A roundup of faculty appearances in news sources and media from the last week.
10/10 – Professor David Schwartz was mentioned in a Chicago Daily Law Bulletin article on patent assertion entities (PAEs)—also known as “patent trolls” (“FTC study aims to shine a light on ‘patent trolls’,” behind paywall).
10/10 – Professor Todd Haugh was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article on former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who last week received a 28-year sentence on an obstruction-of-justice conviction (“Kwame Kilpatrick: Disgraced Detroit mayor gets ‘massive’ 28-year sentence”).
10/13 – IIT’s student newspaper TechNews published an article about a campus panel discussion on free speech and college campuses (“Free Speech @IIT sparks discussion”). Professor Steven Heyman, a leading First Amendment scholar, joined sociologist and legal scholar Laura Beth Nielsen (Northwestern) on the panel.
10/14 – The Windy City Times featured coverage of Chicago-Kent’s Constitution Day panel on the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decisions (“Legal panel looks at SCOTUS marriage decisions”). Professors Steven Heyman, Kathy Baker, and Carolyn Shapiro took part in the discussion, along with George Mason’s Ilya Somin.
10/16 – Professor Nancy Marder appeared on KJZZ Radio to discuss the topic of cameras in courtrooms (“Allowing Cameras In The Courtroom”). For more on the subject, see Prof. Marder’s March op-ed piece in USA Today and her recently published scholarly article, The Conundrum of Cameras in the Courtroom.
Other news:
10/15 – Professor Sheldon Nahmod authored a new post on his blog, Nahmod Law, about a Supreme Court case to be argued in November (“Town of Greece v. Galloway: Pending Supreme Court Decision on the Establishment Clause and Legislative Prayer”).
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