• Student Brief: Mark Rosen: What Our Constitution Does (and Does Not) Do

    by  • October 20, 2009 • 0 Comments

    By Student Blogger Danny Hergott

    In honor of Constitution Day, constitutional law Prof. Mark Rosen presented his thoughts on the founding document of the United States of America.  The event was held at Chicago-Kent and attracted a diverse audience of students, faculty members and interested members of the public. 

    Prof. Rosen began by immediately admitting his bias: "I love the Constitution." (Perhaps constitutional law professors are required to publicly admit their love of the Constitution on Constitution Day.  See here for other Constitution Day requirements.)  In any event, Prof. Rosen possesses more than strong feelings for the document; he is an erudite scholar of its history and interpretation.  See some of his work here.

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    Student Brief: Iraq Panel Discussion

    by  • October 20, 2009 • 0 Comments

    Student Blogger Mark Berardi

    On September 24, the Federalist Society hosted a panel discussion on the development of a fair legal system in Iraq. The panel members were Ilya Shapiro from the Cato Institute, Daniel Rothenberg from the International Human Rights Law Institute at DePaul University College of Law and Professor Henry Perritt, Jr. from Chicago-Kent College of Law.  Each was asked about their thoughts regarding the rebuilding of the Iraqi legal system and what is necessary to ensure rule of law in the country.

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    “An Unusually Good Eye for Talent”

    by  • October 20, 2009 • 0 Comments

    By Sarah Harding

    Brian Leiter, in his infinite wisdom, has identified Chicago-Kent as one of the schools with an “unusually good eye for faculty talent.” See here. Leiter’s method for identifying these schools is the number of faculty who were snapped up by a “top 20ish law school.” Leiter identified some of the key individuals but to his list we should add Anita Bernstein (Emory – since moved on), Tim Holbrook (Emory), Claire Hill (Minnesota), and Peggie Smith (Iowa), not to mention the number of faculty who have turned down offers (e.g. Mark Rosen). Some schools might bemoan such a large number of departures but we here at Chicago-Kent are always delighted to celebrate the individual successes and career aspirations of our terrific scholars, not to mention we appreciate the goodwill these individuals spread to other institutions.   Thanks Brian.

    C-K Intellectual Property, Science, and Innovation Research Paper Series

    by  • October 20, 2009 • 0 Comments

    By Christopher Buccafusco

    Chicago-Kent has the country’s only Science, Technology, and Innovation Research Paper Series on SSRN.  This allows members of the faculty to circulate their working papers and recently published articles to the international community.  The series currently has over 700 subscribers.

    Here is a description of the series on SSRN:

    The Chicago-Kent College of Law Intellectual Property, Science & Technology Research Paper Series contains papers and abstracts from members of the Chicago-Kent College of Law community focusing on a broad range of topics partially or wholly touching on issues in intellectual property, technology, and telecommunications law, as well as on the implications of social and biological science for legal policy.

    To view the papers in the series click here.

    Recently circulated papers include:

    Dave Schwartz, Practice Makes Perfect? An Empirical Study of Claim Construction Reversal Rates in Patent Cases

    Jonathan Nash & Stephanie Stern, Property Frames

    Fred Bosselman, Swamp Swaps:  The ‘Second Nature’ of Wetlands

    Robert Knowles, American Hegemony and the Foreign Affairs Constitution

    Christopher Buccafusco, On the Legal Consequences of Sauces: Should Thomas Keller’s Recipes Be Per Se Copyrightable?

    Welcome

    by  • October 20, 2009 • 0 Comments

    By Christopher Buccafusco

    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  • 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  • 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  • 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.