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Weekly Faculty in the News, 12/19

A roundup of faculty appearances in news sources and media from the last week, 12/12 to 12/19.

12/12 – Clinical Professor Richard Kling was quoted in a Bloomberg News article on former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, who is appealing his 14-year prison sentence for corruption (“Blagojevich Seeks to Throw Out Corruption Conviction”).

12/17 – A recent paper by Professor David SchwartzPatent Assertion Entities (PAEs) Under the Microscope: An Empirical Investigation of Patent Holders as Litigants (co-authored with Jay Kesan and Christopher Cotropia)—was cited in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee by Q. Todd Dickinson, the former Director of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Dickinson’s testimony, which quotes Schwartz’s paper extensively, can be read here.

12/18 – Keith Ann Stiverson, Director of the Chicago-Kent Law Library, was featured in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin as the new president-elect of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) (“In the bar groups”). Read more in a previous Faculty in the News post here.


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