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Weekly Faculty in the News, 1/10

A roundup of faculty appearances in news sources this week.

1/7 – Professor Felice Batlan was mentioned in a Chicago Daily Law Bulletin article on the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois, which hosted a delegation from the Beijing Municipal Women’s Federation last December (“Lawyers, delegation find common ground”). Batlan spoke to the group about the influence of popular culture on girls’ and women’s opinions of themselves. She referenced the results from one of her own studies, showing that even in today’s classrooms women are often beset by lower confidence levels than are men.

1/7 – Professor Mark Rosen was quoted in a Chicago Daily Law Bulletin article on an Illinois bill seeking to reform the state’s underfunded pension system (“Legislators remain split on pension bill”), saying that courts could uphold a “reasonable bill” if there were “sufficiently important facts” to justify it. The story was also picked up by the AP on 1/8 (“Illinois pension proposal faces uncertain future”) and was continued in a 1/8CDLB article titled “Pension bills remain alive on the final day of session in Springfield.”

1/7 – Professor Douglas Godfrey was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor about the trial of the Colorado theater shooter. He said that the uncommon five-day hearing, intended in part to increase the amount of eyewitness testimonies, reflects a recent movement in criminal law toward giving victims a voice and a chance to find closure.

1/8 – Professor Ronald Staudt, director of the Center for Access to Justice & Technology (CAJT), and John Mayer, executive director of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), were profiled by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin for their involvement in a pilot project called Access to Justice Clinical Course Project. The project seeks to promote the teaching and open distribution of technology, developed at Chicago-Kent by CALI and CAJT, that creates easy-to-use online legal forms for low-income people. Click here for the project homepage.

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