative action,
Professor Lasso is a member of various bar
associations and legal organizations. He teaches
Torts, Products Liability, and Complex
Litigation.
M.A., Indiana University–Bloomington
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J.D., Yale Law School
As a student at the Yale Law School, Paul Lewis
served as senior editor of the Yale Law Journal
and editor of the Yale Journal of Law and
Humanities. After graduation, he served as law
clerk to the Honorable David A. Nelson of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and
was an associate with the firm of Mayer, Brown
& Platt in Chicago. From 1996–2001, he was on
the faculty of Mercer University School of Law,
and in 1999 he was a visiting professor at the
University of Western Sydney in Sydney,
Australia. His primary research area is corporate
bankruptcy. His articles have appeared most
recently in the Insolvency Law Bulletin,
Bankruptcy Developments Journal, the Utah Law
Review, New Directions in Bankruptcy, and the
Florida Law Review, and he has regularly
provided media commentary on significant
corporate bankruptcy issues. Professor Lewis was
a visiting professor at John Marshall during the
2001–2002 academic year and joined the faculty
permanently in 2002. He teaches Bankruptcy,
Secured Transactions, and Property.
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Molly Warner Lien
Doris Estelle Long
Ann M. Lousin
Professor and Director, Lawyering
Skills Program
Professor
Professor
B.A. summa cum laude, Ithaca College
B.A., Grinnell College
B.M., University of Miami
J.D., cum laude, Cornell University
Professor Long is a frequent lecturer in the areas
of intellectual property law, e-commerce,
culture, and technology, and has presented
papers at conferences in such diverse places as
Cuba, China, Russia, the Dominican Republic,
Peru, Nepal, Brazil, Senegal, Thailand, Taiwan,
Poland, the Ukraine, Moldova, and Guinea.
She serves as a frequent consultant for the U.S.
State Department and the U.S. Department of
Commerce and has worked with government
agencies from diverse countries on the creation
of TRIPS-compliant legislation and
enforcement mechanisms. Professor Long
served as a Fulbright Professor at Jiao Tung
University in Shanghai in 1998. In 2000, she
was on leave from John Marshall and served as
an attorney advisor in the Office of Legislative
and International Affairs of the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office. She is the author of
numerous books and articles, including
Coursebook in International Intellectual Property
and the textbook Contracts Law and Practice:
Cases and Materials. Professor Long was an
attorney for more than 14 years with the
Washington, D.C., law firms of Arent Fox
Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, and Howrey and Simon.
She joined the John Marshall faculty in 1994.
She teaches International Intellectual Property
Law, Trademarks and Copyrights, and Unfair
Competition and Trade Regulation. In 2004,
she was named chair of the Intellectual Property,
Information Technology & Privacy Group.
Between college and law school, Ann Lousin
studied political science at the University of
Heidelberg in Germany. After graduating from
law school in 1968, she was a research assistant
at the Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention,
where she worked on the drafting of the 1970
Illinois constitution. From 1971 to 1975, she
was on the staff of the Speaker of the Illinois
House of Representatives, including two years as
Parliamentarian of the House. She has served on
several not-for-profit boards and governmental
commissions, including a term as chairman of
the Illinois State Civil Service Commission. She
is active in the commercial law committees of
the American and Chicago Bar Associations, and
has been the chair of the CBA Constitutional
Law Committee. She has been a leader in other
legal organizations, including service as chair of
the Board of Governors of the Armenian Bar
Association from 1995 to 1998. She lectures and
consults on the Illinois Constitution, general
public law issues, and commercial law in the
U.S. and abroad. Professor Lousin joined the
faculty in 1975. She teaches Sales Transactions
and Secured Transactions.
J.D., Emory University School of Law,
Order of the Coif
After graduating with honors from Emory Law
School, where she was articles editor of the Law
Review, Molly Lien clerked for the Honorable
Wilbur F. Pell Jr. on the United States Court of
Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She spent ten
years in private practice, served as a Bigelow
Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School,
and in 1986 joined the faculty at IIT/ChicagoKent College of Law, where she directed the
legal writing program from 1993–2001 and
taught a wide variety of courses. Professor Lien
is trained in technical legal Russian and has
taught frequently in Russia, devoting her
summers from 2000–2004 teaching in the
University of San Diego’s summer program in
Moscow. From 1999–2001, she directed Project
Ukraine, administering a U.S. Department of
State grant to assist the University of Internal
Affairs in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Professor Lien is
active in professional associations and has
published on legal research and writing, as well
as on civil procedure, international law, and
Russian legal matters. She was a visiting
consultant on legal skills at the National
University of Singapore in 2001–2002. She is
also the corporate secretary of the Association of
Legal Writing Directors. Professor Lien teaches
Lawyering Skills, Civil Procedure I and II,
International Law, International Trade, and
Comparative Law.
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Tayyab Mahmud
Patricia Mell
Professor and Chair, Global
Perspectives Group
Professor
B.A., University of the Punjab
J.D., Case Western Reserve University
Law School
A.B., with honors, Wellesley College
M.Sc., University of Islamabad
Ph.D., University of Hawaii
Patricia Mell served The John Marshall Law
School as its eleventh dean from 2003 to 2005.
She was the first woman and first African
American to hold this position at the law school.
Prior to coming to John Marshall, she was an
assistant attorney general in Ohio and in 1983
was corporation counsel for the Ohio secretary
of state’s office. She began her teaching career in
1984 and served on several law school faculties,
also serving as the associate dean for academic
affairs at Michigan State University–Detroit
College of Law. Professor Mell’s areas of
expertise include criminal law, the legal aspects
of e-commerce, corporations, agency, and
partnership. She also has an interest in
computers and privacy, and her article on
national security under the USA Patriot Act
appeared recently in the Denver Law Review.
Professor Mell has won numerous awards,
including being named one of the 100 Most
Influential Women in Chicago by Crain’s
Business Magazine in 2004. Her co-authored
textbook on criminal law is being published by
Carolina Academic Press. She is currently the
editor of the ABA Criminal Justice Section’s
publication on sentencing, and participated in
the Oxford Round Table on women and
leadership at Oxford University in England in
2006. Dean Mell returned to the faculty in 2005
to pursue her scholarly interests.
J.D., University of California, Hastings
College of the Law
Before enrolling in law school, Professor
Mahmud taught political science and
international relations at various universities in
Pakistan and the United States. At Hastings
College of the Law he was an editor of the
Hastings International and Comparative Law
Review. Before joining the faculty of ClevelandMarshall College of Law in 1989, he practiced
complex litigation with the San Francisco-based
firm Pettit & Martin. He was a visiting scholar at
Harvard Law School in 1997–1998, and a
visiting professor at Seattle University School of
Law in 2003–2004. Professor Mahmud serves
on the editorial boards of several legal journals,
is the co-president of the Society of American
Law Teachers (SALT), and a member of the
Board of Directors of Latina/o Critical Legal
Studies (LatCrit). He has published extensively
in the areas of comparative law, human rights,
legal history, and legal theory. Professor
Mahmud joined the John Marshall faculty in
2004. He teaches Global Legal Studies,
Contracts I and II, International Law, Legal
History, and Philosophy of Law.
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William B.T. Mock
Professor and Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs
B.A., Haverford College
Graduate Studies, Shakespeare
Institute, University of Birmingham
(England)
J.D., Georgetown University
Prior to joining John Marshall’s faculty in 1983,
Dean William Mock practiced international
trade, antitrust, and securities law in
Washington, D.C., and served with Baker &
McKenzie as one of the nation’s first in-firm
legal educators. At The John Marshall Law
School, he founded, and for nine years directed,
the Center for International Business and Trade
Law (then called the Center for International
and Comparative Studies), as well as two LL.M.
programs—the LL.M. in Global Legal Studies
and the LL.M. in International Business and
Trade Law. Dean Mock was a co-founder of the
Journal of Computer and Information Law and
has served as an advisor to the Jessup and
Niagara moot court teams and the International
Law Society. Among his overseas responsibilities
are aspects of John Marshall’s relationships with
law faculties in China, Italy, and Lithuania. Dean
Mock is a securities and commodities arbitrator
and publishes in the fields of information law,
transparency, and international law. He has
lectured in Belarus, China, the Czech Republic,
Lithuania, and Poland. Dean Mock also has
served as the scholar-in-residence at the law
faculty of the University of Cagliari, Italy.
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Francis D. Morrissey
Robert Jay Nye
Samuel R. Olken
Distinguished Visiting Professor
Professor
Professor
A.B., St. Mary of the Lake University
A.B., University of Chicago
S.T.B., St. Mary of the Lake University
J.D., cum laude, DePaul University
A.B., magna cum laude, Harvard
University
J.D., Loyola University
J.D., Emory University
Francis Morrissey received the St. Thomas More
Award and the Medal of Excellence from Loyola
University, where he was a Kirkland Scholar and
the law review editor. As a partner in Baker &
McKenzie from 1962–1995, he prosecuted
more than 500 civil appeals and chaired firm
management committees both nationally and
internationally. He served as President of the
Illinois Board of Bar Examiners, the National
Conference of Bar Examiners, and the Illinois
Appellate Lawyers Association. A former
member of the ABA House of Delegates,
Professor Morrissey served on the Council of the
Section of Legal Education and on the Board of
Managers of the Chicago Bar Association, and
was elected to the American College of Trial
Lawyers and the American Academy of Appellate
Lawyers. He served as editor of the CBA Record
and the ABA’s Brief, and he originated the
Multistate Professional Responsibility
Examination. Minority Legal Education
Resources honored him for his work on behalf
of minority applicants for the Bar. He is a Fellow
of the American Bar Foundation. Professor
Morrissey joined the faculty in 1995. He teaches
Professional Responsibility.
Early in his career, Robert Nye served as a
research fellow at the Institute of Judicial
Administration in New York City and as a W.W.
Cook Fellow at the University of Michigan
School of Law. He also was a trial and appellate
attorney with the U.S. Department of Labor in
New England and Washington, D.C., and senior
law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of Illinois. Professor Nye was
in private practice before joining the John
Marshall faculty. He has given lectures in the
People’s Republic of China and the Czech
Republic and developed affiliations in Moscow
as program director of John Marshall’s Moscowand-Chicago training program for Russian legal
professionals. Professor Nye was the inaugural
faculty exchange visitor in the John
Marshall–Murdoch University School of Law
(Perth, Australia) exchange program. He has
chaired the CBA Committee on Science and
Technology and the ISBA Committee on Legal
Education, and has served the Illinois Judicial
Conference in the areas of chancery and
miscellaneous remedies, probate, and family law.
Professor Nye joined the faculty in 1962. He
teaches Agency and Partnership, Business
Franchise Law (3 courses), Contracts I and II,
Illinois Civil Procedure, and Remedies.
Prior to joining the John Marshall faculty,
Professor Olken practiced business law with a
small Boston law firm. He also served as a
litigation associate with large firms in Los
Angeles and New Jersey. Professor Olken’s
primary research interests are constitutional
history and judicial biography. He has written
articles about Chief Justices John Marshall and
Charles Evans Hughes, and most recently,
Associate Justice George Sutherland. In
addition, Professor Olken has written extensively
about the New Deal Court, nineteenth- and
early twentieth-century economic regulation,
judicial review, and the First Amendment. In
1991, the Supreme Court Historical Society
awarded him its prestigious Hughes-Gossett
Prize for outstanding historical scholarship.
Professor Olken was the chair of the
“Symposium on Chief Justice John Marshall and
the United States Supreme Court: 1801-1835,”
hosted April 2000 by the law school. He was
chair of the fall 2003 symposium, “Marbury v.
Madison and Judicial Review: Legitimacy,
Tyranny, and Democracy.” Professor Olken
joined the faculty in 1989. He teaches American
Legal History, Constitutional Law I and II, and
Lawyering Skills.
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Timothy P. O’Neill
J. Damian Ortiz
Randall T. Peterson
Professor
Clinical Professor
Associate Professor
B.S., Loyola University of Chicago
J.D., LL.M., The John Marshall
Law School
B.A., Brigham Young University
M.L.S., Brigham Young University
J.D., University of Utah
Prior to joining the John Marshall faculty, Tim
O’Neill was an assistant public defender with the
Cook County Public Defender’s Office. His
scholarship was instrumental in Illinois’ decision
to adopt a system of degrees of murder in 1987.
In 1989, the Illinois Supreme Court appointed
Professor O’Neill to the position of reporter to
the Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions in
Criminal Cases; during the 11 years he served in
that position he helped produce both the third
and fourth editions. He co-authored (along with
Professor Susan L. Brody) the revision to the
Illinois Supreme Court Rules that first mandated
the use of standards of review in all appellate
briefs. His law review and journal articles have
been cited in more than 30 Illinois Supreme
Court and Appellate Court decisions. Professor
O’Neill’s op-ed articles on national legal issues
have appeared in the New York Times and the
Chicago Tribune. Since 1994, he has written a
by-lined monthly column on criminal law issues
for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. Chicago
Lawyer magazine recently included him on its
list of “10 of the Best Law Professors in
Illinois.” Professor O’Neill joined the faculty in
1982. He teaches Criminal Procedure I and II.
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Damian Ortiz, a double alumnus, is a professor
of fair housing law at The John Marshall Law
School Fair Housing Legal Clinic, where he
supervises law student interns in handling
housing discrimination cases. Professor Ortiz
lectures locally and nationally about fair housing
laws and related issues. Over the past several
years, he has participated in training
investigators with the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development. He also
supervises the Fair Housing Legal Clinic’s
outreach program, where he and his students
travel to Chicago area community groups and
civil rights organizations to assist with fair
housing discrimination claims. His community
activities include serving on the boards of nonprofit housing organizations, participating in
local housing events, lecturing on tenant rights,
home buyer rights, and lending rights, and
attending national forums on anti-discrimination
housing policies that help raise the level of
awareness of housing and related discrimination
issues. Professor Ortiz recently argued a case in
the Illinois Court of Appeals involving
discrimination based on a person’s source of
income. He argued that Section 8, a federal
housing assistance program, is covered under the
City of Chicago’s Housing Ordinance as a lawful
source of income.
Randy Peterson helped establish the J. Reuben
Clark Law School at Brigham Young University
before coming to The John Marshall Law
School in 1977. He served as director of library
services at John Marshall for 13 years, expanding
the library to its present five floors. He also
supervised the merger of the Chicago Bar
Association’s library into The John Marshall Law
School library in 1990. Professor Peterson began
teaching full time at John Marshall in 1990. He
currently teaches Alternative Means of Dispute
Resolution, Counseling and Negotiation, and
Remedies. He has coached numerous client
counseling teams and negotiation teams. He
directed John Marshall’s hosting of the 1999
International Client Counseling Competition.
In recent years, Professor Peterson has regularly
judged both the International Negotiation
Competition and the International Client
Counseling Competition in various locations,
such as Bristol, England; Glasgow, Scotland;
Dunedin, New Zealand; Calgary, Canada; and
Durban, South Africa. Professor Peterson is a
member of several AALS and ABA sections.
He has taught law library courses at Dominican
University. Professor Peterson’s community
service includes a variety of church leadership
activities and service on the executive board
of the Three Fires Council of the Boy Scouts
of America.
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Michael J. Polelle
Ralph Ruebner
John H. Scheid
Professor
Professor
Professor
A.B., with honors, Loyola University
B.A., University of Illinois
J.D., American University, Washington
College of Law
A.B., Loyola University
J.D., Harvard University
LL.M., with honors, The John Marshall
Law School
When Professor Ruebner joined the John
Marshall faculty in 1981, he brought with him
12 years of experience as an appellate litigator,
heading the Elgin and Chicago offices of the
State Appellate Defender and representing
indigent criminal defendants at all levels of
appellate review. He has represented victims of
government abuse in a number of countries,
including the former Soviet Union and Peru.
Professor Ruebner has published articles and
presented papers at various international
conferences on human rights topics, and has
testified before Congress on human rights
conditions in Peru. From 2001–2003, he served
as legal director of the Law Consortium for
Palestinian Legal Education, a Rule of Law
Project of U.S. A.I.D. In that capacity, he also
visited Palestinian law schools in the West Bank.
He has drafted legislation in Illinois, making it
the first state to criminalize international
terrorism. He is the author of Illinois Criminal
Trial Evidence and Illinois Criminal Procedure,
and co-author of Illinois Decisions on Search and
Seizure. Professor Ruebner has served as a
faculty member of the National Academy for
Judicial Education and as a reporter of judicial
conferences in Illinois. He founded John
Marshall’s Criminal Justice Clinic and served as
its director for four years, served as Moot Court
director for 16 years, and was the law school’s
Centennial Planning Committee chairperson.
He teaches Criminal Procedure, Evidence, and
International Human Rights.
Prior to attending Harvard Law School, Michael
Polelle studied comparative law and political
science for a year on a Fulbright Scholarship at
the University of Christian-Albrecht University
in Kiel, Germany. He became a civil trial lawyer
with Herbert L. Caplan & Associates while
earning an LL.M. in general practice from The
John Marshall Law School. Subsequently, he has
achieved a second LL.M.from John Marshall, in
intellectual property. Professor Polelle created
and directed an annual Media Law Symposium
at the law school for 13 years. He is a professorreporter with the Illinois Judicial Conference as
well as a special commissioner for the United
States District Court. He is an arbitrator for the
Cook County Mandatory Arbitration Program
and for the American Arbitration Association, as
well as a court-certified mediator. In 1999, he
organized a summer comparative law course
centered in Parma, Italy. He is the co-author of
Illinois Tort Law. Previously at DePaul
University College of Law, Professor Polelle
joined the John Marshall faculty in 1975. He
was appointed director of the Braun Lecture for
2001 and received the 2001 Distinguished
Service Award from the law school’s alumni
association. He was a lecturer at the 2006
Illinois Appellate Defender Conference. He
teaches Evidence, Torts, and Civil Rights.
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Upon his graduation from law school, John H.
Scheid practiced in the offices of Louis G.
Davidson and, later, in the offices of Herbert L.
Caplan, concentrating in trial and appellate
practice. He was a member of John Marshall’s
adjunct faculty from 1965–1967, and joined the
faculty full time in 1967. He began the law
school’s National Moot Court Competition and
the intramural moot court program, now known
as the Herzog Competition. In 1995, Professor
Scheid initiated an exchange program of visiting
scholars with Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
He lectures throughout the year to new lawyers
on various aspects of residential real estate
transactions, and every other year he travels
to Ireland, where he lectures on American
medical malpractice law to Irish physicians and
barristers at Trinity Law School. He recently
participated in an intercontinental (Africa,
Europe, America) seminar on current medical
malpractice issues. His article, “Down
Labyrinthine Ways: A Recording Acts Guide for
First Year Law Students,” appeared in the
University of Detroit Mercy Law Review in 2002.
Professor Scheid teaches Philosophy of Law,
Real Estate Transactions, and Torts.
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David L. Schwartz
Glenn P. Schwartz
Justin K. Schwartz
Assistant Professor
Professor
Visiting Professor
B.S., with high distinction, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.A., Shimer College
A.B., cum laude, Princeton University
J.D., cum laude, University of Michigan
Law School
LL.M., The John Marshall Law School
M.Phil., with honors, Cambridge
University
Following law school, where he was a
contributing editor to the University of Michigan
Law Review, David Schwartz was an associate
with the Chicago law firm Jenner & Block,
focusing on intellectual property law. Most
recently, Professor Schwartz was a partner at
Wallenstein & Wagner in Chicago, an
intellectual property boutique law firm. As a
practitioner, Professor Schwartz focused on the
areas of patent, copyright, trademark and trade
secrets litigation, patent and trademark
prosecution, and intellectual property-related
transactions. He is registered to practice before
the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Professor
Schwartz has published articles and spoken at
conferences on a wide variety of intellectual
property topics. He is an active member of the
Intellectual Property Law Association of
Chicago and recently served as the chair of its
Biotechnology Committee. Recently, Professor
Schwartz has been an adjunct professor at the
University of Illinois Law School, where he
taught advanced patent law. Professor Schwartz
joined the John Marshall faculty in 2006.
He teaches IP Survey, Patent and Trade Secret
Law, Intellectual Property Litigation, and Patent
Planning and Drafting.
Glenn Schwartz has always appreciated the
liberal arts education he received at Shimer
College. Among other things, it allows him to
assure his students that such a background is not
a barrier to succeeding in business-related law
courses. After graduating from law school,
Professor Schwartz worked for the Chicago law
firm of Katz and Friedman, attending John
Marshall at night to obtain an LL.M. in
Admiralty Law (with a minor in taxation).
Thereafter, he spent three years in the Office
of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy,
handling maritime law claims for and against the
Navy. He then practiced with Lord, Bissell and
Brook before entering the teaching profession.
Professor Schwartz has argued pro bono before
the United States Supreme Court and engaged
in pro bono activities for the National Association
of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
(ANAD), as well as serving on the Legislative
Submissions Subcommittee of the American Bar
Association Committee on Taxation. His artice,
“How Many Trades Must a Trader Make to Be
in the Trading Business?” was the lead article in
the Winter 2003 volume of the University of
Virginia Tax Review. Professor Schwartz joined
the faculty in 1974. He teaches Business
Planning, Corporate Tax, Corporations, Federal
Income Tax, and Torts.
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M.A., University of Michigan
Ph.D., University of Michigan
J.D., Order of the Coif, Ohio State
University Moritz College of Law
Prior to attending law school, Justin Schwartz
taught Philosophy at Kalamazoo College and
Ohio State University. While pursuing his J.D.
degree, he was articles editor for the Ohio State
Law Journal and received numerous honors.
After graduating third in his class, Professor
Schwartz was a law clerk for the late Hon.
Walter J. Cummings and Hon. Ilana Diamond
Rovner, both with the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Seventh Circuit. From 1999 through 2002,
he was a law clerk for Hon. Elaine E. Bucklo
with the U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of Illinois. Professor Schwartz has been a
litigation associate with the Chicago firms Jones
Day and Kirkland & Ellis. He has lectured
extensively and published widely, and his article
in Legal Studies, “Relativism, Reflective
Equilibrium, and Justice,” received the 1999
Berger Prize in Philosophy of Law from the
American Philosophical Association. For the
2006–2007 academic year, Professor Schwartz
will teach Civil Procedure II and offer a seminar
on white-collar crime.
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Robert G. Schwemm
Michael P. Seng
Ronald C. Smith
Visiting Professor
Professor
Professor
B.A., Amherst College
B.A., University of Notre Dame
B.S., Loyola University
J.D., University of Notre Dame
Bob Schwemm is the Ashland Professor of Law
at the University of Kentucky College of Law,
where he served as acting dean in 1998–99.
Prior to joining academia, Professor Schwemm
practiced law with Sidley & Austin in
Washington, D.C., and was chief trial counsel
for the Leadership Council for Metropolitan
Open Communities in Chicago. He was vice
chair of the Kentucky Commission on Human
Rights from 1986 to 1990, and in 1991 he
served as a special attorney and scholar in
residence with the Civil Rights Division of the
U.S. Department of Justice. From 1998 to
2000, Professor Schwemm was a member of the
Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal
Reserve Board. His litigation experience includes
three cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, the
most recent of which (Meyer v. Holley) was
decided in 2003. Professor Schwemm is the
author of a major treatise, Housing
Discrimination: Law and Litigation, and has
published articles in the Harvard Civil
Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review, Iowa Law
Review, Notre Dame Law Review, George
Washington Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review,
and Yale Law & Policy Review. Professor
Schwemm, a native of Chicago, will be a visiting
professor at John Marshall for the spring 2007
semester, teaching Civil Procedure I and II.
Professor Seng is the co-executive director of
The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing
Legal Support Center and Fair Housing Legal
Clinic. He lectures nationally and publishes
extensively on fair housing law. Professor Seng
also is the coordinator of The John Marshall
Law School’s Czech law program. He travels
annually to the Czech Republic to teach, and
publishes articles, in English and in Czech, in
Czech law journals. Prior to joining the John
Marshall faculty, Professor Seng served as a
judicial law clerk, was in private practice, and
directed the legal services office in Cairo,
Illinois. Professor Seng served as a Fulbright
professor in Nigeria in 1983–84 and as a visiting
professor in the Czech Republic in 1996. He
writes on civil rights issues. Professor Seng
joined the faculty in 1976. He teaches Global
Legal Systems, Constitutional Law I and II,
Federal Courts, National Security Law,
Predatory Lending, and Public Law Litigation.
Before joining the John Marshall faculty in
1968, Ron Smith taught Speech at Loyola
University, served as a U.S. Naval aviator,
clerked for Justice John V. McCormick of the
Illinois Appellate Court, and was staff counsel
for Santa Fe Railway. He was elected to the
1970 Illinois Constitutional Convention, where
he served on the Executive Article Committee
and the Official Explanation Committee. In
1972, the Governor of Illinois appointed him to
the Governor’s Transitional Task Force, and
thereafter to the Illinois Board of Ethics (1972
to 1976). He has written articles on criminal law
and Illinois constitutional law. He is the director
of the National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy
Competition, co-sponsored by John Marshall
and the ABA Criminal Justice Section. In 1995,
the ABA Criminal Justice Section honored
Professor Smith and The John Marshall Law
School for “outstanding service to the American
Bar Association.” The ABA recognized the
Competition as the Best ABA Program for
1998. Professor Smith was elected chair of the
ABA’s Criminal Justice Section for 2001–2002;
during his term he wrote several articles for
Criminal Justice Magazine and initiated the first
ABA Cybercrime Conference. He served as an
assistant state’s attorney of Cook County and as
a hearing officer for the Illinois Civil Service
Commission. A member of Blue Key National
Honor Society, he is also listed in Who’s Who in
America and Who’s Who in the World. He
teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and
Federal Criminal Law.
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David E. Sorkin
Julie Spanbauer
Debra Pogrund Stark
Associate Professor
Professor
Professor
B.A., with distinction, Indiana
University, Phi Beta Kappa
B.S., cum laude, University of
Wisconsin–Oshkosh
B.A., summa cum laude, Brandeis
University, Phi Beta Kappa
B.S. Bus., with high distinction,
Indiana University, Beta Gamma Sigma
J.D., Valparaiso University
J.D., cum laude, Northwestern
University
LL.M., Northwestern University
M.L.S., Indiana University
Julie Spanbauer served as a law clerk for Hon.
Andrew P. Rodovich, United States Magistrate
Judge, and Hon. James T. Moody, United States
District Court Judge, after graduating from law
school. Since joining the John Marshall faculty
in 1990, she has published numerous articles in
the areas of employment discrimination,
constitutional law, and women’s issues. She also
writes a monthly online column on employment
law issues. Professor Spanbauer has organized
and moderated diverse conferences involving
discrimination issues. She has lectured at Trinity
College in Ireland and in China. Professor
Spanbauer has served as program director for
two programs, sponsored by the International
Law Institute in Washington, D.C., that prepare
international LL.M. students to enter law
schools in the U.S. She has also served on the
board of directors of the Friends of Battered
Women and Their Children, which provides
counseling, advocacy, and education services.
Professor Spanbauer directs the special
admissions program at John Marshall, the
Summer College for Assessing Legal Education
Skills (SCALES). She teaches Employment
Discrimination, Contracts I and II, and
Lawyering Skills.
J.D., cum laude, Harvard University
David Sorkin joined the John Marshall faculty
in 1991. He teaches in the areas of Information
Technology and Privacy Law, Consumer
Protection, and Lawyering Skills. Previously,
Professor Sorkin clerked for a state appellate
judge in Indiana and taught at Indiana
University School of Law–Indianapolis. He has
been a visiting scholar at the Center for Research
and Education in Information Assurance and
Security at Purdue University. He has taught
courses in privacy and cyber law at Southern
Cross University in Australia. Professor Sorkin
serves on the National Arbitration Forum
National Panel of Arbitrators and the advisory
board of the Center for Asia Pacific Technology
Law & Policy at Nanyang Technological
University (Singapore). He has written and
spoken widely about Internet policy, privacy, and
consumer protection issues. He is a leading
expert on spam e-mail, and created the first law
school course on spam. He also is active as an
arbitrator for consumer credit and Internet
domain name disputes.
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A nationally recognized authority on real estate
law, Debra Stark has participated in numerous
bar association, college, and law school
programs, and has been an active leader within
the ABA. She has published more than a dozen
articles on real estate law topics, including an
empirical study of foreclosures published by the
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
and a model mortgage counseling intervention
law to combat predatory lending in the Harvard
Blackletter Law Journal. Professor Stark has
authored and edited three real estate-related
books published by the ABA as well as two
textbooks, Commercial Real Estate Transactions:
A Project and Skills Based Approach and
Residential Real Estate Law: A Transactional
Skills Analysis. After eight years in private
practice with Katten Muchin, Professor Stark
joined the faculty in 1994 and helped create
John Marshall’s LL.M. Program in Real Estate
Law. She created the John Marshall Chapter of
Habitat for Humanity and serves as its faculty
advisor. Professor Stark is also a member of the
board of directors of the Lawyer’s Committee
for Better Housing and enjoys working with
students on pro bono legal matters for both
organizations. Professor Stark teaches Property,
Real Estate Transactions, Commercial Real
Estate, Predatory Lending Law, and Family Law.
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Paul Wangerin
Mark E. Wojcik
Associate Professor
Anthony S. Zito, Jr.
Professor and
Director of Global Legal Studies
Professor
A.B., University of Missouri
B.A., cum laude, Bradley University
J.D., Case Western Reserve University
J.D., cum laude, The John Marshall
Law School
LL.M., Case Western Reserve
University
Paul Wangerin graduated from The John
Marshall Law School in 1978, after attending
school as an evening student. He then served as
law clerk to the Honorable Howard Ryan of the
Illinois Supreme Court and as an associate
attorney at Winston & Strawn, Chicago’s oldest
law firm and one of its largest. Professor
Wangerin publishes and speaks at conferences on
both substantive law and professional education
issues. His recent articles have appeared in the
Stanford Agora Electronic Law Review (2002)
and the Journal of Legal Education (2001,
2003). Professor Wangerin joined the faculty in
1982 and teaches courses on Commercial Law,
Remedies, and Administrative Law.
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A.B., Case Western Reserve University
Professor Wojcik was an editor on the John
Marshall Law Review and competitor in
international law moot court competitions.
After graduation, he clerked for judges on the
Nebraska Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of
International Trade. He practiced customs and
international trade law in New York and served
as court counsel for the Supreme Court of the
Republic of Palau. Professor Wojcik has taught
and lectured in 11 foreign countries. He holds
leadership roles in numerous legal organizations
and associations. The Chicago Bar Foundation
presented him with awards for outstanding
service to the legal profession and for pro bono
service. He is the author and co-author of
numerous law review articles, book chapters, and
books, including the first casebook on AIDS
Law, the first legal writing text for non-native
speakers of English, and Illinois Legal Research.
Professor Wojcik joined the faculty in 1992 and
became director of global legal studies in 2004.
He teaches Lawyering Skills, International
Criminal Law, International Human Rights,
International Trade Law, Torts, International
Law, Human Rights in a Changing Society, and
Civil Procedure II.
Professor Zito was associated with law firms in
Cleveland and Cincinnati and taught at Dyke
College in Cleveland and at Northern Kentucky
University Law School before joining the John
Marshall faculty. He has written articles in the
areas of administrative law, family law, legal
ethics, and trade regulation. Professor Zito has
been a guest speaker and panelist at numerous
law-related programs, including the Circuit
Court of Cook County’s DUI Symposium,
“Developing a Systematic Approach to the
Multiple DUI Offender,” and the League of
Women Voters’ “Family Law and Divorce
Problems—Illinois Style.” Professor Zito joined
the faculty in 1974. He teaches Corporations,
Family Law, and Professional Responsibility.
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Faculty Emeriti
Claude E. Carr
Michael L. Closen
Peter J. McGovern
Craig A. Peterson
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
B.S.L., Northwestern
University
B.S., Bradley University
A.B., University of Notre Dame
B.A., Cornell University
M.A., Bradley University
LL.B., Northwestern
University
J.D., University of Illinois
Ed.D., University of South
Dakota
J.D., Fordham University
Professor Peterson practiced law in
the military and with Lord, Bissell &
Brook before entering the teaching
profession. He has published and
lectured widely in the United States
and abroad, especially on land use
matters; most recently he has given
speeches at the University of Florida
and in Geneva, Switzerland, and
Chamonix, France. In 1997, he was
selected by the Foundation for
Environmental Conservation
(Switzerland) for inclusion in World
Who’s Who and Does What in
Environment and Conservation
(London, 1997). Professor Peterson
joined the faculty in 1975 and
became professor emeritus in 2004.
He taught Business Planning and
Drafting, Corporations, Land Use
Control, and Torts I.
Professor Carr was associated with
the Chicago law firm of MacLeish,
Spray, Price and Underwood and
was the legal officer of the trust
department at the National
Boulevard Bank of Chicago.
Professor Carr joined the John
Marshall faculty in 1967 and was
named professor emeritus in 1999.
He taught Property I and II,
Estates & Trusts, and Taxation of
Estates and Trusts.
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After law school, Michael Closen taught
in the College of Law and the Speech
Communication Department of the
University of Illinois. He next served as
judicial clerk to the Illinois Appellate
Court, and later prosecuted appellate
cases as an assistant state’s attorney in
Chicago. After joining the John
Marshall faculty, Professor Closen
taught as a visiting or adjunct professor
at the law schools of the University of
Arkansas, Loyola University, Northern
Illinois University, and St. Thomas
University. He has made legal
presentations in Canada, Mexico, Israel,
France, Germany, Italy, Holland, and
throughout the United States. He is
one of the few law professors to coauthor four law school casebooks on
four different subjects: notaries public
(1997), contracts (1998), agencypartnership (2000), and AIDS and law
policy (2001). Professor Closen has
written nearly 40 law review articles and
published more than 100 other papers,
appellate briefs, chapters, and books.
He writes bar examination questions for
three states and teaches the BAR/BRI
bar review course in about 10 other
states. The students voted Professor
Closen “Professor of the Year” six
times. Professor Closen joined the
faculty in 1976 and became professor
emeritus in 2003. He taught AIDS and
the Law, Agency and Unincorporated
Businesses, Contracts, and Notary Law.
Peter McGovern began teaching in
legal education in 1972. He served as
acting dean at the University of South
Dakota School of Law and was dean
at Valparaiso University School of
Law and at St. Thomas University
School of Law. Professor McGovern
joined The John Marshall Law School
community in 1987 as dean and
professor of law. In 2000, he became
director of the Center for
International Business and Trade Law.
Professor McGovern is active in the
Section on Legal Education and
Admissions to the Bar of the
American Bar Association, participates
in accreditation inspections of
American law schools, and was chair
of the Continuing Legal Education
Committee of the Senior Lawyers
Division of the American Bar
Association. Professor McGovern is
the past president of the National
Anti-Vivisection Society. In 1995, he
served as a visiting scholar at the new
Notre Dame University in
Freemantle, Western Australia, and
was a visiting professor at the
University of Tasmania School of Law
in Hobart, Tasmania, in 2002. Also in
2002, he was a judge/arbitrator at
the Vis International Commercial
Arbitration Moot Court Competition
in Vienna, Austria. Professor
McGovern became professor emeritus
in 2005. He taught Elder Law,
Estates and Trusts, International
Commercial Dispute Resolution, and
Transnational Negotiations.
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Faculty Emeriti
Arthur J. Sabin
Leonard Jay
Schrager
George B. Trubow
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
B.A., Roosevelt University
B.S., Northwestern University
B.A., University of Michigan
M.A., Northwestern
University
J.D., The John Marshall Law
School
Professor Schrager began teaching at
John Marshall in 1963 as a member
of the adjunct faculty. Prior to joining
the full-time faculty in 1980, he was
engaged in private practice for
approximately 20 years with the firm
now known as Sachnoff & Weaver,
where he was the managing partner
and a name partner specializing in
business law, taxation, and estate
planning. Professor Schrager served
as dean of The John Marshall Law
School from 1983–1987. He is active
in the field of Alternative Dispute
Resolution and is a highly respected
mediator and arbitrator in
commercial disputes. In 1998,
Professor Schrager became president
of the Chicago Bar Association, the
largest metropolitan bar association in
the country. He was the first
academician to hold that office in the
125-year history of the association.
Currently president of the Center for
Conflict Resolution, Professor
Schrager continues to serve on the
boards of Coordinated Advice and
Referral Program for Legal Services
and the Chicago Bar Foundation
Fellows. He also is a past president of
the Chicago Bar Foundation.
Professor Schrager became professor
emeritus in 2004. He taught
Contracts I and II and Counseling
and Negotiation.
After law school, George Trubow
practiced in Kansas and Missouri,
doing trial and appellate work. He
joined the John Marshall faculty in
1961 as an assistant professor. In
1965, he was awarded a congressional
fellowship by the American Political
Science Association to study the U.S.
Congress, and in 1966 was appointed
deputy counsel to the US Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee on Judicial
Machinery. In 1968, he became the
first executive director of the
Maryland Governor’s Commission on
the Administration of Justice, and, in
1970, he joined the U.S. Department
of Justice, serving as director for
planning in the Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration. In 1974,
he was appointed general counsel to
the Committee on the Right to
Privacy, Executive Office of the
President. Professor Trubow returned
to John Marshall two years later and,
in 1983, established the Center for
Information Technology and Privacy
Law. He serves on several national
advisory boards, and has written and
spoken widely on questions of privacy,
information law, and global digital
communications networks. Professor
Trubow was named professor emeritus
in 2001. He taught Cyberspace Law,
Information Law and Policy, and
Privacy.
Before coming to John Marshall,
Professor Sabin was professor of
history at Northeastern Illinois
University. He also served as a
member of John Marshall’s adjunct
faculty from 1959 through 1966, as
general counsel for a multistate
concern, and was in private practice.
Professor Sabin has published four
books, including Red Scare in Court
and In Calmer Times: The Supreme
Court and Red Monday. His fifth
book will be From the Daily Worker
to the Daily Tribune: Political
Cartoonists Draw the Red Scare and
the Supreme Court. He has also
published numerous articles on a
variety of law and law-related topics.
He has delivered papers before the
American Society for Legal History
at the Yale University Law School
and the Economic and Business
Historical Society sponsored by
Vanderbilt University. Professor
Sabin joined the faculty in 1972 and
became professor emeritus in 2004.
He taught History of the American
Legal System, Products Liability, and
Torts II.
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Adjunct Faculty
* Indicates adjunct faculty teaching in current semester.
Advocacy & Dispute
Resolution
Paula H. Holderman
Winston & Strawn
Ted G. Karavidas*
Karavidas & Agonis Law
Office
Robert J. Adelman*
Levin Ribeck Law Group
Matthew R. Bettenhausen
Assistant U.S. Attorney and
Deputy Chief, Office of the State
Local Government Coordination
U.S. Department of Homeland
Security
Susan Bogart*
Attorney at Law
Hon. Edward Burr (Ret.)
Circuit Court of Cook County
Richard M. Calkins
Calkins Law Firm
Des Moines, Iowa
Kimellen Chamberlain*
Assistant State’s Attorney
Matthew C. Crowl
Deputy Chief of Staff
Chicago Mayor’s Office
Dean J. Polales*
Ungaretti & Harris
Anne Pachciarek
DLA Piper US LLP
Constantine D. Kasson
Bullwinkel Partners, Ltd.
Hon. William R. Quinlan
(Ret.)
Quinlan and Carroll, Ltd.
Gregory Stull*
Office of Chief Counsel, IRS
Patrick J. Kelly*
Hon. Robert J. Quinn*
John F. Kennedy*
Shefsky & Froelich Ltd.
Erica Reddick*
Assistant Public Defender
Hon. Charles P. Kocoras*
U.S. District Court
Northern District of Illinois
Patrick J. Rocks Jr.*
General Counsel
Chicago Public Schools
Hon. Joan Humphrey Lefko
U.S. District Court
Elizabeth Simon*
Employee Relations Manager
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare
Hon. Paul C. Lillios
Regional Chief Administrative
Law Judge, Social Security
Administration
Anthony J. Thomas*
Terence F. MacCarthy
Director, Federal Public
Defender Program
Hon. John Darrah*
U.S. District Court
Hon. Benjamin S. Mackoff
(Ret.)
Schiller, DuCanto & Fleck
Anna H. Demacopoulos
Susann MacLachlan*
The John Marshall Law School
Thomas K. Donahue
Helen Morrison
Deloitte
Susan Nash
McDermott Will & Emery
John T. Karnezis
Clifford Law Offices
Dawn Bode*
Special Assistant Corporation
Counsel, City of Chicago
Steven Lifson*
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Hon. Paul E. Plunkett*
United States District Court
Hon. Themis N. Karnezis
Illinois Appellate Court
Joseph G. Bisceglia
Jenner & Block
Victoria Peters*
Assistant U.S. Attorney and
Associate Chief, Criminal
Division
George M. Velcich*
Belgrade and O’Donnell
Hon. Richard Walsh*
Employee Benefits
Richard Ashley III
DLA Piper US LLP
Katharine Blumenthal
Attorney at Law
Kelli Toronyi
DLA Piper US LLP
David Weiner
Office of Chief Counsel, IRS
Brian Wydajewski
Baker & McKenzie
Fair Housing
Lewis Powell III
Edward Voci
Leadership Council for
Metropolitan Open
Communities
Global
Legal Studies
Juli Campagna
Attorney at Law
David Gordon
U.S. Small Business
Administration
Hon. Deborah Dooling*
Kenneth A. Malatesta*
Managing Attorney
Chicago Department of
Administrative Hearings
John Eannace*
Attorney at Law
Christopher Markey*
Kane & Carbonarra
Nancy DeBruin
McDonald’s Corporation
Roseanne J. Faraci*
Maria C. McCarthy*
Assistant State's Attorney
Brian Donohue*
CCA Strategies LLC
Hon. Lawrence E. Flood
Sherri Mecklenburg
General Counsel to the Chicago
Superintendent of Police
Durwood “James” Gehring*
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Information
Technology & Privacy
Lisa Goyer
DLA Piper US LLP
Richard C. Balough
Lawrence Grudzien*
Attorney at Law
Michael P. Brownell
Accenture LLP
Laura Beth Miller*
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Leone
Linda Hoseman
Winston & Strawn LLP
Scott A. Carlson
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Hon. Sheila M. Murphy
Rothschild, Barry & Myers
Sally King
McGuireWoods LLP
Keith G. Chval*
Connolly Ekl & Williams PC
Hon. Charles R. Norgle*
Ian Kopelman
DLA Piper US LLP
Denise M. DeMory
Law Office of Denise M. DeMory
Lance Northcutt*
Barry Kozak*
Chicago Consulting Actuaries
LLC
Todd H. Flaming
Schopf & Weiss
Hon. Michael J. Gallagher*
Hon. Michael M. Mihm*
Central District of Illinois
Hon. Ronald A. Guzman
Hon. William Haddad
Hon. Arthur Hill*
Hon. James F. Holderman
Chief Judge, U.S. District
Court, Northern District of
Illinois
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Mark DeBofsky*
Daley DeBofsky & Bryant
Robert A. Kezelis
Of Counsel
Jay M. Krames
Price Waterhouse Coopers
Gary A. Marek
Clausen Miller PC
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Adjunct Faculty
Lawrence M. Friedman
Barnes, Richardson & Colburn
Steven M. Wernikoff
Federal Trade Commission
David A. Haas
InteCap, Inc.
Mark L. Gordon
Gordon & Glickson LLC
Elaine Zacharakis*
Attorney at Law
R. Mark Halligan
Welsh and Katz, Ltd.
Robert S. Gurwin
America Online, Inc.
Larry M. Zanger
McBride, Baker & Coles
Eldon Ham
Attorney at Law
David P. Haslett
High Tech Crimes Bureau,
Office of Attorney General
Patrick E. Zeller
Guidance Software, Inc.
Robert P. Hart
Harmon International
William E. Hornsby Jr.
American Bar Association
Intellectual
Property
Roger M. Huff
Law Offices of Roger M. Huff
Meredith Martin Addy
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione
Gerald L. Jenkins
Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black,
Rosenbloom & Moritz
Vicki Elaine Allums
Attorney at Law
Anne C. Keays
Schwartz & Freeman
Gregg Kirchhoefer
Kirkland & Ellis
Robert Kleeman*
Attorney at Law
Samuel G. Kramer
Baker & McKenzie
John J. Lanigan
Law Office of John J. Lanigan
David W. Maher
Sonnenschein Nath and
Rosenthal
William T. McGrath*
Davis & McGrath
Michael S. Mensik
Baker & McKenzie
Cory Aronovitz
Casino Law Group
Robert M. Barrett
Bell Boyd & Lloyd
Dr. Gerd F. Kunze
Germany
Beverly A. Berneman
Querrey & Harrow
Michael Lufrano
Vice President &
General Counsel, Chicago Cubs
John Bostjancich
Smart & Bostjancich
Mary K. Braza
Foley & Lardner LLP
David J. Bremer*
Sabre Technical Services Corp.
David C. Brezina
Barnes & Thornburg
Stacy Chronopoulos
William Wrigley Jr. Co.
Matthew M. Neumeier*
Jenner & Block
Loletta L. Darden
Sachnoff & Weaver
Matthew B. Prince*
UNSPAM LLC
Jeffery M. Duncan*
G. Darryl Reed
Sidley & Austin
Vangelis Economou
Attorney at Law
Leslie Ann Reis
Ted L. Field
Banner & Witcoff Ltd.
L. Anita Richardson*
Attorney at Law
Daniel D. Frohling
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Elissa Silverman
SignalTree Solutions
Beth A. Fulkerson
Attorney at Law
Thomas J. Smedinghoff
Baker & McKenzie
Dr. Lulin Gao
People’s Republic of China
Yvonne Sor
Ashenden & Sor
Jerry W. Glover
Entertainment & Intellectual
Property Group LLC
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Jonathan Jennings
Pattishall, McAuliffe,
Newbury, Hilliard &
Geraldson
Salvador K. Karottki
Goldberg Kohn Bell Black
Rosenbloom & Moritz Ltd.
Jeffrey M. Cross
Freeborn & Peters
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Hon. James F. Holderman*
U.S. District Court, Northern
District of Illinois
Mark T. Banner
Banner & Witcoff
Charles Lee Mudd Jr.
Law Office of Charles Lee
Mudd Jr.
Liisa Thomas*
Winston & Strawn
Brent Hawkins
Christopher T. Griffith
Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
John Richards
Ladis & Perry
New York, NY
Howard B. Rockman*
Sachnoff & Weaver
E. Leonard Rubin*
Sachnoff & Weaver
Sanjiv D. Sarwate
Pattishall, McAuliffe,
Newbury, Hilliard and
Geraldson
Lisa A. Schneider
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood
Charles W. Shifley
Banner & Witcoff
Catherine Simmons-Gill*
Attorney at Law
Robert E. Sloat
Attorney at Law
Patti S. Smart
Smart & Bostjancich
Mary M. Squyres
William A. Streff Jr.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Nerissa Coyle McGinn
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Steven Weissman
Time, Inc.
William T. McGrath*
Davis McGrath
John M. White
Attorney at Law
Alejandro Menchaca
McAndrews Held and Malloy,
Ltd.
International
Business & Trade
Hon. Paul R. Michel
U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit
Michael P. Avramovich
Avramovich & Associates PC
Molly Mosley-Goren
Attorney at Law
Donna L. Bade
Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg,
LLC
Don Moyer
Patent Agent
Violeta I. Balan
Mayer Brown Rowe and Maw
K. Shannon Mrksich*
Gabrielle M. Buckley
Vedder, Price, Kaufman &
Kammholz
Lester Munson
Sports Illustrated
James P. Muraff
Wallenstein Wagner & Rockey
Kevin Noonan
McDonnell, Boehnen, Hulbert
& Berghoff
Kevin C. Parks
Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
Mark V.B. Partridge*
Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury,
Hilliard & Geraldson
Philip T. Petti
Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery
Michael B. Carsella
LaSalle Business Credit, Inc.
Stuart H. Deming
Deming PLLC
Washington, D.C., &
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Gianmario Demuro
Universita degli studi di
Cagliari
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Donald C. Dowling Jr.*
Proskauer Rose LLP
New York, NY
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Adjunct Faculty
Marianne Rowden
American Association of
Exporters and Importers
Washington, D.C.
Mark I. Dunaevsky
Avramovich & Associates PC
Arthur Fakes
Arthur Fakes PC
Sabine Schlemmer-Schulte
University of the Pacific
McGeorge School of Law
Terry Yale Feiertag
Mandel, Lipton and Stevenson
Ltd.
Michael A. Snyder
Snyder McGovern LLC
Andre R. Fiebig
Baker & McKenzie
Paul M. Storm (Ret.)
NautaDutilh
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Ralph H. Folsom
University of San Diego School
of Law
Lawrence M. Friedman*
Barnes, Richardson & Colburn
Howard L. Stovall
Law Offices of Howard L.
Stovall
Daniel Girsberger
Lucerne University
Lucerne, Switzerland
Donald J. Unger
Baker & McKenzie
Bruce Zagaris
Berliner Corcoran & Rowe
Washington, D.C.
David Gordon*
Special Assistant U.S. Attorney
U.S. Small Business Admin.
J.D. Program
Philip H. Hall*
Private Practice
Anita Alvarez
Bureau Chief, Special
Prosecutions, Cook County
State’s Attorney’s Office
John Hanna Jr.
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna
Albany, NY
Eric F. Hinton
Caterpillar, Inc.
Peoria, Illinois
Joseph Annunzio*
Village Attorney of Niles
Hugh B. Arnold
Arnold and Kadjan
John Scott Hoff
Hoff Collins & Cook
Michael Berendt*
Attorney at Law
Jay Krames
Price Waterhouse Coopers
Tammie G. Krauskopf
Bryan Cave
Dawn Bode*
Special Assistant Corporation
Counsel, City of Chicago
Christos Linardakis
Intercontinental Parts Inc.
Frederick H. Branding
Johnson and Bell Ltd.
Jung Y. Lowe
AmericAsia Global Law
Jerry D. Brown
McGaugh & Associates LLC
Ram T. Madaan
Madaan & Company
Jackie Campbell*
Chicago Police Department
Ramon M. Mullerat, OBE
KPMG
Barcelona, Spain
Lurene M. Contento*
N. Paul Coyle
Gardner Carton & Douglas
Brian L. Nelson
Executive in Residence
American University
Washington, D.C.
Jeffrey M. Cross
Freeborn & Peters
Lynne R. Ostfeld
Lynne R. Ostfeld PC
Joel Daly*
David O’Toole
Priscilla Dixon
Attorney at Law
Francesco Portolano
Portolano Colella Cavallo
Studio Legal
Rome, Italy
Jay L. Dolgin
Hochman Dolgin Delott
Galarnyk & Prohov
Bruce F. Dorn*
Bruce Farrell Dorn & Assocs.
Lynn S. Preece
Baker & McKenzie
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George T. Drost
Drost and Kivlahan, Ltd.
Corinne S. Morrissey*
Hon. David A. Erickson
First District, Third Division
James Muraff
Wallenstein & Wagner
Carl Evans Jr.*
Law Offices of Carl L. Evans Jr.
Hon. Lawrence Edward
Flood
Hon. Peter Flynn*
Chancery Division, Circuit
Court of Cook County
Hon. Thomas V. Gainer*
Marc D. Ginsberg*
Dykema Gossett PLLC
Danya A. Grunyk*
Attorney at Law
Jonathon Gulden
Cook County
Philip H. Hall*
Private Practice
Beth A. Henning
Attorney at Law
J. Erickson Heyke III
Winston & Strawn
John Scott Hoff
Hoff Collins & Cook
Michael J. Hriljac, D.P.M.*
Robbins Salomon & Patt, Ltd.
Bruce B. Jackson*
Anthony J. Madonia &
Associates, Ltd.
Michael J. Kasper*
Fletcher Topol & O’Brien, PC
Hon. Paul E. Plunkett*
Hon. Robert J. Quinn*
Erica Reddick*
E. Leonard Rubin
Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.
Michael Schlesinger*
Robbins Salomon & Patt, Ltd.
James A. Shapiro
Shapiro & Schwartz
Rory Dean Smith*
Michael A. Snyder
Conklin, Murphy, Conklin &
Snyder
Catherine L. Steege*
Jenner & Block
Julie A. Tappendorf
Holland & Knight LLP
Allen P. Walker*
Greene & Letts
Howard L. Ward*
Law Office of Howard L. Ward
Hon. William F. Ward Jr.
(Ret.)*
Michael Weissman*
Holland & Knight LLP
Lawyering Skills
Hal “Corky” Kessler
Funkhouser, Vegosen, Liebman,
& Dunn
Ann Hopkins Avery
International Association of
Defense Counsel
Hon. Arlander Keys*
U.S. District Court
Daniel L. Babetch
Scott, Halsted & Babetch, P.C.
Barry Kozak*
Chicago Consulting Actuaries
LLC
Fred B. Lifton*
Robbins Schwartz Nicholas
Lifton & Taylor, Ltd.
Anthony J. Madonia*
Anthony J. Madonia &
Associates, Ltd.
Christopher G. Markey*
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Hon. Clifford Meachum*
Cook County Circuit Court
Hugh S. Balsam
Lord, Bissell & Brook
Mary Wilson Barry*
Clerk to Hon. Bruce W. Black
Carl Bergetz*
Attorney General’s Office
Courtney S. Berlin
Attorney at Law
Tara Taylor Bernstein*
Attorney at Law
Lynn Hirschfeld Brahin
Attorney at Law
James R. Branit*
Bullaro & Carton, PC
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Adjunct Faculty
Heather L. Rysgaard
Brauckman
Hollister Bundy
Inclusion Solutions, LLC
Barbara A. Burke*
Assistant Corporation Counsel
City of Chicago
Danya A. Grunyk
Attorney at Law
Gregory M. Reiter*
Attorney at Law
Joanne Yasus
Clerk to Hon. James F. Smith
Kathleen M. Hermann
Chicago Transit Authority
Edward G. Renner
Nery & Muriel LLC
Gail Zwemke
Attorney at Law
Jeffrey M. Howard
Capital Case Coordinator
Cook County Public Defender’s
Office
Hon. L. Anita Richardson*
City of Chicago
Real Estate
Yolanda L. Ricks*
Assistant Attorney General
Brad L. Jansen
Chief Attorney, Law
Department
Chicago Transit Authority
William Anaya
Arnstein & Lehr
Barry M. Rosenbloom
Ottenheimer Teplinsky
Rosenbloom LLC
Michelle Bella*
Inka Partners
Robert Johnson
McDonald’s Corp.
Craig M. Sandberg
Coston, Fioretti & Lichtman
Tom Keefe*
Adam L. Saper
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Elizabeth M. Krepps*
Attorney at Law
Eugene Schiltz*
Robert F. Coleman & Associates
Paul D. Carman*
Chapman & Cutler
Alison C. Conlon
Wildman Harrold Allen &
Dixon LLP
Joan M. Kubalanza
Lowis & Gellen
Clifford Scott-Rudnick*
Suburban Bank & Trust
F. Willis Caruso
Fair Housing Legal Clinic
Karen A. Covy*
Attorney at Law
Andrew W. Lambertson
Office of the Attorney General
Brendan Shiller*
Shiller Rossiter & Company
Michelle Cue
Attorney at Law
David L. LaPorte*
Querrey & Harrow, Ltd.
Steven Shobat
Attorney at Law
David S. Chernoff*
John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation
Scott L. D’Angelo
McDonalds Corporation
Brandon K. Lemley
Querrey & Harrow, Ltd.
Deborah Jo Soehlig*
Fischel & Kahn Ltd.
Karen J. Dimond
William J. Lewis
Ungaretti & Harris
Steven Splitt*
Attorney Registration &
Disciplinary Committee
Alan S. Dorn
U.S. Department of Health &
Human Services
Frank Lipuma
Attorney at Law
Augusta Clarke*
DuPage County State’s Attorneys
Office
Matthew J. Cleveland
Hogan Marren & McCahill,
Ltd.
David M. Cole
Branch Chief
U.S. Securities & Exchange
Commission
Bruce F. Dorn
Bruce Farrell Dorn & Associates
Atonio P. Littleton*
SmithAmundsen LLC
Sandra Bowen
Attorney at Law
David Scott Carfello
NASD
Bernard I. Citron
Schain Burney Ross & Citron Ltd.
Diane Citron
Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw
Melanie Rovner Cohen
Quarles & Brady
Anna C. Stotis
Attorney at Law
Charles Edwards
DLA Piper US LLP
Denean K. Sturino
Fagel Haber LLC
Karen Ercoli
General Growth Properties Inc.
Claire Toomey Durkin*
Richard S. London*
Appellate Prosecutor
State’s Attorney’s Office
Michael J. Summerhill*
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Faye B. Feinstein
Quarles & Brady
Karen A. Enright
Winters Enright Salzetta &
O’Brien
James P. Manak*
Law Enforcement Legal
Publications
Gretchen E. Van Dam*
Library of the U.S. Courts
U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit
Christine M. Foh*
Motorola, Inc.
Carl L. Evans Jr.
Attorney at Law
Dan E. May*
Assistant U.S. Attorney
David W. Van de Burgt
Assistant Attorney General
Lester Finkle
Shelmerdeane A. Miller*
Attorney at Law
Robert C. Goldstein
New Trier Merchant Partners
LLC
Liza Franklin
City of Chicago
Mary T. Nagel*
Attorney at Law
Jason A. Freitag
Clerk, Illinois Supreme Court
Ellen J. O’Rourke*
Bruce Farrell Dorn & Associates
Guy D. Geleerd Jr.
Coughlin & Geleerd LLP
Eric M. Phillips*
Securities & Exchange
Commission
Patricia H. Gill
Attorney at Law
Steven Gilman
Clerk to Hon. Robert W.
Gettleman
Ava Gould
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission
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Elliot “Doc” Pollock
Attorney at Law
Tracie R. Porter
Attorney at Law
Ronald Rascia*
Office of the Attorney General
Jennifer R. Ward*
Revis & Ward LLC
Cheryl A. Warzynski
Dykema Gossett PLLC
Mark Weissburg
Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates
Steven M. Wernikoff
Jerry Wiener
Schain, Burney, Ross & Citron,
Ltd.
Jennifer Y. Wu
Board of Education
City of Chicago
Allan Goldberg
Arnstein and Lehr
Robert E. Gordon
Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw
Neil L. Goulden
GE Capital
James C. Hagy
Jones Day
Virginia M. Harding*
Gould and Ratner
Harold Hicks
Madigan & Getzendanner
Thomas C. Homburger
Bell Boyd & Lloyd
Janet M. Johnson
Schiff Hardin LLP
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Adjunct Faculty/Board of Visitors
Michael C. Kim
Michael C. Kim and Associates
Howard M. Richard
Katharine Blumenthal
Attorney at Law
Charles Harris*
Katten Muchin Rosenman
Jeffrey Kuta
Schiff Hardin LLP
Brian Shea
Nasharr & Shea LLC
Steven Brown
Martin Brown & Sullivan, Ltd.
Daniel Hartnett
Martin Brown & Sullivan, Ltd.
David P. Leibowitz
David P. Leibowitz, Esq.
Stanley P. Sklar
Bell Boyd & Lloyd
Harvey Lapin
Law Offices of Harvey Lapin
Raizel Liebler
Lorence Slutzky
Robbins Schwartz Nicholas
Lifton & Taylor Ltd.
Vincenzo Chimera*
Illinois Attorney General’s
Office
Reid A. Mandel
Nina B. Matis
Jeffrey Mayer*
Freeborn & Peters
Evan McKenzie
University of Illinois at Chicago
Margery Newman
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak
& Stewart PC
James Patrick O’Brien
Baker & McKenzie
Arthur Pape
The Pape Law Firm
Rory Dean Smith
Howard M. Turner
Gould and Ratner
Robert S. Vihon
Worsek and Vihon PC
Raymond J. Werner
Arnstein and Lehr
Theodore I. Yi
DLA Piper US LLP
Mark D. Yura
DLA Piper US LLP
will
Tax
Jordan Peters*
Freeborn & Peters
Ronald Bauer
BP America, Inc.
Donna J. Pughone
Foley & Lardner
David Berek*
Credit Suisse
Robin Rash
Inland Real Estate Group
David Blum
Levenfeld & Pearlstein LLC
Mark Cohen
Federal Law Enforcement
Officers’ Association
Frederick J. Czerwionka
Law Offices of
Frederick J. Czerwionka
Stephanie Denby
Burke Warren MacKay &
Serritella
Kerry Lavelle
Lavelle Legal Services, Ltd.
Michael Lee*
William Blair & Co. LLC
Jonathan Michael
Burke Warren MacKay and
Serritella
Anne Mudd
Law Offices of Anne Mudd
James Dickett*
Romanoff & Dickett Ltd.
Paul Faherty
Former Tax Program Director
Stacy Singer
Northern Trust
James Flaherty*
Robert Smyth*
Robert Smyth, Ltd.
John Foley*
Tatooles Foley and Associates
Cyndi Trostin
Marvin H. Glick & Associates
Donald Gottesman
Advocate Charitable
Foundation
Michael Tuchman*
Levenfeld & Pearlstein LLC
James Greene*
Law Offices of James Greene
Mary Ann Spangler Sisco
J.P. Morgan
Private Client Services
Brian Wolfberg
Illinois Department of Revenue
Board of Visitors
The Board of Visitors is a school advisory group
made up of distinguished practitioners, judges,
academicians, and business persons.
Philip Crihfield, Chair
Attorney at Law
Sidley and Austin, Chicago, Illinois
Chester Blair
Attorney at Law
Blair and Cole, Chicago, Illinois
Hon. Charles P. Kocoras
Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Mark Pedowitz
President
Touchstone Television Studios
Executive Vice President
ABC Entertainment Television Group
John A. Maher
Professor
Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State
University
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Dawn Chamberlaine
Albany, New York
Sherman Cohn
Professor
Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, D.C.
Florence Miner
Tiburon, California
Jon W. DeMoss
President, ISBA Mutual Insurance Co.
Chicago, Illinois
Joseph A. Morris
Attorney at Law
Morris & De La Rosa
Chicago, Illinois
Susan C. Haddad
Attorney at Law
Chicago, Illinois
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Hon. Jesse G. Reyes
Associate Judge, First Municipal District
Chicago, Illinois
John R. Lee
Assistant Regional Director
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Chicago, Illinois
Hon. Everette Braden, Retired
Chicago, Illinois
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Richard Kippen, Retired
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Hiram Walker and Sons, Inc.
Detroit, Michigan
Pamela L. Shu
Senior Regional Attorney
National Assn. Securities Dealers Regulations
Chicago, Illinois
James F. Sullivan
Ziegler Capital Management LLC
Chicago, Illinois
Peter Winograd
Professor Emeritus
University of New Mexico
School of Law
Albuquerque, New Mexico
E. Steven Yonover
Attorney at Law
Law Offices of E. Steven Yonover
Chicago, Illinois
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Board of Trustees
Board of Trustees
Alfred E. Gallo, President
Attorney
Hillside, Illinois
Hon. Timothy C. Evans
B.S., University of Illinois
Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County
Claireen Herting, C.P.A.,
Vice President
B.S., University of Illinois
M.B.A., Northwestern University
Manager, Personal Financial Services,
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Chicago, Illinois
Hon. Thomas R. Fitzgerald
J.D.,The John Marshall Law School
Justice, First District,
Illinois Supreme Court
Hon. Wilson Frost
B.A., Fisk University
J.D., IIT/Chicago–Kent College of Law
Frost and Greenblatt
Chicago, Illinois
Martin R. Riskin, Treasurer
B.B.A., Wisconsin State University
M.B.A., University of Wisconsin
President, Pacific Commonwealth Group, Inc.
Tiburon, California
Joseph M. Gagliardo
B.S., DePaul University
Laner, Muchin, et al.,
Chicago, Illinois
Leonard F. Amari, Secretary
B.S. Ed., Northern Illinois University
Amari & Locallo
Chicago, Illinois
Warren Lupel
M.A., Loyola University
Weinberg Richmond LLP
Chicago, Illinois
Erhard R. Chorlé
B.S., DePaul University
Shefsky and Froelich Ltd.
Chicago, Illinois
Peter J. DiConza Jr.
B.B.A., Manhattan College
Attorney
Manhasset and Brooklyn, New York
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Eugene E. Gozdecki
Gozdecki and Del Giudice
Chicago, Illinois
Walter Hamann, C.P.A.
Business Consultant and Attorney
Chicago, Illinois
Hon. Mary Anne G. McMorrow
J.D., Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
Chief Justice
Supreme Court of Illinois
Thomas M. Tully
B.S.S., John Carroll University
LL.B., DePaul University College of Law
Thomas M. Tully & Associates, Chicago
Bruce R. Meckler
B.A., Bradley University
Meckler, Bulger and Tilson
Chicago, Illinois
Peter R. Wirtz
President
Bismarck Enterprises, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois
Giacomo A. Pecoraro
B.G.S., Roosevelt University
Executive Director, Illinois Association of Chiefs of
Police
Springfield, Illinois
Thomas J. Durkin
C.P.A.
Legacy Professionals LLP
Chicago, Illinois
James F. Sullivan
B.A., DePaul University
M.S., University of South Carolina
Ziegler Capital Management LLC
Chicago, Illinois
Hon. Glenn T. Johnson, Retired
J.D., LL.M., The John Marshall
Law School
Leo Melamed
Chairman Emeritus & Senior Policy Advisor,
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.;
Chairman & CEO, Melamed & Associates
Chicago, Illinois
Joseph Domitrz
B.S., Central Michigan University
M.A., Western Michigan University
Ph.D., Southern Illinois University
Director of Business Programs
Bryant & Stratton College
Wisconsin
Dixie Lee Peterson
B.A., University of Colorado
Deputy General Counsel, Office of Legal Services,
Illinois Department of Children & Family Services
Emeriti
John R. Lee
B.A., Trinity University
M.B.A., George Washington University
Assistant Regional Director
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Chicago, Illinois
William Bates Jr.
M.B.A., University of Chicago
Executive VP and General Counsel, Seaway
National Bank of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
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Jordan H. Peters
A.B., Brown University
Freeborn & Peters
Chicago, Illinois
Honorary Trustee
Hon. Nancy Lee Johnson
B.A., Radcliffe College
Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Alumni Representative
Patrice M. Ball-Reed
2006–2007 President
The John Marshall Law School Alumni Association
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Administration
John E. Corkery
Gerald E. Berendt
Acting Dean and Professor
Linda R. Crane
B.S., St. Louis University
Associate Dean for Advanced Studies
and Research and Professor
Associate Dean for Faculty
Development and Professor
A.A., University of Florida
B.A.S., University of Illinois
B.A., University of South Carolina
M.M., Northwestern University
J.D., University of South Carolina
Acting Dean John Corkery joined the
John Marshall faculty after several years with
the Chicago office of Lord, Bissell and Brook.
He is a former chairman of the Illinois State
Bar Association’s Standing Committee on
Professional Conduct and a member of the joint
Chicago Bar Association, Illinois State Bar
Association and Illinois Judges’ Association
Judicial Ethics Committee. He has spoken at,
and prepared materials for, numerous Illinois
Judicial Conferences and bar association
programs, and currently is a Reporter for the
Illinois Judicial Conference Committee on
Evidence. Dean Corkery has testified as an
expert witness in matters of professional
responsibility and has been a member of the
teaching faculty for the Attorney Registration
and Disciplinary Commission’s Professional
Responsibility Institute. He was a member of the
Chicago Bar Association’s Board of Managers
for two years and has been a co-writer of the
CBA’s annual Gridiron musical, “Christmas
Spirits,” since 1973. He is the author of Illinois
Civil and Criminal Evidence (2000). Dean
Corkery joined the faculty in 1973, was named
associate dean for academic affairs in 1998, was
named vice dean in 2004, and became acting
dean in 2005. He teaches Evidence, Family Law,
and Professional Responsibility.
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Associate Dean Gerald Berendt supervises the
graduate programs offered by the Centers for
Excellence, as well as the Global Perspectives
Group, the Foreign Alliances Programs, the Fair
Housing Center, and Distance Learning. After
law school, Dean Berendt was an attorney with
the National Labor Relations Board in
Washington, D.C. Over the last 25 years, he has
held several Governor’s appointments to Illinois
agencies, including chairman of the Illinois
Educational Labor Relations Board, chairman
and executive director of the Illinois Office of
Collective Bargaining, director of Labor Ad
Hoc, and member of the Illinois Impasse
Resolution Panel. In 2002–2003, he served as a
member of Governor Rod Blagojevich’s Labor
Policy Committee. He is active in a number of
labor relations organizations, including the
American Arbitration Association. He has
authored or co-authored numerous books and
law review articles and frequently speaks before
professional associations and bar groups. Dean
Berendt also chaired the law school’s Arthur J.
Goldberg Conference, named for the late
associate justice of the United States Supreme
Court, who was a distinguished member of the
John Marshall faculty. Dean Berendt joined the
law school faculty in 1975 and was named
associate dean in 2004. He teaches Collective
Bargaining and Arbitration, Contracts, Labor
Law, and Public Sector Labor Relations.
After receiving her graduate degrees, Associate
Dean Linda Crane was a strategic issues analyst
for International Harvester and practiced with
the firm Hill, Hubbard, Cole & Couch. Later,
she was a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch and a
vice president at Bear, Stearns & Co. She was a
named partner with the Chicago law firm of
Boyd & Crane from 1987 until 1999. Dean
Crane has held leadership posts with several
organizations, including Midwest People of
Color Legal Scholarship Conference, the 1st
National Meeting of the Six Regional People
of Color Conferences, the Central States Law
Schools Association, the Law Schools
Administration Council, and the Association of
American Law Schools Audit and Investment
Committee. She has been president of the
board of the Cabrini Green Tutoring Program;
she currently serves on the Chicago State
University Foundation Board and the board
of MacCormac College, and she was recently
elected to the board of the Greater Chicago
Food Depository. Dean Crane is a frequent
speaker on the subjects of mortgage lending
discrimination, legal education, and affirmative
action. She joined the John Marshall faculty in
1989 and was named associate dean for faculty
development in 2004. She teaches Property Law,
Commercial Law, and Federal Securities
Regulation.
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Administration
James J. Kreminski
William B.T. Mock
Associate Dean for Administration
William B. Powers
B.S.B.A., Loyola University
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
and Professor
Associate Dean for Admission
and Student Affairs
M.B.A., Benedictine University
B.A., Haverford College
C.P.A., Illinois
Graduate Studies, Shakespeare
Institute, University of Birmingham
(England)
B.A., with distinction, Purdue
University
While employed by a large local certified public
accounting firm, Jim Kreminski worked on
audits and tax matters for a diverse group of the
firm’s clients, ranging in size from a single
individual to multinational corporations. His
primary concentration was in consulting, in
addition to designing financial reporting systems
for new companies or newly established
subsidiaries of foreign corporations. Dean
Kreminski was hired as controller of The John
Marshall Law School in 1978. He previously
taught accounting as a member of the law
school’s adjunct faculty. He is a founding
member of the Illinois CPA Society Industry
Forum Groups.
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J.D., Georgetown University
Prior to joining John Marshall’s faculty in 1983,
Associate Dean William Mock practiced
international trade, antitrust, and securities law
in Washington, D.C., and served with Baker &
McKenzie as one of the nation’s first in-firm
legal educators. At The John Marshall Law
School, he founded, and for nine years directed,
the Center for International Business and Trade
Law (then called the Center for International
and Comparative Studies), as well as two LL.M.
programs—the LL.M. in Global Legal Studies
and the LL.M. in International Business and
Trade Law. Dean Mock was a co-founder of the
Journal of Computer and Information Law and
has served as an advisor to the Jessup and
Niagara moot court teams and the International
Law Society. Among his overseas responsibilities
are aspects of John Marshall’s relationships with
law faculties in China, Italy, and Lithuania. Dean
Mock is a securities and commodities arbitrator
and publishes in the fields of information law,
transparency, and international law. He has
lectured in Belarus, China, the Czech Republic,
Lithuania, and Poland. Dean Mock also has
served as the scholar-in-residence at the law
faculty of the University of Cagliari, Italy.
J.D., Indiana University (Indianapolis)
LL.M., with honors, The John Marshall
Law School
While in law school, Associate Dean William
Powers was a member of the moot court society
and served on the board of editors of Indiana
Law Review. Before joining John Marshall’s
administration, he was the assistant consultant
on legal education to the American Bar
Association, where he was involved in various
research and publication projects, including
serving as editor of Syllabus, the ABA Section
of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar’s
quarterly news publication. He recently received
an LL.M. degree in Information Technology
Law from John Marshall. Dean Powers’
publications include “Karcher v. Daggett:
The Supreme Court Draws the Line on
Malapportionment and Gerrymandering in
Congressional Redistricting”(Indiana Law
Review, 1984); A Study of Contemporary Law
School Curricula (1987); Promotion and Tenure
Policies of ABA Approved Law Schools (1994);
Law School Facilities Reference Book (1993);
Research Institutes of ABA Approved Law
Schools (1996); Reflections of the Chairpersons
(co-editor, 1997); “Cybermedicine: How
Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients
for Better Health Care” (book review, 2001);
and a number of articles in Syllabus.
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Administration
Rory Dean Smith
Laurel Hajek
John M. McNamara
Associate Dean for Outreach &
Planning
Assistant Dean for Career Services
Assistant Dean for Institutional Affairs
B.A., Northwestern University
B.S., University of Nebraska–Omaha
B.A., Northwestern University
M.M./M.B.A, Northwestern University
J.D., Vanderbilt University School
of Law
M.B.A., University of Cincinnati
Associate Dean Rory Smith joined The John
Marshall Law School administration in 1998,
after serving for three years as an adjunct
professor in the LL.M. in Real Estate Law
program. Prior to joining the administration, he
was a principal with Albert, Whitehead and
McGaugh, P.C. (Chicago), of which he is Of
Counsel, and associate regional counsel for the
Prudential Insurance Company of America’s
Chicago Realty Group Office. He also served as
attorney and real estate officer at Continental
Illinois Bank and Trust Company of Chicago.
Dean Smith has served as president of the
Chicago Mortgage Attorneys Association,
chairman of the Cabrini Green Legal Aid Clinic
board of directors and president of the Minority
Legal Education Resources, Inc., board of
directors. Currently he is a member of Lambda
Alpha International, the Diocese of Chicago of
the Episcopal Church standing committee, the
Flossmoor School District 161 Board of
Education, and serves on the advisory
committee for Northwestern University’s
J.D./M.M. Program. Dean Smith’s publications
include “Getting In From the Outside,” an
article published in the April 1998 issue of
Corporate Counsel Magazine.
Before coming to John Marshall, Assistant Dean
Laurel Hajek was assistant dean of career services
at the University of Dayton School of Law in
Dayton, Ohio, where she counseled students
and alumni in career planning, job search
strategies, and bar admission. She also
conducted outreach efforts to legal employers,
managed the on-campus recruiting program,
presented student workshops and instructional
seminars, and supervised the Career Services
Office staff. Previously, Dean Hajek had spent
three years with the Cincinnati office of Ernst &
Young LLP, first as a senior consultant and then
as a manager, specializing in firm sales strategy
and communications. From 1993–1996, she was
a litigator with the Florida-based firm of
McConnaughhay Roland Maida & Cherr PA.
Dean Hajek has held council and committee
posts with the National Association for Law
Placement and was president of the Ohio Law
Placement Consortium. She is also active in
community affairs. While in Dayton, she
volunteered as a Court Appointed Special
Advocate/Guardian ad Litem and served on
the board of a homeless shelter.
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Assistant Dean John McNamara rejoined The
John Marshall Law School administrative staff
in 1992, having served as the law school’s
communications coordinator from 1988 to
1991. Dean McNamara has a wealth of
experience in communications management,
including public relations planning and
execution, media and press relations, speech
writing, advertising copywriting, and writing,
editing, and producing a variety of publications.
His other positions have included media
consultant on political campaigns, public
information officer for the Nebraska Arts
Council, director of public affairs for both
Nebraskans for the Arts and Arts AllianceNebraska, copywriter for Mutual of Omaha,
and news reporter for WOW/KEZO Radio in
Omaha, Nebraska. Since 1979, he has published
short stories in nearly a dozen periodicals. In
1999, he completed a one-week ProfessionalArtist-In-Residence at Ox-Bow, the Summer
School of the Arts and Artist’s Residency in
Saugatuck, Michigan, sponsored by the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he
worked on his novel-in-progress, A Life Without
Grace. In October 2004, his short story, “Koi
Pond,” was published in the literary magazine
Quick Fiction. In addition, he has conducted
creative writing seminars, workshops, and
readings in secondary schools, colleges, and
universities.
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Dean Emeritus
Program Directors
Fred F. Herzog
William T. McGrath
Dean Emeritus
Leslie Ann Reis
D.U.J., University of Graz (Austria)
Associate Director, Graduate Program
in Intellectual Property Law
J.D., University of Iowa College of Law
B.A., University of Notre Dame
Director, Graduate Program in
Information Technology and Privacy
Law
LL.D., The John Marshall Law School
J.D., Washington University
B.S., cum laude, Syracuse University
Dean Herzog was born and raised in Austria.
After attaining his baccalaureate in Graz, he
studied law at the Universities of Grenoble, Paris,
Vienna, and Graz, and received his Juris Doctor
with highest distinction from the University of
Graz in 1931. In 1935 he was appointed a judge
by the Austrian government and served in this
capacity until March 1938, when the Nazis came
to power in Austria. In 1940, he received a
fellowship to study American law at the
University of Iowa. In 1942, he graduated from
that university with a Juris Doctor with high
distinction. In 1947, Dean Herzog joined the
faculty of Chicago–Kent College of Law as a
full professor. He served in that capacity, as well
as in the capacity of associate dean and dean of
the law school, until 1972, when he resigned
the deanship and was appointed first assistant
attorney general of the State of Illinois. In 1974,
he resigned that position and assumed the
deanship of The John Marshall Law School.
In 1983 he became dean emeritus.
Since 1991, William McGrath has been a
partner with the Chicago-based law firm Davis
Mannix & McGrath, where his practice is
primarily in the areas of intellectual property
(copyright, trademark, software/information
technology, trade secrets, licensing) and
commercial litigation. Previously he was at the
firms Burke Wilson & McIlvaine and Chadwell
& Kyser Ltd. McGrath has published
extensively, in law reviews as well as professional
and trade journals, and he has served on the
editorial board of the Journal of the Copyright
Society of the USA since 1997. He was a board
member of the Intellectual Property Law
Association of Chicago for six years, serving as
president in 1999–2000, and has held
leadership positions in other law-related
societies and associations. He is a frequent
speaker at conferences and seminars, primarily
on issues relating to copyright. An adjunct
professor at John Marshall since 1990,
McGrath assumed the duties of associate
director with the fall 2004 semester.
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Prior to becoming an attorney, Leslie Reis
worked for more than 15 years as a broadcast
journalist. She has received numerous awards,
including a Chicago Area Emmy Award for
outstanding achievement in editing. She has
practiced civil rights law in Chicago and is a past
director of the American Judicature Society’s
Center for Judicial Independence. Professor
Reis serves on the federal Information Security
and Privacy Advisory Board and the Illinois
Criminal Justice Information Authority Privacy
Policy Subcommittee, where she is working to
develop privacy and security policies in state,
county, and local justice information systems.
She is a frequent lecturer on privacy and
information technology law and policy. In 1996,
Professor Reis was awarded a fellowship with
the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the
Press, where she served as in-house counsel and
wrote extensively on media, information, and
technology issues for various publications. She
co-authored an amicus curiae brief to the U.S.
Supreme Court in the Internet indecency case
Reno v. ACLU, and has published numerous
articles in legal publications and online.
Professor Reis joined the faculty in 1997 as an
adjunct professor. She teaches Information Law
and Policy, the First Amendment, and Free
Speech and Privacy Rights. She also supervises
the law school’s distinguished Journal of
Computer and Information Law.
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J.D. Admission
J.D. Admission Information
J.D. Admission Periods
Admission Criteria
The John Marshall Law School enrolls entering classes in
August and January each year in both full-time and part-time
programs. Applications for the fall semester should be filed
by March 1; applications for the spring semester by October 15.
First-semester students who enroll in the January entering class
will begin their studies with the same sequence of courses as
those who enter in August. Commencement is held in January
to accommodate students who complete their studies in
December. The bar examination is offered in February to
accommodate January graduates.
Full-time Program
The full-time program requires three years (six semesters)
for completion. Classes meet throughout the day and require
virtually all of the student’s time for preparation. Full-time
students may not be employed more than 20 hours per week.
Part-time Program
The part-time program requires at least four years and two
summer sessions for completion. Evening division classes for
first-year students are held four evenings, Monday through
Thursday, or three of those evenings and Saturday mornings.
Three-semester-hour courses meet from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and
two-semester-hour courses meet from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Students
in the part-time day division take a reduced number of courses
during the day.
Summer Term
The summer term starts in June and continues for eight
weeks. Students who have satisfactorily completed at least one
semester of law study are eligible. Sessions are customarily held
both during the day and evening. The list of subjects offered
varies each summer and may be obtained from the registrar in
April. No more than eight hours may be taken during the
summer term.
Pre-Admission
The law school does not prescribe a list of required subjects for
admission. It recommends a broad background with emphasis on
English composition, English and American history, economics,
government, literature, logic, philosophy, foreign languages,
mathematics, and the sciences. Many students who are interested
in the intellectual property program have engineering or science
backgrounds. If any of those subjects are not included as
requirements for the degree a student is pursuing, he or she
should endeavor to take courses that bear a direct relationship
to success in the study of law.
All applicants who are accepted for admission must have
completed a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or
university before enrolling in the law school, with the exception
of those enrolled in the joint degree program with Roosevelt
University or the Guaranteed Professional Program Admission
at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Admission to the law school is based on the following factors:
1 The undergraduate academic record and the Law School
Admission Test (LSAT) score.
2 The applicant’s choice of college major and electives.
Preference is given to those who earned high grades in
demonstrably more difficult courses. Pass/fail or ungraded
work is not viewed favorably.
3 The maintenance of a diverse student body. Such things as
ethnicity, background, and experiences of the applicant are
considered. We also want to increase the number of states and
schools that are represented in our student body.
4 Because of the high ethical standards to which lawyers are held,
the failure to disclose an act or event is often more significant,
and leads to more serious consequences, than the act or event
itself. Failure to provide truthful and complete answers, or
failure to inform the admission office of any changes to your
answers at any time during your studies, may result in
revocation of admission or disciplinary action by The John
Marshall Law School. This may also be grounds for rejection
for admission to practice law.
Application Procedures
Application for admission will be considered only upon receipt
of the following:
1 A non-refundable $60 application fee, which must accompany
the application. Fee waivers are not available.
2 A recent Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score. Test scores
more than five years old are not accepted.
3 The Law School Data Assembly Service (LSDAS) report,
which includes the LSAT score, writing sample and the
candidate’s unofficial transcripts. Instructions and the
registration form for the LSAT/LSDAS are contained in
the Law Services Information Book, which is available at
colleges, universities, and law schools, or may be obtained
by visiting www.lsac.org. Candidates are urged to read all
instructions carefully.
4 Your name and address printed or typed on the address side
of the postcard, with proper postage. Complete the applicant
portion of the data card.
5 The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and
Test of Written English (TWE) for an applicant whose native
language is not English, unless most college work has been
completed in the United States.
6 A candidate whose college degree was earned in a foreign
country must submit a copy of her/his transcript, translated
into English. The LSDAS report is not required. These
candidates must have their credentials evaluated by World
Education Services. Instructions may be obtained by
contacting World Education Services Inc. via telephone:
212.966.6311 or 312.222.0882; email: [email protected];
or mail: P.O. Box 745, Old Chelsea Station, New York, NY,
10113-0745 or P.O. Box 11623, Chicago, IL, 60611-0623.
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J.D. Admission
Upon notification of acceptance to the August entering class, a
non-refundable tuition deposit of $200 is required by April 15.
A second deposit of $200 is due June 1. Students accepted to the
January entering class must also pay this deposit. If the deposit is
not paid within the specified time, the acceptance will be canceled.
If an applicant re-applies and enrolls within two years of the date
of receipt of the tuition deposit, it will be credited to tuition.
After acceptance and before the first day of classes, an
immunization form and an official transcript that shows that the
applicant’s undergraduate degree has been awarded must be sent
to the Admission Office.
Campus Visits
Open houses for accepted and prospective applicants are held
prior to the start of classes each semester in order to provide a
forum for prospective students to meet members of the faculty
and staff, students, and alumni.
In addition, student ambassadors volunteer their time to give
tours of the school to prospective students. Arrangements may
be made with the Admission Office. Please consult the academic
calendar (inside front cover), as tours are more difficult to
schedule during examination periods and are not scheduled
during school holidays.
While the office appreciates one week’s notice for tours, we
realize this is not always possible, and we will try to accommodate
your needs.
Transfer Students
Admission of transfer applicants is always discretionary. Transfer
applicants must have completed between 24 and 30 semester
hours at an ABA-accredited law school that is also a member
of the Association of American Law Schools. Transfer applicants
must be in good standing and eligible to re-register at their
own law school. Official transcripts, a letter of good standing
from the student’s law school, and a copy of the LSDAS report
are required.
Applicants must have earned at least a 2.75 average on their law
school work. Students who have transferred into John Marshall
may not subsequently take additional hours at another law school.
Auditors
Members of the bar and law school graduates who are not yet
members of the bar may, with permission of the Dean of the law
school and depending on available space, enroll for a course
without credit in the first professional school. The auditor is
required to do all the work prescribed for the regular student
enrolled for credit except take examinations. The fee for the
auditor is the same as for a regular student.
Foreign Lawyers
Foreign lawyers who have been licensed to practice in a foreign
country but not in the United States and who want to be
admitted to the bar of Illinois may apply for admission to the
J.D. program. See Items 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 under Application
Procedures. If accepted, and upon completion of 30 hours in this
law school, the student’s foreign law school transcript will be
evaluated and the student may be granted up to one year of credit
toward the J.D. degree. Foreign lawyers who are not candidates
for admission to the bar in any American state may apply to the
graduate school. Please refer to the Graduate Programs section
in this catalog (page 10).
This school is authorized under federal law to enroll nonimmigrant alien students.
Registration Requirement for New Students/State of Illinois Immunization Law
Proof of immunization against some preventable
communicable diseases is required of all students born on or
after January 1, 1957, under section 694 of Title 77 of the
Illinois Administrative Code.
In order to attend classes (of six or more credits) in any postsecondary institution in Illinois, you must prove that you are
immune to measles, mumps, rubella, and diphtheria. Anyone
born before January 1, 1957, is presumed immune and does
not have to supply any further information.
The following is a list of conditions for proof of immunization:
D I P H T H E R I A / T E TA N U S
Any combination of three or more doses of DTP, DP or Td
vaccine, with the most recent dose having been received within
10 years of enrollment.
MEASLES
Two immunizations after 1968, the first one on or after one’s
first birthday, or a blood test that proves adequate immunity.
MUMPS
AND
RUBELLA
One immunization after 1969 and on or after one’s first birthday,
or a blood test proving immunity to mumps and rubella.
Combination vaccinations given after 1972 meet the state
requirements. One must still have two immunizations that include
a measles vaccine. A history of having had the disease is acceptable
only for measles and mumps and does not constitute proof of
immunity to rubella. For The John Marshall Law School to accept
a history of measles or mumps as proof of immunity, we must
have the date that the student was diagnosed with the disease and
the signature of the diagnosing health care professional. (These
are required by the immunization law.)
If a student has any doubt about his or her immunization history
or if any of the vaccinations are not within the dates outlined
above, the student must be immunized again or have a blood test
to prove immunization. Immunizations are available for a nominal
fee from the county health department. If you have any questions,
call the Admission Office at 312.987.1406.
A form will be sent to accepted applicants.
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Graduate Admission
Advanced Degree Admission
Advanced Degree Admission Periods
The John Marshall Law School enrolls entering classes in August and
January each year. (The Master of Science programs offer only an
August enrollment.) Applications for the Fall semester should be filed
by August 1. Applications for the Spring semester should be filed by
December 1. If you are unable to meet these deadlines, please contact
the Advanced Degree Admission Office as soon as possible.
Admission Criteria for LL.M. in
Employee Benefits
Information Technology and Privacy Law
Intellectual Property
International Business and Trade Law
Real Estate
Tax Law
Admission Criteria for M.S. Degree
Applicants for the M.S. programs are required to meet one of the
following criteria:
1 Graduate of an accredited college or university, holding at least
a bachelor’s degree.
2 Graduate of a foreign educational institution, holding at least the
equivalent of a U.S. four-year degree. Applicants who speak English as
a second language must present an acceptable score on the TOEFL
(Test of English as a Foreign Language) and a sample of legal writing.
An acceptable score on the TOEFL is 250 (computer test) or 600
(paper test) or 80 (Internet-based test) or higher. These TOEFL scores
are not absolute minimum requirements and are admission guidelines.
We will take into account all admission criteria as well as experience in
an English-language setting, writing ability, etc.
LL.M. & M.S. Application Procedures
1 Member of the bar of any state, territory, or the District of
Columbia of the United States.
2 Graduate of a law school approved by the American Bar Association
who is not a member of the bar.
3 Member of a foreign bar or graduate of a foreign law school.
Applicants who speak English as a second language must present
an acceptable score on the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign
Language) and a sample of legal writing. An acceptable score on the
TOEFL is 250 (computer test) or 600 (paper test) or 80 (Internetbased test) or higher. These TOEFL scores are not absolute minimum
requirements and are admission guidelines. We will take into account
all admission criteria as well as experience in an English-language
setting, writing ability, etc.
4 Qualified student pursuing a J.D. degree at The John Marshall Law
School who wishes to simultaneously pursue an LL.M. degree.
Admission Criteria for
LL.M. in Global Legal Studies
No member of the bar in any U.S. jurisdiction or graduate of a
U.S. law school may enroll.
Applicants who speak English as a second language must present
an acceptable score on the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign
Language) and a sample of legal writing. An acceptable score on the
TOEFL is 250 (computer test) or 600 (paper test) or 80 (Internetbased test) or higher. These TOEFL scores are not absolute minimum
requirements and are admission guidelines. We will take into account
all admission criteria as well as experience in an English-language
setting, writing ability, etc.
Application for admission will be considered only upon receipt
of the following:
1 A $60 application fee, which must accompany the application
This fee is non-refundable. Fee waivers are not available.
2 Completed LL.M. or M.S. application form.
3 Current résumé. With the exception of Information Technology,
all M.S. degrees require a minimum of five years of experience in
the relevant industry.
4 Statement of purpose (question 5 on LL.M. and M.S. applications).
5 Writing sample, required for the Master of Science degree programs.
Refer to the application form for examples of appropriate types of
writing samples.
6 TOEFL score for an applicant whose native language is not English,
unless college work has been completed in the United States.
7 A candidate whose college degree was earned in a foreign country
must submit an original transcript, translated into English. In
addition, these candidates must have their credentials evaluated by
World Education Services, Inc. nstructions on the evaluating of
credentials may be obtained by writing WES, Bowling Green
Station, P.O. Box 5087, New York, NY, 10274–5087 or P.O. Box
11623, Chicago, IL, 60611–0623; by e-mail, [email protected]; or by
telephone, 800.937.3895 or 312.222.0882, or from the Web site
at www.wes.org.
Upon notification of acceptance, a non-refundable tuition deposit of
$200 is required ($500 for foreign applicants). If the deposit is not
paid within the specified time, the acceptance will be canceled. If an
applicant re-applies and enrolls within two years of the date of
receipt of the tuition deposit, it will be credited to tuition.
After acceptance and before the first day of classes, an immunization
form and an official transcript that shows the Juris Doctor or
Baccalaureate degree has been awarded must be sent to the
Graduate Admission Office.
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Financial Aid
Financial Aid
A variety of financial aid programs, including loans, scholarships,
grants and need-based aid, are available to John Marshall students.
Merit scholarships and grants are awarded to entering students
on the basis of academic achievement, undergraduate course work
and LSAT scores. All eligible students may apply for student loans.
Loan and Financial Aid
Application Procedures for Entering Students:
1 The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA),
The John Marshall Financial Aid Application, and instructions
on how to apply for Federal Stafford Loans are mailed to
applicants upon acceptance.
2 Financial aid applicants who are accepted for admission to John
Marshall may be required (upon request) to forward a copy of
their federal income tax return and W-2 statements to the
Financial Aid Office.
3 Upon receipt of all necessary documents, the Financial Aid Staff
will send award letters to all accepted candidates. The award letter
will contain eligibility information for the Federal Stafford Loan
program and include any merit-based scholarship amounts that
the candidate has been awarded.
4 After receiving the award letter, the accepted candidate should
follow the instructions on the letter. The candidate will need
to return a signed copy of the award, indicating the amount
he or she wishes to borrow, and a Stafford Loan Master
Promissory Note.
5 The Education Amendments of 1976 require institutions to limit
federal financial aid to those students who, according to
institutional standards, are matriculants in good standing with
satisfactory academic progress. Please see the current Student
Handbook for the rules governing satisfactory academic progress.
Special Aid Programs
Veterans Assistance
The law school is authorized to train veterans under Title 38,
U.S. Code. The veterans coordinator at the school serves as a
liaison between students who are veterans of military service
and the Veterans Administration. To ascertain eligibility for
benefits under these laws, students should contact the Veterans
Administration. The Illinois Veterans Grant cannot be used at
The John Marshall Law School.
Illinois Division of Rehabilitation
Training
The school is on the approved list of the Division of
Rehabilitation of the Board of Vocational Education and
Rehabilitation. The division is authorized to pay for the
educational training of persons eligible for rehabilitation.
It serves both handicapped non-veterans and handicapped
veterans whose benefits under U. S. law have been exhausted
or terminated before rehabilitation was complete.
Tuition Exchange
The John Marshall Law School is the only independent law
school that is a member of a program called Tuition Exchange.
Children of faculty or staff at more than 340 colleges and
universities that belong to Tuition Exchange may receive
scholarship assistance while working toward their J.D. degree
at The John Marshall Law School. Those eligible under this
program should file a request for financial aid along with their
application for admission.
Loans
several private loan programs are available. Eligibility for these
loans is generally based on the student’s credit history. For
further information, contact the Financial Aid Office.
Federal Stafford Loan (Subsidized)
To determine loan eligibility, all students applying for Stafford
Loans are required to complete the FAFSA form. Students
who qualify (analysis is based on income and assets) may borrow
up to $8,500 per academic year. Banks and other lending
institutions advance these funds, which are guaranteed by the
federal government.
Alumni Student Assistance Program
The program, established by The John Marshall Law School
Alumni Association Board of Directors in 1994, provides
emergency grants of up to $500 to qualified law students for
expenses owed directly to The John Marshall Law School.
Such expenses might include tuition or books.
Federal Stafford Loan (Unsubsidized)
This loan has the same terms and conditions as the subsidized
Federal Stafford Loan, except that the borrower is responsible
for interest that accrues while he or she is in school. Students
may borrow up to $18,500 annually in combination with the
Subsidized Federal Stafford Loan.
Scholarships, Grants & Need-Based Aid
Private Educational Loans & Grad PLUS Loans
For students who require more than the $18,500 funding
available annually through the Federal Stafford Loan program,
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A variety of scholarships are available from the law school as
well as from outside sources. A brochure describing these
scholarships is available in the Admission and Financial Aid
offices. Please see the assistant director of Admission and
Financial Aid for more information.
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Refund Policy
Tuition & Fees
During the registration period each semester, students must enroll
in an academic program of required or elective courses. Specific
procedures are provided by the director for academic services prior to
the registration period for that semester.
Tuition
Tuition, first professional program, per semester hour -$1035
except as stated below, and subject to future change
normal full-time load is 14–16 hours
normal part-time load is 8–11 hours
Graduate programs tuition, per semester hour - - - - - -$1035
Students receiving guaranteed loans or rehabilitation funds are required to pay tuition as designated by the controller.
Questions concerning any financial policies should be directed
to the controller’s office. Students who feel that individual
circumstances warrant exception from the published payment
policy may file a written appeal with the office of the associate
dean for administration.
General Fees
Application fee, non-refundable - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$60
Foreign applicants, non-refundable - - - - - - - - - - - - -$70
Tuition deposit, (J.D.),
non-refundable/applicable to tuition - - - - - - - - - - -$400
Tuition deposit, (LL.M.),
non-refundable/applicable to tuition - - - - - - - - - - -$200
Foreign applicants - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$500
Registration
per semester/non-refundable - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$50
summer term/non-refundable - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$50
Late registration fee - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$25
Change of registration fee during add/drop period - - - -$30
Change of registration fee after add/drop period - - - - -$50
Deferred payment charge, per payment - - - - - - - - - - - - -$3
Late payment fee, daily/per payment - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$3
NSF fee - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$50
A student who withdraws from The John Marshall Law School
for any reason may be entitled to a refund calculated in
accordance with the law and applicable regulations.
Return of Title IV Funds/Institutional
Refund Policy
A student who withdraws from The John Marshall Law School
for whatever reason may be entitled to a refund calculated in
accordance with the law and applicable regulations.
Refund Policy*
For students who withdraw completely from The John Marshall
Law School, the law school retains the following tuition:
Withdrawal after registration but before classes begin -$400
During the first two weeks of class - - - - - - - - - - - - - -10%
After the end of two weeks of class, but before the
end of the fourth week - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -20%
After the end of four weeks of class, but before the
end of the fifth week - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -30%
After the end of five weeks of class, but before the
end of the seventh week - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -40%
After the end of seven weeks of class, but before the
end of the eighth week - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -50%
After the end of eight weeks of class, but before the
end of the ninth week - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -60%
After the end of nine weeks of class - - - - - - - - - - - - -100%
*The John Marshall Law School refund policy set forth above
applies to the spring and fall semesters. The John Marshall Law
School refund policies for the summer sessions are included in
summer registration information.
Other Fees
Exam fee for deferred, special, or make-up exams - - - - -$35
Single transcript fee - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$5
Time certificate/Certificate of Good Moral Character/
Transcripts/or other required paper for bar admission for
non-graduates - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$5
Locker rental fee (optional)
per semester (spring, summer or fall) - - - - - - - - - - - - -$5
per year - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$15
Transfer Credit Processing Fee (for John Marshall
students taking courses at other schools) - - - - - - - - - - -$60
Transfer Packet (for students transferring to another law
school —includes letter of good standing, JMLS transcript,
class rank, and copy of LSDAS summary sheet)
per packet - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$50
CTA U-Pass, mandatory for full-time students
per semester, fall and spring - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$87
per semester, summer - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$40
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Academic Rules
Return of Title IV Funds
If a student who withdraws is receiving Title IV Financial Aid
(Federal Stafford Loans), the following rules regarding the return
of Title IV funds apply:
A student’s withdrawal date will be the last date the student
attended classes.
The percentage of the semester the student completed is
determined by dividing the number of calendar days in the term
up until the withdrawal point by the total number of calendar days
in the term (excluding scheduled breaks of five or more days):
Days student attended divided by days in term = percentage of
semester completed
The amount of Title IV aid the student has earned is dependent
upon the percentage of the semester completed. If the percentage
of the semester completed is less than 60%, the percentage of Title
IV aid earned by the student equals the percentage of the semester
completed. If the percentage of the semester completed is greater
than 60%, the percentage of Title IV aid earned equals 100%.
This 60% threshold cannot be reached by rounding up.
The amount of Title IV aid disbursed minus the amount of Title IV
aid earned equals the total Title IV aid to be returned, either by the
school or by the student. If the school holds the funds that are to be
returned, the funds will be sent directly to the student’s lender. If the
student holds the funds that are to be returned, the return of funds
will be rolled into the student’s repayment of the Stafford Loan.
Academic Rules
Graduation Requirements
The Juris Doctor Degree
The Juris Doctor degree is conferred upon candidates who have
fulfilled the following requirements:
1 Earned credit for at least 90 semester hours of law study (60 of
these hours must be earned at The John Marshall Law School).
2 Academic standing: Obtained an overall grade point average
of at least 2.25.
3 The maximum period of time for a law student to complete
requirements for the degree is seven years.
Students are responsible for ensuring that they have complied
with the Juris Doctor requirements. The student is urged to
obtain a credit check from the Office of Academic Services before
or during his/her fifth semester in residence, if one has not already
been issued by the school. Students are also advised to take more
than the minimum number of academic credits required (90) in
the event that they receive a failing grade in their final semester.
The minimum course load, which is permitted only with the
approval of the associate dean for academic services, is 12 semester
hours in the full-time program and eight semester hours in the
part-time program. Under no circumstances are part-time students
permitted to register for more than 11 hours. Full-time students
may not register for more than 16 hours.
A student’s status as a full-time or part-time student is determined
by his/her registration each semester. A full-time student is a day
student who registers for 12 or more credits and passes at least
nine credits. All other students are part-time students.
A student who wishes to withdraw from a course during the
semester must request permission in writing from the director
for academic services. Permission to withdraw from a course
after six weeks into the semester will be granted only with proof
of extraordinary circumstances, such as grave illness. Students will
automatically receive a failing grade for any unauthorized or nonapproved withdrawal.
Attendance
Full-time/Part-time Programs
and Enrollment
Course content is the same in the full-time and part-time programs.
The disciplines of study, instruction, research, and examination are
also the same. Students will initially register in either the full-time or
part-time program. A part-time student may transfer to the full-time
(day) program after completing one entire semester of study, with
approval from the director for academic services.
Course Load
The board of law examiners in each state requires a certificate
of attendance from an applicant’s law school in order to take the
bar examination. To execute this certificate faithfully, the school
must insist on regular attendance, so students are required to
attend all scheduled classes. Under no circumstances will credit
be given for courses in which the student is absent more than 25%
of the total number of class meetings. A student absent for more
than 25% of the total number of class meetings will not be allowed
to write the examination and will receive a grade of WF
(withdraw/fail) for the course.
A normal academic course load is 15 semester hours in the
full-time program and 10 or 11 semester hours in the
part-time program.
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Examinations and Grades
A written examination at the conclusion of each course will
ordinarily be the principal determinant of a student’s grade.
However, interim examinations, briefs of cases, and other
assignments may be taken into account.
Class preparation and participation are essential components of
the educational process. Individual professors may develop class
rules and grading procedures that take into account a student’s
fulfillment of those responsibilities.
Each student is responsible for verifying the date, time, and place
of his or her examinations and for taking them at the scheduled
times, unless there is a direct conflict in scheduling (i.e., same day,
same time; or start times within 18 hours of each other).
A student who, for good cause shown in writing, fails to take a
course examination with the class will be required to take the
examination the next time it is given. A grade of “Incomplete” will
be given in the course until the examination has been written. The
grade of “Incomplete” shall automatically convert to an “F” at the
end of classes for the following semester unless the student shall,
before such date, have either taken the examination or arranged for
a date certain to take the examination. This rule will also apply to
courses in which a trial is the primary basis for the grade. A special
examination fee will be charged for make-up or special examinations.
Failure to write an examination at the time designated will result in
an automatic grade of “F” being entered on the record.
A student who, for good cause shown in writing, does not complete
a paper in a seminar by the end of classes for that semester, shall
receive a grade of “Incomplete.” If the paper is not completed by
the end of classes for the following semester, the grade of
“Incomplete” shall automatically convert to an “F.” Each professor
shall have the responsibility for notifying the Registrar that the work
has been completed.
A student who does not officially drop a course, drops without
permission, fails to take an examination, or fails to complete course
work, receives a grade of “WF” for that course.
A student who wants to review his/her examination booklet after
the grades have been submitted to the associate dean for academic
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Good Academic Standing
To be in good academic standing, a student must maintain
a grade point average of 2.25 in all the work undertaken.
C– and D grades earn the stated academic credit; however, an
F grade earns no academic credit and the course, if required,
must be retaken immediately.
Registration, class attendance, and participation in Law School
activities is conditioned upon good academic standing.
For the purpose of determining a student’s academic standing,
cumulative grade point averages will be determined only at the
completion of the fall and spring semesters.
Individual students whose overall class rank after completion of
the required first year classes (at the end of the second semester
on day division schedule, at the end of the third semester on the
evening schedules) indicates that they will have difficulty doing
adequate work in upper division classes and are at risk of failing
pertinent licensing examinations, shall be considered “at risk.”
The faculty may, by rule, establish special academic rules and
requirements for “at risk” students. See the Student Handbook
for more information.
Repeating Courses
A student who receives a failing grade (F or WF) in a required
course must repeat that course at the earliest opportunity. There
is no restriction on the grade that can be earned upon repetition.
Otherwise, a student may not repeat any course for academic
credit in which a grade has been received.
All grades received by the student, including failing grades,
will be included in the computation of grade averages.
Tuition will be charged for repetitions.
Probation and Academic
Dismissal Policy
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A student who attains a grade point average of below 1.75 in the
first semester of law school will be dismissed. A student whose
cumulative grade point average is below 2.25 at the end of any
fall or spring semester will be placed on academic probation, and
must raise his or her cumulative grade point average to at least
2.25 by the end of the next semester in which the student enrolls
and one adjacent or prior summer term. A student is eligible for
probation only once; if a student’s cumulative grade point average
again falls below 2.25 after any subsequent fall or spring semester,
the student will be dismissed.
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The Grading Curve
Curve I
Grading System
In Civil Procedure I, Constitutional Law I, Contracts I & II, Criminal
Law, Property, and Torts, provided the enrollment is 20 or more
students, faculty shall conform their grades to the following standards:
A+
4.01
A
4.00
A–
3.67
B+
3.33
B
3.00
B–
2.67
C+
2.33
C
2.00
C–
1.67
D
1.00
F
0.00
Grades of B+, B, and B– shall be awarded to no fewer than 35%
and no more than 45% of the class.
WF 0.00
W
0.00
Grades of C+, C, and C– shall be awarded to no fewer than 15%
Provisions
Required Grades
Grades of A+, A, and A– shall be awarded to no fewer than 20%
Because of the required 2.25 cumulative grade point average, a
student must earn a number of grades above “C” to remain in school
and graduate. A student who receives only C’s during his or her first
two semesters will have a cumulative average of 2.00 and will be
ineligible to continue in school. For these reasons, any grade of C
is considered marginally acceptable.
Grades of D and F shall be awarded to no fewer than 10%
Required Cumulative Average
For the class as a whole, the cumulative average grade shall fall
between 2.40 and 2.80, inclusive.
A student on probation must take a minimum of 12 semester hours
in the full-time program or 8 semester hours in the part-time
program. Failure to register for the required number of hours
without prior approval of the director for academic services will
be treated as the equivalent of failure to attain a 2.25 grade point
average for the semester.
Curve II
In every J.D. course not subject to Curve I, other than Lawyering
Skills and Trial Advocacy, provided the enrollment is 25 or more
students, faculty shall conform their grades to the following
standards:
Required Grades
Reservation of Rights
The law school reserves the right to change its academic rules from
time to time as is specified in the Reservation of Rights provisions set
out in the current Catalog (page 133).
Grades of A+, A, and A– shall be awarded to no fewer than 25%
Grades of B+, B, and B– shall be awarded to no fewer than 35%
Readmission
Students dismissed for academic reasons may apply for readmission.
The current readmission policy is set forth in the Student Handbook.
Readmission is not a matter of right; instead, it is within the sound
discretion of the appropriate committee. Any student applying for
readmission bears the burden of demonstrating that his/her
performance to date does not accurately reflect his/her ability to
successfully complete law school.
Grades of C+, C, and C– shall be awarded to no fewer than 10%
Grades of D and F shall be awarded to no fewer than 0% and no
more than 10% of the class.
Required Cumulative Average
For the class as a whole, the cumulative average grade shall fall
between 2.70 and 3.10, inclusive.
B A R P A S S A G E R AT E S
February 2006 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -first-time takers 80%
Retention Figures
The following information is provided pursuant to Department
of Education requirements:
Entered Fall 2005 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -393
Academic dismissal first semester - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -6%
Academic dismissal after first year - - - - - - - - - - - - - -2%
Voluntary withdrawals - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -3%
Retention - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -89%
Entered Fall 2002 day - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -281
Entered Fall 2001 evening - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -60
Graduated June 2004 or in school - - - - - - - - - - - - -263
Academic Dismissal - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -8%
Voluntary withdrawals - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -13%
Retention - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -79%
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Interruption of Study
Applicants who seek to resume their legal studies will be
evaluated according to the length of the absence, their college record
and law school performance. Those interested must
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Enrollment in Another Law School
With prior approval, John Marshall students may take up to
6 hours of elective credit at another American Bar Associationapproved law school. Credit for the work is subject to certain
restrictions, including a requirement that the student achieve a
minimum grade of C. Courses in which students received grades
of C or lower will not be accepted. Credit accepted from other
approved law schools is not computed in the John Marshall
cumulative average. Approval will not be granted if the same
course is given at John Marshall, except for summer programs
offered by a law school in another city. The student’s last 30
semester hours must be taken at The John Marshall Law School.
Students who have transferred into John Marshall may not
subsequently take additional hours at another law school. In
order to participate in summer abroad programs at another law
school, a student must have completed a minimum of 29
semester hours and be in good standing.
Disability Policy
There are a number of students with disabilities enrolled in
the law school. The school works with these students to
accommodate their individual needs. A student who asks for
reasonable accommodations due to a specific disability must
provide acceptable evidence of the disability. The school may
require the student to take designated tests at his or her
expense from a qualified medical or educational professional
chosen by the school. Please see the office of the director for
academic services for information.
Discipline and Behavior
Each student is admitted upon the condition that if a student’s
continued enrollment in the law school, in the opinion of the
faculty, would not be in the law school’s best interests or if he
or she is not a person of character or integrity to be qualified for
admission to the legal profession, he or she may at any time be
suspended or dismissed by the faculty. A student may be similarly
disciplined if his or her behavior endangers the activity, safety,
welfare, or property of a member of the law school community
or of the law school itself. Rules pertaining to this procedure
are found in the Student Handbook.
Rules for Disciplinary Proceedings
The rules for disciplinary proceedings are found in the
Student Handbook.
Transcripts
No official transcript of record is given directly to a student
or to a graduate. An official transcript will be sent to another
school or to any authorized agency upon request to the office
for academic services. A transcript will not be issued unless all
fees owed to the school are paid. There is a $5 fee for each
transcript requested.
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Academic Rules for
The academic rules of the J.D. program will apply to the LL.M
and M.S. programs except to the extent that the following is
different from the J.D. program academic rules:
Classes Outside Program
With the approval of the program director, an LL.M. student
may take up to six credit hours in classes outside of his/her
own program. A student may take more than six credit hours
of classes outside his/her own program only with permission
of the program director and the associate dean for advanced
studies and research.
Time to Complete Program
A student will have five years from the date of matriculation to
complete the LL.M. or M.S. program. A student cannot take
off more than two consecutive semesters without permission
of the program director.
Transfer Credits
A program director may accept up to nine transfer credit hours
from a matriculated student seeking to enter The John Marshall
Law School LL.M. program from another institution.
Degree Completion
Under special circumstances, the program director may allow a
student to take one or more courses at other institutions toward
completion of the program's requirements for graduation from
The John Marshall Law School.
Minimum Grade Point Average
to Graduate
A student must have a cumulative grade point average of 2.5 to
receive a degree in an LL.M. or M.S. program.
Academic Probation and Dismissal
for Poor Scholarship
An LL.M. or M.S. student must achieve a cumulative grade
point average (GPA) of 2.25 or better for the first six hours of
credit taken. A student whose GPA is less than 2.25 after taking
his or her first six credit hours shall be placed on academic
probation and must raise his or her GPA to 2.25 or better at the
time of completing the next six credit hours. If such a student on
probation does not raise his or her cumulative GPA to 2.25 or
better with the next six credit hours, that student will be
academically dismissed. If such a student on probation raises his
or her cumulative GPA to 2.25 or better within that six credit
hour period, the student will be in good standing. However,
if a student has once been on probation and successfully raised
his or her GPA to 2.25 but has his or her GPA go below 2.25
at the end of any semester, such a student shall be academically
dismissed at the end of that semester. A student on probation
must take a minimum of four credit hours per semester.
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Legal Writing
Honors
A student with a grade point average of 3.6 or higher may
graduate with honors.
Repeating “F”
Each student shall repeat a required class in which he/she has
received a failing grade. A student may repeat an elective class in
which he/she has received a failing grade. Both grades will be
calculated in the computation of grade point averages.
Full-Time Student Definition
For administrative and financial aid purposes, a student taking
five or more hours in a semester is counted as a full-time student.
Transfers
Transfers from other external programs and from other internal
programs must have approval of the associate dean for advanced
studies and research.
Student Code of Conduct
The Student Code of Conduct for the J.D. students shall apply
to all LL.M. and M.S. students.
Joint Degree Students
Joint degree (J.D./LL.M.) students remain subject to applicable
academic rules of the J.D. program.
Curriculum
Core Courses
The initial program consists of a core curriculum. These courses
provide students with a fundamental store of knowledge about
substantive legal concepts and rules. This knowledge includes
analysis of cases, statutes, and other sources of law; recognition
of relevant facts from a mass of raw data; effective oral and
written communication; advocacy; and organization and
management of legal work and ideas. This store of knowledge
is the core of information that all lawyers must possess and that
all students must obtain before they can progress to the second
and third years of legal education.
As part of its curriculum, John Marshall requires four semesters
of study in its Lawyering Skills Program. Good lawyering requires
many practical skills, including legal analysis and reasoning,
analytical writing, persuasive writing, oral advocacy, drafting,
and counseling.
The first semester focuses on the structure of the legal system,
sources of law, reading and briefing cases, legal reasoning and
analysis, predictive writing in law firm memoranda, and basic legal
research. The second semester introduces persuasion and brief
writing, and includes a discussion of rhetoric, the techniques of
persuasive writing, an introduction to oral advocacy, and
comprehensive training in online research. The third semester
Herzog Competition is devoted to advanced written and oral
advocacy, and incorporates a moot court competition.
For the final semester, students may choose either a general
or a specialized drafting course. Each drafting course has
prerequisites, and the assignments are rigorous and comparable to
the types of projects lawyers will encounter in practice. The general
practice drafting course focuses on advising clients and creating
documents, including wills, contracts, and other documents the
general practitioner works with on a daily basis. The specialized
drafting courses include specializations in civil litigation, real estate
transactions, intellectual property, information technology,
international business law, family law, business planning, and others.
All courses in the Lawyering Skills curriculum are taught in small
sections so that faculty can work with students individually.
Individual student conferences are an integral part of each
Lawyering Skills course.
The core curriculum consists of the following courses:
Property (4)
Criminal Law (3)
Torts (4)
Evidence (4)
Trial Advocacy (3)
Civil Procedure I & II (3-3)
Lawyering Skills I, II, & III (8)
Constitutional Law I & II (3-3)
Professional Responsibility (3)
Contracts I & II (3-3)
Herzog Moot Court (1)
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Clinical and Externship Programs
T
he John Marshall Law School provides its students the
opportunity to gain an understanding of the basic competencies
expected of attorneys. In addition to the many courses that help
meet this commitment, the law school has established a clinical
legal education program, an academic program for which credit
may be received.
Registration in a clinic placement is limited to students in good
standing who have earned at least 30 credit hours. A maximum
of 10 clinic hours may be credited toward a student’s degree
requirement, of which a maximum of six may be taken in judicial
or basic externships. Permission of the director is required for
registration. Students must consult the director for specific
requirements and rules applicable to the program.
Fair Housing Legal Clinic
The law school operates the Fair Housing Legal Clinic, where
students represent clients who have been denied housing
because of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, familial
status, marital status, age, source of income, or sexual
orientation. As a prerequisite, students must take a two-hour
seminar on fair housing law and practice. In addition to
educating students on the substance of fair housing law, the
clinic offers an opportunity to participate in federal and state
court litigation and administrative proceedings. Students draft
pleadings, prepare motions, participate in hearings for
temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions,
conduct discovery, and assist in trials and hearings and possibly
appeals. Professor Michael P. Seng serves as executive director
and Clinical Professor F. Willis Caruso is the clinical director;
Clinical Professors Joseph R. Butler and Damian Ortiz teach
full-time in the clinic (see faculty profiles starting on p.37).
Clinical Legal Education in
Intellectual Property (1-4)
Students selected to participate in this program work with
intellectual property attorneys in private and corporate practice
approved by the law school. Patent and Trade Secret Law and
Trademark and Copyright Law are prerequisites.
Defender’s Clinic (1-4)
The Defender’s Clinic offers John Marshall students the
opportunity to work directly with the attorneys of the Cook
County Public Defender’s Office, and surrounding county
defender’s offices, in preparing the defense of criminal
misdemeanor and felony cases. Students are assigned to various
courtrooms to assist with investigations, witness preparation,
client counseling, discovery, motion practice, and hearings. An
experienced supervisory-level assistant public defender teaches
the classroom component of this clinic. Placements are also
possible in the federal defender’s office, as well as the state
appellate defender’s program.
Department of Labor (DOL)
Externship Program (3-4)
Students selected to participate in this program work with the
attorneys at the Employee Benefits Security Administration
(EBSA) of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Chicago Regional
Office. The educational objectives of this course include practical
experience in employee benefits law; development of research,
writing, and drafting skills; and preparation of memoranda,
discovery documents, and guidelines to assist pension
investigators and auditors. Professor Kathryn J. Kennedy is
the director.
Lewis W. Powell III, Adjunct Professor
Lewis W. Powell III is a graduate of The John Marshall
Law School and teaches part-time at the clinic. Formerly,
he was associated with Smith and Lyle, and Jones Ware
and Grenard. He has more than 10 years of administrative
background with governmental agencies. Presently, he is in
private practice and is a licensed real estate broker.
Edward A. Voci, Adjunct Professor
Edward Voci, formerly general counsel to the Leadership
Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, consults
with the clinical students and teaches.
Lillian Seymore, Coordinator of Testing
Lillian Seymore has a Master of Arts degree in Human
Development and Urban Teacher Education from
Governors State University and an Illinois Education
Administrator’s Certificate from Chicago State University.
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Employee Benefits Practicum (3-4)
The Employee Benefits Practicum was added to the curriculum
to provide students with a hands-on experience in employee
benefits practice. Under careful supervision, the student will
work with a member of the adjunct faculty in one of the various
settings where employee benefits lawyers practice: law firms,
consulting firms, corporations, or government. The course is
intended to meet the needs of the individual student who has not
yet had significant practice experience in the field of employee
benefits law.
Immigration Law Clinic (1-3)
attorneys at the Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center
as well as with other attorneys approved by the law school. The
educational objectives of the course include the development
of case preparation and litigation skills in the administrative law
context and the development of professional values through the
exposure to clients in a multicultural setting. Professor Michael
G. Heyman is the director.
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Clinical and Externship Programs
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Externship Program (3-4)
Local Government Clinic (1-4)
Students who choose the Local Government Clinic work in various
divisions of either the City of Chicago’s Corporation Counsel’s
Office or the State of Illinois Attorney General’s Office, or other
governmental placements, pursuant to their student practice
licenses issued under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 7.11. At these
agencies, the students are offered a wide variety of assignments
designed to introduce them to the intricacies of municipal and
state government work. Cases range from criminal prosecutions
and criminal and civil appellate matters to federal employment and
individual defense litigation. Students observe and participate in
depositions, motion practice, arbitrations and hearings, all under
the supervision of practicing attorneys.
attorneys of the Office of Chief Counsel of the IRS’ Small
Business/Self-Employed Division Counsel, Large and Mid-Size
Business Division Counsel, or Tax Exempt/Governmental Entities
Counsel. The educational objectives of the course include practical
experience in tax/employee benefits law; development of research,
writing, and drafting skills; and preparation of pleadings, discovery
documents, stipulations of fact, and trial memoranda used in Tax
Court cases. Professor Kathryn J. Kennedy is the director.
Judicial Externship Program
Students selected to participate in this program work in chambers
with a state, state appellate, or federal judge and assist the judge
in the resolution of disputes. Each student works in a capacity
similar to a judicial law clerk and is monitored and evaluated by
adjunct professor Appellate Justice Michael Gallagher, as well
as by the judge for whom the particular student works. The
educational objectives of the course include legal problem solving,
legal research and writing, professional responsibility, and legal
process. Associate Director of the Center for Advocacy and
Dispute Resolution Susann MacLachlan is the director.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
(PBGC) Summer Externship Program
in Washington, D.C. (3-4)
PBGC attorneys, accountants, and actuaries over the summer
months in Washington, D.C. The PBGC is a federal corporation
created by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
It insures private single-employer and multi-employer defined
benefit pension plans. The education objectives of this externship
include practical experience in defined benefit plans and their
terminations; to further develop research, writing and drafting
skills; to learn practical lawyering skills of document review and
application of law and policy. Consultation with and approval of the
director of the program is required for registration.
The Lawyering Process (1-4)
attorneys in various public or private sector placements. The course
examines the issues and responsibilities confronted by new
attorneys as they strive to develop skills in their chosen field of
practice. Professor Kenneth Kandaras is the director.
Pension Rights Center Externship
Program (3-4)
The Litigation Practicum (1-4)
attorneys approved by the law school. The educational
objectives of the course include litigation skills (including problem
solving, fact investigation, legal analysis, communication, and trial
advocacy skills) and learning the litigator’s ethical and professional
responsibilities. Professor Kenneth Kandaras is the director.
The following are among the more than 80 possible placements
for eligible students:
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Cook County Public Defender’s Office
Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office
Corporation Counsel’s Office–City of Chicago
DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office
Federal Defender Panel Program
Illinois Attorney General’s Office
McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office
State Appellate Defender
United States Attorney’s Office–Northern District of Illinois
United States Environmental Protection Agency
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Students selected to participate in this program will work closely
with Pension Rights Center attorneys and personnel. The Pension
Rights Center is the country’s only consumer organization
dedicated solely to protecting and promoting the rights of
American workers, retirees, and their families. It works in
conjunction with the Pension Information and Counseling Project
that has projects in Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin. The educational
objectives of this externship include practical experience in
developing research, writing, and drafting skills; to learn practical
lawyering skills of document review; and to be involved in
consumer outreach efforts. Consultation with and approval of the
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Profit Sharing/401k Council of America
(PSCA) Externship Program in Chicago (3-4)
Students selected to participate in this program work with the attorneys
at the Profit Sharing/401k Council of America (PCSA). The PCSA is a
national, non-for-profit association that offers assistance to their
members regarding the administration, investment, compliance and
communication of profit sharing and 401(k) plans. The educational
objectives of this externship include practical experience in profit sharing
and 401(k) plans; development of research, writing and drafting skills;
preparation of memoranda and communication pieces to assist PCSA
members. Consultation with and approval of the director of the
program is required for registration.
Real Estate Legal Practicum (2)
A full-time student in his or her last semester of the LL.M. program who
has completed Real Estate Transactions, Federal Income Tax, Commercial
Real Estate, and Real Estate Finance may apply for a practicum. Students
work under the supervision of an experienced attorney in a law firm, title
company, or law department, and have an opportunity to see and
experience how commercial real estate law is practiced.
U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Tax
Policy, Benefits Tax Counsel Summer
Externship Program in Washington, D.C. (3-4)
Prosecution Clinic (1-4)
This program is designed for students who are seriously considering a
career as a prosecuting attorney. Under direct supervision of attorneys in
the criminal courtrooms, these students are allowed to participate in the
investigation, preparation, motion practice, and trial of misdemeanor and
felony cases. Several states attorney’s offices participate in this program,
including Cook County and the surrounding Illinois counties of DuPage,
McHenry, Lake, Will, and Kane; Porter County in Indiana; and Kenosha
County in Wisconsin. The classroom component of the course is taught
by an experienced prosecuting attorney from the Cook County state’s
attorney’s office.
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Students selected to participate in this program will work in The
Department of Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy over the summer months
in Washington, D.C. Each student will be assigned to an Office of
Benefits Counsel supervising attorney, who is responsible for the
extern’s orientation; introduction to attorneys, accountants and
actuaries in that office; assignment of work; and final evaluation of
performance. The educational objectives of this externship are to
provide students with practical experience in a specialized area of
employee benefits law by becoming thoroughly familiar with the legal
and policy implications of the Office of Benefits Counsel within the
Department of the Treasury. Consultation with and approval of the
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Curriculum
Evening Division
Day Division
FIRST YEAR
Prerequisites to advanced
courses
First Semester
Contracts I
Property
Torts
Lawyering Skills I
FIRST YEAR
Second Semester
Hours
3
4
4
3
14
Contracts II
Civil Procedure I
Criminal Law
Constitutional Law I
Lawyering Skills II
Hours
3
3
3
3
3
15
SECOND YEAR
First Semester
Hours
Civil Procedure II
3
Constitutional Law II
3
* Evidence
4
Professional Responsibility 3
Herzog Moot Court
Competition
1
Elective
2
Second Semester
L.S. Drafting
Electives
Hours
Prerequisites to advanced courses
First Semester
Contracts I
Torts
Lawyering Skills I
10
First Semester
Civil Procedure I
Constitutional Law I
Criminal Law
Elective
THIRD YEAR
First Semester
* Trial Advocacy
Electives
Second Semester
3
Electives
15
12
15
Ninety hours are required
for graduation.
For students who enter in the fall semester, the moot court competition may also
be taken in the summer term following the completion of their first full year of
law school.
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Hours
4
6
10
FOURTH YEAR
First Semester
Electives
THIRD YEAR
Hours
3
4
3
10
Second Semester
Hours
Civil Procedure II
Herzog Moot Court
Competition
Professional Responsibility
3
3
1
3
10
* These required courses may be taken at any time during a student’s second or
third year. The sequence listed here is merely suggested. Students should be aware,
however, that Evidence is a prerequisite to Trial Advocacy.
The Trial Lawyer course may be taken in lieu of these two required courses.
Hours
3
3
3
2
11
First Semester
* Evidence
Electives
16
Second Semester
Contracts II
Property
Lawyering Skills II
SECOND YEAR
2
11-13
13-15
Hours
3
4
3
Second Semester
Electives
Hours
11
Second Semester
L.S. Drafting
* Trial Advocacy
Electives
Hours
2
3
6
11
Ninety hours are required for
graduation. An additional six
semester hours must be taken during
summer terms, or an additional
semester may be needed to complete
the degree requirement.
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* These required courses may be taken at any time during a student’s second
or third year. The sequence listed here is merely suggested. Students should be
aware, however, that Evidence is a prerequisite to Trial Advocacy.
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AREAS OF
C O N C E N T R AT I O N
Advocacy/Dispute
Resolution
While the core courses provide basic
knowledge of the law, students may
choose to pursue intensive training in one
of the substantive areas of the law. The
development of such depth provides
students with an invaluable learning
experience, even if they ultimately choose
not to practice in that area of law. For this
reason, students may elect to take several
courses in one or more of the substantive
areas of law listed, or in other areas that
the faculty may from time to time
suggest.
The designated areas of concentration
are:
advocacy/dispute resolution
business
employee benefits
estate planning
general practice
information technology law
intellectual property law
international law
public interest law
real estate law
taxation
SECOND YEAR
Second Semester
Advanced Trial Advocacy
Conflict of Laws
Suggested Elective:
Labor Law
Hours
3
3
3
9
THIRD YEAR
First Semester
Pretrial Practice in
Civil Litigation
Federal Courts
Suggested Electives:
Counseling & Negotiating
Remedies
Clinical Litigation Practicum
Hours
3
3
SECOND YEAR
First Semester
Electives:
Business Practices for
Tax Lawyers (LL.M.)
Banking Law
Business Franchise Law
International Trade Law
Sales Transactions
Secured Transactions
Employment Law
Hours
2-3
Suggested Elective:
Unfair Competition & Trade
Regulation
3
5-6
3
3
3
15
Second Semester
Alternative Means of Dispute
Resolution
Electives
Business
Hours
2
12
Second Semester
Agency and Unincorporated
Business Entities
Corporations
3
3
Suggested Elective:
Securities Regulation
Electives
3
2
11
14
THIRD YEAR
First Semester
Income Tax
Bankruptcy
Payment Systems Law
Suggested Elective:
History of American
Legal System
Hours
3
3
3
2
11
Second Semester
Antitrust
Taxation of Corporations
3
3
3
Suggested Elective:
Business Planning
& Drafting
3
12
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Employee Benefits
Estate Planning
General Practice
SECOND YEAR
SECOND YEAR
SECOND YEAR
First Semester
Civil Procedure II
Herzog Moot Court
Professional Responsibility
Electives
Hours
3
3
1
3
6
(3)
(3)
(2)
Hours
3
2
First Semester
Income Taxation
Estates & Trusts I
5
Second Semester
Estates and Trusts I
Electives:
Conflict of Laws
Corporations
Family Law
Real Estate Transactions
16
Suggested electives:
Income Taxation
Employee Benefits
Elder Law Seminar
First Semester
Income Taxation
Elective
3
7
6
Second Semester
Corporations
Family Law
Suggested Elective:
Employment Law
2
3
11
THIRD YEAR
Labor Law (3)
Taxation of Corporations (3)
15
THIRD YEAR
First Semester
Hours
Evidence
4
Business Planning & Drafting 3
Electives
7
Second Semester
Estate Planning
& Drafting Seminar
Electives
14
Survey of Welfare Plan Issues (2)
Survey of Executive Compensation
Plans (2)
Fundamentals I of Retirement Plan
Issues (3)
Second Semester
Trial Advocacy
Electives
2
THIRD YEAR
First Semester
Hours
Electives
12
Suggested Elective:
Counseling & Negotiating 3
16
3
3
3
11
10
Second Semester
Legal Drafting
Corporations
Electives
Hours
3
3
3
12
15
First Semester
Hours
Pretrial Practice in Civil
Litigation
3
Counseling & Negotiating 3
Sales Transactions
3
Electives
2
11
Second Semester
Remedies
3
Electives:
Administrative Law, Agency &
Unincorporated Business Entities,
Bankruptcy, Employment
Discrimination, Insurance Law,
Payment Systems Law, Products
Liability,
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12
3
11
14
Fundamentals II of Retirement
Plans
(3)
Employment Law
(2)
Employment Discrimination (3)
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Intellectual
Property Law
Information
Technology Law
International Law
SECOND YEAR
SECOND YEAR
SECOND YEAR
First Semester
Hours
Intellectual Property
Law Survey
3
Patent & Trade Secret Law or
Trademark and Copyright Law 3
First Semester
Hours
Introduction to Information
Technology Law
2
Administrative Law
3
5
Second Semester
Legal Writing for the IP
Practice
Patent Law Planning
and Practice or
Trademark/Copyright Law
Planning and Practice
Second Semester
Trademark & Copyright Law 3
or
Survey
3
Electives (see suggested
electives below)
4
7
2
3
THIRD YEAR
First Semester
Hours
Accelerated Trial Advocacy for
IP Attorneys
3
Intellectual Property Licensing 3
The Patent Clinic or
2
IP in a Global/
Digital Environment (2 or 3)
Constitutional Law Seminar: The
First Amendment (2)
Corporations or Federal Courts (3)
Media Law (2)
*Information Law & Policy (2) or
*Cyberspace Law (2)
THIRD YEAR
Second Semester
International Intellectual
Property
3
Intellectual Property Litigation 3
Patent Office Practice or
Rights of Publicity &
Protection of Personality
3
First Semester
Hours
Alternate Means
of Dispute Resolution
2
2
or
3
electives below)
4
Other courses available include
Seminar on Selected Topics in
Intellectual Property Law, Claim
Drafting, Business Franchise Law,
Art Law, Entertainment Law,
Gaming Law, Publishing Law, Sports
Law and Unfair Competition and
Trade Regulation Law.
9 (8)
Second Semester
Antitrust
3
or
Unfair Competition and Trade
Regulation
3
*Electronic Commerce Law 2
electives below)
2
For advanced students, additional
courses offered through the LL.M.
program are available. See separate
listing and catalog descriptions.
7
*Computer Crime, Information
Warfare, and Economic
Espionage (2)
*Privacy Rights Seminar (2)
*U.S. Telecommunications Law (2)
International IP Law (2)
Scientific Evidence Seminar (2)
Entertainment Law (2)
National Security Law (2)
First Semester
Hours
International Law
3
Elective:
2
Alternative Means of
Dispute Resolution
Administrative Law
Antitrust Law
Aviation Law
Business Practices for
Tax Lawyers (LL.M.)
Conflict of Laws
History of English Law
Immigration Law and Procedure
Income Taxation
Introduction to
Payment Systems Law
Securities Regulation
*Taxation of Foreign Income
5
Second Semester
Corporations
Sales Transactions
3
3
3
9
THIRD YEAR
First Semester
International Business
Transactions
Electives
Hours
3
2
7
12
Second Semester
International Law Seminar
Electives
2
8
10
Fluency in a foreign language is
helpful.
*Program director’s approval required
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Public Interest Law
Real Estate
SECOND YEAR
SECOND YEAR
First Semester
Labor Law
Public International Law
Hours
3
3
6
Second Semester
Administrative Law
Employment Discrimination
Environmental Law
Human Rights in a Changing
Society: Lesbians, Gay Men,
and the Law
or
Fair Housing & Fair Lending
Law
First Semester
Suggested Elective:
Land Use Control
Taxation
SECOND YEAR
Hours
3
2
First Semester
Hours
Income Taxation
3
Taxation of Compensation
3
Estates & Trusts I
3
5
3
3
3
Second Semester
Income Taxation
Non-Real Estate Electives:
Sales Transactions
Administrative Law
Elective
3
3
3
2
11
2
11
9
Second Semester
Corporations
Administrative Law
Conflict of Laws
Employee Benefits Law
First Semester
Hours
Federal Courts
3
Immigration Law & Procedure 2
Local Government Law
3
Electives
3
11
Second Semester
Public Law Litigation
3
Electives:
AIDS and the Law
Children in the Legal System
Collective Bargaining &
Arbitration Seminar
Elder Law Seminar
Fair Housing & Fair Lending Law
Fair Housing Clinic
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law
Immigration Law Clinic
Media Law
National Security Law
Predatory Lending Law
Seminar in Public Sector
Labor Relations
9
First Semester
Hours
Real Estate Finance
3
Agency & Unincorporated
Business Entities
3
Corporations
3
2
THIRD YEAR
First Semester
Hours
Taxation of Corporations
3
Taxation of Estates and Trusts 3
* Partnership Taxation
2
8
11
Second Semester
Commercial Real Estate
& Planning
Remedies
Electives:
Taxation of Partnerships
Environmental Law
Debtor-Creditor Relations
3
3
3
3
12
THIRD YEAR
THIRD YEAR
3
3
3
5
11
Second Semester
*Business Practices for
Tax Lawyers
*Tax/Employee Benefits
Research
*Civil and Criminal Tax
Procedure
2
2
2
6
*Graduate level course. Some
restrictions to enrollment may apply.
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Certificate Programs
Certificate Programs
In selected areas of concentration, students may receive a certificate, indicating
successful completion of a focused curriculum. Certificates are available in:
intellectual property law
international business and trade law
Each area of concentration lists the elective courses a student may take. The
suggested sequence for taking these courses is shown in the Student Handbook.
A Certificate in Intellectual Property Law is
available to interested and qualified students.
To qualify for the certificate, students must
complete 16 credits of IP course work,
maintain a 3.2 average in IP courses, and a 3.0
average in overall course work.
Additional requirements include completion of:
Legal Writing for the IP Practice for all
students (2); for patent track students: Patent
and Trade Secret Law (3) and the Patent Clinic
(2) or Patent Planning and Practice (3). For
trademark/copyright track students:
Trademark and Copyright Law (3) and
Trademark/Copyright Law Planning and
Practice (3) or Protection of Intellectual
Property in a Global/Digital Environment (3).
and Trade Law
J.D. students may work toward a Certificate
in International Business and Trade Law by
successfully completing 12 hours from the
following designated courses: Admiralty Law
(2), Aviation Law (2), Comparative and
International Patent Law (3), Comparative
Legal Systems (2), Immigration Law and
Practice (2), International Business
Transactions (3), International Intellectual
Property Law (3), International Law Seminar:
Classic and Contemporary Issues (2),
International Trade Law (3), Public
International Law (3), and Sales Transactions
(3). In addition, students may elect six hours of
elective courses from the LL.M. Program in
International Business and Trade Law, with the
approval of the director. To qualify for the
certificate, students must achieve a 3.0 average
or better in each of the courses taken.
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LL.M. Courses
LL.M. Courses in Employee Benefits
LL.M. Courses in Global Legal Studies
Required Courses
Fundamentals I of Retirement Plan Issues (3) EB 361
Fundamentals II of Retirement Plan Issues (3) EB 362
Survey of Executive Compensation Plans (2) EB 365
Survey of Retirement Plan Issues (3) EB 360
Survey of Welfare Plan Issues (2) EB 363
Tax and Employee Benefits Research (2) TX 333
Elective Courses
Cash or Deferred Arrangements (2) EB 354
Contemporary Benefit Issues (2) EB 367
DOL Externship (3, is4) EB 393
Employee Benefits Litigation (2) EB 358
Employee Benefits Practice and Procedure (2) EB 357
Employee Benefits Practicum (3, 4) Law 397
ERISA Fiduciary Law (2) EB 356
ESOPs (1) EB 355
Executive Compensation Benefits: Advanced (2) EB 369
Graduate Seminar: Employee Benefits Law (2) EB 368
Independent Study (1-3) EB 394
International Employee Benefits (1) EB 388
IRS Externship Program (3, 4) EB 389
Specialized Employee Benefit Plans (2) EB 366
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) Summer
Externship in Washington, D.C. (3, 4) Law 391
Pension Rights Center Externship Program (3, 4) Law 396
Profit Sharing/401k Council of America Externship
Program in Chicago (3, 4) Law 390
U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Tax Policy, Benefits
Tax Counsel Summer Externship Program in
Washington, D.C. (3, 4) Law 395
Welfare Benefit Plans: Tax, Legal & Design Issues (2)
EB 364
Required Courses
Comparative Legal Systems (2) Law 256
Introduction to the United States Legal System
(2) FL 500
Lawyering Skills for Foreign Lawyers (3)
FL 501-502
Elective Courses
Clinical Legal Education (3) FL 533
Independent Research and Thesis (3) FL 599
United States Commercial Law (3) FL 530
United States Corporate Law (3) FL 540
United Sates Professional Responsibility Law (1)
FL 550
.
Elective Courses from the
LL.M. Program in
Information Technology
Law
Computers and the Law (2) IT 803
Cyberspace Law (3) IT 808
Electronic Commerce Law (2) IT 830
Information Law and Policy (2) IT 801
International Telecommunications Law (2)
IT 850
Transborder Data Flow (2) IT 855
LL.M. Program in
Antitrust (3) IP 404
Contemporary Problems in Computer Law (3)
IP 420
Copyright Law and Practice (3) IP 406
International Antitrust (1) IP 416
International Copyright Law (1) IP 455
International Patent Law (2) IP 413
International Trademark Law (1) IP 414
Substantive Patent Law I (3) IP 400
Trademark Law and Practice (3) IP 403
Transnational Enforcement of Intellectual
Property Rights (3) IP 450
Unfair Competition and the International Trade
Commission (2) IP 422
Elective Courses from
the LL.M. Program in
and Trade Law
Admiralty Law (2) IBT 712
Chinese Business and Investment Law (2)
IBT 780
Eastern European Business and Investment Law
(2) IBT 775
European Union Business and Investment Law
(2) IBT 760
Foreign Investment Law (2) IBT 740
Import and Export Law (3) IBT 700
International Antitrust Law (2) IBT 745
International Banking and Finance Law (2)
IBT 735
International Economic Development Law (2)
IBT 770
International Environmental Law (2) IBT 755
International Intellectual Property Law (3)
IBT 715
International Sales Law and Carriage of Goods
(2) IBT 710
International Trade Remedies Law (3) IBT 705
Legal Ethics in International Practice (2)
IBT 750
Master Class in International Economic Law and
Practice (1) IBT 799A-Z
Multinational Corporations Law (3) IBT 730
NAFTA (2) IBT 765
LL.M. Program in Real
Estate Law
International Aspects of Real Estate (2) RE 615
LL.M. Program in Tax Law
Business Practices for Tax Lawyers (2) TX 330
U.S. Taxation of International Transactions and
Foreign Taxpayers (2) TX 387
Elective J.D. Courses
Available to Global Legal
Studies LL.M. Students
Corporations (3) Law 130
Environmental Law (3) Law 260
International Business Transactions (3) Law 190
International Law Seminar: Classic and
Contemporary Issues (2) Law 191
Intellectual Property Law Survey (3) Law 113
Patent and Trade Secret Law (3) Law 117
Patent Systems Law (3) Law 271
Professional Responsibility (3) Law 176
Public International Law (3) Law 110
Sales Transactions (3) Law 245
Trademark and Copyright Law (3) Law 124
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LL.M. Courses in Information Technology
& Privacy Law
Required Courses
Elective Courses
Advertising Law (2) IP 417
Computer Crime, Information Warfare, and Economic
Espionage (2) IT 848
Contemporary Problems in Computer Law (3) IT 820
Contemporary Technology and Intellectual Property Law (2)
IP 421
Current Topics in Information Technology Law (1, 2) IT
880, IT 881
Electronic Document Certification (2) IT 835
Free Speech in Cyberspace (2) IT 841
Governance and Regulation in Cyberspace (2) IT 865
High Technology Litigation (2) IT 815
Independent Research in Information Technology Law (1-2)
IT 897
Intellectual Property Licensing (3) IP 407
International Intellectual Property Law (3) IBT 715
International Telecommunications Law (2) IT 850
Journal of Computer and Information Law (1) IT 818
Jurisdiction and Judgments in Cyberspace (2) IT 860
Master Classes on Advanced Topics in Intellectual Property
Law (1) IP 429 A-Z
Master’s Thesis in Information Technology Law (3) IT 899
Multimedia Licensing and Transactions (2) IT 825
Practicum in Information Technology Law (1-2) IT 893
Privacy Rights (2) IT 845
The Professional Responsibilities of a Technological Law
Practice (2) IT 812
The Rights of Publicity and Privacy (3) IP 423
Technology in the Practice of Law (2) IT 810
U.S. Telecommunications Law (2) IT 851
LL.M. Courses in Intellectual Property Law
It is strongly recommended that all students take Substantive Patent Law I
and Substantive Patent Law II or Law of Patents; Trademark Law and
Practice; and Copyright Law and Practice.
Accelerated Trial Advocacy for Intellectual Property Attorneys (3) IP 430
Advanced Patent Application Preparation (2) IP 445
Advanced Patent Clinic (2) IP 439
Antitrust and Misuse Aspects of Intellectual Property (3) IP 411
Art Law (1) IP 425
Bankruptcy and Security Interests in Intellectual Property (2) IP 460
Biotechnology Patent Law (3) IP 464
Business Franchise Law and Practice (2) IP 418
Claim Drafting (2) IP 465
Clinical Education in Intellectual Property Law (2) IP 433
Comparative and International Patent Law (3) IP 494
Computer Software Inventions: Patent Prosecution & Copyright
Protection (2) IP 451
Contemporary Technology and Intellectual Property Law (3) IP 421
Copyright Litigation (1) IP 427
Dissertation (3) IP 432
Entertainment Law (2) IP 419
Gaming Law (2) IP 444
Independent Study (2) IP 431
Interference, Reissue and Reexamination Practice (3) IP 405
International Antitrust Issues (1) IP 416
Law of Patents (1) IP 415
Legal Writing for the Intellectual Property Practice (2) IP 428
Master Classes on Advanced Topics in Intellectual Property Law (1)
IP 429 A-Z
Music Licensing (1) IP 436
Patent Litigation (2) IP 408
Patent Law: Statutory and Regulatory Fundamentals (2) Law 199
Patent Office Practice (3) IP 402
Pricing Regulation (2) IP 410
Publishing Law (1) IP 443
Right of Publicity and Protection of Personality (3) IP 423
Sports Law (2) IP 426
Substantive Patent Law I (3)IP 400
Substantive Patent Law II (3) IP 401
Taxation of Intellectual Property (1) IP 412
Trade Secrets Law (3) IP 440
Trade Secrets Litigation (2) IP 441
Trademark Litigation (2) IP 409
Trademark Transactions (2) IP 424
Transnational Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (3) IP 450
Unfair Competition and the International Trade Commission (2) IP 422
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LL.M. Courses in International Business and Trade Law
Art Law (1) IP 42
Aviation Law (2) IBT 74
Business Aspects of Immigration Law (2) IBT 725
Chinese Business & Investment Law (2, 3) IBT 780
Comparative and International Patent Law (3) IP 494
Current Issues in International Business & Trade (1,2,3) IBT 751
Eastern European Business and Investment Law (2, 3) IBT 775
European Union Business and Investment Law (2, 3) IBT 760
Homeland Security (2) IBT 717
IBT Externship (1, 2) IBT 763
Import & Export Law (3) IBT 700
Independent Research in International Business & Trade Law (1, 2, 3) IBT 791
International Antitrust Law (1, 2) IBT 744
International Aspects of Real Estate (2) RE 615 *
International Banking & Finance Law (2) IBT 735
International Business Franchise Law (1, 2, 3) IBT 783
International Commercial Dispute Resolution (2) IBT 720
International Copyright Law (1) IP 455 *
International Economic Development Law (2) IBT 770
International Employment Law (1, 2) IBT 789
International Environmental Law (1, 2) IBT 754
International Joint Ventures (2) IBT 714
International Sales Law & Carriage of Goods (1, 2) IBT 709
International Trade Remedies Law (3) IBT 705
International Trademark Law (1) IP 414 *
Law and Practice before the U.S. Court of International Trade (1) IBT 706
Legal Ethics in International Practice (1, 2) IBT 749
Master Class in International Economic Law and Practice (1) IBT 799 A-Z
A.European Union Regulation and Governance
B.International Secured Transactions
C.Commercial Law of the Arab Middle East
D.Transnational Legal Practice Issues
E.South Asia Commercial Law
F. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Emerging International Norms
G.International Criminal Law
H.The World Trade Organization
I. China and the World Trade Organization
J. Globalization, Human Rights and Labor Markets
K.International Business and Trade in Antiquities, Art & Cultural Property
L.International Agri-Business Law
M.Law and Ethics in Global Business
N.Mergers and Acquisitions from an EU Perspective
O.Drafting International Business Agreements
P. International Commercial Arbitration
Q.Law and Practice in Trade Compliance*
R.European Company Law
Multinational Corporations Law (3) IBT 730
NAFTA (2, 3) IBT 765
Practicum in International Business & Trade Law (1, 2, 3, 4) IBT 795
U.S. Commercial Law (3) IBT 715 (Foreign Lawyers only)
U.S. Taxation of International Transactions and Foreign Taxpayers (2) TX 387
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LL.M. Courses in Real Estate Law
LL.M. Courses in Tax Law
Required Courses
Required Courses
Commercial Real Estate Transactions (3) RE 602
Construction Law (2) RE 612
Drafting & Negotiation Skills Workshop (2) RE 608
Environmental Controls and Concerns Affecting Real Estate (2)
RE 609
Federal Income Tax Aspects of Real Estate (2) RE 603
Leasing, Ownership and Management (2) RE 605
Real Estate Finance (3) RE 607
Advanced Federal Income Tax (2) TX 340
Civil and Criminal Tax Procedure (2) TX 392
Corporate Taxation I (3) TX 350 or Corporate Taxation: A Survey
(2) TX 353
Gift and Estate Tax Law (2) TX 370
Partnership Taxation (2) TX 380
Elective Courses
Elective Courses
Affordable Housing (2) RE 610
Alternative Means of Dispute Resolution (2) RE 611
Bankruptcy and Insolvency Laws Affecting Real Estate (2) RE 601
Condominium, Cooperative and Other Common Ownership
Interest Communities (2) RE 617
Fair Housing Clinic (1-4) RE 621, RE 622, RE 623, RE 624
Fair Housing/Fair Lending Law (2) RE 633
Independent Research (1-4) RE 697, RE 698, RE 699
Insurance Aspects of Real Estate Transactions (2) RE 616
Land Use Control and Zoning (2) RE 604
Real Estate Industry (2) RE 619
Real Estate Legal Practicum (1-3) RE 620, 621, 622
Real Estate Litigation (2) RE 613
Securitization of Real Estate (2) RE 606
Seminar on Selected Topics in Commercial Real Estate Finance
and Development (2) RE 618
State, Local and Transfer Taxes (2) RE 614
Advanced Estate Planning (2) TX 373
Basic Estate Planning (2) TX 371
Charitable Giving in Estate Planning (2) TX 375
Corporate Taxation II (3) TX 351
Federal Income Taxation of Property Transactions (2) TX 341
Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts (2) TX 372
Independent Study (1-3) TX 398
IRS Externship (3-4) EB 389
Life Insurance: Tax Aspects in Business, Estate, Employee Benefits
and Financial Planning (2) TX 336
Personal Financial Planning (2) TX 335
Post-Mortem Planning and Estate Administration (2) TX 374
State and Local Taxes (2) TX 385
Tax Accounting (2) TX 301
Tax Exempt Organizations (2) TX 386
Taxation of Closely Held Businesses (2) TX 334
U.S. Taxation of International Transactions and Foreign Taxpayers
(2-3) TX 387
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M.S. Courses in Employee Benefits
Required Courses
Introduction to Legal Analysis (2) IT 805
Substantive Law Overview (2) IT 800
Survey of Retirement Plan Issues (3) EB 360
Survey of Welfare Plan Issues (2) EB 363 or Survey of Executive
Compensation Plans (2) EB 365
Tax & Employee Benefits Research (2) TX 333
M.S. Courses in Information
Technology Law
Required Courses
Elective Courses
Employee Benefits Practice and Procedure (2) EB 357
Employment Discrimination (3) Law 275
Employment Law (2) Law 272
ESOPs (1) EB 355
Executive Compensation Benefits: Advanced (2) EB 369
Fundamentals I of Retirement Plan Issues (3) EB 361
Fundamentals II of Retirement Plan Issues (3) EB 362
Graduate Seminar: Employee Benefits Law (2) EB 368
International Employee Benefits (1) EB 388
Labor Law (3) Law 137
Specialized Employee Benefit Plans (2) EB 366
Welfare Benefit Plans: Tax, Legal & Design Issues (2) EB 364
Elective Courses
Computer Crime, Information Warfare, and Economic Espionage
(2) IT 848
Contemporary Problems in Computer Law (3) IT 820
Contemporary Technology and Intellectual Property Law (2) IP 421
Current Topics in Information Technology Law (2) IT 881
Electronic Document Certification (2) IT 835
Governance and Regulation in Cyberspace (2) IT 865
Independent Research in Information Technology Law (1-2) IT 897
International Intellectual Property Law (3) IBT 715
Jurisdiction and Judgments in Cyberspace (2) IT 860
Master Classes on Advanced Topics in Intellectual Property Law (1)
IP 429 A-Z
Multimedia Licensing and Transactions (2) IT 825
The Professional Responsibilities of a Technological Law Practice (2)
IT 812
The Rights of Publicity and Privacy (3) IP 423
Technology in the Practice of Law (2) IT 810
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M.S. Courses in Real Estate Law
M.S. Courses in Tax Law
Required Courses
Required Courses
Corporate Taxation I (3) TX 350 or Corporate Taxation: A Survey (2)
TX 353
Alternative Means of Dispute Resolution (2) RE 611
Commercial Real Estate Transactions (3) RE602
Drafting & Negotiating Skills Workshop (2) RE608
Introduction to American Law (2) RE 634
Introduction to Basic Real Estate Law & Practice (3) RE 635
Introduction to Legal Materials and Analysis (2) RE 636
Elective Courses
Bankruptcy and Insolvency Laws Affecting Real Estate (2) RE 601
Condominium, Cooperative and Other Common Ownership Interest
Communities (2) RE 617
Environmental Controls and Concerns Affecting Real Estate (2) RE 609
Fair Housing Clinic (1-4) RE 621, 622, 623, 624
Fair Housing/Fair Lending Law (2) RE 633
Federal Income Tax Aspects of Real Estate (2) RE 603
Independent Research (1-4) RE 697, 698, 699
Insurance Aspects of Real Estate Transactions (2) RE 616
Land Use Control and Zoning (2) RE 604
Leasing, Ownership and Management (2) RE 605
Real Estate Legal Practicum (1-3) RE 620, 621, 622
Seminar on Selected Topics in Commercial Real Estate Finance and
Development (2) RE 618
State, Local and Transfer Taxes (2) RE 614
Elective Courses
Charitable Giving in Estate Planning (2) TX 375
Federal Income Taxation of Property Transactions (2) TX 341
Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts (2) TX 372
Life Insurance: Tax Aspects in Business, Estate, Employee Benefits and
Financial Planning (2) TX 336
Post-Mortem Planning and Estate Administration (2) TX 374
Taxation of Closely Held Businesses (2) TX 334
U.S. Taxation of International Transactions and Foreign Taxpayers (2)
TX 387
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J.D. Course Listings
Note: “Bar course” denotes a class where the subject matter is tested as part of the Illinois bar exam. The symbol
All required classes except Lawyering Skills and Trial Advocacy are bar courses.
indicates bar courses.
Required Courses
Civil Procedure I (3) Law 070
Civil Procedure II (3) Law 170
Constitutional Law I (3) Law 172
Constitutional Law II (3) Law 173
Contracts I (3) Law 063
Contracts II (3) Law 064
Criminal Law (3) Law 060
Evidence (4) Law 180
Lawyering Skills I (3) Law 054
Lawyering Skills II (3) Law 055
Lawyering Skills III (2) Law 153
Lawyering Skills: Drafting (2) Law 290,
Law 205, IP 428
Lawyering Skills—Specialty Drafting:
Employee Benefits (2), Family Law (2),
Information Technology Law (2),
International Practice (2), Litigation (2),
Real Estate (2)
Lawyering Skills: Herzog Moot Court
Competition (1)
Property (4) Law 066
Torts (4) Law 072
Trial Advocacy
Accelerated Trial Advocacy for IP Attorneys
(3) Law 189
Trial Advocacy (3) Law 181
Trial Advocacy: Accelerated (3) Law 183
Trial Lawyer (7) Law 184
Fair Housing and Fair Lending Law (2)
Law 133
Family Law (3) Law 104
Federal Criminal Law (3) Law 219
Federal Courts (3) Law 134
Gaming Law (2) Law 234
Health Fraud Law (2) Law 157
Health Law (2) Law 115
Human Rights in a Changing Society:
Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Law (2)
Law 168
Illinois Civil Procedure (3) Law 177
The Immigration Law Clinic (1-3) Law 046,
Law 047, Law 048
Immigration Law and Procedure (2) Law 107
Income Taxation (3) Law 135
Independent Research (1-2) Law 041, Law 042
Independent Research in Intellectual Property
Law (1-2) Law 289/LL.M. IP 431
Insurance Law (2) Law 109
Intellectual Property Law (3) Law 113
Intellectual Property Licensing (3) Law 195
Intellectual Property Litigation (3) Law 194
International Business Transactions (3)
Law 190
International Intellectual Property Law (3)
Law 294
International Trade Law (3) Law 084
Introduction to Information Technology Law
(2) Law 281
The Judicial Extern Program (1-4) Law 296,
Law 297, Law 298, Law 299
Land Use Control (2) Law 265
Law and Diversity (3) Law 141
The Lawyering Process (1-4) Law 030,
Law 031, Law 032, Law 033
Competition (1)
Legislation and Political Thought (2) Law 266
The Litigation Practicum (1-4) Law 277,
Law 278, Law 279, Law 280
Local Government Law (3) Law 129
Media Law (2) Law 114
Music Licensing (1) Law 220
National Security Law (2) Law 147
Patent Clinic (2) Law 239
Patent Law Planning and Practice (3) Law 290
Patent Law: Statutory and Regulatory
Fundamentals (2) Law 199
Patent Office Practice (3) Law 197
Payment Systems law (3) Law 271
Philosophy of Law (2) Law 268
Predatory Lending (3) Law 288
Pretrial Practice in Civil Litigation Seminar (3)
Law 235
Products Liability (2) Law 238
Professional Malpractice (2) Law 142
Protection of Intellectual Property in a
Global/Digital Environment (3) Law 178
Psychology and the Law (2) Law 240
Public Law Litigation (2) Law 241
Publishing Law (1) Law 267
Real Estate Transactions (3) Law 243
Recent Illinois Decisions (1) Law 118
Religion and the Law (2) Law 269
Remedies (3) Law 120
Right of Publicity and Protection of Personality
(3) Law 196
Rights of Prisoners in American Law Seminar
(2) Law 121
Scientific Evidence Seminar (2) Law 246
Secured Transactions (2) Law 247
Securities Regulation (3) Law 248
Seminar in Public Sector Labor Relations (2)
Law 237
Seminar on Selected Topics in Intellectual
Property Law (2) Law 295
Sports Law (2) Law 228
Taxation of Compensation (3) Law 144
Taxation of Corporations, Corporate
Transactions and Shareholders (3) Law 225
Taxation of Estates and Trusts (3) Law 232
Taxation Seminar: Advanced (3) Law 227
Torts Law Seminar (2) Law 140
Trademark and Copyright Law (3) Law 124
Trademark and Copyright Law Planning and
Practice (3) Law 127
Transnational Legal Negotiations: Accelerated
(2*) Law 193
Trial Advocacy: Advanced (3) Law 182
Unfair Competition and Trade Regulation (3)
Law 273
Voting Rights and Elections (2) Law 123
Women, Law, and Feminist Jurisprudence (3)
Law 143
Writing for the Practice of Law (3) Law 151
Electives
Administrative Law (3) Law 250
Advanced Torts (2) Law 145
Agency and Unincorporated Business Entities
(3) Law 126
AIDS and the Law (2) Law 100
Alternative Means of Dispute Resolution (2)
Law 251
Antitrust Law (3) Law 252
Appellate Procedure (2) Law 200
Art Law (1) Law 229
Aviation Law (2) Law 253
Banking Law (2) Law 254
Bankruptcy (3) Law 082
Business Franchise Law (3) Law 081
Business Planning and Drafting Seminar (3)
Law 205
Children in the Legal System (2) Law 101
Claim Drafting (2) Law 286
Collective Bargaining and Arbitration Seminar
(2) Law 255
Commercial Law in the USA: A Survey (4)
Law 230
Comparative Trial Advocacy and Litigation:
Accelerated (2*) Law 192
Conflict of Laws (3) Law 128
Constitutional Civil Rights Seminar (2)
Law 207
Constitutional Law Seminar: The First
Amendment (2) Law 208
Constitutional Theory (2) Law 293
Counseling and Negotiating Seminar (3)
Law 210
Criminal Procedure I (3) Law 212
Criminal Procedure II (2) Law 213
Current Legal Issues (1-3) Law 287
Domestic and Transnational Notarial and
Digital Signature Law (2) Law 202
Economics and the Law (2) Law 259
Elder Law Seminar (2) Law 258
Employee Benefits Law (3) Law 216
Entertainment Law (2) Law 215
Estate Planning and Drafting Seminar (3)
Law 231
Estates and Trusts I (3) Law 131
The Fair Housing Clinic (1-4) Law 221,
Law 222, Law 223, Law 224
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NOTE: The number in parentheses following a course title indicates
semester hours of credit. For example, (3) indicates a course worth
three credit hours.
Required
Evidence (4) Law 180
Prerequisite: Civil Procedure I
The law of evidence, Federal and state rules: burdens of proof,
presumptions, stipulations, judicial notice, relevancy, privileges, hearsay,
witness competency, examination of witnesses and impeachment,
opinions, and authentication.
Civil Procedure I (3) Law 070
Personal jurisdiction, subject matter jurisdiction, supplemental
jurisdiction, venue, service, removal, transfer; joinder of parties and
claims; the Erie Doctrine.
Civil Procedure II (3) Law 170
Prerequisite: Civil Procedure I
The theory and rules governing the litigation process, including
pleadings, class actions, motion practice, discovery, pretrial conferences,
trial procedure, post-trial motions, preclusive effects of judgments,
relief from judgments and principles of appellate review.
Constitutional Law I (3) Law 172
Judicial review, Article III requirements, federal legislative power,
state regulatory powers, presidential powers, adoption of post-Civil
War amendments, the incorporation controversy, the state action
requirement.
Constitutional Law II (3) Law 173
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I
Procedural and substantive due process, equal protection, and first
amendment liberties.
Contracts I (3) Law 063
This course provides a general introduction to contract law and
addresses the necessary formalities to create binding contractual
obligations, including the requirements of mutual assent (including
the process of offer and acceptance), consideration, and the statute of
frauds. The course also addresses doctrines of reliance and restitution
as alternative theories for enforcing contractual obligation. Finally,
the course covers various defenses to contract enforcement, such as
incapacity, duress, misrepresentation, mistake, and unconscionability.
Uniform Commercial Code issues will be addressed.
Contracts II (3) Law 064
Prerequisite: Contracts I
This course addresses the legal and equitable remedies available for
breach of contract. It also addresses principles of contract interpretation
and the admissibility of extrinsic evidence to supplement or interpret a
contract under the parol evidence rule. Students will also study
contract performance and breach, the law of conditions and bases
for excuse of contract obligation under doctrines of impracticability
and frustration of purpose. Finally, the course addresses the rights
of non-parties to a contract, particularly the rights of third-party
beneficiaries and assignees/delegates. Uniform Commercial code issues
will be addressed.
Criminal Law (3) Law 060
A course in the substantive law of crimes. The course places principal
emphasis on studying the sources and meanings of statutes. In addition
to crimes against persons, property, and society, the course will include
consideration of inchoate offenses, the principles underlying criminal
responsibility, and the purposes and limits of criminal law.
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Lawyering Skills I: Objective Analysis,
Writing, and Research (3) Law 054
This course is an introduction to objective legal analysis. Students learn
precedential, rule-based, policy-based, and factual reasoning, and learn
to perform basic legal research using case law, statutes, administrative
regulations, court rules, and secondary materials. Students learn and
apply the skills of legal analysis, research, and writing by preparing a
series of objective legal memoranda and other exercises. Students
participate in individual tutorial conferences with faculty and receive
other forms of substantive feedback.
Lawyering Skills II: Advocacy (3)
Law 055
Prerequisite: Lawyering Skills I
This course uses a series of advocacy writing assignments to build
upon the legal analysis, research, and writing skills taught in the firstsemester course. Students prepare trial and appellate briefs, participate
in oral arguments, and learn about legal research methods not covered
in the introductory course, including electronic research. Students
participate in individual tutorial conferences with faculty and receive
other forms of substantive feedback.
Competition (1) Law 159
Prerequisite: Lawyering Skills II
Students refine their advocacy skills in the context of a school-wide
intra-scholastic moot court competition. Students prepare a brief and
present two oral arguments in a hypothetical appellate case. The top
students from the preliminary rounds then argue in elimination rounds
to determine the winner of the competition. Awards are presented for
first place, second place, best brief, and best oralist. This one-credit
course meets for two hours each week for the first half of the semester.
The competition is named in honor of Dean Emeritus Fred F. Herzog.
This course is required for all students entering the law school
beginning in August 2004. This course is also required for all students
who wish to become members of the Moot Court Council, and it is
strongly recommended for students who wish to try out for
interscholastic moot court teams.
Lawyering Skills: Introduction to Legal
Drafting: General Practice (2)
Students learn drafting skills by choosing between a specialty course
or a General Practice course. In the general course, students learn to
avoid legal problems and litigation through proper drafting techniques
of various documents. Students learn to apply generally applicable
concepts in drafting such as precision vs. ambiguity and anticipating
consequences. Students will research and draft a contract, a will, a
substantial piece of legislation, and a pleading. Other related
documents may be required. Other specialty courses are available for
drafting credit. See the catalogue for other courses. Prerequisites for
general practice drafting: Completion of 48 course hours, including
Civil Procedure II and Estates & Trusts I. Recommended:
Corporations, Sales.
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Lawyering Skills: Legal Drafting:
Specialty Courses (2-3) Law 290,
Law 205, IP 428
Available courses are Patent Law Planning & Practice (Law 290),
Business Planning & Drafting Seminar (Law 205), and Legal Writing
for the Intellectual Property Practice (IP 428).
Lawyering Skills Specialty Drafting:
Employee Benefits (2)
Prerequisites: Lawyering Skills II, Employee Benefits Law
The area of legal writing and reviewing in employee benefits will be
introduced to students through a series of lectures and drafting
projects. Over a 15-week period, there will be 10 general class lectures,
five drafting projects, and five student and instructor meetings to
review projects. Students will learn general drafting principles and
more advanced drafting techniques as they apply to the area of
employee benefits law. This course satisfies the third semester
requirement for the Lawyering Skills program.
Information Technology Law (2)
Prerequisites: J.D. students: Lawyering Skills II, Introduction
to Information Technology Law; Joint J.D./IT LL.M. degree
students: Lawyering Skills II, two of the following three LL.M.
courses: Information Law and Policy, Computers and the Law,
Cyberspace Law
This is a rigorous, advanced drafting course designed to give students
interested in pursuing a practice in information technology and/or
privacy law hands-on experience in the research techniques and
drafting styles common to such practice. This is a two-hour course
that will meet once a week. This course satisfies the third semester
requirement for the Lawyering Skills program. Highly recommended:
Constitutional Law II, Corporations, and Trademark and Copyright.
International Practice (2)
Prerequisites: Lawyering Skills II, Corporations and International
Business Transactions
This is a two-hour course that will meet once a week. The course
has two goals: first, to give students rigorous, practical experience
in drafting and related areas (negotiation, arbitration); second, to
teach students about, and give practice in, areas that an international
practitioner might experience. This course satisfies the third semester
requirement for the Lawyering Skills program.
Litigation (2)
Prerequisites: Lawyering Skills II, Civil Procedure I and II,
Evidence
This course is an intensive writing course that focuses on the
specialized drafting skills needed for successful litigation practice.
Students will learn these skills in the context of various litigation
documents including, but not limited to, motions, pleadings,
discovery documents, and briefs. The course is designed for students
who have a serious interest in civil litigation. This course satisfies the
third semester requirement for the Lawyering Skills program.
Real Estate (2)
Prerequisites: Lawyering Skills II, Real Estate Transactions
This drafting course will introduce students to fundamental drafting
concepts and skills that are generally applicable to the practice of law,
but will do so in the context of commercial real estate transactions.
Some of the drafting assignments will also focus on the unique challenges
of commercial real estate law, including client communication, contract
for purchase, contract for lease, and title documents. This is a rigorous
writing course that will require students to draft several documents
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commonly used in commercial real estate practice. The course will also
touch on ethical matters that confront commercial real estate attorneys.
This course explores the law of lawyering with special emphasis on the
regulation of lawyers through rules of professional conduct and codes
of judicial conduct, such as the ABA Model Rules of Professional
Conduct, the Illinois Supreme Court’s Rules of Professional Conduct,
the ABA Code of Judicial Conduct, and the Illinois Code of Judicial
Conduct. The course covers issues that affect the attorney-client
relationship such as confidentiality, conflicts of interest, advertising of
legal services, solicitation, advocacy in criminal cases, and malpractice.
The course also explores the attorney’s duties to the court and society,
and other topics at the discretion of the instructor.
Property (4) Law 066
Introduction to basic property concepts: possession; acquisition of
property through voluntary transfer (gifts, conveyances) and otherwise
(adverse possession, rule of capture); estates in land, future interests
and concurrent estates; the landlord-tenant relationship; government
regulation and use of private property and private land use controls
(incorporeal rights, easements and servitudes).
Torts (4) Law 072
This course explores the basic principles related to civil liability for
interferences with persons, property and other legally protected
interests. The course will cover the elements of a cause of action under
theories of tort liability based on intent, negligence, and strict liability
and applicable defenses.
Trial Advocacy* (3) Law 181
Prerequisite: Evidence
The theory underlying the preparation and presentation of a jury trial;
skills training in trial advocacy; jury selection; opening statements;
witness examination; motion practice and closing arguments.
OR
Trial Advocacy: Accelerated (3) Law 183
(see Trial Advocacy above)
Prerequisite: Evidence
Each January and August, between academic terms, Trial Advocacy is
offered in an accelerated format. The course, which normally runs 15
weeks, is compressed into an intensive 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., nine-and-ahalf day format. Many faculty members and students believe that this
concentrated format aids learning and gives students a more realistic
understanding of the rigors of trial practice.
Trial Lawyer (7) Law 184
Prerequisite: second-year standing
This is a semester-long, seven-credit-hour course that combines the
traditional Evidence and Trial Advocacy courses. Classes meet twice a
week for three-hour evening sessions, and the course includes two daylong Saturday evidence seminars. The goal is to impart to students a
theoretical and practical understanding of the principles and rules of
evidence, and the art of advocacy. Generally, the evidence portion of
the course will be taught in a conventional classroom mode; however,
the trial advocacy portion will be taught in small classes of no more
than 10 students per section. The course will also emphasize trial
preparation and the persuasive development of a party’s theory of the
case. This course is limited to second year students (2L’s). Prior to the
completion of this course, participating students will be granted the
opportunity for early tryouts for the following semester’s trial team
competitions. Both Evidence and Trial Advocacy requirements are
satisfied through successful completion of this course. Separate grades
will be given for the Evidence and Trial Advocacy components.
Enrollment is limited.
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Electives
Aviation Law (2) Law 253
The broad spectrum of aviation legal matters focusing on numerous
other categorical fields; procedure, administrative law, the law of torts
and, to some extent, of contracts and international law. Special federal
procedures applicable to aviation disasters, law affecting titles in
aircraft, liability for injury to persons on the ground, aviation rights in
air space above the land of another, duties of common carriers, the
Federal Aviation Administration, the National Transportation Safety
Board, the Civil Aeronautics Board, conflict of laws, aircraft piracy,
treaties and other agreements, and federal and state jurisdiction.
Accelerated Trial Advocacy for IP
Attorneys (3) Law 189
Designed for students who intend to be trial lawyers in the field of
intellectual property. This course involves the full preparation and trial
of one or more jury trials under the close supervision of the instructor.
Administrative Law (3) Law 250
Introduction to the law creating, structuring, empowering, and
limiting administrative agencies, with an emphasis on the principles
common to all administrative agency action; topics include administrative
procedure, the scope of judicial review of administrative action and
the relationship of administrative agencies to the political branches
of government.
Banking Law (2) Law 254
The law of commercial banking with special emphasis on banking as a
regulated industry; what is the business of banking, the savings and
loan (S&L) business compared with the banking business, the history
and structure of the American banking system and the federal agencies,
the dual banking system: pros and cons, the rise and fall of the Glass
Steagall Act, the federal Bank Holding Company Act, failing banks and
S&L’s vis-a-vis the FDIC and the RTC, failing safety and soundness
considerations and FIRREA, state and federal usury laws and credit
card interest limits, increasing capital requirements, and federal
preemption of banking laws.
Advanced Torts (2) Law 145
This course is designed for students who have taken the basic torts
course and wish to continue studying important topics of tort law that
are either not covered or not covered in much depth in the basic torts
course. The course will include products liability, commercial torts,
defamation, invasion of privacy, and nuisance.
Agency and Unincorporated Business
Entities (3) Law 126
Bankruptcy (3) Law 082
Recommended: Secured Transactions
Study of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, its predecessor acts,
other state and federal laws relating to the rights and remedies of
creditors and debtors.
The nature of the principal-agent relationship, including tort and
contract liabilities, the principles and problems of partnerships, limited
partnerships, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships,
and other unincorporated businesses.
Business Franchise Law (3) Law 081
AIDS and the Law (2) Law 100
Development of the business franchise as a unique legal and business
phenomenon; federal and state statutes, regulations, and cases dealing
with the franchisor-franchisee relationship. Areas to be covered include
governmental restrictions and preconditions concerning the sale of
business franchises, procedures and documents to effect and evidence
compliance with state and federal regulations, the rights and duties of
franchiser and franchisee under the franchise agreement, remedies of
franchiser and franchisee for violations of the franchise agreement, and
statutory and regulatory provisions that (a) require certain items to be
included in the franchise agreement and (b) prohibit or limit the
availability of specific kinds of actions and remedies.
This course examines the medical, political and legal reactions to the
HIV-AIDS epidemic. Regarding specific legal subjects, the course
amounts to a survey of much of the law school curriculum including
such topics as torts, criminal law, employment discrimination,
education law, domestic relations, insurance law, estate planning,
public and private health care law, international law and others.
Alternative Means of Dispute Resolution
(2) Law 251
Prerequisite: senior standing
This course involves a study of arbitration and mediation as means of
resolving disputes. Students will explore the principles of effective
arbitration and mediation and have an opportunity to participate in
actual problem solving through simulation.
Business Planning and Drafting Seminar
(3) Law 205
Prerequisites: Corporations, Income Taxation
This course is taught through the use of problems that frequently arise
in business. The following areas of law are discussed and applied to
those problems: corporations, partnerships, taxation, and securities.
Antitrust Law (3) Law 252
Restraints of trade, price-fixing territorial and customer limitations,
the patent-antitrust interface, refusal to deal, monopolization, tie-ins,
patent misuse, requirements contracts, and mergers, with principal
focus on the key U.S. statutes: Sherman, Clayton, and F.T.C. Acts, with
some attention to state common law and foreign legislation, including
the E.E.C. provisions.
Children in the Legal System (2)
Law 101
Recommended: Constitutional Law I and II, and Evidence
Constitutional framework of juvenile law, allocating power over
children between parents and state, school authority, consent to
medical treatment, abuse and neglect, foster care, termination
of parental rights, failed adoption and custody, adolescence,
curfews, emancipation, status offenses, juvenile delinquency,
and search and seizure.
Appellate Procedure (2) Law 200
The study of civil procedure aspects of appellate practice, state and
federal courts, intermediate appellate level and supreme court level,
appellate jurisdiction, preserving points for review, the record on
appeal, requirements for briefs and oral arguments, the relief available on
appeal, and the organization and administration of the courts of review.
Claim Drafting (2) Law 286
Art Law (1) Law 229
The class surveys legal and practical concepts relating to protection,
acquisition, exhibition and sale of works of art, including: problems
regarding copyright, art censorship, moral rights, endowments,
and tax implications.
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Recommended: Intellectual Property Law Planning and Practice
This class is a continuation of Intellectual Property Law Planning and
Practice. The workshop will give students extensive practical experience
in drafting claims for all areas of technology. Experts will be brought in
to give specific instruction on drafting claims for mechanical, chemical,
biochemical, electrical, biotechnology, and computer cases.
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Collective Bargaining and Arbitration
Seminar (2) Law 255
Prerequisite: Labor Law
The law of collective bargaining and labor arbitration in the private sector
including the statutory duty to bargain in good faith; mandatory and
permissive subjects of bargaining; impasse and its consequences; judicial
enforcement of labor contracts, no-strike clauses, arbitration agreements
and arbitration awards; grievance arbitration; successor employer liability,
and National Labor Relations Board deferral to arbitration.
Commercial Law in the USA: A Survey (4)
Law 230
This course provides a survey of important legal issues in the commercial
law of the U.S. Emphasis will be on the contracting process (common
law and UCC), payment for contracts (particularly through the use of
negotiable instruments), and security for payments (particularly
suretyship and secured transactions). The course will also briefly deal with
bills of lading and warehouse receipts (with emphasis on the negotiability
of these documents) and letters of credit. Though the course will NOT
cover bankruptcy, international law, and e-commerce topics, the course
will include continuing references to the general importance of those
topics. It is highly recommended that students take this survey course
only as an introduction to or review of topics already studied in or later
to be studied in in-depth commercial law courses. In depth commercial
law courses include [Consumer Law], E-Commerce Law, Payment
Systems, Sales Transactions, Secured Transactions, Bankruptcy,
International Trade Law, and International Business Transactions.
Comparative Trial Advocacy and
Litigation: Accelerated (2*) Law 192
Prerequisite: 3.0 GPA
This course focuses on trial advocacy and litigation in a transnational
context. The course compares the American system of trial advocacy and
litigation with that of another country. Students will conduct simulated
trial advocacy exercises using American and foreign laws and customs.
Particular emphasis is placed on the legal, ethical, and cultural challenges
facing an American advocate in transnational litigation. At the dean’s
discretion, the course may be conducted in a foreign country. Possible
host countries include Ireland, Great Britain, Scotland and Australia.
(This course is not open to students visiting from another law school.)
*In addition, students may enroll in an optional one-hour independent
study component.
Conflict of Laws (3) Law 128
The course addresses traditional and modern approaches to choosing
applicable state law in civil controversies that have multistate connections
and the applicable law when federal as well as state interests are involved.
The course reviews the law governing the recognition and enforcement
of judgments in states other than those in which the judgments were
obtained and relevant issues of jurisdiction.
Constitutional Theory (2) Law 293
This seminar will begin with an inquiry into the proper role of the Court
in adjudicating constitutional questions. Next, the focus will shift to what
it means—or what it should mean—to interpret the Constitution. During
this segment of the course, an articulation and assessment of the various
theories of interpretation (textually based theories, originalist theories,
theories based on structural reasoning, notions of federalism and
separation of powers, theories espousing the use of moral reasoning
and value choices, constitutional adjudication, and antiformalist theories)
will ensue. The course will also include an inquiry into the nature of
constitutional judgment and its relation to political or moral judgment.
Recommended: Agency and Unincorporated Business Entities
The structure and characteristics of the modern business corporation,
advantages and disadvantages, promotion and organization, how
corporations act, authority and fiduciary obligations of management,
proxies, consequences of unauthorized corporate action, separation
of control from ownership (voting trusts, pooling agreements and
agreements limiting discretion of directors), shareholders’ suits,
determination of financial position and operation of controls over
distribution or disbursements to shareholders, violation and shifting
of such controls.
Counseling and Negotiating Seminar (3)
Law 210
Prerequisite: Completion of 45 hours
This course focuses on the counseling and negotiating process. The
lawyer’s relationship with his or her client is explored, and the nature of
the lawyer’s responsibility and the interaction between lawyer and client
in the negotiating and settlement process are examined. In addition,
students study the negotiating process, are exposed to negotiating theory
and participate in actual negotiation problems inside and outside of class.
Criminal Procedure I (3) Law 212
Constitutional analysis, with emphasis on 4th, 5th, 6th, and 14th
Amendment issues, including overview of the criminal justice process;
police interrogation practices; the right to counsel; the law of arrest,
search, and seizure; electronic eavesdropping; entrapment; selfincrimination; lineups; and the exclusionary rule.
Criminal Procedure II (2) Law 213
Constitutional and statutory analysis, with emphasis on pretrial, trial,
and post-trial proceedings. This course will cover the charging stage,
bail, jurisdiction and venue, the preliminary hearing, the arraignment,
the grand jury, joinder and severance, pretrial motions, discovery, speedy
trial, plea negotiations, fair trial and the media, change of venue, trial
rights, double jeopardy, sentencing, post-conviction remedies, habeas
corpus, and appeals.
Current Legal Issues (1-3) Law 287
Constitutional Civil Rights Seminar (2)
Law 207
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law
The Bill of Rights; the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S.
Constitution and their implementation; survey of the 19th- century
background, as well as recent developments in equal protection and
discrimination problems; “benign quotas” in education, employment,
and housing; recent civil rights litigation; study of pertinent provisions
of the Illinois Constitution of 1970 as they relate to civil rights.
Constitutional Law Seminar:
The First Amendment (2) Law 208
An analysis of the First Amendment. Subjects include freedom of speech,
freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and the penumbras that give
these freedoms life and substance. The Establishment and Free Exercise
clauses will also be studied.
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This course focuses on current issues and contemporary problems in a
given area of the law. Its goals are to analyze important developments
in a particular area of law and to help students develop a deeper
understanding of that area. Before registration, the registrar will publish
the area of the law the course will deal with and the number of credit
hours to be given in that semester. The course may be offered for one,
two, or three credit hours.
Domestic and Transnational Notarial
and Digital Signature Law (2) Law 202
The course focuses on the law governing notarizations and electronic
documents/digital signatures. The course examines issues of tort liability,
statutory interpretation, administrative agency oversight, ethical
considerations, criminal responsibility, and other topics in the United
States and internationally. Students will engage in exercises in document
and legislative drafting, ethics, considerations, and statutory applications.
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Economics and the Law (2) Law 259
An introduction to important micro-economic, public choice concepts
having wide applicability in law. Property, contracts, torts, and
remedies cases are subjected to economic analysis. Students will also
study the behavioral implications of alternative legal doctrines and
policies. The course does not assume a prerequisite level of economic
knowledge. The concepts are introduced gradually and applied to a
series of increasingly sophisticated problems.
Estate Planning and Drafting Seminar
(3) Law 231
Prerequisites: Taxation of Estates and Trusts; Estates and Trusts I
Integration of the law of property, as studied in: Property, Taxation of
Estates and Trusts, Estates and Trusts I. Comprehensive property
settlements and estate plans, with emphasis upon the drafting of wills
and various types of trust agreements.
Estates and Trusts I (3) Law 131
Elder Law Seminar (2) Law 258
Prerequisites: Estates and Trusts I
The course covers the legal issues that face the aging population in
the United States and worldwide, including health care matters for
the elderly, pension and retirement benefit plans, estate planning,
and matters relating to the interests of family members.
Employee Benefits Law (3) Law 216
This course will survey the labor, employment, and tax rules affecting
employee pension and profit sharing plans. By providing an overview
of the framework of rules governing such plans, students will learn the
basic tax, legal, business, and other issues that specifically affect
retirement plans and participants’ rights under such plans. Larger
public policy issues to be discussed include the struggles of Social
Security to remain solvent, the problems of aging and health care,
retirement security and women, and changing retirement patterns.
The course will also discuss other types of employee benefit plans,
such as health and welfare plans and executive compensation plans.
Basic concepts, procedural problems, administrative processing,
defenses, and remedies in the law of employment discrimination,
with special emphasis on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
and discrimination on the basis of age or disability.
Prerequisite: Property
A course in the law of wills and intestate succession, and the basic law
of trusts; disposition of property during life or at death by means of
wills, will substitutes, and transfers in trust; the requisites of valid
instruments; the duties of executors, administrators, and trustees;
and the rights of beneficiaries.
The Fair Housing Clinic (1-4) Law 221,
Law 222, Law 223, Law 224
The law school operates The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing
Clinic, an “in-house” clinic devoted to representing individuals who
experience unlawful discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
units. For a description of the course, see page 15.
Fair Housing and Fair Lending Law (2)
Law 133
This course includes the study of federal, state, and local laws
pertaining to discrimination in housing and lending. In addition to
dealing with the theoretical legal problems presented by the fair
housing and lending laws, the course will emphasize the practical
aspects of handling a fair housing case from the initial interview
through appeal. The course is highly recommended to students
who are interested in specializing in federal civil litigation.
The course is a prerequisite to participation in Fair Housing
and Fair Lending Litigation.
Statutes, regulations, and cases dealing with a number of legal rights
and concerns of employees and employers. Areas to be covered include:
(a) worker’s compensation law and practice; (b) labor standards
legislation, such as wage-and-hour laws (e.g., Fair Labor Standards
Act–FLSA, public contract “prevailing wage” requirements); healthand-safety laws (e.g., Occupational Safety and Health Act–OSHA); and
an introduction to pension-protection laws (e.g., Employee Retirement
Income Security Act–ERISA); and (c) wrongful discharge and at-will
employment. (The law involving employment discrimination and labor
relations is covered in other specialized courses.)
Family Law (3) Law 104
Legal problems concerning the validity of antenuptial agreements;
marriage, dissolution of marriage (divorce), declarations of invalidity
(annulment), legal separation (separate maintenance); rights and duties
of husband, wife, parent, and child; legitimacy and illegitimacy;
adoption; adjustment of rights in divorce, including “fault” and “no
fault” doctrines; property rights, including marital and non-marital
property doctrines; maintenance (alimony); child support; child
custody and visitation; legal status of infants; conflict of laws and
constitutional law problems in family law context; and remedies to
prevent domestic violence.
Entertainment Law (2) Law 215
Legal considerations that affect the publishing, music, recording,
live theater, motion picture, and television industries; special
emphasis on laws regarding defamation, right of privacy and
publicity, copyright, and unfair competition as they affect the
various entertainment industries.
Prerequisite: second-year standing
Consideration and analysis of federal and state statutes; regulations
and relevant judicial and administrative decisions with respect to major
environmental control areas including air, water, solid waste, and noise
pollution abatement; radioactive emission; National Environmental
Policy Act; significant land planning legislation; the interrelation
between federal and state legislation and areas of responsibility.
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Federal Criminal Law (3) Law 219
Prerequisite: Criminal Law
This advanced criminal law course covers federal substantive criminal
law, including such specialized topics as organized crime, wire fraud,
mail fraud, bank fraud, and other white-collar crime; RICO; drug
offenses; tax offenses; and political corruption. The course will also
present an overview of federal criminal enforcement resources and
examine bases for federal criminal jurisdiction.
Federal Courts (3) Law 134
Prerequisite: Civil Procedure I and II
Recommended: Constitutional Law I and II; Remedies
Sources of federal jurisdiction, Supreme Court review of state cases,
civil cases in federal courts, jurisdictional and procedural matters,
federal habeas corpus, appellate review, and certiorari.
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Food, Drug and Cosmetic Law (3) Law 106
History of federal legislation, the federal statutes; jurisdictional
requirements; current status of the law covering adulteration, labeling,
advertising, and compliance; administration procedures; seizures
(including multiple seizures, consolidation and trial of libels);
injunction, criminal actions and penalties; and food, drug, and
cosmetic standards.
Gaming Law (2) Law 234
The gaming industry has become one of the most stringent and highly
regulated industries in America. Using existing texts, as well as current
opinions and pending cases, this course will look at several areas
relating to legalized gambling, including: restrictions on broadcast
advertising, Internet gambling, Native American gambling, cruises to
nowhere, specific tax issues of concern to the casino industry, debt
collection, and trademark/copyright issues such as slot machine games,
i.e. Wheel of Fortune, Monopoly. The course will also look at lotteries
and sweepstakes.
Human Rights in a Changing Society:
Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Law (3)
Law 168
This seminar explores the legal regulation of sexual orientation and
gender identity. It begins by examining historical views of sexual
orientation and the myriad effects that religion, culture, science, and
politics have had on sexual orientation law. The seminar then surveys
employment discrimination and other legal issues related to sexual
orientation and gender identity.
Illinois Civil Procedure (3) Law 177
This course is designed to immerse the future practitioner in all aspects
of Illinois Civil Procedure, such as the structure of the Illinois court
system, personal jurisdiction, venue, statutes of limitation, parties,
pleading, motion practice, discovery, relief from judgments, appeals
from the standpoint of the trial court, res judicata, and civility in the
practice of law. Court decisions, the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure,
and Supreme and Circuit Court Rules are emphasized by way of the
casebook method.
Global Legal Studies (2) Law 256
This course studies various legal systems in the world today. The course
examines the nature of law under both common law and civil law
systems and focuses on Islamic law, both traditional and modern
Chinese law, and the laws of developing countries. The course not only
introduces radically different systems but also provides a better
understanding of one’s own legal system.
Health Fraud Law (2) Law 157
This course addresses the legal issues of fraud and abuse in the delivery
of healthcare. The federal government has targeted healthcare fraud
and abuse as one of its top enforcement priorities. We will explore the
types of activities that put health care providers at risk and the major
federal criminal and civil statutes that are used to fight healthcare fraud.
Finally, we will address the development of a small group and solopractitioner compliance programs. Compliance plans are individualized
internal procedures and oversight for medical practices that promote
adherence to federal program requirements.
The Immigration Law Clinic (1-3)
Law 046, Law 047, Law 048
Students selected to participate in this program work with attorneys at
the Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center as well as with other
attorneys approved by the law school. The educational objectives of the
course include the development of case preparation and litigation skills
in the administrative law context and the development of values
through the exposure to clients in a multicultural setting.
Immigration Law and Procedure (2)
Law 107
A study of the immigration, nationality, and naturalization laws of
the United States. The topics discussed are the immigrant selection
system, issuance of immigrant and non-immigrant visas, grounds for
inadmissability and relief therefrom, grounds for removal and forms
of relief from removal, adjustment of status, problems of refugees
and asylum procedure, administrative procedures, and administrative
and judicial review.
Health Law (2) Law 115
This course will explore the law’s reaction to new and unprecedented
developments in medical and biological science, both in terms of how
the law seeks to regulate medical practices and also how the “new
biology” requires rethinking and development of legal principles.
Topics may include such issues as genetic engineering, definitions
of death, euthanasia, abortion, medical experimentation and allocation
of scarce medical resources, etc.
History of the American Legal System
(2) Law 262
The study of the evolution of the American legal system, including the
status of the English Common law system as it was inherited during
colonial times and proceeding through those steps leading to the
establishment of the Republic; thereafter the history of the American
legal system is undertaken with emphasis on the historical framework
of leading areas of legal development including the history of legal
education and the evolvement of the practice of law.
History of English Law (2) Law 263
The development of the early common law, emphasis on the real
actions and other procedural methods of protecting rights in real
property, and inquiry into the way in which the primitive law
developed and reasons for that development.
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Income Taxation (3) Law 135
Defining gross income (income or gift, income or capital, damages,
insurance, discharge of indebtedness, etc.), exclusions from gross
income, assignment of income, personal deductions (medical,
charitable, alimony, interest, taxes, etc.), personal exemptions, business
deductions (ordinary and necessary expenses, depreciation, etc.),
minimum tax, sales and other dispositions of property, capital gains
and losses, and accounting concepts in taxation.
Independent Research (1-2) Law 041,
Law 042
An in-depth study of a subject chosen by the student, consisting
of research and a scholarly paper. Approval of the Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs and a full-time faculty member is necessary.
Open only to students who have completed 59 semester hours.
Not open to students who have taken Independent Research in
IP Law (below).
Independent Research in Intellectual
Property Law (1-2) Law 289/LL.M.
IP 431
The undertaking of a project approved by the program director
requiring scholarly independent study which will result in a significant
contribution to the law of intellectual property.
Not open to students who have taken Independent Research (above).
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Insurance Law (2) Law 109
State and federal regulation; forming the contract; negotiation;
formalities and misrepresentation; interpretation of contracts; extracontractual liability; good faith and fair dealing; liability, automobile,
life, and health insurance; multiple coverage; insurable interest; the
environment; and intellectual property.
Intellectual Property Survey (3) Law 113
Intellectual Property (IP) law concerns the protection of intangible
creations of the mind—inventions, discoveries, trade secrets, business
concepts, artistic works, computer software, brand names, product
designs, and even celebrity images/personae. Lawyers with IP expertise
are in high demand in today’s global, information-based legal market.
This course will introduce students to the primary legal systems that
protect IP (i.e., patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law) and
the competing policies underlying these laws. The course is intended
both for students who are interested in a general overview of IP and as a
gateway to more specialized courses in John Marshall’s IP program. No
technical background is expected or required.
Intellectual Property Licensing (3)
Law 195
The course covers implied licenses, express licenses, enforcement
of license provisions, title interest in intellectual property, and
license transfers.
Intellectual Property Litigation (3)
Law 194
Recommended prior coursework: Evidence; Civil Procedure;
Intellectual Property Law Survey.
The course will focus on the specific aspects of civil and administrative
litigation practice as they relate to the practice of intellectual property
law, including patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation.
Topics will include pleadings, motions, and discovery practices related
to IP-specific topics; development and use of demonstrative evidence
and IP experts; protective orders; and remedies. The course is
intended to give students a greater understanding of the fundamental
concepts of litigation processes as they specifically relate to intellectual
property matters.
International Business Transactions (3)
Law 190
Business lawyers must increasingly deal with issues that transcend
national boundaries. This course addresses issues of private business
enterprises investing, producing, and marketing their goods and services
in the international marketplace; national and supernational regulation
of the activities of such businesses; expropriation and political risks; and
policy issues relating to the existence of multinational corporations.
International Intellectual Property Law
(3) Law 294
Organized multinational attempts to establish international norms for
intellectual property protection have existed for well over 100 years.
Given the intangible nature of the rights sought to be protected, the
nature and scope of these rights has been hotly debated. This course
will examine the dynamics of international protection as well as some
of the most pressing issues faced in continuing efforts to develop
international protection standards. Among the topics covered are the
underlying theories of international intellectual property protection,
the impact of culture and economics on intellectual property rights,
the protection of cultural patrimony, neighboring rights, government
takings, extraterritoriality and the border problems, and registration,
protection, and enforcement issues (including international enforcement
of rights). In addition, students will study pertinent treaty regimes,
including the Berne and Paris Conventions, TRIPS, NAFTA, and
selected EC directives, harmonization alternatives and the special
problems of developing and newly emerging market economies.
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The topic of this small-section seminar will be announced each time
this course is scheduled. Students will take an in-depth look at the law
relating to major international problems, contemporary or historical.
Possible topics include agricultural trade law, international
environmental law, international trade in information and services,
transnational litigation, and human rights law.
International Trade Law (3) Law 084
This course will provide a basic familiarity with the principles, doctrines,
and statutory framework for federal and state regulation of transnational
business activities; develop an understanding of legal difficulties, both
practical and conceptual, that will be encountered in doing business
under two different national jurisdictions; prepare for handling
transnational legal problems likely to arise in a typical modern business
law practice.
Introduction to Information Technology
Law (2) Law 281
This course addresses subjects within the field of information
technology law, such as protection of computer software, information
access and control, privacy and security, Internet law, and electronic
commerce. It is particularly appropriate for students who are preparing
to participate on the Journal of Computer and Information Law or who
are considering advanced studies in information technology law.
The Judicial Extern Program (1-4)
Law 296, Law 297, Law 298, Law 299
Students selected to participate in this program work in chambers with a
state or federal judge and assist the judge in the resolution of disputes.
Each student works in a capacity similar to a judicial law clerk and is
monitored and evaluated by the faculty member in charge of the
program as well as by the judge for whom the particular student works.
The educational objectives of the course include legal problem solving,
legal research and writing, professional responsibility, and legal process.
The law governing labor-management relations, particularly federal
regulation of employers, labor organizations, and employees during
union organizational campaigns and collective bargaining. Major topics
include employees’ rights to engage in or refrain from concerted activity,
employer and union unfair labor practices, representation elections, and
the roles of the National Labor Relations Board and the federal courts
in administering the National Labor Relations Act and other federal
labor laws.
Land Use Control (3) Law 265
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law II
Municipal zoning, changes in zoning, amendments, spot zoning,
variance and special exceptions, planned unit developments and modern
residential subdivisions, covenants, floating zones, holding zones, state
controls, land planning, modern controls of the land development
process, landmarks, plat approval and forced dedication, flood plains,
and environmental controls.
Law and Diversity (3) Law 141
The course addresses the role of the law in establishing, maintaining,
and remedying group-based inequality, exclusion, and oppression
within the American social, economic, and political community. The
course includes study of the history of group-based inequality, the
responses law has made to this inequality, and critiques, such as feminist
jurisprudence and critical race theory, of the law’s role in perpetuating
such inequality. The course grade is based upon a research paper and an
oral presentation.
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The Lawyering Process (1-4) Law 030,
Law 031, Law 032, Law 033
Students selected to participate in this program work with attorneys in
various public or private sector placements. The course examines the
issues and responsibilities confronted by new attorneys as they strive to
develop skills in their chosen field of practice.
Competition (1) Law 159
Students refine their advocacy skills in the context of a school-wide
intra-scholastic moot court competition. Students prepare a brief and
present two oral arguments in a hypothetical appellate case. The top
students from the preliminary rounds then argue in elimination rounds
to determine the winner of the competition. Awards are presented for
first place, second place, best brief, and best oralist. This one-credit
course meets for two hours each week for the first half of the semester.
The competition is named in honor of Dean Emeritus Fred F. Herzog.
This course is required for all students entering the law school
beginning in August 2004. This course is also required for all students
who wish to become members of the Moot Court Council, and it is
strongly recommended for students who wish to try out for
interscholastic moot court teams.
Legislation and Political Thought (2)
Law 266
This course recognizes the increasing growth of statutes as a source
of American law, analyzing the challenges presented by all aspects of
legislation. The topics that will be covered include the political models
of the legislative process, representational structures, legisprudence and
separation of powers, judicial review, direct democracy and statutory
interpretation. Particular attention will be given to both the dominant
theories of interpretation, as well as to the traditional techniques for
interpreting statutes.
The Litigation Practicum (1-4) Law 277,
Law 278, Law 279, Law 280
Students approved for participation in this course will work with
various agencies and private lawyers under the guidance of supervising
attorneys and the faculty administrator. The development and
enhancement of litigation skills is highlighted, with emphasis on
identifying and analyzing the litigator’s ethical and professional
responsibilities. Students may enroll in the following externship
programs: the Lawyering Process, the Litigation Practicum, the
Judicial Extern Program, the IRS Externship Program, and Clinical
Legal Education in Intellectual Property Law. For a description of
the various programs, see page 9.
Local Government Law (3) Law 129
The government structure, function, and intergovernmental
relationships; special attention will be paid to judicial and legislative
sources of control, home-rule, constitutional limits of selected police
powers, the licensing authority, as well as the financing and staffing
of local government.
Media Law (2) Law 114
An analysis of the legal principles that affect the electronic and print
media. The course covers topics such as the meaning of the phrase
“freedom of the press” under the first amendment, access to
information, prior restraints, defamation, invasion of privacy, journalist
privilege, government regulation of the broadcast media and other
topics at the discretion of the instructor.
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Music Licensing (1) Law 220
The course provides an overview of music licensing from both a legal
and practical perspective. Music Licensing is a broad, complex topic
with a language of its own. Students will become familiar with music
licensing terminology and will understand the legal rights from which
the terms and all music licenses originate. Since music licenses are
essentially copyright licenses, those portions of copyright law that apply
to music properties will be reviewed, as well as the business contexts in
which they are relevant.
National Security Law (2) Law 147
This course focuses on the government’s national security powers:
the war power and the problem of separation of powers, the
government’s power in emergencies, internal security concerns,
access to national security information, and restraints on publications
in disclosing of national security information.
Patent Clinic (2) Law 239
Under the supervision of a patent practitioner registered to practice
before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, students will write patent
applications for needy inventors. Students will interview an inventor,
prepare drawings and a description for a patentability search, evaluate
the patentability search results, prepare drawing layouts for a patent
application for the inventor, and write all parts of the specifications
including claims for the invention. Applications will be filed with the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. If an office action arrives at an
appropriate time, the students will then prepare a response to the office
action. Each student will participate in evaluating and perfecting the
work of the other students and will submit, for the final grade, their
version of the patent application for the inventor.
The law of patents, including inventorship, section 102 bars,
specification and claims, patentable subject matter, requirements for
patentability, filing and prosecution of a patent application, claim
interpretation, and infringement and litigation issues. The law of trade
secrets, including the definition of a trade secret, the duty of nondisclosure, misappropriation, improper means of discovery, remedies,
and the Uniform Trade Secret Act.
Patent Law Planning and Practice (3)
Law 290
Prerequisite: Patent and Trade Secret Law
Planning for efficient economic use of intellectual property, obtaining
patent disclosures from inventors, patent search initiation and opinion
analysis, preparation of patent applications including claim drafting
criteria, analysis of Patent Examiner action and preparation of
response, trademark search criteria, analysis and opinion preparation,
preparation of trademark and copyright application, patent
infringement analysis and opinion preparation, and effective use
of intellectual property licenses.
Patent Law: Statutory & Regulatory
Fundamentals (2) Law 199
(Previous patent law coursework and/or experience is highly
recommended)
The course is designed for a person interested in the fundamentals
of patent law and, particularly, in representing clients before the
United States Patent and Trademark Office. The course will track a
patent application for an invention from the moment of conception
through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The principal laws
are covered along with an extensive focus on the legal characterization
of “prior art.” The course will study in depth Title 35 USC; the
Manual of Patent Examining Procedures, and the Code of Federal
Regulations as it relates to patent practice. Claim drafting is also
introduced and practiced.
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Patent Office Practice (3) Law 197
Prerequisite: IP Survey, Patent & Trade Secret Law, Substantive
Patent Law I or II
All aspects of proceedings before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office,
including: the formal requirements of the patent application,
communications from the examiner, requirements for restriction,
rejection of applications and claims, examiner interviews, appeals from
patent office decisions, certificates of correction, and reissue practice.
Professional Malpractice (2) Law 142
Investigation of principles of professional malpractice law encompassing
selected professions (emphasizing the medical and legal professions).
This course also analyzes the legislative response in this area and
treatment of policy considerations.
Protection of Intellectual Property in a
Global/Digital Environment (3) Law 178
The Internet has had a profound impact on the recognition and
protection of intellectual property rights in a digital environment.
This course is designed to explore the unique interplay between
intellectual property rights and the Internet and other digitized
formats, in both the United States and internationally. Among the
issues to be explored are the impact of digitization on copyright
ownership and use, database protection, cybersquatting and other
domain registration and use issues, framing, cyberpiracy, Internet
business patents, cyber-enforcement, and international regulation of
intellectual property rights on the Internet.
Payment Systems Law (3) Law 271
Prerequisites: Contracts I and II
This course is a comprehensive introduction to the statutory and
common laws that regulate the payment of monetary obligations
(exclusive of investment securities). The course will focus on the
mechanisms for creating and using paper-based negotiable instruments
through the use of checks and promissory notes (U.C.C. Articles 3 & 4
and Regulation CC of the Expedited Funds Availability Act [EFAA]),
electronic funds transfers through the use of debit cards and wire
transfers (U.C.C. Article 4A and Electronic Funds Transfer Act
[EFTA]), credit cards, and letters of credit (U.C.C. Article 5).
Psychology and the Law (2) Law 240
This course explores the relationship between the two disciplines, both
of which try to understand and regulate human behavior. Topics will
include such issues as personal responsibility for wrongful acts, the legal
concept of competence and incompetence, treatment of the mentally ill,
the rights of the mentally ill, and voluntary and involuntary commitment.
Philosophy of Law (2) Law 268
The first half of the course is concerned with the major theories of law,
including natural law, analytical jurisprudence, positivism, sociological
jurisprudence, and American legal realism. The second half is devoted
to selected legal-philosophical problems such as human rights, legal
responsibility, nature of rights, civil disobedience, or duty to obey law.
These selected problems will be studied in light of the various theories
of law surveyed in the first half of the course.
Public international law with emphasis on the sources of international
law and municipal law, subjects of international law, sovereignty, objects
of international law, international transactions (treaties, torts), war and
neutrality, law of international institutions, and the United Nations.
Predatory Lending (3) Law 288
This course has two components—lectures team-taught by experts in
the area and the practical application of the material covered in the
lectures. As part of the course, students will learn how to evaluate
home lending documents for predatory terms; how to counsel
borrowers about their rights under federal, state, and local laws that
deal with predatory home lending practices; and how to settle disputes
and restructure loans using non-litigation techniques. Students will
interview consumers, counsel them about the terms of their loans, and
discuss their options. Students will also educate Chicago consumers
about the issues of predatory lending.
Public Law Litigation (2) Law 241
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law. Not open to students who have
taken Pretrial Practice in Civil Litigation.
This seminar simulates in a structured and supervised way the actual
manner in which a lawyer is confronted in practice with a difficult
question of public law. Students will be required to interview the client,
advise the client on how best to proceed, draft pleadings, conduct
discovery, and brief and argue pretrial motions. The course will force
the student to confront ethical and procedural problems as well as
substantive problems, and to make strategic decisions as well as
theoretical judgments. To simulate the experience of working
effectively with other lawyers, the class will be divided into “law firms”
that will represent the different sides of the dispute.
Pretrial Practice in Civil Litigation
Seminar (3) Law 235
Prerequisites: Civil Procedure I and II and senior standing.
Not open to students who have taken Public Law Litigation.
The study of pretrial practice in civil litigation, including pleadings,
motions, discovery devices, pretrial conferences, and orders. Building
upon the fundamental concepts of procedure contained in civil
procedure, the course is intended to give the student a greater
understanding of the theoretical and practical import of pretrial
practice, including the role of pleadings and discovery, issues
surrounding privileged communications, attorney work-product
privilege, and the significance of protective orders. The course
provides skills training in the pretrial activities customarily confronted
by an attorney including drafting pleadings, discovery materials,
proposed pretrial orders and memoranda of law, taking depositions
and interviewing prospective witnesses, taking part in hearings on
motions, and pretrial conferences.
Publishing Law (1) Law 267
The objective of this course is to offer an overview of legal issues as
they arise in the publishing environment. The course will examine a
range of issues that occur in publishing, including certain aspects of
contract and copyright law, but also including trademark law, right
of publicity law, Internet law, and First Amendment law. The topics
addressed will be approached from two perspectives; one “defensive,”
to avoid litigation; and another “offensive,” to build value in the
intellectual property that is created by the author and the publisher.
Real Estate Transactions (3) Law 243
Products Liability (2) Law 238
Prerequisite: Torts
This course provides in-depth analysis of the theories of liability and
doctrines that pertain to claims for damages suffered as a result of
defective products, including an advanced study of principles of
negligence and strict liability.
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Prerequisites: Property I and II
This course introduces the basic residential real estate transaction
including the relationship of brokers to seller and to buyer, broker listing
agreement, the real estate sales contract, typical real estate financing
devices, land surveys, marketable title, title insurance, the Recording Acts,
implied warranties in residential sales, seller disclosure requirements, and
ethical responsibilities of the attorney in representing the various parties
to the transaction.
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Recent Illinois Decisions (1) Law 118
A survey of recent decisions of the Illinois Supreme Court and
Appellate Courts. Each student will write a casenote on one of the
cases discussed in the Court. No law review student may enroll.
Religion and the Law (2) Law 269
Aspects of Western religious belief as they have been inculcated into
the English and American legal systems (including an examination of
both civil and criminal substantive law) have been affected and have
reflected beliefs and precepts taken from Judaism and Christianity.
An examination of the church-state relationship as it has evolved to
date from Colonial times; issues and cases exploring and defining
that relationship on the state and national level in the United States.
Remedies (3) Law 120
Remedial values, goals, and mechanisms; development of equity
jurisprudence; equitable principles, maxims, powers, and remedial
devices; equitable remedies (including those that operate on the person
and those that affect property); equitable defenses (including estoppel,
laches, fraud, mistake, and hardship); enforcement of decrees and
judgments (including contempt); restitution and unjust enrichment;
remedies for injuries to the person; remedies for interference with
property interest; remedies for injuries to intangible business and
personal interests; and compensatory and punitive damages.
Right of Publicity and Protection of
Personality (3) Law 196
This course examines the origin, creation, and protection of publicity
and privacy rights in the context of intellectual property issues. Course
readings and class discussion are supplemented with guest speakers who
have experience with these issues.
Rights of Prisoners in American Law
Seminar (2) Law 121
The seminar is divided into two parts. The first will be devoted to a
study and discussion of post-conviction rights of American prisoners,
the jurisdiction of state and federal courts over cases brought by
prisoners, and the remedies available to a convicted person in this
country under some state and federal law. The second part will be
devoted to a study of the nature of remedies available to a prisoner
under U.S. law, the kinds of occurrences within institutions of
incarceration that give rise to a cause of action for and on behalf of
a prisoner in a state or federal American court, and analysis of recent
cases and decisions.
Prerequisites: Contracts I and II
Introduction to Article Two—Sales of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Emphasis upon documentary transactions, counseling business clients,
and statutory interpretation.
Scientific Evidence Seminar (2) Law 246
The course will deal generally with the theory and practice of the use of
expert witnesses and the direct and cross questioning of such witnesses.
Students will be required to do original work in locating scientific
treatises and in preparing themselves to examine specialists in several
disciplines. While it is anticipated that most of the course will involve
examinations in the field of chemistry and psychiatry, this depends
upon the availability of specialists in those fields. An attempt will be
made to develop principles that can be applied in the examination of
any expert witness. Grading will be based, at least in part, upon
classroom performance and papers submitted. Some form of written
examination, however, may also be used.
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Secured Transactions (2) Law 247
Recommended: Sales Transactions
Study of Article Nine—Secured Transactions of the Uniform
Commercial Code; related provisions of the Code and of other
statutes, especially the Bankruptcy Reform Act. Practice in
planning and drafting.
Securities Regulation (3) Law 248
Recommended: Corporations
Basic law and current problems in the regulation of the issuance
and sale of securities, federal and Illinois statutes and decisions,
the regulations of the S.E.C. and regulations of the Securities
Department of the Secretary of State of Illinois.
Seminar in Public Sector Labor
Relations (2) Law 237
Prerequisite: Labor Law
A study of the specialized and rapidly developing law governing public
sector labor relations, including collective bargaining, mediation,
interest and grievance arbitration, unfair labor practices, bargaining,
strikes, fair share fees, and recent developments under the Illinois laws
which give teachers, police, firefighters, and other public employees
collective bargaining rights. Enrollment is limited to 20. Grades are
based on a seminar paper and participation in seminar discussions.
Intellectual Property Law (2) Law 295
Prerequisites: Patent and Trade Secret Law, Trademark and
Copyright Law
This seminar will cover various topics from all branches of intellectual
property law including patents, trademarks, copyrights, unfair
competition, trade secrets, and international intellectual property law.
Each student will choose a topic, research the topic, prepare a paper,
and present the paper to the class. During the first few weeks of class,
guest lecturers will speak on current issues and suggest sample topics
from each of the main areas of intellectual property law.
Sports Law (2) Law 228
The course will cover the law governing professional sports leagues
and players, including: relationships, rights, options, free agency, drafts,
player negotiations, arbitration, antitrust, sports as entertainment, and
rules governing agents and college athletes.
Taxation of Compensation (3) Law 144
This course will explore the unique issues and laws involved in the
taxation of compensation and other benefits provided to employees
in the course of their employment. There are special income tax rules
for current cash compensation and deferred compensation, for the
value of health, welfare and other fringe benefits, and for grants of
equity ownership. Current topics in the taxation of compensation and
benefits that are molded by the court will be discussed. Students will
learn the special income tax issues that corporations, partnerships and
other business entities face when paying compensation and benefits to
its employees, and will develop a basic understanding of the entire
federal income tax system. No prior knowledge of federal tax law is
required for this introductory course.
Taxation of Corporations, Corporate
Transactions and Shareholders (3)
Law 225
Prerequisite: Income Taxation
Taxation of corporations and shareholders occurring in connection
with certain transactions, including corporate formation, distributions,
redemptions, partial and complete liquidations, sales of assets or
stock, and reorganizations. Also covered are subchapter S elections
and the penalty taxes on accumulated earnings and personal
holding companies.
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Taxation of Estates and Trusts (3)
Law 232
Trial Advocacy: Advanced (3) Law 182
Prerequisite: Trial Advocacy
Designed for students who intend to be trial lawyers. Full preparation
and trial of one or more jury trials under the close supervision of
the instructor.
A detailed study of federal estate and gift taxation and the
income taxation of estates and trusts, and elementary principles
of estate planning.
Taxation Seminar: Advanced (3) Law 227
Prerequisites: Income Taxation; Corporations; and Taxation of
Corporations, Corporate Transactions and Shareholders
A problem approach combining both individual partnership and corporate
income tax problems, written problems and assignment of memoranda
simulating the law firm work environment, and substantial research using
the various tax materials available. Course limited to 15 students.
Unfair Competition and Trade Regulation
(3) Law 273
Economic and legal aspects of competition; the privilege of competition;
unfair trade practices including trade secrets, misappropriation, product
disparagement, interference with contractual relations, trademark and
trade infringement, and false and misleading advertising; Federal Trade
Commission jurisdiction and regulation of unfair and deceptive acts and
practices; lotteries, gift enterprises; and sales below cost.
Torts Law Seminar (2)
The topic of this seminar will change from time to time to allow the
professor and students to explore current topics in tort law. Students will
be required to research and draft a paper on a topic of their choosing with
guidance from the professor. Class discussions will revolve around the
general theme of the seminar and the research projects.
Voting Rights and Elections (2) Law 123
This course focuses on voting rights and election law. It deals with
topics such as: the right to vote and its historical development, AfricanAmerican enfranchisement, reapportionment, statistics and other similar
evidence in voting rights and election cases, the Voting Rights Act and
its current interpretations, campaign financing, electioneering vs. issue
advocacy, eligibility for office, ballot access, free speech in the political
process, television and radio political parties, and the electoral college.
Trademark and Copyright Law (3)
Law 124
The law of trademarks including creation and maintenance of trademark
rights, registration and administrative proceedings, intent-to-use
applications, generic marks, abandonment, infringement, laches and
unclean hands, concurrent rights, misrepresentation, and configurati
on marks. The law of copyright including copyrightable subject matter;
the idea/expression dichotomy; compilations and derivative works;
computers; pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works; duration and
renewal; ownership; publication and notice; deposit and registration;
protectable rights; fair use; and remedies.
Women, Law, and Feminist Jurisprudence
(3) Law 143
There will be two parts to this course: historical perspective and
application. First, students will study the history of women and the law.
The history will include the historical framework for women’s inferior
legal status and insubordination, the law’s response, and the role of the
women’s movement throughout this history. In addition, students will
study jurisprudence, its history, and how feminist theories fit into that
history. Second, the students will study how the history, law, and
theories apply to various topics particularly affecting or having a
differential impact upon women: sexuality, pregnancy, violence,
reproduction, marriage, children, family life, employment opportunity,
and educational opportunity, to name a few. The course will be
formatted as a seminar, with the grade to be based on a research paper
and possibly an oral presentation.
Trademark and Copyright Law Planning
and Practice (3) Law 127
Prerequisite: Trademark and Copyright Law
The planning and practice of establishing, commercializing, and
protecting intellectual property assets under U.S. copyright and
trademark laws. Students will examine the intricacies of trademark and
copyright clearance, selection, registration, and protection, including
the preparation of opinion letters, applications, office action responses,
and infringement analysis; licensing, securitization, development, and
merchandizing deals; due diligence exercises for software acquisitions;
advertising review, customs recordation and seizure practice, Internet
publishing and service provider agreements, and trademark litigation
survey preparation.
Transnational Legal Negotiations:
Accelerated (2*) Law 193
This course focuses on legal negotiations in a transnational context.
The course examines the theories, methods, techniques, and objectives
of legal negotiations as applied to transactions and disputes that arise in a
transnational transaction or dispute. Students will conduct simulated
negotiation exercises using American and foreign laws and customs;
particular emphasis will be placed on the legal, ethical, and cultural
challenges facing an American lawyer in negotiating a foreign transaction
or dispute. At the Dean’s discretion, the course may be conducted in a
foreign country. Possible host countries include Ireland, Great Britain,
Scotland, and Australia.
(Not open to students visiting from another law school.)
*Students may enroll in an optional one-hour independent study component
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Writing for the Practice of Law (3)
Law 151
This course focuses on Illinois Civil Procedure as the basis for the
writing problems, but it is not a substitute for the substantive course
in Illinois Civil Procedure. The course is intended to be practical
preparation for the practice of law, which is oftentimes stressful because
of time constraints. To provide experience working regularly under
time constraints, during 90 minutes of each three-hour class the
students will resolve a problem in Illinois Civil Procedure using a set
of prepared materials. The assigned tasks will include objective memos,
letters of opinion, and argumentative memos.
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J.D. Course Descriptions
Electives in the LL.M. Programs
1 J.D. students must receive approval from the appropriate program
director before registering for an LL.M. course.
2 J.D. credit received for LL.M. courses cannot be counted toward an
LL.M. degree, except in a joint J.D./LL.M. program.
3 Non-joint-degree J.D. students may take no more than six hours in
LL.M. programs.
4 Interested students should consider applying for the joint J.D./LL.M.
program.
5 J.D. students may take selected courses in the LL.M. Program in
Employee Benefits. Among the courses likely to be of interest are
Survey of Executive Compensation Plans and Survey of Welfare Plan
Issues.
Information Technology Law. Among the courses likely to be of
interest are Computers and the Law, Cyberspace Law, Electronic
Commerce Law, International Telecommunications Law, and Privacy
Rights.
Intellectual Property Law after completing both Patent and Trade
Secret Law and Trademark and Copyright Law with at least a B– in
each course.
International Business and Trade Law. Some LL.M. credits may be
applied toward the J.D. Certificate in International Business and Trade
Law. The center recommends that J.D. students interested in taking
LL.M. courses first complete International Business Transactions and
International Trade Law at the J.D. level, in addition to Corporations,
Sales Transactions, and Administrative Law.
9 J.D. students may take Real Estate Finance and Commercial Real
Estate Transactions in the LL.M. Program in Real Estate Law after
completing Property, Real Estate Transactions, and Income Taxation.
Tax Law. Among the courses likely to be of interest are Business
Practices for Tax Lawyers, Gift & Estate Tax Law, Personal Financial
Planning, and Corporate Taxation: A Survey.
The following courses may be taken for J.D. or LL.M. credit:
Art Law (1) JD-Law 229/LLM-IP 425
Claim Drafting (2) JD-Law 286/LLM-IP 465
Employee Benefits Law (3) Law 216/EB 360
Entertainment Law (2) JD-Law 215/LLM-IP 419
Gaming Law (2) JD-Law 234/LLM-IP 444
Intellectual Property Licensing (3) JD 195/IP 407
Music Licensing (1) JD-Law 220/LLM-IP 436
Patent Clinic (2) JD 239/IP 439
Patent Law: Statutory & Regulatory Fundamentals (2)
JD-Law 199/LLM-IP 449
Patent Office Practice (3) JD 197/IP 402
Publishing Law (1) JD 267/LLM-IP 443
Right of Publicity and Protection of Personality (3) JD 196/IP 423
Sports Law (2) JD-228/LLM-IP 426
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LL.M. Courses in Employee Benefits
Note: The number in parentheses ( ) indicates semester hours of credit.
Required Courses
Issues (3) EB 361
Prerequisite: Survey of Retirement Plan Issues or
equivalent knowledge
This course and Fundamentals II (EB 362) provide an in-depth
examination of the rules governing retirement plans “qualified”
under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code. Intended for
the practitioner who wishes to specialize in this area, the course covers
the design, qualification, funding and the administration of employee
retirement plans, with emphasis on compliance with the requirements
of ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code.
Fundamentals II of Retirement Plan
Issues (3) EB 362
This course is a continuation of Fundamentals I (EB 361), intended for
the practitioner who wishes to specialize further in employee benefits.
The course continues the in-depth examination of retirement plan
issues. Where applicable, lectures will be supplemented with necessary
plan and trust documents.
Plans (2) EB 365
Prerequisite: Individual Income Tax
Recommended: Taxation of Corporations
This survey course is intended to provide an overview of the
framework of rules governing nonqualified executive compensation,
with primary focus on the tax, legal, financial, and accounting issues
that specifically impact such arrangements. Funding vehicles such as
“rabbi” and secular trusts are discussed. Advanced coverage of
executive compensation plans will be addressed in EB 369
(Executive Compensation Benefits: Advanced).
Survey of Retirement Plan Issues (3)
EB 360
This course will survey provisions of ERISA and the Internal Revenue
Code concerning the qualification of employee pension and profit
sharing plans. By providing an overview of the framework of rules
governing such plans, students will learn the basic tax, legal, business
and other issues that specifically affect retirement plans and
participants’ rights under such plans. When this course is offered in a
two-credit-hour format during the summer term, the course number
will be changed to EB 359 to reflect that fact. No student will be
permitted to take the course in both formats.
Survey of Welfare Plan Issues (2)
EB 363
This basic survey course is intended to provide fundamental familiarity
with welfare benefit plans. It examines the wide variety of Code
provisions governing welfare benefit plans, namely short- and longterm disability income plans, dependent care and family leave,
medical and dental plans, death benefit coverage, unemployment
compensation, and others. Topics such as flexible benefit plans and
flexible spending accounts which provide tax shelters for such welfare
benefits will also be discussed.
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Tax & Employee Benefits Research (2)
TX 333
This course acquaints students with the large amount of research
materials available in the tax and employee benefits areas and develops
their skills in researching issues through the effective use of these
materials. Primary and secondary sources will be examined in depth.
Emphasis will be placed on researching judicial decisions, legislative
histories, and administrative rulings. The course will also develop skills in
using computerized research tools. No final examination will be given.
Student evaluations will be based on various research assignments.
Elective Courses
Cash or Deferred Arrangements (2)
EB 354
Prerequisites: Fundamentals I and II of Retirement Plan Issues
This course examines the design and administration of cash and
deferred plans (also known as 401(k) plans), SIMPLE/IRA plans,
SIMPLE/401(k) plans, SEPs, 403(b) plans and 457 plans. In
determining whether to implement a cash and deferred arrangement,
all of the various arrangements will be discussed. Once in place, the
ongoing administration of such plans, including annual testing, use
of plan loans, investment of plan assets, fiduciary issues, QDRO
procedures and reporting and disclosure requirements will be
highlighted. Unique uses of cash and deferred arrangements with
ESOPs and in executive compensation contexts will also be analyzed.
Prerequisite: Fundamentals I of Retirement Plan Issues
This course is intended for the tax practitioner who is well-versed in
employee benefits law and wishes to keep abreast of timely issues that
affect employee benefit plans. Current topics may include IRS/DOL
compliance and audit programs, estate tax planning distributions,
fiduciary litigation, and the impact of other federal laws on employee
benefit plans (e.g., HIPPA, COBRA, and FMLA).
DOL Externship Program (3-4) EB 393
at the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) of the U.S.
Department of Labor’s Chicago Regional Office. The educational
objectives of this course include practical experience in employee
benefits law, development of research, writing and drafting skills,
and preparation of memorandum, discovery documents, guidelines to
assist pension investigators and auditors. Professor Kathryn J. Kennedy
is the director.
Prerequisites: Survey of Retirement Plan Issues or Survey of
Welfare Plan Issues
This advanced course examines the litigation aspects of controversies
and claims involving pension and retirement plans, health and medical
plans, and other employee fringe benefit plans. The course covers all
aspects of claims, defenses, pleadings, discovery, motions, trial and
settlement approaches used in employee benefits litigation and dispute
resolution. It is designed for attorneys handling litigation involving
employee benefit plans and presumes a working knowledge of ERISA
and the qualification requirements for various employee benefits plans
under the Internal Revenue Code.
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Employee Benefits Practice and
Procedure (2) EB 357
This course examines the federal administration of employee benefit
plans under the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA, including requests
for determination letters, private letter rulings, technical advice,
preparation and filing of annual returns, audit procedures,
administrative appeals, funding deficiencies, tax penalties and statute
of limitations. Preparation of a determination letter request and plan
amendments for a qualified retirement plan will be required.
Employee Benefits Practicum (3, 4)
Law 397
The Employee Benefits Practicum was added to the curriculum to
provide students with a hands-on experience in employee benefits
practice. Under careful supervision, the student will work with a
member of the adjunct faculty in one of the various settings where
employee benefits lawyers practice: law firms, consulting firms,
corporations or government. The course is intended to meet the
needs of the individual student who has not yet had significant
practice experience in the field of employee benefits law.
Prerequisites: Survey of Retirement Plan Issues and Estates
and Trusts I
This course is designed to be a practical study of the fundamental
structure of fiduciary responsibility under ERISA: the requisites for
fiduciary status, the statutory bases of specific duties and prohibitions,
and issues surrounding the management of plan assets. Timely topics,
such as participant-directed investments and the evolving duty of
disclosure, will also be discussed.
ESOPs (1) 355
This course focuses on the use of employee stock ownership plans
(ESOPs) as employee benefit plans, tools of corporate finance, and
ownership succession strategies. The course will address tax
consequences of establishing and maintaining such plans, as well as
securities, accounting and fiduciary issues. Use of ESOPs in leveraged
transactions, by Subchapter S corporations, and in conjunction with
cash and deferred arrangements (KSOPs) will be examined.
Executive Compensation Benefits:
Advanced (2) EB 369
Prerequisite: Survey of Executive Compensation Plans
This course is a continuation of Survey of Executive Compensation
Plans, intended for the practitioner who wishes to specialize further in
executive compensation. Various types of equity-based compensation
plans and related securities law issues, change of control arrangements,
executive compensation for multinationals and tax-exempts, and the
uses of insurance in the executive compensation package will all be
discussed. Where applicable, lectures will be supplemented with sample
contracts and plans. Drafting exercises will be used as appropriate.
Graduate Seminar: Employee Benefits
Law (2) EB 368
Prerequisite: Fundamentals I & II of Retirement Plan Issues
This advanced-level course is offered to prepare the student for the real
world after leaving the purely academic environment. The course is
restructured each time it is offered so that current topics are discussed
and so that the most relevant practitioners can participate as guest
lecturers. Grades will be determined on participation in seminar
discussions and on a specifc writing requirement (that will be
communicated on the first day of the class).
International Employee Benefits (1)
EB 388
This course is intended to familiarize the practitioner with issues
arising from the use of employee benefit plans in the international
context. Such plans include a variety of deferred compensation
arrangements, including qualified pension, profit sharing, stock
bonus and ESOPs, as well as nonqualified plans, individual deferral
arrangements and stock-based purchase plan. The tax effects of
such plans on the U.S. employer, as well as the employee of a
multinational company will be discussed.
IRS Externship Program (3-4) EB 389
Prerequisites: Federal Income Tax, Tax /Employee Benefits Research,
and Survey of Retirement Plan Issues
at the Office of Chief Counsel of the IRS’ Tax Exempt/Government
Entities Counsel. The educational objectives of this course include
practical experience in tax & employee benefits law, development of
research, writing and drafting skills, and preparation of pleadings,
discovery of documents, stipulations of fact and trial memoranda used
in Tax Court cases.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
(PBGC) Summer Externship Program in
Students selected to participate in this program work with the PBGC
attorneys, accountants and actuaries over the summer months in
Washington, D.C. The PBGC is a federal corporation created by the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. It insures private
single-employer and multi-employer defined benefit pension plans. The
education objectives of this externship include practical experience in
defined benefit plans and their terminations; to further develop
research, writing and drafting skills; to learn practical lawyering skills of
document review and application of law and policy. Consultation with
and approval of the director of the program is required for registration.
Pension Rights Center Externship
Program (3, 4) Law 396
Students selected to participate in this program will work closely
with Pension Rights Center attorneys and personnel. The Pension
Rights Center is the country’s only consumer organization
dedicated solely to protecting and promoting the rights of American
workers, retirees, and their families. It works in conjunction with the
Pension Information and Counseling Project that has projects in
Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York,
Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin. The educational objectives of this
externship include practical experience in developing research,
writing, and drafting skills; to learn practical lawyering skills of
document review; and to be involved in consumer outreach efforts.
Consultation with and approval of the director of the program
is required for registration.
Profit Sharing/401k Council of America
(PSCA) Externship Program in Chicago
(3, 4) Law 390
attorneys at the Profit Sharing/401k Council of America (PCSA).
The PCSA is a national, non-for-profit association that offers
assistance to their members regarding the administration,
investment, compliance and communication of profit sharing
and 401(k) plans. The educational objectives of this externship
include practical experience in profit sharing and 401(k) plans;
development of research, writing and drafting skills; preparation
of memoranda and communication pieces to assist PCSA members.
Consultation with and approval of the director of the program is
required for registration.
Research on an issue of employee benefits law and formation of an
original idea in connection with that issue, culminating in a written
work of publishable quality.
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Specialized Employee Benefit Plans (2)
EB 366
Intended for the tax practitioner who has a firm foundation of the rules
governing retirement plans, this course examines the additional tax
rules applicable to specialized retirement plans. Specialized plans
discussed include cash and deferred arrangements, state and local
governmental plans, tax-deferred annuity plans, multi-employer plans,
foreign pension plans, ESOPs, IRAs and SIMPLEs, retirement plans
for small businesses and the self-employed, cash balance plans and
target benefit plans. Drafting of plan documents will also be discussed.
U.S. Department of Treasury Office of
Tax Policy, Benefits Tax Counsel
Summer Externship Program in
Students selected to participate in this program will work in The
Department of Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy over the summer
months in Washington, D.C. Each student will be assigned to an
Office of Benefits Counsel supervising attorney, who is responsible
for the extern’s orientation; introduction to attorneys, accountants
and actuaries in that office; assignment of work; and final evaluation
of performance. The educational objectives of this externship are to
provide students with practical experience in a specialized area of
employee benefits law by becoming thoroughly familiar with the
legal and policy implications of the Office of Benefits Counsel within
the Department of the Treasury. Consultation with and approval of
the director of the program is required for registration.
Welfare Benefit Plans: Tax, Legal &
Design Issues (2) EB 364
Prerequisite: Survey of Welfare Plan Issues
This course goes beyond the basic survey course of EB 363 and
examines the specific tax, legal and design rules affecting welfare
benefit plans, including flexible benefit plans and flexible spending
accounts. Also discussed are the various insurance and self-insured
funding instruments, including Section 501(c)(9) trusts, that are
used in connection with these benefits. Timely topics, such as
post-retirement medical benefits for retirees and long-term care,
are also discussed.
LL.M. Courses in Information
Technology and Privacy Law
intellectual property rights and protection, regulation, jurisdiction,
and standards of ethics and propriety.
This seminar considers the historical foundation and current status of
information law and policies. Students examine a variety of issues
concerning informational privacy: the gathering, use, manipulation,
dissemination, and protection of information about individuals and
organizations held by third parties. Topics include the right of access to
information, the free flow and use of information, the creation and
value of an individual’s “digital persona,” and the roles of government
and the private sector in protecting informational privacy. Specific
materials may focus on consumer data privacy, confidentiality of
financial and medical information, access to criminal history records,
protection of personal information held by the government, workplace
privacy issues, and much more.
Elective Courses
The course covers advertising litigation under the Lanham Act,
private, state and local public remedies for consumer protection
against deceptive advertising, Federal Trade Commission regulation
of deceptive advertising, Federal Trade Commission regulation
of consumer protection, and consumer protection under other
federal statutes.
Computer Crime, Information Warfare,
and Economic Espionage (2) IT 848
The computer crime elements of this course include issues such as
computer intrusions, online fraud, “electronic stalking,” computer
viruses, and theft of service. The information warfare aspects
encompass infrastructure security, “hacktivism,” and other such
issues. Economic espionage includes legal, technical, and social
aspects of protecting sensitive and proprietary information.
Contemporary Problems in Computer
Law (3) IT 820
Topics discussed in this seminar may include technological
developments, recurring and significant issues in electronic contracting,
integrated system transactions, liability and litigation, computer
generated evidence/expert testimony, privacy/security, government
contracting issues, bankruptcy and software escrows, taxation,
international law and transactions, antitrust, domestic and international
distribution and software and database acquisitions.
Required Courses
This course is designed to give students an awareness of the legal
issues surrounding the development and use of computer and other
technologies. Subjects include an introduction to computer systems
and other applicable technologies; legal aspects of the sale or lease of
technology and technology based services; and special problems in
contract, tort, intellectual property, and information law arising from
the use of computer and other technology.
The course explores the statutes and case law defining the scope of
U.S. copyright law, including the 1909 Copyright Act, the 1976
Copyright Act, and the 1988 Berne Convention Implementation Act
as it affects both domestic and foreign copyrights in the United States.
This seminar provides an overview of Internet law. Students consider
such issues as the nature of online services, governance and business
structures in the borderless electronic environment of Cyberspace.
Subjects will vary as the field develops, but will include such areas as
tort liability, freedom of expression, crime and security, privacy,
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Contemporary Technology and
Intellectual Property Law (2) IP 421
This course examines problems in intellectual property law caused
by new forms of technology. It will study the difficulties faced by
the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and courts in applying existing
patent, copyright and trademark law to promote progress on the
frontiers of science, and will propose solutions. Areas to be
considered include: the patentability of life forms, inventions made
in space, semiconductor topology, non-traditional property forms,
look and feel of computer programs, biotechnology, colorization of
movies, moral rights, industrial designs, shrink wrap licenses, states’
rights versus preemption and supremacy, and copying for home use.
Current Topics in Information
Technology Law (1, 2) IT 880, IT 881
The Current Topics seminar focuses on a specific area of information
technology or privacy law. Students will examine current controversies
and technological developments as they relate to the traditional legal
framework. Offerings have included Internet Fraud, Workplace Privacy,
the Microsoft Antitrust Litigation, Regulatory Compliance Regarding
Health and Financial Information, Protecting Children Online,
Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Marketing (SPAM), and Online Access
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This seminar analyzes the law of electronic transactions, including
issues presented by digital cash, micropayments, anonymous and
pseudonymous transactions, privacy and accountability, digital signatures
and message authentication, fraud, and consumer protection.
Electronic Document Certification (2)
IT 835
The course focuses on the law governing electronic contracting,
electronic documents, and digital signatures. The course examines
issues of jurisdiction, privacy concerns, tort liability, statutory
interpretation, administrative agency oversight, ethical considerations,
criminal responsibility, and other topics in the United States and
internationally. Students will engage in exercises in document and
legislative drafting, ethics considerations, and statutory applications.
This seminar considers the legal and policy questions arising from the
borderless and relatively open communication channels of the Internet.
Course content includes First Amendment interpretations in the
digital, electronic environment; media practices in accessing personal or
proprietary information in cyberspace, using the Internet to supplant
or supplement traditional media dissemination and the tension between
free speech and intellectual property rights. Students will explore
questions of rights and liabilities in connection with obscenity,
pornography, commercial speech, harassment, hate speech, defamation
and invasions of privacy.
Governance and Regulation in
Cyberspace (2) IT 865
This seminar explores various approaches to rulemaking and dispute
resolution in the borderless environment of cyberspace. Attempts
by international organizations, individual governments, industry
groups, and private enterprises to create legal and regulatory
structures will be considered.
This seminar considers both the use of information technology in
litigation and litigation about high technology. Subject matter includes
the electronic filing of pleadings and documents; admissibility of
digital electronic records or other evidence; discovery and electronic
databases; use of computer-generated models and simulations; recent
cases involving scientific or technical evidence; multimedia techniques
for securing and presenting the depositions or testimony of distant
witnesses; and techniques for presenting and explaining information
about complex information and communications technology.
Independent Research in Information
Technology Law (1-2) IT 897
An independent research project must be approved by the director. It
requires scholarly research resulting in a quality written product which
makes a significant contribution to the field of information technology
law. Students may register for either 1 or 2 credit hours of Independent
Research within a semester or summer term. Students may receive up
to a total of 3 credit hours for Independent Research toward the LL.M.
or M.S. degree, and a combined total of 4 credit hours for the Journal
of Computer and Information Law (IT 818), and Independent
Research (IT 897).
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International Intellectual Property Law
(3) IBT 715
Organized multinational attempts to establish international norms for
intellectual property protection have existed for well over 100 years.
Given the intangible nature of the rights sought to be protected, the
nature and scope of these rights has been hotly debated. This course
will examine the dynamics of international protection as well as some
of the most pressing issues faced in continuing efforts to develop
international standards. Among the topics covered are the underlying
theories of international intellectual property protection, the impact
of culture and economics on intellectual property rights, the protection
of cultural patrimony, neighboring rights, government takings,
extraterritoriality and the border problems, and registration, protection
and enforcement issues (including international enforcement of rights).
In addition, students will study pertinent treaty regimes, including
the Berne and Paris Conventions, TRIPS, NAFTA and selected EC
directives, harmonization alternatives and the special problems of
developing and newly emerging market economies. Prior knowledge
of intellectual property is helpful but is not required.
International Telecommunications Law
(2) IT 850
This seminar surveys telecommunications laws and regulations
worldwide, with particular emphasis on the United States (both federal
and state), Europe, and Australia. Also to be addressed are major
international agreements and organizations affecting
telecommunications.
Journal of Computer and Information
Law (1) IT 818
The John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law is an
international law review that focuses on the latest developments in
computer technologies, information policies and privacy rights.
Students in the LL.M. program who are selected to participate in the
Journal’s candidacy program will write a comment or case note of
publishable quality and participate in the Journal’s editorial activities.
Students who successfully complete the candidacy program may choose
to serve as a staff editor and receive an additional hour of academic
credit. Grading is on a pass-fail basis. (Open only to LL.M. students;
not available to joint J.D./LL.M. or M.S. Students.)
Jurisdiction and Judgments in
This seminar examines issues of jurisdiction and procedure as they
are affected by the international and borderless aspects of cyberspace,
including personal and subject matter jurisdiction, conflict of laws,
the effect of foreign judgments, the role of international
organizations and transnational governments, and alternative
methods of dispute resolution.
Master Classes on Advanced Topics in
Intellectual Property Law (1) IP 429 A-Z
Master classes are offered each semester on advanced topics in
intellectual property law. The classes are held either in a one-week
session of three-hour evening classes, or in a two-full-day format.
Master’s Thesis in Information
Technology Law (3) IT 899
The master’s thesis option involves the writing of a scholarly thesis
suitable for publication, and its presentation and defense before a
panel of faculty and students. The topic must be approved by the
director, and the thesis must be written under the supervision of a
full-time faculty member. The option is available to LL.M. and M.S.
degree candidates who have completed at least 10 semester hours
toward the degree.
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Multimedia Licensing and Transactions
(2) IT 825
This seminar covers a broad range of legal issues related to the
ownership, use, and transfer of multimedia works such as computer
software, interactive television, online services, and hypermedia.
Copyright and licensing issues will be emphasized, but other
intellectual property interests as well as regulatory and tort liability
issues will also be explored.
Practicum in Information Technology
Law (1-2) IT 893
The Practicum involves substantive work in the field of information
technology law performed in a law practice setting under the
supervision of attorneys in private, corporate, or governmental practice.
Practicum assignments must be approved by the director in advance,
and grading is on a pass/fail basis based upon an evaluation of the
student’s work. Students may register for either 1 or 2 credit hours
of Practicum work within a semester or summer term. Students may
repeat the Practicum in subsequent semesters for a total of up to 4
credit hours toward the LL.M. degree. (Open only to LL.M. students;
not available to Joint J.D./LL.M. or M.S. students.)
of trademark rights, proof of infringement, special defenses and
limitations, unfair competition law, and jurisdiction and remedies.
Transborder Data Flow (2)
IT 855
This seminar explores national and international implications of the
flow of digital electronic data across jurisdictional lines; conflicts of laws
and culture regarding content or expression in communications; and
comparative analysis of U.S., European Community, and other national
laws that regulate or tax electronic messages or the transport of
electronic data bases across national boundaries. Special attention is
given to the European Union Directive on Data Protection.
This seminar addresses the scope and effect of the federal
Telecommunications Act of 1996, Illinois regulation of the
telecommunications industry, and the relationship between state
and federal telecommunication regulations and the industry.
Note: With the approval of the program director, up to six credit hours of
advanced elective course work in intellectual property law and other areas
related to information technology law may be counted toward the LL.M.
in Information Technology Law.
privacy rights in the U.S. in the areas of tort and constitutional law.
In the former, the subjects of intrusion into seclusion and publication
of private fact are given special emphasis; the relationship between
commercial appropriation of name and the new tort, “right of
publicity,” is also examined, as is the relation between the false light
privacy tort and defamation. In the constitutional arena, attention is
given to personal autonomy in such matters as procreation, abortion,
and choice regarding medical treatment and “death with dignity”; and
personal and sexual associations and lifestyle.
The Professional Responsibilities of a
Technological Law Practice (2) IT 812
Prerequisite: Professional Responsibility (Law 176)
This course examines the application of legal ethics to the use of
technology in the practice of law. It explores emerging developments in
the use of technologies (including the Internet) to facilitate, advance
and deliver legal services. Students examine the lawyer’s obligations,
particularly to the rules of professional responsibility, in a technological
or cyber-based practice.
The Rights of Publicity and Privacy (3)
IP 423
This course examines the origin, creation and protection of publicity
readings and class discussion are supplemented with guest speakers
who have experience in these issues.
The course explores the modern law of patentability and patent validity
fundamentals, including: the Patent Act of 1952, Supreme Court and
federal court cases, statutory patent categories, novelty, utility, nonobviousness, disclosure requirements, and claiming requirements.
Technology in the Practice of Law (2)
IT 810
Participants in this workshop-style seminar will learn about a wide
range of applications of technology to the practice of law, including
legal research and writing, litigation applications, electronic
communication, electronic publishing, and billing and law
practice management.
The course explores the historical development of trademark law,
creation and maintenance of trademark rights, trademark registration
and administrative proceedings, loss of trademark rights, infringement
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It is strongly recommended that all students take Substantive Patent Law I
and Substantive Patent Law II or Law of Patents; Trademark Law and
Practice; and Copyright Law and Practice.
Accelerated Trial Advocacy for
Intellectual Property Attorneys (3) IP 430
The course analyzes the mechanics of trying patent lawsuits, including:
opening statements, preparation, direct and cross examination, in-trial
motions, and closing arguments. The course is compacted into an
intensive nine and one-half day format. This concentrated format
gives a realistic understanding of the rigors of trial practice. The
final examination is a simulated patent trial. Enrollment is limited to
14 students.
Advanced Patent Application
Preparation (2) IP 445
Prerequisite: Substantive Patent Law I or II
The course is a continuation of IP 402 Patent Office Practice. It
will give students extensive practical experience in all areas of drafting
and prosecuting patent applications, including: specifications and
claims for all areas of technology. Experts in each technological area
will be brought in to give specific drafting instructions relating to
mechanical, chemical, biochemical, electrical, biotechnological, and
computer applications.
Advanced Patent Clinic (2) IP 439
Prerequisites: Substantive Patent Law I or II and Patent
Office Practice
Under the supervision of a patent practitioner registered to practice
before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, students will write
patent applications for needy inventors. Students will interview
inventors, will prepare drawings and descriptions for patentability
searches, will evaluate the patentability search results, will prepare
drawing layouts for applications, and will write all parts of the
specifications, including claims. Applications will be filed with the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. If an office action arrives at an
appropriate time, students will prepare a response to the office action.
Each student in this advanced course will do all parts of this work for
at least one complete application and will participate in evaluating
and perfecting the work of other students.
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The course covers advertising litigation under the Lanham Act;
private, state, and local public remedies for consumer protection
against deceptive advertising; Federal Trade Commission regulation
of deceptive advertising; Federal Trade Commission regulation
of consumer protection; and consumer protection under other
federal statutes.
The course covers statutory and common law antitrust law, including:
common law restraint of trade, the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act,
the Federal Trade Commission Act, state antitrust laws, agreements,
combinations, conspiracy in restraint of trade, mergers, refusals to deal,
exclusive dealing, tying clauses, resale price maintenance, and criminal
and civil enforcement proceedings.
Antitrust and Misuse Aspects of
Intellectual Property (3) IP 411
Recommended: previous courses in intellectual property law
The course covers the duty of disclosure in dealing with government
agencies, fraud, and misuse of intellectual property and the antitrust
laws as they relate to intellectual property. Students having varied levels
of familiarity with certain fields of intellectual property and familiarity
with U.S. antitrust law will benefit from a study of related areas and
fact situations. Many general antitrust principles, primarily focused on
the Sherman Act, can be learned from a study of antitrust decisions
dealing with intellectual property.
Art Law (1) IP 425
The class surveys legal and practical concepts relating to protection,
acquisition, exhibition and sale of works of art, including: problems
regarding copyright, art censorship, moral rights, endowments,
and tax implications.
Bankruptcy and Security Interests in
Intellectual Property (2) IP 460
The course examines the handling, preserving and protecting of
intellectual property rights during bankruptcy proceedings and
requirements/procedures for obtaining security interests in
intellectual property.
Biotechnology Patent Law (3) IP 464
A basic course in patent law is highly recommended as a prerequisite
for this course.
The course examines the basics of patent law and the fundamentals of
biotechnology and provides an in-depth look at the special problems
associated with biotech patents. The course will include a study of
biotech patent prosecution and enforcement, as well as agreements
related to biotech inventions and the role of patents in biotech
product strategies.
Business Franchise Law and Practice
(2) IP 418
This course provides a theoretical foundation for representing clients
with regard to business franchise systems and operations. It examines
federal and state statutes, regulations and cases. Particular attention
is given to: procedures, documents and disclosures required to comply
with restrictions upon and conditions precedent to the establishing
of business franchise systems, and legal limits on franchisors and
franchisees relative to terminations/non-renewals of individual
franchises in business franchise systems.
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Claim Drafting (2) IP 465
Some prior patent law coursework/experienceis highly recommended.
Concept of “claiming” an invention; history of development and
purpose of claims; thought processes prior to drafting claims;
fundamental claim drafting principles and recommended techniques;
different types of claims; case law analysis and discussion applicable
to claim drafting and interpretation by the CAFC; claim construction;
special consideration of electronic, computer and software, wave
propagation, chemical, biotech, and business method claim
principles. Course includes in-class claim drafting exercises and
homework assignments.
Clinical Education in Intellectual
Property Law (2) IP 433
Students selected to participate in this program work with intellectual
property attorneys in private and corporate practice. The student will
receive either a pass or fail grade based upon an evaluation of the
student’s work.
Comparative and International Patent
Law (3) IP 494
Prerequisite: Introduction to IP Law or Patent and Trade Secret Law
A critical examination of substantive non-U.S. patent law from a
Mt. Olympus view to provide an overall examination of the theory
and the actuality of patent laws around the world; as well as a
comparison between the various laws and the U.S. law, including
the Patent Cooperation Treaty; the Japanese Law; the European
Patent Convention and other treaty arrangements setting out how
the international patent systems, both on the national and regional
basis, operate. Visiting lecturers will be included to discuss national
and regional laws, international patent litigation, and international
patent licensing.
Computer Software Inventions: Patent
Prosecution & Copyright Protection (2)
IP 451
Prerequisites: Substantive Patent Law I or II and Copyright Law
and Practice
This industry-specific course covers developments and procedures
that concern the protection of inventions in the computer software
field and include: history of claiming practice of analogous devices
and processes, protection through patents, protection through
copyright, drafting of patent claims for computer-related inventions,
administrative regulations and guidelines, and the study of relevant
administrative and court decisions.
This course examines problems in intellectual property law caused by
new forms of technology. It will study the difficulties faced by the
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and courts in applying existing
frontiers of science and will propose solutions. Areas to be considered
include: the patentability of life forms, inventions made in space,
semiconductor topology, non-traditional property forms, look and feel
of computer programs, biotechnology, colorization of movies, moral
rights, industrial designs, shrink-wrap licenses, states’ rights versus
preemption and supremacy, and copying for home use.
United States copyright law, under the Copyright Act of 1976 and its
amendments. Covers basic copyright law in detail, including copyright
subject matter, exclusive rights and limitations on them, ownership and
transfer, formalities, infringement, fair use, and remedies.
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Copyright Litigation (1) IP 427
The course provides an overview of copyright litigation issues, statutes
and case studies. Topics include jurisdiction and venue, standing to sue,
registration as a prerequisite to suit, pleading, parties liable, offer of
judgment, statute of limitations, presumption and burden of proof,
proof of infringement and substantial similarity, summary judgment
issues, injunctions, actual damages and profits of the infringer,
statutory damages, attorneys’ fees and sanctions.
Dissertation (3) IP 432
The dissertation option involves the preparation of a scholarly thesis
suitable for publication. The dissertation topic must be approved by
the director. The option is available to degree candidates who have
completed 21 semester hours of subjects, including IP 400 or IP 415,
and have a minimum grade point average of 2.5.
Entertainment Law (2) IP 419
The course is a concentrated review of the areas of law most often
involved in entertainment litigation, including: copyright law,
defamation, privacy, publicity and unfair competition. The course
includes synopses of the practical workings of the principal
entertainment media, including music, broadcasting, theater,
motion pictures, publishing, and sports.
Gaming Law (2)
IP 444
The gaming industry has become one of the most stringent and highly
regulated industries in America. Using existing texts, as well as current
opinions and pending cases, this course will look at several areas
relating to legalized gambling, including: restrictions on broadcast
advertising, Internet gambling, Native American gambling, cruises to
nowhere, specific tax issues of concern to the casino industry, debt
collection, and trademark/copyright issues such as slot machine games,
e.g., Wheel of Fortune and Monopoly. The course will also look at
lotteries and sweepstakes.
Independent Study (2) IP 431
An independent study project must be approved by the director and
requires scholarly study that will result in a significant contribution
to intellectual property law.
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The course will focus on patent, trade secret and software licensing.
Emphasis will be placed on preparing the student to counsel clients on
intellectual property licensing matters and to be able to prepare and
negotiate license agreements. A detailed review of license agreements
of varying complexity will give the student an understanding of the
interplay among the various provisions of license agreements. Other
specific areas covered include introduction to intellectual property;
overview of licensing organizations; developing strategies for
intellectual property licensing; licensing negotiations; intellectual
property licensing issues that arise in mergers, acquisitions, and
divestments; valuation of intellectual property; and important case law
and statutes impacting licensing activities.
Interference, Reissue and
Reexamination Practice (3) IP 405
The course provides a practical understanding of interference practice,
including: priority law, affidavits under Patent Office Rule 202, setting
up interferences, preliminary statements, motion practice, testimony,
discovery, final hearings, appellate review, reissue practice, and
reexamination practice.
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International Antitrust Issues (1) IP 416
Prerequisite: Antitrust, International Patent Law, International
Trademark Law
The course analyzes developing antitrust laws relating to patents and
trademarks in European and Pacific Rim countries.
Prerequisite: Copyright Law and Practice
The course analyzes international copyright treaties and neighboring
rights conventions, the principle of national treatment, key aspects of
copyright statutes in selected countries including the treatment of
moral rights. The course combines a basic overview with an
intermediate-level exploration of selected important topics.
The course provides a study of international patent systems, including
detailed consideration of the laws and practices under the Patent
Cooperation Treaty and the European and Community Patent
Conventions; the major national patent systems (including Germany,
Japan and the United Kingdom); and the Paris Convention.
Prerequisite: Trademark Law and Practice
The course surveys aspects of foreign trademark and unfair
competition law, including: prosecution, renewals, licensing,
assignments, watching, opposition, cancellation, infringement, use,
marking, and existing and proposed international treaties (including
the European Trademark Treaty, the Madrid Arrangement, and the
Pan-American Convention).
Law of Patents (1) IP 415
Not open to students who have taken Substantive Patent Law I or II
The course surveys United States patent law. The course is designed
for the degree candidate who has no intention of prosecuting patent
applications before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Emphasis is
placed on the distinctions between patents and other forms of
intellectual property.
Legal Writing for the Intellectual
Property Practice (2) IP 428
The course will concentrate on aspects of the drafting process,
including audience, fact gathering, organization, editing, and writing.
Also featured will be guest lecturers who will argue certain substantive
and procedural parts of the course.
Master Classes on Advanced Topics in
Intellectual Property Law (1) IP 429 A-Z
session of three-hour evening classes, or in a two full-day format.
Previous master classes include: Advanced Topics in Patent Law, by
Prof. Paul Janicke (IP429-A); Persuasive Brief Writing for Intellectual
Property Attorneys (IP429-B) by Judge Paul Michel of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; Effective Oral Advocacy for
Intellectual Property Attorneys (IP429-C), also by Judge Paul Michel;
Advanced International Trademark Law (IP429-D) by Dr. Gerd F.
Kunze; Year 2000 Problems (IP429-E) by William T. McGrath;
Valuation of Intellectual Property (IP429-F) by David A. Haas;
Preliminary Injunctions in IP Cases, by Judge Paul Michel (IP429-G);
Globalization, IP and the Internet by Professor Doris Estelle Long
(IP429-H) and (IP429-I); Patent Law & Practice in China
(Dr. Lulin Gao).
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Music Licensing (1) IP 436
The course objective is to learning about music licensing from both a
legal and practical perspective. Music licensing is a broad, complex
topic with a jargon of its own. The course will provide students with
knowledge about music licensing terminology, and, equally important,
the legal rights from which the terms, and all music licenses, flow.
Music licenses are essentially copyright licenses, thus those portions of
copyright law that apply to music properties will be discussed. From
those basic building blocks, students will explore many types and styles
of music licenses, and the business contexts in which they are relevant.
The course will explore the music industry, a business that is being
turned on its head as technological advances and other factors combine
to challenge every precept that the traditional music business was built
on. In this sea-change environment, music licensing has gained a
higher profile, and become a key driver of the music business. Creative
music licensors—attorneys, agents, and, more recently, advertising and
marketing professionals—are becoming primary dealmakers and power
brokers in the business. This course will provide the essential tools for
exploring general opportunities, and solving specific problems, in the
fast-changing world of music licensing.
Patent Law: Statutory & Regulatory
Fundamentals (2) IP 449
Previous patent law coursework and/or experience is highly
recommended
The course is designed for a student interested in the fundamentals of
patent law and, particularly, in representing clients before the United
States Patent and Trademark Office. The course will track a patent
application for an invention from the moment of conception through
the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The principal laws are covered
along with an extensive focus on the legal characterization of “prior art.”
The course will study in depth Title 35 USC, the Manual of Patent
Examining Procedures, and the Code of Federal Regulations as it relates
to patent practice. Claim drafting is also introduced and practiced.
Patent Litigation (2) IP 408
The course focuses on preliminary considerations (such as jurisdiction,
venue, and potential relief), pleadings, pretrial activities, discovery, the
trial, witness considerations, evidence considerations, remedies, and
appellate procedures.
Patent Office Practice (3) IP 402
The course covers all aspects of proceedings before the U.S. Patent &
Trademark Office, including the formal requirements of the patent
application, communications from the examiner, requirements for
restriction, rejection of applications and claims, examiner interviews,
appeals from patent office decisions, certificates of correction, and
reissue practice.
Pricing Regulation (2) IP 410
The course covers federal and state regulation of price discrimination,
including: promotional allowance, service discrimination, buyer’s
liability for inducement of discriminatory prices, predatory pricing,
below-cost selling, and legal relationships with brokers and
manufacturers’ representatives.
Publishing Law (1) IP 443
The objective of this course is to offer an overview of legal issues as
they arise in the publishing environment. The course will examine a
range of issues that occur in publishing, including certain aspects of
contract and copyright law, but also including trademark law, right of
publicity law, Internet law, and First Amendment law. The topics
addressed will be approached from two perspectives; one “defensive,”
to avoid litigation, and another “offensive,” to build value in the
intellectual property that is created by the author and the publisher.
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Right of Publicity and Protection of
Personality (3) IP 423
This course examines the origin, creation, and protection of publicity
readings and class discussion are supplemented with guest speakers who
have experience with these issues.
Sports Law (2) IP 426
The course will cover the law governing professional sports leagues
and players, including: relationships, rights, options, free agency, drafts,
player negotiations, arbitration, antitrust, sports as entertainment,
and rules governing agents and college athletes.
Substantive Patent Law II (3) IP 401
The course examines the scope and construction of patents, patent
infringement, contributory infringement, inducement to infringe,
unenforceability defenses, jurisdiction in patent infringement cases and
related actions, and remedies available in patent infringement actions.
Taxation of Intellectual Property (1)
IP 412
The course studies federal tax law as it applies to patents, trademarks,
copyrights, and “know-how.” Consideration will be given to federal tax
treatment of development and acquisition expenditures, proceeds from
licensing and transfers, litigation expenses/recoveries, and evaluations.
Trade Secrets Law (2) IP 440
The course provides an advanced look at trade secrets law, including
defining trade secrets, the circumstances under which a duty of nondisclosure arises, appropriation of trade secrets, improper means of
discovery, employer-employee relationships, limitations of trade secrets
law, and remedies.
Trade Secrets Litigation (2) IP 441
Prerequisite: Trade Secrets Law
The course focuses on preliminary considerations (such as jurisdiction,
venue, and potential relief), pleadings, pre-trial activities, discovery,
the trial, witness considerations, evidence considerations, and
appellate procedures.
Trademark Litigation (2) IP 409
The course focuses on all aspects of litigation involving trademarks,
trade dress, unfair competition (including preliminary considerations
such as jurisdiction, venue, and potential relief), pleadings, pretrial
activities, discovery, surveys, witness, considerations, evidence
considerations, and appellate procedures.
Trademark Transactions (2) IP 424
This course provides an advanced exploration of the variety of
transactions that are required or available with respect to trademark
rights, claims and obligations, and with which practitioners handling
matters involving trademarks and trademark law must be familiar,
including: registration assignments, licensing, and related transactions.
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Property Rights (3) IP 450
The course provides an in-depth exploration of the laws for protection of
transnational intellectual property rights, including: international treaties,
transnational litigation, transnational arbitration, U.S.I.T.C. proceedings,
the process patent act, the European Patent Convention, the European
Community Patent, transnational courts, the interplay between
transnational systems and national systems, constitutional impediments to
transnational systems, and the prospects for patent harmonization and a
world patent appeals court.
Unfair Competition and the International
Trade Commission (2) IP 422
This course provides an introduction to practice before the Commission,
with emphasis placed on Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930. Course
readings and class discussions will be supplemented with guest speakers
who have significant experience ITC practice
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LL.M. Courses in International Business
and Trade Law
This course introduces students to general principles of admiralty and
maritime law, including admiralty jurisdiction, carriage of goods by sea,
bills of lading, the Jones Act and salvage law.
Art Law (1) IP 425
The class surveys legal and practical concepts relating to the protection,
acquisition, exhibition and sale of works of art. It also surveys problems
regarding copyright, censorship, moral rights, endowments, museums and
art gallery issues and tax implications.
Aviation Law (2) IBT 747
The broad spectrum of aviation legal matters focusing on numerous other
categorical fields; procedure, administrative law, the law of torts and, to
some extent, of contracts and international law. Special federal procedures
applicable to aviation disasters, law affecting titles in aircraft, liability for
injury to persons on the ground, aviation rights in air space above the
land of another, duties of common carriers, the Federal Aviation
Administration, the National Transportation Safety Board, the Civil
Aeronautics Board, conflict of laws, aircraft piracy, treaties and other
agreements, and federal and state jurisdiction.
Business Aspects of Immigration Law (2)
IBT 725
This course will introduce students to those aspects of United States
immigration law they are likely to encounter in providing a full range
of services to their international business clients. It will provide an
introduction to immigration law generally, then focus upon the key legal
aspects of business immigration issues.
Chinese Business and Investment Law
(2, 3) IBT 780
This course is a basic introduction to the economic aspects of the legal
system of the People’s Republic of China. Among topics covered will be
the historical development of the Chinese legal system as it influences
today’s business law system, the contemporary law of business structures
in China, foreign investment law, issues of human rights linkage with
business and trade, and China’s place in the global trading system. In the
event that this course is offered with a study trip to China, an additional
credit hour will be added to the course. The coverage focus of the
additional hour will be determined at the same time the course is offered.
When the course is offered in a three-credit format, the course number
will be changed to IBT 781 to reflect that fact. The course may not be
taken in both formats.
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Comparative and International Patent Law
(3) IP 494
A critical examination of substantive non-U.S. patent law from a Mt.
Olympus view to provide an overall examination of the theory and
the actuality of patent laws around the world; as well as a comparison
between the various laws and the U.S. law, including the Patent
Cooperation Treaty; the Japanese Law; the European Patent Convention;
and other treaty arrangements; setting out how the international patent
systems, both on the national and regional basis, operate. Visiting
lecturers will be included to discuss national and regional laws,
international patent litigation, and international patent licensing.
This course is designed to give students an awareness of the legal issues
surrounding the development and use of computer and other
Current Issues in International Business
and Trade Law (1, 2, 3) IBT 751, 752, 753
This seminar will explore contemporary issues relevant to international
business and trade law. The seminar will utilize the talents of visiting
faculty and experts in the field.
This seminar considers such questions as what “rules of the road” ought
to apply to the borderless electronic environment of cyberspace. Who
can make the rules, how can they be enforced, and what will be the legal
and political relationships among and between states, nations and the
private sector in cyberspace? Subject areas will vary as the field develops,
but will include such areas as tort liability, freedom of expression, crime
and security, privacy, intellectual property rights and protection,
regulation, jurisdiction, and standards of ethics and propriety.
Eastern European Business and
Investment Law (2, 3) IBT 775
This course is an introduction to the economic aspects of the legal systems
of Eastern Europe, comprising post-Communist countries of the former
Soviet Union and the former Soviet sphere of influence. Although review
of any one country will be limited, broad issues of property ownership,
privatization, foreign investment licensing, joint ventures, and financing
will be considered. In the event this course is offered with a study trip to
Eastern Europe, an additional credit hour will be added to the course.
The coverage focus of the additional hour will be determined at the same
time the course is offered. When the course is offered in a three-credit
format, the course number will be changed to IBT 776 to reflect that fact.
No student will be permitted to take the course in both formats.
This seminar analyzes the law of electronic transactions, including issues
presented by digital cash, micropayments, anonymous and pseudonymous
transactions, privacy and accountability, digital signatures and message
authentication, fraud, and consumer protection.
European Union Business and Investment
Law (2, 3) IBT 760
This course will address the nature and structures of the European Union,
with particular reference to its substantive law of trade, investment, and
economic development. In the event that this course is offered with a study
trip to the European Union, an additional credit hour will be added to the
course. The coverage focus of the additional hour will be determined at the
same time the course is offered. When the course is offered in a three-credit
format, the course number will be changed to IBT 761 to reflect that fact.
The course may not be taken in both formats.
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This course focuses upon federal and state efforts to monitor and
regulate foreign investment in United States corporations, industries,
and real property, and on foreign national regulation of, and limitations
on, overseas foreign investment by United States entities.
Homeland Security (1, 2) IBT 717
This course will examine how the defense against terrorism impacts
the private sector. The course will explore the organization of the
Department of Homeland Security, including relevant statutes and
related state laws. It will also expose students to a wide variety of
issues, including immigration, trade and transportation, privacy, and
environmental issues.
Import and Export Law (3) IBT 700
This course deals with the basics of United States customs law and
export regulation. Topics discussed will include import rules and
procedures, tariff planning, administrative and judicial procedures for
appealing adverse findings, the basics of unfair trade practice law and
procedure, and the substance and procedures of export restriction.
Independent Research in International
Business and Trade Law (1,2,3) IBT 791
This course requires preparation of a publishable work of scholarship
under the supervision of the LL.M program director.
organizations held by third parties. Topics include the right of access to
information, the free flow and use of information, the creation and
value of an individual's "digital persona," and the roles of government
International Antitrust Law (1,2)
IBT 744, 745
This course considers all major aspects of international antitrust law
affecting United States business. This includes the Justice Department’s
international enforcement guidelines, issues of extraterritorial
application of United States antitrust law, and the “effects” doctrine.
International enforcement cooperation and European Union antitrust
enforcement will also be discussed.
International Aspects of Real Estate (2)
RE 615
An examination of the special legal and business issues that arise when a
foreign person or entity develops or finances real estate projects located
in the United States, paying particular attention to tax issues.
International Banking and Finance Law
(2) IBT 735
This course addresses issues of banking and financial law in international
private transactions. Topics include letters of credit, banking and bank
secrecy regulation and practices, efforts to combat money laundering,
and currency regulation.
International Business and Trade Law
Externship (1,2) IBT 763
International Business Franchise Law
(1,2,3) IBT 783
This course provides an introduction to the business franchise laws of a
number of nations that regulate franchise sales, franchisor-franchisee
relationships, and the operations of business franchise systems of
domestic and international pedigree. Students interested in the business
franchise laws and rulings of particular countries will have the
opportunity to propose adjusting coverage of the course to include their
special interests.
International Commercial Dispute
Resolution (2) IBT 720
This course will address issues of planning for, and resolving disputes in,
international commercial transactions.
Prerequisite: Copyright Law and Practice
The course analyzes international copyright treaties and neighboring
rights conventions, the principle of national treatment, key aspects of
copyright statutes in selected countries including the treatment of moral
rights. The course combines a basic overview with an intermediate-level
exploration of selected important topics.
International Economic Development
Law(2) IBT 770
This course reviews international calls for global economic development
and public and private efforts to meet those calls. Within the context of
the North-South debate, the course will consider approaches to
international contracting and regulation of foreign involvement in
economic development sectors, as well as development initiatives in the
IMF, the World Bank, and the GATT/WTO.
International Employment Law (1,2)
IBT 789
This course explores employment law issues that bridge national
borders, particularly issues confronting multinational businesses,
but also addressing labor unions, expatriates, and immigrants.
International Environmental Law (1,2)
IBT 754
This course will focus upon problems of protecting the international
environment, including the global commons, from transborder
pollution and degradation. Problems which are likely to be discussed
include acid rain, marine pollution, destruction of rainforests, loss of
biodiversity, efforts to control population, and connections between
environmental issues and issues of trade and development.
International Joint Ventures (2) IBT 714
This course will examine the legal and regulatory environment for
international joint ventures, including the issues arising from and the
entity structures commonly used for such ventures. Topics covered will
include entity governance, liability protection, tax planning, antitrust or
competition law, methods of resolving disputes, the development and
licensing of technology, and exit strategies. This course will also review
issues in negotiating joint venture agreements and the preparation of
entity documents.
International Sales Law and Carriage of
Goods (1,2) IBT 709
This course addresses issues of contracting for the sale and carriage of
goods internationally. Included will be discussion of the U.N.
Convention on the International Sales of Goods, the structure of the
basic international documentary transaction, containerized cargo issues,
and techniques and documents of international transport, such as bills
of lading and freight airbills.
The IBT Externship is open to all IBT students who have graduated
from the J.D. program or have an equivalent foreign degree. Students
are placed with law firms, corporations, and government agencies for
the purpose of gaining first-hand experience in international business
and trade law. A minimum of 120 hours’ work on-site is required for
one credit.
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(2) IT 850
worldwide, with particular emphasis on the United States (both
federal and state), Europe, and Australia. Also to be addressed
are major international agreements and organizations affecting
telecommunications.
Multinational Corporations Law (3)
IBT 730
This course covers issues of multinational corporate structures and the
behavior and regulation of multinational corporations. Topics include
joint ventures, approaches to regulating foreign direct investment,
expropriations, and codes of conduct for multinational corporations.
NAFTA (2, 3) IBT 765
International Trade Remedies Law (3)
IBT 705
This course covers United States and GATT/ WTO rules of response
to unfair trade practices and certain patterns of injurious, though fair
trade. Specific emphasis will be given to antidumping law, anti-subsidy
law, escape clause and market disruption law, and actions under 19
U.S.C. sections 201 and 301.
The course surveys aspects of foreign trademark and unfair
competition law, including: prosecution, renewals, licensing,
assignments, watching, opposition, cancellation, infringement, use,
marking, and existing and proposed international treaties (including
the European Trademark Treaty, the Madrid Arrangement, and the
Pan-American Convention).
Law and Practice Before the U.S. Court
of International Trade (1) IBT 706
This course will expose students to the unique rules of practice at the
United States Court of International Trade. In addition, the course
will cover, at an introductory level, the primary substantive areas of the
Court’s jurisdiction. The subject matters that come before the Court
include the customs classification and valuation of merchandise, civil
penalties under the customs laws, appeals from antidumping and
countervailing determination, labor certification for Trade Adjustment
Assistance, and customhouse broker licensing.
Legal Ethics in International Practice
(1, 2) IBT 749
As global legal practice grows, lawyers increasingly face complex issues
of professional responsibility involving multiple national jurisdictions,
unfamiliar legal systems, clients with different concepts of legal
representation, and professional climates based upon sharply differing
ethical expectations. This course explores these issues from the
standpoint of ethical standards pertaining to United States lawyers.
Master Class in International Economic
Law and Practice (1) IBT 799A-Z
Master classes will be offered on advanced topics in international
economic law and practice by visiting and resident scholars. Typically,
classes will be offered on an accelerated basis, such as a one-week
session of three-hour evening classes, or in a two-full-day format. The
following courses have been offered: European Union Regulation and
Governance; International Secured Transactions; Commercial Law of
the Arab Middle East; Transnational Legal Practice Issues; South Asia
Commercial Law; The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Emerging
International Norms; International Criminal Law; The World Trade
Organization; China and the World Trade Organization; Globalization,
Human Rights and Labor Markets; International Business and Trade in
Antiquities, Art & Cultural Property; International Agri-Business Law;
Law and Ethics in Global Business; Mergers and Acquisitions from an
EU Perspective; Drafting International Business Agreements;
International Commercial Arbitration; Law and Practice in Trade
Compliance; European Company Law; and Investor-State Arbitration
Under ICSID.
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This course will address the nature, structures, and substantive law
of trade regulation, investment law, and economic development of
the North American Free Trade Agreement. In the event that this
course is offered with a study trip to a member nation of NAFTA, an
additional credit hour will be added to the course. The coverage focus
of the additional hour will be determined at the same time the course
is offered. When the course is offered in a three-credit format, the
course number will be changed to IBT 766 to reflect that fact. No
student will be permitted to take the course in both formats.
Practicum in International Business
and Trade Law (1,2,3,4) IBT 795
The practicum involves substantial work in some aspect of international
business and trade law, performed in a law practice setting under the
supervision of attorneys in private, corporate or government practice.
Practicum assignments must be approved by the LL.M. program
director in advance, and grading is on a pass/fail basis based upon an
evaluation of the student’s work.
flow of digital electronic data across jurisdictional lines; conflicts of
laws and culture regarding content or expression in communications;
and comparative analysis of U.S., European Union, and other national
laws that regulate or tax electronic messages or the transport of
electronic databases across national boundaries.
U.S. Commercial Law (3) IT 715
This course will introduce international graduate students to the
essential doctrines of United States corporate law. Students will begin
with a study of agency, partnership, and corporate law, then move to a
review of the principles and basic practices of United States securities
law and antitrust law.
U.S. Taxation of International
Transactions and Foreign Taxpayers (2)
TX 387
A study of the U.S. taxation of international commercial transactions
involving U.S. and foreign taxpayers. As business becomes more
international in scope, most practitioners will be exposed to foreign
taxation. This course covers U.S. taxation of the income of U.S.
taxpayers operating abroad through branches and subsidiaries; the
U.S. foreign tax credit provisions; cross-border asset transfers; related
party income allocations; foreign currency issues; the U.S. taxation
of non-resident individuals and foreign corporations; and bilateral
income tax treaties.
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LL.M. Courses in Real Estate Law
An in-depth study of the special laws applicable to Section 8 Housing
and a workshop covering the structuring, drafting, negotiating and
closing of an affordable housing development (i.e., the acquisition of
land, formation of a joint venture between the for-profit and not-forprofit entity, financing and construction).
Alternative Means of Dispute Resolution
(2) RE 611
An exploration of the use of mediation, arbitration, mini-trials, etc.,
in the context of real estate-related disputes.
Bankruptcy and Insolvency Laws
Affecting Real Estate (2) RE 601
An in-depth study of the impact of the federal and state bankruptcy
and insolvency laws upon real estate development, finance and
workouts, focusing on the rights and remedies available to the debtor
in bankruptcy and its creditors when a party to a real estate transaction
becomes insolvent, including a bankruptcy filing by a landlord, a
tenant, a ground lessor or lessee, party to a reciprocal operating and
easement agreement, a borrower, or a contractor or subcontractor.
Particular emphasis will be placed on the impact of a bankruptcy
filing by a borrower on the remedies available to a mortgage lender,
including enforcement of pre-petition agreements to lift the
automatic stay, the use of “pre-packaged” bankruptcy plans, the
“new value” exception to the absolute priority rule and enforcement
of “springing guarantees.”
Commercial Real Estate Transactions
(3) RE 602
A survey of the legal, accounting, and business issues relating to the
acquisition, construction, leasing, ownership, operation, and
management of various types of commercial real estate projects.
Particular emphasis will be placed upon underwriting considerations,
selecting the choice of entity (S-corporation, limited liability company,
corporation, general partnership, joint venture, or limited partnership)
and title insurance.
Condominium, Cooperative and Other
Common Ownership Interest
An examination of the laws relating to common ownership interest
communities, including the legal foundations and structures of
condominiums, cooperatives and home owners’ associations;
occupancy and use restrictions, restrictions on alienation, maintenance
of common areas and enforcement of declaration, by-laws and
regulations; a review of consumer protection legislation to combat
developer abuses; management problems, litigation and conversions.
A study of the various aspects of construction law, including
construction contracting and related claims and litigation and the
rights and duties of developers, contractors, subcontractors, design
professionals, bonding companies and lenders. An analysis of the
pitfalls to avoid in construction contracting, the bidding process and
government work, construction liabilities and insurance, mechanic’s
liens, construction scheduling and delays, warranties, arbitration or
litigation, damages, remedies, waivers and defenses.
Drafting & Negotiation Skills Workshop
(2) RE 608
This course will focus on developing skills in drafting and negotiation,
utilizing a basic, but usually highly negotiated, real estate document
(such as a joint venture agreement, loan modification agreement or an
office lease) to be negotiated for a hypothetical deal.
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Environmental Controls and Concerns
A survey of the various federal and state statutes, regulations and
judicial and administrative decisions with respect to environmental
matters including, air, water, solid waste and noise pollution abatement
(including CERCLA and RCRA); an analysis of the impact of these
environmental controls (both indoor and outdoor) upon land
ownership, development and financing; and the formation of plans and
procedures to improve compliance with environmental laws and rules,
including handling a remediation of contaminated property.
Fair Housing Clinic (1-4) RE 621,
RE 622, RE 623, RE 624
In addition to teaching the substance of fair housing law, the clinic
offers students an opportunity to participate in federal court litigation,
state and administrative proceedings, and appeals.
Fair Housing/Fair Lending Law (2)
RE 633
The study of federal, state and local laws pertaining to discrimination
in housing and lending, focusing on the theoretical and legal problems
presented by the fair housing and lending laws as well as the practical
aspects of handling a fair housing case and methods to comply with
these laws, including the Community Reinvestment Act.
Federal Income Tax Aspects of Real
Estate (2) RE 603
An in-depth analysis of the federal income tax aspects of acquiring,
owning, operating and disposing of real estate, including a review of
corporate and partnership taxation in connection with the question
of form of ownership; the determination of basis, depreciation,
recapture, and investment credits; the characterization of gain or loss;
the alternative minimum tax; the use of tax-free exchanges; the tax
consequences upon foreclosure or loan modification; and the deferral
of income through the use of installment sales.
Independent Research (1-4) RE 697,
RE 698, RE 699
Research on an issue of real estate law and formation of an original
idea in connection therewith, culminating in a written work of
publishable quality.
Insurance Aspects of Real Estate
Transactions (2) RE 616
This course identifies the insurance issues that are involved in various real
estate transactions including construction, financing and the ownership
and operation of rental property (from both a landlord’s and tenant’s
perspective). The focus will be on negotiating and drafting insurance
clauses in documents that support these transactions.
International Aspects of Real Estate (2)
RE 615
An examination of the special legal and business issues which arise
when a foreign person or entity develops or finances real estate projects
located in the United States, paying particular attention to tax issues.
Land Use Control and Zoning (2)
RE 604
A study of governmental regulation and land use restrictions relating
to the development of real estate, including municipal zoning, changes
in zoning, spot zoning, variances and special exceptions, planned unit
developments, floating zones, state controls, landmarks, forced
dedications, development fees, condemnation and regulatory takings,
subdivision approvals, flood plains and environmental controls.
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(2) RE 605
An in-depth study of the legal and business issues involved in the
leasing, ownership and management of various types of commercial real
estate developments. Particular emphasis will be placed upon ground
leases and space leases, insurance and compliance with the Americans
with Disabilities Act.
An examination of various financing devices utilized in the context
of acquisition, construction and permanent financings of real estate
development, including mortgages of fee title and leasehold mortgages,
deeds of trust, installment land contracts, purchase money mortgages
and wrap around mortgages. A study of the rights, duties and liabilities
of the parties prior to the foreclosure, including the statutory and
equitable right of redemption and the special problems which arise
in a default situation, including lender liability claims, rights of tenants;
enforcement of assignment of rents; subordinate liens and intercreditor
agreements; enforcing the due on sale clauses, late charges, default
interest and prepayment charges and priority issues (focusing on
Article IX of the UCC, the Bankruptcy Code and Banking Law).
An exploration of workout strategies and enforcement strategies
including modification agreements, forbearance agreements, and
the use of a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure or consent foreclosure.
The overarching objective is to develop an understanding of how real
estate markets work. The course provides an introduction to financial
analysis of real estate for investment purposes. It will consider the
impact of financial performance on the legal and capital structures of
real estate investment entities. Finally, attention will be given to how
US real estate markets function.
Real Estate Legal Practicum (1-3)
RE 620, 621, 622
This course will provide students a hands-on experience in
commercial real estate practice. Under careful supervision of a full-time
faculty member, the students will work with a member of the adjunct
faculty in one of the various settings where real estate lawyers
practice— law firms, title companies, corporations or government. The
course is structured to meet the needs of the individual student who
has not had significant practice experience in the field of real estate law.
Consultation with and approval of the director of the program is
required for registration.
A workshop covering the substantive and procedural elements of handling
real estate-related litigation such as actions to quiet title, ejectment,
eminent domain, partition, foreclosure, mechanic’s liens, construction
claims, brokerage commissions or liability, and real estate sale contracts.
An in-depth treatment of the alternative sources of funds for
investment in real estate and the transformation of real estate into
securities through the use of REMICs, REITs and mortgage conduit
vehicles and the use of “derivatives” in real estate financings.
Commercial Real Estate Finance and
An in-depth treatment of selected topics of commercial real estate
finance and development with an emphasis on current developments
in the law and the real estate industry.
State, Local and Transfer Taxes (2)
RE 614
LL.M. Courses in Tax Law
Required Courses
An advanced review of the inclusions to, and exclusions from, gross
income, and of deductions therefrom in arriving at taxable income.
The taxation of individuals will be stressed. Various doctrines,
such as constructive receipt and step-transaction, will be analyzed.
Characterization of transactions as capital or ordinary will be covered
in depth. Federal income tax procedure will be surveyed. This is not
a basic income tax course. Students requiring a basic course should
make special arrangements with the director.
Civil and Criminal Tax Procedure (2)
TX 392
This course entails a study of jurisdictional and procedural problems
arising in civil tax practice. This course deals with procedure and
documents necessary at all stages of the controversy before the IRS,
the choice of courts, pleadings and procedure for the Tax Court, the
District Court, and the United States Court of Federal Claims. Statutes
of limitations, penalties, examinations, administrative appeals and tax
court procedure will be covered. Collection issues include offers in
compromise, innocent spouse defenses, and IRS liens and levies.
The burgeoning area of administrative tax practice will be studied
in detail. The content of this course will be at least two-thirds civil
procedure and at most one-third criminal procedure. This course also
covers substantive and procedural federal criminal law in the tax and
white-collar areas in the context of effective representation and
professional responsibility.
Corporate Taxation I (3) TX 350
This is the first of two separate courses relating to the taxation of
corporations and their shareholders. These courses focus on
corporations governed by subchapter C, as distinguished from
other forms of doing business such as partnerships and S corporations.
This course will cover the organization of a C corporation, the
distinction between between debt and equity, distributions
(including redemptions, stock distributions and related company
stock sales treated as distributions), and various other related issues.
Detailed analysis will be given to corporation liquidations and to
the allocation rules for income and deductions among taxpayers.
NOTE: Students are required to take either Corporate Taxation I
(see above) or Corporate Taxation: A Survey (see below), but not both.
Corporate Taxation: A Survey (2) TX 353
This course is a survey course that will cover the material presented
in Corporate Taxation I-II on a less intensive basis. It is directed to
those students who intend to specialize in areas other than corporate
taxation, yet at the same time wish to learn the broad fundamentals
of corporate taxation. Students who have taken Corporate Taxation I
or II will only be eligible to take this course with the permission of
the director.
This course consists of a comprehensive survey of the principles and
procedures of federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxation,
including the relevant principles of valuation, the concept of complete
vs. incomplete gifts, the reciprocal trust doctrine, the taxability of
property owned by a decedent, life insurance, annuities, death benefits
under retirement plans, joint property, powers of appointment, and
transfers with retained income and reversionary interests. The course
also includes a thorough analysis of the various deductions, credits,
and exclusions available for transfer tax purposes.
An analysis of state, county and municipal taxation triggered by
real estate ownership and sale, with particular emphasis upon the
procedures for the levy, assessment, administrative, and judicial review
of real estate taxes.
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This course will examine in-depth the provisions of Subchapter K of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Included will be a study
of when a partnership exists, the essential characteristics that distinguish
partnerships from corporations and the difference and similarities
between partnerships and S corporations. This course will also cover
the partnership-like tax treatment of limited liability companies. Basic
partnership tax law, including the tax consequences relating to the
formation, operating and termination of partnerships and transfers of
partnership interests will be analyzed in detail. Time will also be spent
examining the subjects of partnership allocations, transactions between
a partner and the partnership, and the treatment of partnership
liabilities. Finally, the course will also consider the effect of the at-risk
and passive activity loss limitations upon partnerships and their partners.
Tax /Employee Benefits Research (2)
TX 333
Elective Courses
This course is the second course of a two-course series in corporate
taxation. An in-depth study will be made of corporate reorganizations
under Section 368 of the Code, including both stock and asset
acquisitions, as well as corporate separations under Section 355.
Also to be addressed are issues related to affiliated corporations, and
the survival and transfer of corporate attributes. Problem sets will be
handed out to illustrate the workings of these highly technical rules,
but the course will go beyond the technical to emphasize tax
planning considerations.
Federal Income Taxation of Property
Transactions (2) TX 341
Prerequisite: Advanced Federal Income Tax
This course covers in-depth the federal income tax consequences arising
from sales, exchanges and other dispositions of property. Matters
covered are determination of the taxable event, the amount realized,
adjusted basis, and loss limitations (including passive activity and at-risk
provisions). The course includes a detailed analysis of taxable
transactions, including the use of the installment method
of accounting, as well as study of the non-recognition provisions
including like-kind exchanges and involuntary conversions, but
excluding corporate reorganizations. The course covers various methods
of acquisitions and disposition of businesses, including special allocation
rules for certain assets.
Income Taxation of Estates & Trusts (2)
TX 372
Prerequisite Gift and Estate Tax Law; Basic Estate Planning;
Federal Income Tax
This course studies the application of the federal and state transfer taxes
to hypothetical fact situations. It includes an analysis of all relevant
estate planning considerations, including the related income tax aspects.
Particular emphasis is given to the drafting considerations to implement
various estate planning choices. Applicable probate law, along with
methods of avoiding probate, is also considered.
Prerequisite: Gift and Estate Tax Law and Individual Income Tax
A thorough review of the income taxation of personal trusts and estates.
The course will also cover the rights, powers, and duties of a fiduciary,
principles of trust accounting, virtual representation, total return trusts,
planning opportunities and drafting issues.
Research on an issue of tax law and formation of an original idea
in connection with that issue, culminating in a written work of
published quality.
Prerequisite: Gift and Estate Tax Law
A study of the application of federal and state transfer taxes to
hypothetical fact situations. The course includes an analysis of all relevant
estate planning considerations, including gift, estate and generation
skipping tax aspects. Some income tax issues relating to trusts and estates
are discussed but are not focused on. Applicable probate law, along with
Business Practices for Tax Lawyers (2)
TX 330
This course presents a study of the language and fundamentals of
business activities. Topics will include basic accounting and
interpretation of financial statements, as well as various business
activities which give rise to tax issues, including debt, securities,
mergers, and bankruptcy. The course provides the background
necessary to apply tax law principles to common business transactions.
Charitable Giving in Estate Planning (2)
TX 375
Prerequisites: Gift and Estate Tax Law; Basic Estate Planning;
Federal Income Tax (which may be taken concurrently with TX 375)
This course provides an in-depth analysis of income, estate and gift tax
consequences of transmitting wealth via charitable giving; The legal and
ethical problems involved with fund-raising will be discussed, as well as
consideration of alternative funding methods. The income tax aspects
of charitable giving by trusts and estates will be covered, as well as the
transfer tax issues. Generation skipping taxes will also be discussed.
Selected sophisticated forms of giving, such as charitable lead trusts,
pooled income funds, bargain sales, and charitable gift annuities, will
be analyzed.
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IRS Externship Program (3-4) EB 389
Prerequisites: Federal Income Tax and Tax and Employee
Benefits Research
at the Office of Chief Counsel of the IRS’ Small Business/SelfEmployed Division Counsel, Large and Mid-Size Business Division
Counsel, or Tax Exempt/Government Entities Counsel. The
educational objectives of this course include practical experience in tax
& employee benefits law, development of research, writing and drafting
skills, and preparation of pleadings, discovery documents, stipulations of
fact and trial memoranda used in Tax Court cases. Professor Kathryn J.
Kennedy, director.
Life Insurance: Tax Aspects in
Business, Estate, Employee Benefits
Life insurance is a financial vehicle commonly used in funding many of
the financial plans and benefit programs dealt with in the courses
offered in the program. Because it is such a technical subject and also
because tax practitioners are obliged to understand how life insurance
products operate, how they may be utilized, and the tax aspects
applicable, we offer a separate course on this subject. The course will
stress the tax aspects of funding buy-sell agreements; estate and gift
tax consequences of life insurance acquired as part of one’s estate or
financial plan; income and estate tax aspects of life insurance included in
pension, profit sharing, and group health plans; and income,
estate, and gift tax matters associated with insurance-funded executive
benefit plans.
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Prerequisites: Gift and Estate Tax Law; Basic Estate Planning
This course is an overview of the planning that an individual should
consider during his or her lifetime, including the disposition of
property at death. It includes income tax concepts as they relate to
personal financial planning, investment considerations, risk
management, use of trusts, retirement options (when implementing
plans and when withdrawing from plans) and gift and estate tax
problems, including post-mortem planning. The course concludes
with several cases to illustrate the tax savings that can be achieved
with proper planning. This course will enable students to do personal
financial planning for their clients, which is one of the growth areas
for practicing lawyers. Because of the nature of the material there is
no required sequence to this course with respect to the estate planning
courses (TX 370 and 371).
Post-Mortem Planning and Estate
Administration (2) TX 374
Federal Income Tax
This course covers federal tax issues and state probate law issues that
occur in the settlement of a decedent’s estate. Topics covered will
include the use of disclaimers and/or the QTIP election to obtain the
optimum martial deduction bequest; post death accounting issues
facing owners of pass-through entities; income tax consequences of
property distributions in satisfaction of bequests; valuation issues and
estate tax deferral considerations; and apportioning the tax burden.
taxation. This course covers the U.S. taxation of the income of U.S.
party income allocations; foreign currency issues; the U.S. taxation of
non-resident individuals and foreign corporations; and bilateral income
tax treaties.
LL.M. Courses in Global
Legal Studies
Required Courses
This course studies various legal systems in the world today. The
course examines the nature of law under both common law and civil
law systems and includes Islamic law, both traditional and modern
Chinese law, and the laws of developing countries. The course not
only introduces radically different systems but also provides a better
understanding of one’s own legal system.
Introduction to the United States Legal
System (2)FL 500
This course provides a basic introduction to the common law and
essential elements of the United States federal system, constitutional
structures and principles, the legislative process, some core legal
principles, and basic resources and research techniques in United
States law.
A study of state income, excise, real property, and franchise taxes;
retailer’s occupation and related taxes (sales tax); and City of Chicago
taxes. Appropriate tax planning becomes more difficult as expanding
governmental revenue needs lead to increasingly complicated state and
local tax structures. The course is designed to provide a beginning
familiarity with the practical aspects of a state and local tax practice,
with emphasis on Illinois law.
This course covers problems associated with obtaining and maintaining
exemption from federal income tax under subchapter F of the Internal
Revenue Code. Special emphasis is placed on private foundations, the
extent of permissible commercial activities or transactions, unrelated
business income tax problems, prohibited transactions, charitable
contribution limitations, intermediate sanctions and discussions of the
professional responsibilities of attorneys dealing with non-profit
organizations. The mechanics of obtaining exemptions, as well as the
philosophy behind such preferred status, are examined. Organizing and
operating not-for-profit corporations and tax exempt trusts are also
reviewed in depth.
Taxation of Closely Held Businesses (2)
TX 334
Prerequisite: Advanced Income Tax
Recommended: Partnership Taxation; Corporate Taxation
This course will examine tax aspects of sole proprietorships, C
corporations, S corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies
for small and closely held businesses. We will begin by examining issues
that arise when selecting the type of entity, the annual accounting
method, and setting compensation. Then, for each entity, we will discuss
the consequences related to formation, distribution of profits and losses,
and termination. Finally, we will examine how the selection of entity
impacts the type of employee benefits that may be provided by the entity
and the transfers of ownership interests during lifetime and upon death.
Transactions and Foreign Taxpayers
(2-3) TX 387
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Lawyering Skills for Foreign Lawyers
(3) FL 501
This course is designed to develop research and writing skills of foreign
graduate law students. The writing portion of the class will focus on
analysis and communication skills in the preparation of memoranda,
client letters, and other documents appropriate to a practice outside
the United States. The research portion of the class will provide
instruction in effective research in American law and in American
sources, including printed materials and electronic resources.
Elective Courses
Electives may be selected from virtually the entire range of courses
in the J.D. and LL.M. curricula. Additional courses in the LL.M. in
Global Legal Studies program include:
United States Commercial Law (3)
FL 530
essential doctrines of United States commercial law. Students will
begin with basic United States contract law, then move to a study of
the Uniform Commercial Code subjects of sales transactions,
negotiable instruments, and secured transactions.
United States Corporate Law (3) FL 540
essential doctrines of United States corporate law. Students will begin
with a study of agency, partnership, and corporate law, then move to a
review of the principles and basic practices of United States securities
law and antitrust law.
United States Professional
Responsibility Law (1) FL 550
This course is designed to provide international LL.M. students
with a basic understanding of the law of lawyering with special
emphasis on the regulation of lawyers through rules of professional
conduct, such as the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. The
course will explore the attorney’s duties to the court and society and
will also cover a variety of issues that affect the attorney-client
relationship such as confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and the
advertising of legal services.
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M.S. Course Descriptions
M.S. Courses in Employee Benefits
Elective Courses
Note: The number in parentheses ( ) indicates semester hours of credit.
Required Courses
This course introduces non-legally trained students to the workings of
the legal system, legal methods (including research techniques), and the
process of legal education. (Open only to M.S. students. Must be taken
concurrently with Substantive Law Overview.)
This course introduces non-legally trained students to the basic
substantive areas of law. Policy considerations as well as legal issue
spotting will be emphasized. (Open only to M.S. students. Must be
taken concurrently with Introduction to Legal Analysis.)
Plans (2) EB 365
Prerequisite: Individual Income Tax; Recommended: Taxation of
Corporations
This survey course is intended to provide an overview of the framework
of rules governing nonqualified executive compensation, with primary
focus on the tax, legal, financial, and accounting issues that specifically
impact such arrangements. Funding vehicles such as “rabbi” and secular
trusts are discussed. Advanced coverage of executive compensation
plans will be addressed in EB 369 (Executive Compensation Benefits:
Advanced).
Survey of Retirement Plan Issues (3)
EB 360
This course will survey the labor, employment, and tax rules affecting
employee pension and profit sharing plans. By providing an overview
of the framework of rules governing such plans, students will learn the
basic tax, legal, business, and other issues that specifically affect
retirement plans and participants' rights under such plans. The course
will also discuss other types of employee benefit plans, such as health
and welfare plans and executive compensation plans.
Survey of Welfare Plan Issues (2) EB 363
This basic survey course is intended to provide fundamental familiarity
with welfare benefit plans. It examines the wide variety of Code
provisions governing welfare benefit plans, namely short- and long-term
disability income plans, dependent care and family leave, medical
and dental plans, death benefit coverage, unemployment compensation,
and others. Topics such as flexible benefit plans and flexible spending
accounts which provide tax shelters for such welfare benefits will also
be discussed.
Tax & Employee Benefits Research (2)
TX 333
histories, and administrative rulings. The course will also develop skills
in using computerized research tools. No final examination will be
given. Student evaluations will be based on various research
assignments.
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This course examines the design and administration of cash and
deferred plans (also known as 401(k) plans), SIMPLE/IRA plans,
SIMPLE/401(k) plans, SEPs, 403(b) plans and 457 plans. In
determining whether to implement a cash and deferred arrangement,
all of the various arrangements will be discussed. Once in place, the
ongoing administration of such plans, including annual testing, use
of plan loans, investment of plan assets, fiduciary issues, QDRO
procedures and reporting and disclosure requirements will be
highlighted. Unique uses of cash and deferred arrangements with
ESOPs and in executive compensation contexts will also be analyzed.
Contemporary Benefit Issues (2)
EB 367
This course is intended for the tax practitioner who is well-versed in
employee benefits law and wishes to keep abreast of timely issues that
affect employee benefit plans. Current topics may include IRS/DOL
compliance and audit programs, estate tax planning distributions,
fiduciary litigation, and the impact of other federal laws on employee
benefit plans (e.g., HIPPA, COBRA, and FMLA).
DOL Externship Program (3-4) EB 393
at the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) of the U.S.
Department of Labor’s Chicago Regional Office. The educational
objectives of this course include practical experience in employee
benefits law, development of research, writing and drafting skills, and
preparation of memoranda, discovery documents, guidelines to assist
pension investigators and auditors.
Prerequisites: Survey of Retirement Plan Issues or Survey of Welfare
Plan Issues
This advanced course examines the litigation aspects of controversies
and claims involving pension and retirement plans, health and medical
plans, and other employee fringe benefit plans. The course covers all
aspects of claims, defenses, pleadings, discovery, motions, trial and
settlement approaches used in employee benefits litigation and dispute
resolution. It is designed for attorneys handling litigation involving
employee benefit plans and presumes a working knowledge of ERISA
and the qualification requirements for various employee benefits plans
under the Internal Revenue Code.
Employee Benefits Practice and
Procedure (2) EB 357
This course examines the federal administration of employee benefit
plans under the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA, including
requests for determination letters, private letter rulings, technical
advice, preparation and filing of annual returns, audit procedures,
administrative appeals, funding deficiencies, tax penalties and statute
of limitations. Preparation of a determination letter request and plan
amendments for a qualified retirement plan will be required.
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Prerequisites: Survey of Retirement Plan Issues and Estates and
Trusts I
This course is designed to be a practical study of the fundamental
structure of fiduciary responsibility under ERISA: the requisites for
fiduciary status, the statutory bases of specific duties and prohibitions,
and issues surrounding the management of plan assets. Timely topics,
such as participant-directed investments and the evolving duty of
disclosure, will also be discussed.
ESOPs (1) 355
This course focuses on the use of employee stock ownership plans
(ESOPs) as employee benefit plans, tools of corporate finance, and
ownership succession strategies. The course will address tax
consequences of establishing and maintaining such plans, as well as
securities, accounting and fiduciary issues. Use of ESOPs in leveraged
transactions, by Subchapter S corporations, and in conjunction with
cash and deferred arrangements (KSOPs) will be examined.
Executive Compensation Benefits:
Advanced (2) EB 369
Prerequisite: Survey of Executive Compensation Plans
This course will be a continuation of EB 365, intended for the
practitioner who wishes to specialize further in executive
compensation. Various types of equity-based compensation plans
and related securities law issues, change of control arrangements,
executive compensation for multinationals and tax-exempts, and the
uses of insurance in the executive compensation package will all be
discussed. Where applicable, lectures will be supplemented with
sample contracts and plans.
Issues (3) EB 361
Prerequisite: Survey of Retirement Plan Issues or equivalent
knowledge
This course and EB 362 provide an in-depth examination of the
rules governing retirement plans "qualified" under Section 401(a)
of the Internal Revenue Code. Intended for the practitioner who
wishes to specialize in this area, the course covers design,
qualification, funding, and the administration of employee
retirement plans, with emphasis on compliance with the
requirements of ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code.
Fundamentals II of Retirement Plan
Issues (3) EB 362
This course is a continuation of EB 361, intended for the practitioner
who wishes to specialize further in employee benefits. It continues an
in-depth examination of retirement plan issues, including such topics
as controlled group rules, fiduciary requirements, determination
letters and correction procedures, deductibility limits, distribution
requirements, and hybrid retirement plans. Where applicable, plan
and trust documents will be discussed.
Graduate Seminar: Employee Benefits
Law (2) EB 368
Prerequisite: Fundamentals I & II of Retirement Plan Issues
Students will take an in-depth look at fifteen timely employee benefits
topics, presented by experts in the field. Grades are based on short
page papers and participation in seminar discussions.
Research on an issue of employee benefits law and formation of an
original idea in connection with that issue, culminating in a written
work of publishable quality.
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International Employee Benefits (1)
EB 388
This course is intended to familiarize the practitioner with issues
arising from the use of employee benefit plans in the international
context. Such plans include a variety of deferred compensation
arrangements, including qualified pension, profit sharing, stock bonus
and ESOPs, as well as nonqualified plans, individual deferral
arrangements and stock-based purchase plan. The tax effects of such
plans on the U.S. employer, as well as the employee of a multinational
company will be discussed.
Specialized Employee Benefit Plans (2)
EB 366
Intended for the tax practitioner who has a firm foundation of the
rules governing retirement plans, this course examines the additional
tax rules applicable to specialized retirement plans. Specialized plans
discussed include cash and deferred arrangements, state and local
governmental plans, tax-deferred annuity plans, multi-employer plans,
foreign pension plans, ESOPs, IRAs and SIMPLEs, retirement plans
for small businesses and the self-employed, cash balance plans and
target benefit plans. Drafting of plan documents will also be discussed.
Welfare Benefit Plans: Tax, Legal &
Design Issues (2) EB 364
Prerequisite: Survey of Welfare Plan Issues
This course goes beyond the basic survey course of EB 363 and
examines the specific tax, legal and design rules affecting welfare
benefit plans, including flexible benefit plans and flexible spending
accounts. Also discussed are the various insurance and self-insured
funding instruments, including Section 501(c)(9) trusts, that are
used in connection with these benefits. Timely topics, such as
post-retirement medical benefits for retirees and long-term care,
are also discussed.
M.S. Courses in Information
Technology Law
Required Courses
This course is designed to give students an awareness of the legal
issues surrounding the development and use of computer and other
U.S. copyright law, including the 1909 Copyright Act, the 1976
Copyright Act, and the 1988 Berne Convention Implementation Act
as it affects both domestic and foreign copyrights in the United States.
This seminar provides an overview of Internet law. Students consider
such issues as the nature of online services, governance and business
structures in the borderless electronic environment of Cyberspace.
Subjects will vary as the field develops, but will include such areas as
tort liability, freedom of expression, crime and security, privacy,
intellectual property rights and protection, regulation, jurisdiction,
and standards of ethics and propriety.
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organizations held by third parties. Topics include the right of access
to information, the free flow and use of information, the creation and
value of an individual’s “digital persona,” and the roles of government
Introduction to Legal Analysis (1)
IT 805
This course introduces non-legally trained students to the workings of
the legal system, legal methods (including research techniques), and
the process of legal education. (Open only to M.S. students. Must be
taken concurrently with Substantive Law Overview.)
Elective Courses
The course covers advertising litigation under the Lanham Act,
private, state and local public remedies for consumer protection
against deceptive advertising, Federal Trade Commission regulation
of deceptive advertising, Federal Trade Commission regulation
of consumer protection, and consumer protection under other
federal statutes.
Computer Crime, Information Warfare,
and Economic Espionage (2) IT 848
The computer crime elements of this course include issues such as
computer intrusions, online fraud, “electronic stalking,” computer
viruses, and theft of service. The information warfare aspects
encompass infrastructure security, “hacktivism,” and other such issues.
Economic espionage includes legal, technical, and social aspects of
protecting sensitive and proprietary information.
Contemporary Problems in Computer
Law (3) IT 820
Topics discussed in this seminar may include technological
developments, recurring and significant issues in electronic
contracting, integrated system transactions, liability and litigation,
computer generated evidence/expert testimony, privacy/security,
government contracting issues, bankruptcy and software escrows,
taxation, international law and transactions, antitrust, domestic and
international distribution and software and database acquisitions.
This course examines problems in intellectual property law caused
by new forms of technology. It will study the difficulties faced by
the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and courts in applying existing
frontiers of science, and will propose solutions. Areas to be considered
include: the patentability of life forms, inventions made in space,
semiconductor topology, non-traditional property forms, look and
feel of computer programs, biotechnology, colorization of movies,
moral rights, industrial designs, shrink wrap licenses, states’ rights
versus preemption and supremacy, and copying for home use.
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Current Topics in Information
Technology Law (2) IT 881
The Current Topics seminar focuses on a specific area of information
technology or privacy law. Students will examine current controversies
and technological developments as they relate to the traditional legal
framework. Offerings have included Internet Fraud, Workplace Privacy,
the Microsoft Antitrust Litigation, Regulatory Compliance regarding
Health and Financial Information, and Protecting Children Online.
This seminar analyzes the law of electronic transactions,
including issues presented by digital cash, micropayments,
anonymous and pseudonymous transactions, privacy and
accountability, digital signatures and message authentication,
fraud, and consumer protection.
Electronic Document Certification (2)
IT 835
The course focuses on the law governing electronic documents and
digital signatures. The course examines issues of jurisdiction, privacy
concerns, tort liability, statutory interpretation, administrative agency
oversight, ethical considerations, criminal responsibility, and other
topics in the United States and internationally. Students will engage
in exercises in document and legislative drafting, ethics considerations,
and statutory applications.
This seminar considers the legal and policy questions arising from the
borderless and relatively open communication channels of the Internet.
Course content includes First Amendment interpretations in the
digital, electronic environment; media practices in accessing personal
or proprietary information in cyberspace, using the Internet to
supplant or supplement traditional media dissemination and the
tension between free speech and intellectual property rights. Students
will explore questions of rights and liabilities in connection with
obscenity, pornography, commercial speech, harassment, hate speech,
defamation and invasions of privacy.
Governance and Regulation in
This seminar explores various approaches to rulemaking and dispute
resolution in the borderless environment of cyberspace. Attempts
by international organizations, individual governments, industry
groups, and private enterprises to create legal and regulatory
structures will be considered.
This seminar considers both the use of information technology in
litigation and litigation about high technology. Subject matter includes
the electronic filing of pleadings and documents; admissibility of
digital electronic records or other evidence; discovery and electronic
databases; use of computer-generated models and simulations; recent
cases involving scientific or technical evidence; multimedia techniques
for securing and presenting the depositions or testimony of distant
witnesses; and techniques for presenting and explaining information
about complex information and communications technology.
Independent Research in Information
Technology Law (1-2) IT 897
An independent research project must be approved by the director.
It requires scholarly research resulting in a quality written product
which makes a significant contribution to the field of information
technology law. Students may register for either 1 or 2 credit hours of
Independent Research within a semester or summer term. Students
may receive up to a total of 3 credit hours for Independent Research
toward the LL.M. or M.S. degree, and a combined total of 4 credit
hours for the Journal of Computer and Information Law (IT 818),
and Independent Research (IT 897).
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license transfers.
(2) IT 850
worldwide, with particular emphasis on the United States (both federal
and state), Europe, and Australia. Also to be addressed are major
international agreements and organizations affecting
telecommunications.
Jurisdiction and Judgments in
This seminar examines issues of jurisdiction and procedure as they are
affected by the international and borderless aspects of cyberspace,
including personal and subject matter jurisdiction, conflict of laws,
the effect of foreign judgments, the role of international organizations
and transnational governments, and alternative methods of
dispute resolution.
Master Classes on Advanced Topics
in Intellectual Property Law (1)
IP 429 A-Z
session of three-hour evening classes, or in a two full-day format.
Multimedia Licensing and Transactions
(2) IT 825
This seminar covers a broad range of legal issues related to the
ownership, use, and transfer of multimedia works such as computer
software, interactive television, online services, and hypermedia.
Copyright and licensing issues will be emphasized, but other
intellectual property interests as well as regulatory and tort liability
issues will also be explored.
privacy rights in the U.S. in the areas of tort and constitutional law.
In the former, the subjects of intrusion into seclusion and publication
of private fact are given special emphasis; the relationship between
commercial appropriation of name and the new tort, “right of
publicity,” is also examined, as is the relation between the false light
privacy tort and defamation. In the constitutional arena, attention is
given to personal autonomy in such matters as procreation, abortion,
and choice regarding medical treatment and “death with dignity”;
and personal and sexual associations and lifestyle.
The Professional Responsibilities of a
Technological Law Practice (2) IT 812
Prerequisite: Professional Responsibility
This course examines the application of legal ethics to the use of
technology in the practice of law. It explores emerging developments
in the use of technologies (including the Internet) to facilitate, advance
and deliver legal services. Students examine the lawyer’s obligations,
particularly to the rules of professional responsibility, in a technological
or cyber-based practice.
The Rights of Publicity and Privacy (3)
IP 423
This course examines the origin, creation and protection of publicity
readings and class discussion are supplemented with guest speakers
who have experience in these issues.
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Technology in the Practice of Law (2)
IT 810
Participants in this workshop-style seminar will learn about a
wide range of applications of technology to the practice of law,
including legal research and writing, litigation applications,
electronic communication, electronic publishing, and billing
and law practice management.
flow of digital electronic data across jurisdictional lines; conflicts of
laws and culture regarding content or expression in communications;
and comparative analysis of U.S., European Community and other
national laws that regulate or tax electronic messages or the transport
of electronic data bases across national boundaries. Special attention is
given to the European Union Directive on Data Protection.
This seminar addresses the scope and effect of the federal
Telecommunications Act of 1996, Illinois regulation of the
telecommunications industry, and the relationship between state and
federal telecommunication regulations and the industry.
Note: With the approval of the program director, up to 6 credit
hours of advanced elective course work in intellectual property law
and other areas related to information technology law may be
counted toward the LL.M. in Information Technology Law.
M.S. Courses in Real Estate Law
Required Courses
Alternative Means of Dispute
Resolution (2) RE 611
An exploration of the use of mediation, arbitration, mini-trials, etc.,
in the context of real estate- related disputes.
Commercial Real Estate Transactions
(3) RE 602
A survey of the legal, accounting and business issues relating to the
acquisition, construction, leasing, ownership, operation and
management of various types of commercial real estate projects.
Particular emphasis will be placed upon underwriting considerations,
selecting the choice of entity (S-corporation, limited liability company,
corporation, general partnership or joint venture or limited
partnership) and title insurance.
Drafting & Negotiation Skills Workshop
(2) RE 608
This course will focus on developing skills in drafting and negotiation,
utilizing a basic, but usually highly negotiated, real estate document
(such as a joint venture agreement, loan modification agreement or an
office lease) to be negotiated for a hypothetical deal.
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Introduction to American Law (2) RE 634
This course which is to be taken during the summer is designed to give
non-lawyers an overview of the American legal system, an introduction
to selected areas of substantive law and the ethical context in which law
is practiced. The course will enable students to begin to understand
the ‘vocabulary’ of the law with particular emphasis given to property
and real estate concepts.
Introduction to Basic Real Estate Law
& Practice (3) RE 635
substantive areas of real estate law. Transaction considerations as well
as legal issue spotting will be emphasized. The course will enable
students to begin to understand the dynamics of the law as it pertains
to real estate transactions and the practice of real estate law. This
course will cover the basics of a real estate transaction starting with
preliminary considerations to the final closing process.
Introduction to Legal Materials and
Analysis (2) RE 636
This course, which is to be taken during the first semester that a nonlawyer is in the M.S. program in Real Estate Law, is designed to give
non-lawyers an introduction to legal materials and computerized
research. It will teach students how to find, read, and analyze and
obtain information from statutes, regulations, cases and typical practice
documents such as contracts, leases, declarations, and easements. In
addition, it will introduce students to legal writing and drafting. This
course will build upon the concepts and vocabulary learned in the
Introduction to American Law and serve as the foundation for
RE 608 Drafting & Negotiating Skills Workshop, a required course.
Elective Courses
An in-depth study of the special laws applicable to Section 8 Housing
and a workshop covering the structuring, drafting, negotiating and
closing of an affordable housing development (i.e., the acquisition of
land, formation of a joint venture between the for-profit and not-forprofit entity, financing and construction).
Bankruptcy and Insolvency Laws
An in-depth study of the impact of the federal and state bankruptcy
and insolvency laws on real estate development, finance and
workouts, focusing on the rights and remedies available to the
debtor in bankruptcy and its creditors when a party to a real estate
transaction becomes insolvent, including a bankruptcy filing by a
landlord, a tenant, a ground lessor or lessee, party to a reciprocal
operating and easement agreement, a borrower, or a contractor or
subcontractor. Particular emphasis will be placed on the impact of
a bankruptcy filing by a borrower on the remedies available to a
mortgage lender, including enforcement of pre-petition agreements
to lift the automatic stay, the use of pre-packaged bankruptcy
plans, the new value exception to the absolute priority rule and
enforcement of springing guarantees.
Condominium, Cooperative, and
Other Common Ownership Interest
An examination of the laws relating to common ownership interest
communities, including the legal foundations and structures of
condominiums, cooperatives and home owners associations;
occupancy and use restrictions, restrictions on alienation, maintenance
of common areas and enforcement of declaration, by-laws and
regulations; a review of consumer protection legislation to combat
developer abuses; management problems, litigation and conversions.
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A study of the various aspects of construction law, including
construction contracting and related claims and litigation and the
rights and duties of developers, contractors, subcontractors, design
professionals, bonding companies and lenders. An analysis of the
pitfalls to avoid in construction contracting, the bidding process and
government work, construction liabilities and insurance, mechanics
liens, construction scheduling and delays, warranties, arbitration or
litigation, damages, remedies, waivers and defenses.
Environmental Controls and Concerns
A survey of the various federal and state statutes, regulations and
judicial and administrative decisions with respect to environmental
matters including, air, water, solid waste and noise pollution
abatement (including CERCLA and RCRA); an analysis of thae impact
of these environmental controls (both indoor and outdoor) on land
ownership, development and financing; and the formation of plans and
procedures to improve compliance with environmental laws and rules,
including handling a remediation of contaminated property.
Fair Housing Clinic (1-4) RE 621,
RE 622, RE 623, RE 624
In addition to teaching the substance of fair housing law, the clinic
offers students an opportunity to participate in federal court litigation,
state and administrative proceedings, and appeals, as well as an
opportunity to participate in affordable housing development.
Fair Housing/Fair Lending Law (2)
RE 633
The study of federal, state and local laws pertaining to discrimination
in housing and lending, focusing on the theoretical and legal problems
presented by the fair housing and lending laws as well as the practical
aspects of handling a fair housing case and methods to comply with
these laws, including the Community Reinvestment Act.
Federal Income Tax Aspects of Real
Estate (2) RE 603
An in-depth analysis of the federal income tax aspects of acquiring,
owning, operating and disposing of real estate, including a review of
corporate and partnership taxation in connection with the question
of form of ownership; the determination of basis, depreciation,
recapture, and investment credits; the characterization of gain or loss;
the alternative minimum tax; the use of tax-free exchanges; the tax
consequences upon foreclosure or loan modification; and the deferral
of income through the use of installment sales.
Independent Research (1-4) RE 697,
RE 698, RE 699
Research on an issue of real estate law and formation of an original
idea in connection therewith, culminating in a written work of
International Aspects of Real Estate
(2) RE 615
An examination of the special legal and business issues which arise
when a foreign person or entity develops or finances real estate projects
located in the United States, paying particular attention to tax issues.
Insurance Aspects of Real Estate
Transactions (2) RE 616
This course identifies the insurance issues that are involved in various
real estate transactions including construction, financing and the
ownership and operation of rental property (from both a landlord’s
and tenant's perspective). The focus will be on negotiating and drafting
insurance clauses in documents that support these transactions.
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Land Use Control and Zoning (2)
RE 604
A study of governmental regulation and land use restrictions relating
to the development of real estate, including municipal zoning, changes
in zoning, spot zoning, variances and special exceptions, planned unit
developments, floating zones, state controls, landmarks, forced
dedications, development fees, condemnation and regulatory takings,
subdivision approvals, flood plains and environmental controls.
Leasing, Ownership and Management
(2) RE 605
An in-depth study of the legal and business issues involved in the
leasing, ownership and management of various types of commercial
real estate developments. Particular emphasis will be placed upon
ground leases and space leases, insurance and compliance with the
Americans with Disabilities Act.
Rin a theeal Estate Finance (3) RE 607
An examination of various financing devices utilized in the context
of acquisition, construction and permanent financings of real estate
development, including mortgages of fee title and leasehold
mortgages, deeds of trust, installment land contracts, purchase money
mortgages and wrap around mortgages. A study of the rights, duties
and liabilities of the parties prior to the foreclosure, including the
statutory and equitable right of redemption and the special problems
which arise in a default situation, including lender liability claims,
rights of tenants; enforcement of assignment of rents; subordinate liens
and intercreditor agreements; enforcing the due on sale clauses, late
charges, default interest and prepayment charges and priority issues
(focusing on Article IX of the UCC, the Bankruptcy Code and
Banking Law). An exploration of workout strategies and enforcement
strategies including modification agreements, forbearance agreements,
and the use of a deed in lieu of foreclosure or consent foreclosure.
The overarching objective is to develop an understanding of how real
estate markets work. The course provides an introduction to financial
analysis of real estate for investment purposes. It will consider the impact
of financial performance on the legal and capital structures of real estate
investment entities. Finally, attention will be given to how U.S. real
estate markets function (not generally open to M.S. students).
Commercial Real Estate Finance and
An in-depth treatment of selected topics of commercial real estate
finance and development with an emphasis on current developments
in the law and the real estate industry.
State, Local, and Transfer Taxes (2)
RE 614
An analysis of state, county and municipal taxation triggered by
real estate ownership and sale, with particular emphasis upon the
procedures for the levy, assessment, administrative and judicial review
of real estate taxes.
M.S. Courses in Tax Law
Required Courses
Advanced Federal Income Tax (2)
TX 340
An advanced review of the inclusions to, and exclusions from, gross
income, and of deductions therefrom in arriving at taxable income.
The taxation of individuals will be stressed. Various doctrines, such
as constructive receipt and step-transaction, will be analyzed.
Characterization of transactions as capital or ordinary will be covered
in depth. Federal income tax procedure will be surveyed. This is not a
basic income tax course. Students requiring a basic course should make
special arrangements with the director.
Consolidated Tax Returns (2) TX 302
Provides a thorough understanding of the advantages and potential
pitfalls of filing consolidated returns. Subjects include reverse
acquisitions, consolidated return change of ownership, separate return
limitation years (SRLY), deferred inter-company transactions, excess
loss accounts, annual investment adjustments, allocation of the
consolidated tax liability, and administrative provisions.
Corporate Taxation I (3) TX 350 or
Corporate Taxation: A Survey (2) TX 353
Real Estate Legal Practicum (1-3)
RE 620
This course will provide students a hands-on experience in commercial
real estate practice. Under careful supervision, the student will work
with a member of the adjunct faculty in one of the various settings
where real estate lawyers practice _ law firms, title companies,
corporations or government. The course is intended to meet the
needs of the individual student who has not had significant practice
experience in the field of real estate law. Consultation with and
approval of the director of the program is required for registration.
A workshop covering the substantive and procedural elements of
handling real estate-related litigation such as actions to quiet title,
ejectment, eminent domain, partition, foreclosure, mechanic's liens,
construction claims, brokerage commissions or liability, and real estate
sale contracts.
Corporate Taxation I (3) TX 350
This is the first of two separate courses relating to the taxation of
corporations and their shareholders. These courses focus on
corporations governed by subchapter C, as distinguished from other
forms of doing business such as partnerships and S corporations.
This course will cover the organization of a C corporation, the
distinction between between debt and equity, distributions
(including redemptions, stock distributions and related company
stock sales treated as distributions), and various other related issues.
Detailed analysis will be given to corporation liquidations and to the
allocation rules for income and deductions among taxpayers.
Corporate Taxation: A Survey (2)
TX 353
This course is a survey course that will cover the material presented
in Corporate Taxation I-II on a less intensive basis. It is directed to
those students who intend to specialize in areas other than corporate
taxation, yet at the same time wish to learn the broad fundamentals
of corporate taxation. Students who have taken Corporate Taxation I
or II will only be eligible to take this course with the permission of
the director.
An in-depth treatment of the alternative sources of fiends for
investment in real estate and the transformation of real estate into
securities through the use of REMICs, REITs and mortgage conduit
vehicles and the use of "derivatives" in real estate financings.
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This course consists of a comprehensive survey of the principles and
procedures of federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxation,
including the relevant principles of valuation, the concept of complete
vs. incomplete gifts, the reciprocal trust doctrine, the taxability of
property owned by a decedent, life insurance, annuities, death benefits
under retirement plans, joint property, powers of appointment, and
transfers with retained income and reversionary interests. The course
also includes a thorough analysis of the various deductions, credits, and
exclusions available for transfer tax purposes.
This course introduces non-legally trained students to the workings
of the legal system, legal methods (including research techniques),
and the process of legal education. (Open only to M.S. students.
Must be taken concurrently with Substantive Law Overview.)
Examination of a broad range of subjects related to accounting methods
and periods. Topics include principles of income recognition, prepaid
income, claim of right, cash equivalency, and constructive receipt, special
methods involving long-term contracts, depreciation, timing of
deductions, inventories, estimated expenses, prepaid expense, expense
versus capitalization, and conformity between tax and financial
accounting. Time value of money concepts will also be considered.
Tax/Employee Benefits Research (2)
TX 333
Elective Courses
Prerequisite Gift and Estate Tax Law; Basic Estate Planning;
Federal Income Tax
This course studies the application of the federal and state transfer taxes
to hypothetical fact situations. It includes an analysis of all relevant
estate planning considerations, including the related income tax aspects.
Particular emphasis is given to the drafting considerations to implement
various estate planning choices. Applicable probate law, along with
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Prerequisite: Gift and Estate Tax Law
A study of the application of federal and state transfer taxes to
hypothetical fact situations. The course includes an analysis of all
relevant estate planning considerations, including gift, estate and
generation skipping tax aspects. Some income tax issues relating to
trusts and estates are discussed but are not focused on. Applicable
probate law, along with methods of avoiding probate, is also considered.
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Business Practices for Tax Lawyers
(2) TX 330
This course presents a study of the language and fundamentals of
business activities. Topics will include basic accounting and
interpretation of financial statements, as well as various business
activities which give rise to tax issues, including debt, securities,
mergers, and bankruptcy. The course provides the background necessary
to apply tax law principles to common business transactions.
Charitable Giving in Estate Planning (2)
TX 375
Federal Income Tax
This course provides an in-depth analysis of income, estate and gift tax
consequences of transmitting wealth via charitable giving; The legal
and ethical problems involved with fund-raising will be discussed, as
well as consideration of alternative funding methods. The income tax
aspects of charitable giving by trusts and estates will be covered, as
well as the transfer tax issues. Generation skipping taxes will also be
discussed. Selected sophisticated forms of giving, such as charitable
lead trusts, pooled income funds, bargain sales, and charitable gift
annuities, will be analyzed.
Civil and Criminal Tax Procedure (2)
TX 392
This course entails a study of jurisdictional and procedural problems
arising in civil tax practice. This course deals with procedure and
documents necessary at all stages of the controversy before the IRS,
the choice of courts, pleadings and procedure for the Tax Court, the
District Court, and the United States Court of Federal Claims. Statutes
of limitations, penalties, examinations, administrative appeals and tax
court procedure will be covered. Collection issues include offers in
compromise, innocent spouse defenses, and IRS liens and levies. The
burgeoning area of administrative tax practice will be studied in detail.
The content of this course will be at least two-thirds civil procedure
and at most one-third criminal procedure. This course also covers
substantive and procedural federal criminal law in the tax and whitecollar areas in the context of effective representation and professional
responsibility.
This course is the second course of a two-course series in corporate
taxation. An in-depth study will be made of corporate reorganizations
under Section 368 of the Code, including both stock and asset
acquisitions, as well as corporate separations under Section 355. Also to
be addressed are issues related to affiliated corporations, and the survival
and transfer of corporate attributes. Problem sets will be handed out to
illustrate the workings of these highly technical rules, but the course will
go beyond the technical to emphasize tax planning considerations.
Federal Income Taxation of Property
Transactions (2) TX 341
Prerequisite: Advanced Federal Income Tax
This course covers in-depth the federal income tax consequences arising
from sales, exchanges and other dispositions of property. Matters
covered are determination of the taxable event, the amount realized,
adjusted basis, and loss limitations (including passive activity and atrisk provisions). The course includes a detailed analysis of taxable
transactions, including the use of the installment method of accounting,
as well as study of the non-recognition provisions including like-kind
exchanges and involuntary conversions, but excluding corporate
reorganizations. The course covers various methods of acquisitions
and disposition of businesses, including special allocation rules for
certain assets.
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Income Taxation of Estates & Trusts (2)
TX 372
Prerequisite: Gift and Estate Tax Law and Individual Income Tax
A thorough review of the income taxation of personal trusts and
estates. The course will also cover the rights, powers, and duties of a
fiduciary, principles of trust accounting, virtual representation, total
return trusts, planning opportunities and drafting issues.
Research on an issue of tax law and formation of an original idea
in connection with that issue, culminating in a written work of
Life Insurance: Tax Aspects in
Business, Estate, Employee Benefits
Life insurance is a financial vehicle commonly used in funding many
of the financial plans and benefit programs dealt with in the courses
offered in the program. Because it is such a technical subject and also
because tax practitioners are obliged to understand how life insurance
products operate, how they may be utilized, and the tax aspects
applicable, we offer a separate course on this subject. The course will
stress the tax aspects of funding buy-sell agreements; estate and gift
tax consequences of life insurance acquired as part of one’s estate
or financial plan; income and estate tax aspects of life insurance
included in pension, profit sharing, and group health plans; and
income, estate, and gift tax matters associated with insurance-funded
executive benefit plans.
This course will examine in-depth the provisions of Subchapter K of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Included will be a study
of when a partnership exists, the essential characteristics that distinguish
partnerships from corporations and the difference and similarities
between partnerships and S corporations. This course will also cover
the partnership-like tax treatment of limited liability companies. Basic
partnership tax law, including the tax consequences relating to the
formation, operating and termination of partnerships and transfers
of partnership interests will be analyzed in detail. Time will also be
spent examining the subjects of partnership allocations, transactions
between a partner and the partnership, and the treatment of
partnership liabilities. Finally, the course will also consider the effect
of the at-risk and passive activity loss limitations upon partnerships
and their partners.
Prerequisites: Gift and Estate Tax Law, Basic Estate Planning
This course is an overview of the planning that an individual should
consider during his or her lifetime, including the disposition of
property at death. It includes income tax concepts as they relate to
personal financial planning, investment considerations, risk
management, use of trusts, retirement options (when implementing
plans and when withdrawing from plans) and gift and estate tax
problems, including post-mortem planning. The course concludes with
several cases to illustrate the tax savings that can be achieved with
proper planning. This course will enable students to do personal
financial planning for their clients, which is one of the growth areas for
practicing lawyers. Because of the nature of the material there is no
required sequence to this course with respect to the estate planning
courses (TX 370 and 371).
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Post-Mortem Planning and Estate
Administration (2) TX 374
Federal Income Tax
This course covers federal tax issues and state probate law issues that
occur in the settlement of a decedent’s estate. Topics covered will
include the use of disclaimers and/or the QTIP election to obtain
the optimum martial deduction bequest; post death accounting
issues facing owners of pass-through entities; income tax consequences
of property distributions in satisfaction of bequests; valuation issues
and III onestate tax deferral considerations; and apportioning the
tax burden.
A study of state income, excise, real property, and franchise taxes;
retailer's occupation and related taxes (sales tax); and City of Chicago
taxes. Appropriate tax planning becomes more difficult as expanding
governmental revenue needs lead to increasingly complicated state
and local tax structures. The course is designed to provide a beginning
familiarity with the practical aspects of a state and local tax practice,
with emphasis on Illinois law.
This course covers problems associated with obtaining and maintaining
exemption from federal income tax under subchapter F of the Internal
Revenue Code. Special emphasis is placed on private foundations, the
extent of permissible commercial activities or transactions, unrelated
business income tax problems, prohibited transactions, charitable
contribution limitations , intermediate sanctions and discussions of the
professional responsibilities of attorneys dealing with non-profit
organizations. The mechanics of obtaining exemptions, as well as the
philosophy behind such preferred status, are examined. Organizing and
operating not-for-profit corporations and tax exempt trusts are also
reviewed in-depth.
Taxation of Closely Held Businesses (2)
TX 334
Prerequisite: Advanced Income Tax
Recommended: Partnership Taxation, Corporate Taxation
This course will examine tax aspects of sole proprietorships, C
corporations, S corporations, partnerships, and limited liability
companies for small and closely held businesses. We will begin by
examining issues that arise when selecting the type of entity, the annual
accounting method, and setting compensation. Then, for each entity,
we will discuss the consequences related to formation, distribution of
profits and losses, and termination. Finally, we will examine how the
selection of entity impacts the type of employee benefits that may be
provided by the entity and the transfers of ownership interests during
lifetime and upon death.
Transactions and Foreign Taxpayers (2)
TX 387
taxation. This course covers the U.S. taxation of the income of U.S.
party income allocations; foreign currency issues; the U.S. taxation
of non-resident individuals and foreign corporations; and bilateral
income tax treaties.
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OF
RIGHTS
The material contained in this catalog is for information
only and does not constitute a contract between the
student and the law school. The law school reserves the
right at any time to: 1) modify the requirements for
admission or graduation, 2) change the tuition or fees,
3) change the assignment of teachers, arrangement of
courses, content of courses, or materials used at any time,
4) change the calendar year, 5) refuse admission or
readmission to any student at any time, 6) dismiss any
student at any time for either academic or disciplinary
reasons, 7) modify, add to, or delete academic policies
and other rules and regulations affecting students, which
may be made applicable to all students regardless of the
date of matriculation, or 8) modify, add to, or delete any
other provision within this catalog.
CAMPUS CRIME
POLICIES
AND
SECURITY
To ensure that The John Marshall Law School is a safe
and secure environment for all students, employees and
visitors and to comply with the Crime Awareness and
Campus Security Act (“the Act”), the law school has
instituted policies and procedures related to campus
security. Under the Act, the law school is required to
disseminate its relevant policies and procedures and to
publish a campus security report related to certain oncampus crimes and violations. The act also requires the
law school to inform the campus community where law
enforcement agency information concerning registered
sex offenders may be obtained. The Illinois State Police
registered sex offender database is available online at
www.isp.state.il.us/sor/sor.cfm. If the law school is
informed by the Illinois State Police Criminal Intelligence
Bureau that a registered sex offender is in attendance,
the law school will investigate the matter to take such
steps as it deems necessary to maintain the security of
the law school campus. Please see the Student Handbook
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following disclosures:
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Forcible sex offenses
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Robbery
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Aggravated assault
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Burglary
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Motor-vehicle theft
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0
Arrests
0
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Liquor-law violations 0
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Drug-law violations
0
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Weapon violations
0
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0
Although not required by law to be reported, unattended
personal items have been stolen occasionally. The law
school cautions students to exercise care with their
possessions.
DRUG
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ALCOHOL ABUSE POLICY
It is the policy of The John Marshall Law School to create
a drug-free environment in keeping with the spirit and
intent of the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act.
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The unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensation,
possession, sale or use of illicit drugs and alcohol on the
law school premises or while engaged in the law school’s
business off premises is strictly prohibited. The illegal use
of drugs and alcohol is inconsistent with the behavior
expected of employees and students, subjects all
employees, students and visitors to unacceptable safety
risks and undermines the law school’ s ability to operate
effectively and efficiently. Compliance with the standards
of conduct described above is mandatory. Please see the
Student Handbook for more information.
HARASSMENT POLICY
The John Marshall Law School is committed to
providing an educational environment where women
and men can work and study together comfortably and
productively, free from sexual harassment. Such behavior
is illegal under both state and federal law and will not be
tolerated at the law school. See the Student Handbook
N O N - D I S C R I M I N AT I O N P O L I C Y
The John Marshall Law School, finding any invidious
discrimination inconsistent with the mission of free
academic inquiry, does not discriminate in admission,
services or employment on the basis of sex, sexual
orientation, race, color, religion, national origin,
ancestry, age or disability in accordance with provisions
of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the
Education Amendments of 1972, the Rehabilitation Act
of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and
other existing federal and state laws and executive orders
pertaining to equal rights. The director of Human
Resources is responsible for the law school’s compliance
with section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
NOTICE
Pursuant to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy
Act of 1974, 20 U.S.C. 1232g, The John Marshall Law
School may disclose the following directory information
about a student to any person without prior notice to or
consent from the student: his or her name, address,
telephone listing, date and place of birth, major field of
study, participation in officially recog-nized activities,
dates of attendance, degrees and awards received, and the
most recent previous educational agency or institution
attended by the student. Any student who does not want
any directory information about himself or herself
released without his or her prior consent shall indicate so
in a signed letter to the office of the associate dean for
academic services. A new letter must be submitted at the
beginning of each academic year.
A C C R E D I TAT I O N
The John Marshall Law School is accredited by the
American Bar Association Section of Legal Education
and Admissions to the Bar and by the Higher Learning
Commission of the North Central Association of
Colleges and Schools. The Higher Learning Commission
may be contacted by mail at 30 North LaSalle Street,
Suite 2400, Chicago, Illinois 60602-2504, or by
telephone at 312.263.0456. The original notifications of
accreditation may be seen in the dean’s office. Please
make an appointment with the dean’s secretary.
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Course Load _________________ 77
Harassment Policy __________133
Map and Directions __________135
Academic Dismissal _________ 78
Courses, Core________________ 81
Honors Programs ___________ 28
Master of Science
Academic Rules _____________ 77
Courses, Elective ____________ 81
John Marshall Law Review __ 28
Accreditation ________________133
Curriculum ___________________ 81
Joint Degree with
Administration _______________ 68
Decisive Utterance __________ 24
Admission Criteria ___________ 72
Degree Programs ____________
Admission Information ______ 72
Degree Requirements, J.D. __ 77
Academic Calendar _________
7
Courses _____________________95
Roosevelt University______
8
Message from the Dean _____
Joint J.D./LL.M. Program ____
7
Moot Court Competitions____ 32
Degree Requirements, LL.M. 80
LL.M. in Global Legal
Admission to the Bar ________
7
Disability Policy _____________ 80
Alumni Relations ____________ 20
Discipline and Behavior _____ 80
Application Procedures______ 72
Dismissal ____________________ 78
Attendance __________________ 77
Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Auditors ______________________ 73
Board of Trustees____________ 67
Board of Visitors_____________ 66
Electives, J.D. Program _____100
Enrollment in Another
Non-discrimination Policy ___133
Pre-admission Program ______ 72
Studies ____________________ 10
Probation ____________________ 78
Courses ___________________124
Readmission _________________ 79
LL.M. in Employee Benefits _
9
Courses ___________________110
Policy______________________133
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Moot Court Honors __________ 31
Journal of Computer and
Information Law __________ 28
Admission Periods ___________ 72
(M.S.) Degrees ____________ 13
Reservation of Rights _______133
LL.M. in Information
Technology Law _________
Refund Policy ________________ 76
10
Courses __________________ 112
Retention ____________________ 79
Review of Intellectual
Property Law ______________ 28
Law School________________ 80
LL.M. in Intellectual
Campus Crime and
Rules for Disciplinary
Examinations and Grades ___ 78
Securities Policies _________ 133
Property Law ____________
11
Externship Programs _______ 82
Campus Visits _______________ 73
Courses __________________ 114
Facilities and Services ______ 16
Career Services______________ 17
LL.M. in International
Faculty, Adjunct _____________ 62
Certificate Programs ________ 90
Proceedings _______________ 80
Graduation Awards __________ 25
Special Aid Programs
Business and Trade Law __ 11
(Financial Aid) ____________ 75
Courses ___________________118
Student Bar Association ____ 24
LL.M. in Real Estate Law ____ 12
Student Life__________________ 23
Courses ___________________121
Summer Term ________________ 72
LL.M. in Tax Law_____________ 12
Transcripts___________________ 80
Courses ___________________122
Transfer Students ___________ 73
Lawyering Skills _____________ 97
Trial Advocacy Honors ______ 33
Legal Writing_________________ 81
Tuition _______________________ 76
Library _______________________ 21
Veterans Assistance ________ 75
Loans ________________________ 75
Writing Resource Center ____ 18
Faculty, Full-Time____________ 39
Clinical Programs____________ 82
Fair Housing Legal Clinic____ 82
Colleges and Universities ___ 36
Fair Housing Legal
Combined J.D./M.B.A.
Programs __________________
Support Center____________ 15
8
Fees __________________________ 76
Combined J.D./M.P.A. and
8
Financial Aid _________________ 75
Course Descriptions, Graduate 110
Fraternities __________________ 24
Course Descriptions, J.D. ___ 98
Grading Curve _______________ 79
Course Listings, Graduate __ 91
Graduate (LL.M.) Programs__
Course Listings, J.D. ________ 97
Guaranteed Law School
J.D./M.A. Program _________
Admission Program (GPPA) _
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