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Weekly Faculty in the News, 1/16/14

A roundup of faculty appearances in news sources and media from the last week, 1/9/14 to 1/16/14.

1/12 – Dean Harold Krent was interviewed on Fox 32 News about Illinois pension reform. Watch the video here.

1/13 – The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin ran a headline on Professor Nancy Marder, who was recently inducted into the National Center for State Courts’ Warren E. Burger Society (“Marder joins Warren E. Burger Society,” behind paywall). Named after late US Supreme Court Justice Warren E. Burger, “the society was formed by the NCSC in 1996 to honor individuals who have volunteered their time and support to the NCSC in an exceptional manner.”

1/14 – Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan named Professor Carolyn Shapiro as the state’s new Solicitor General. Read the official Chicago-Kent press release here. The news was also featured in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (“Top appeals lawyer goes to Jenner & Block”).

Other news:

1/14 – Professor Todd Haugh was featured on the Sentencing Law and Policy blog in a post on the US Sentencing Commission’s proposal to reduce all federal drug sentences. Haugh writes of the proposal: “First off, I agree wholeheartedly that this is a very important vote and a ‘really big deal.’ But the reason I feel that way is not necessarily because it lowers penalties for drug trafficking offenders. While I think the Commission is right to make the proposal and I certainly support it—drug penalties have been too harsh for too long—what’s more important to me than the specifics of the proposal is the willingness of the Commission to make it at all.”

Read the rest of his comments here.


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