The College of Law welcomed our newest JD, LLM, MSL, JSD, and study abroad students at new student orientation beginning Wednesday, August 20. The program offered a chance to hear from professors, staff, alumni, and fellow students, welcoming them to law school and preparing them for the challenge that awaits. On August 21, Dean Jamelle […]| College of Law
Robert (Bob) Wrobel passed away on July 30, 2025. He was affiliated with the Stinson Mag law firm in Kansas City, Missouri; prior to that he was General Counsel for the Marley Company of Mission Woods, Kansas; General Counsel of the Duracell Corporation; and Vice President and Chief Legal officer of Alpharma, Inc. He retired […]| College of Law
Dave Watson ’85 is retiring from Reynolds Consume Products, where he served as General Counsel the past 10 years, including during Reynolds 2020 initial public offering.| College of Law
Marvis Barnes has joined Brookfield Properties, the real estate arm of Brookfield Asset Management, as an Associate General Counsel. Marvis previously practiced at K&L Gates LLP in Chicago, IL.| College of Law
In recognition of his legal excellence, Thomas D. Berghman, a Shareholder with Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. (Munsch Hardt) in Dallas, was featured in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America directory in the Insurance Law category.| College of Law
Professor Jacob Sherkow has published “A ‘Bare Hope of A Result’: The Second CRISPR Patent Appeal” in The CRISPR Journal. In the article, Sherkow provides an overview of the dispute to date, reviews the Federal Circuit’s recent opinion, and provides a critique of its analysis. Read the full article.| College of Law
On Friday, August 8, 2025, Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson had the privilege of attending the signing of bill SB 14 at the Wisconsin State Capitol, making Wisconsin the 29th state to afford patients respect in medical teaching. Wilson filed written testimony in May that was used in both Wisconsin Senate and Assembly hearings surrounding the […]| College of Law
Professor Jason Mazzone recently spoke to the Alabama Reflector regarding an order from the U.S. Supreme Court to the parties in a Louisiana redistricting case. The Court asked parties to submit briefs on whether majority-minority congressional districts violate the 14th and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Experts say the Court may be considering invalidating […]| College of Law
Professor Rob Kar has published “The Contractual Death and Rebirth of Privacy” in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. Co-authored with Xiaowei Yu, the abstract follows: This Article proposes, for the first time, the application of “shared meaning analysis” — a method of contract interpretation grounded in traditional contract principles, as developed in Pseudo-Contract […]| College of Law
The number of police-involved lethal force incidents in the U.S. dropped 24% from 2021 to 2023, according to the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research and an interdisciplinary team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign experts, including College of Law professor Jennifer Robbennolt, who have developed a nationwide registry on the…| College of Law
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Over the almost 45 years the Consumer Bankruptcy Project has been collecting data, the landscape of debt in the United States has shifted significantly. Updating that work is "Debt’s Grip," a new book by Professor Robert Lawless and his fellow principal investigators telling the story of financial struggle in the…| College of Law
