Welcome

by C-K Editor • October 20, 2009 • 0 Comments

Thanks for visiting the new Chicago-Kent Faculty Blog. I’d like to begin by suggesting a couple of the goals we hope to achieve through the blog.

As Sarah alluded to in her welcome post, our primary goal is to share news about the intellectual life of the law school with the outside world. We want to share exciting work that our faculty are doing with scholars, policy-makers, and the public. We hope that the blog will provide current and prospective students with a sense of the academic enterprise of the law school. And we hope that it will be a useful way for alumni to keep up-to-date about the intellectual progress of the law school.

In addition to posts about faculty scholarship, faculty in the news, and traditional academic blogging, we will include a series of posts by our C-K Faculty Blog Fellows – excellent second and third year law students who will provide journalistic descriptions of events on campus and throughout the city. These written descriptions will often be accompanied by audio/visual podcasts of the events.

Thanks for visiting. Please come by often.

Let the Faculty Spin

by C-K Editor • October 15, 2009 • 0 Comments

By Sarah Harding

I often wonder what it would be like to bisect the law school at a single moment in time–to peer into every classroom and to listen to every conversation, debate, and presentation in every corner of this dynamic community, all at the same time. It would be dizzying, to be sure, but also invigorating. The variety of inquiries, perspectives and styles would be downright thrilling.

The C-K Faculty Blog can’t capture the rich diversity of intellectual endeavors in that single moment in time, but it can capture, open up and expand the rich intellectual life of this law school as it unfolds daily. This is a place where you will find summaries of our recent scholarship, thoughts and opinions about developments in the law and the legal system, descriptions of workshops from visiting faculty, discussions of our own internal workshop series, celebrations of our individual successes and really just about anything that has to do with the intellectual life of the Chicago-Kent faculty. Welcome and enjoy.

(And plaudits for anyone who can identify the literary allusion in the title and first paragraph of this post.)

C-K Blog Comments Policy

by C-K Editor • September 29, 2009

To ensure that comments are respectful and in keeping with the purpose of the C-K Faculty Blog, all comments are subject to approval by a Chicago-Kent moderator. Disagreements and intellectual challenges are welcome. Short, pithy comments are particularly appreciated. We are keen on robust discussion but comments may be denied if they:

include unsolicited advertisements
are unrelated or non-responsive to the subject-matter of the post
contain personal attacks, abusive, rude, or profane language or inflammatory remarks
are obscene.

About the C-K Faculty Blog

by C-K Editor • September 29, 2009

The purpose of the C-K Faculty Blog is to provide a forum that brings together all the rich intellectual contributions of the Chicago-Kent faculty and to encourage respectful and scholarly dialogue within the extended Chicago-Kent community, including faculty, students, alumni and colleagues at other law schools and universities. We welcome and encourage readers to follow conversations, post comments through the blog’s “Comments” feature, and to explore Chicago-Kent faculty scholarship through the “C-K Faculty” links.

What’s a legal academic discussion without disclaimers!

The views expressed in any given post are those of the author alone. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the administration of Chicago-Kent College of Law or the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Postings and other material in this Blog are for intellectual, entertainment and educational purposes only. Nothing that appears here is neither intended to be nor should be considered legal advice.