Faculty Activities & Publications | August 2021

Faculty

Professor Alicia Alvarez

• She was appointed to the ABA Council on Legal Education & Admissions to the Bar for a three-year term.

Professor Sonia Bychkov Green

• On August 13, she provided comments to NBC 5 Chicago for a story addressing an Illinois law that allows the governor to issue mask for mandates for elementary and high schools.
• On August 27, she provided comment for a CBS 2 Chicago story examining requests for religious exemptions from vaccine mandates.

Professor Renee Hatcher

• She was a guest on the radio show and podcast Everything Co-op. She spoke about economic justice through community development law.

Professor Daryl Lim

• He provided comments to Law360 about two major AI-related decisions in South Africa and Australia.

Professor Ann Lousin

• She provided comments to the Chicago Tribune for a story about a lawsuit filed by ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who is challenging a ban on him running for state and local office. Capitol Fax also highlights Lousin’s comments here.

Professor Steven Schwinn

• On August 31, he published a piece on the U.S. Supreme Court’s “Partisan Rules on Executive Powers” with Verdict.