“You can teach students the three branches of government, but teaching them access to power, access to change, is equally important,” says Dee Runaas, project director of Chicago-Kent College of Law’s...
“There is a very big difference between understanding something and understanding it well enough to explain it to someone else ,” says Cody Clark ’26, paraphrasing Albert Einstein. Clark is one of the...
Alexandra F. L. Yelderman joined the faculty at Chicago-Kent College of Law in fall 2025. Between 2012 and 2020, Yelderman practiced at the Human Trafficking Legal Center in Washington, D.C. “The...
The fall 2025 edition of Chicago-Kent Magazine is now available online. This edition features two alumni who are running intellectual property firms while creating employment opportunities for Chicago...
“It’s not something you can necessarily prepare for,” says Gaby Treviño-Gutiérrez ’26. “It’s like legal triage, in a sense.” In May 2025, Treviño-Gutiérrez and four other Chicago-Kent College of Law...
“From a technical perspective, I have long felt as though the legal sector is really behind most of the rest of the economy in terms of the utilization of modern technological methods,” says Daniel...
Jean M. Wenger, director of the Chicago-Kent College of Law Library and teaching professor, was recently named a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation. The American Bar Foundation Fellows are a...
“There’s all of this research—sociological, economic, political—showing that social mobility is crucial for a strong, stable democracy,” says Chicago-Kent Professor of Law Assistant Professor Lucien...
“There’s an argument that because of the labor history in Chicago and because of the amount of interesting labor and employment things that are going on here, that geographically this is the most...
“I think that there’s a great illusion that a lot of us care about domestic violence, but many people don’t understand the actual inner workings and the more complicated side effects,” says Tashi...
