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December 2005-January 2006
- The College of Law is in the News--Everywhere!
- Seven College of Law Faculty Head to China
- The Colleges of Law and Medicine Team Up to . . . Teach Each Other?
- Class of 2005 Achieves a 93.38% Bar Passage Rate
- The College's Trial and Negotiation Teams are Coached to Impressive Successes
- Holiday Giving: A Student Tradition at the College of Law
- What do Bird Watchers and Russian Judges Have in Common?
- The College Hosts the Release of The Illinois White Paper on Human Subject Testing
- Eight College of Law Alumni Receive Distinguished Alumni Awards
- We Can't Do it Without You!
November 2005
- Professor Ribstein Gets the Jump on the Alito Nomination!
- The College Creates a New Program in Comparative Labor and Employment Law and Policy, Directed by Professor Matthew Finkin
- Professor Richard Ross Achieves Great Success in Hosting the Inaugural Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History at Chicago's Newberry Library
- Professor David Hyman is Named the New Director of the J.D. and Elizabeth A. Epstein Program in Health Care Law and Policy and Organizes a Series of Engaging Public Lectures
- The Faculty Extends Joint Appointments in Law to Six Renowned Colleagues in History, Political Science, Journalism, Anthropology, Sociology, and Medicine
- Professors Aren't All Pointy-Headed Geeks: Some Can Really Play Ball!
- The November Calendar of College Events
October 2005
- # 1 in Diversity
- # 7 in Faculty Productivity
- # 8 among Public Law Schools
- # 8 in Bar Passage Rate
- # 9 Professor Ribstein ranking for SSRN Downloads
- # 10 in Total Faculty Submissions to SSRN
- # 10 Professor Solum ranking for SSRN Downloads
- # 10 Professor Kaplan ranking for SSRN Downloads in Tax Law
- # 14 for Total SSRN Downloads
- # 14 in Library Quality
- # 17 in Top-50 Law Firm Hiring
- 99.5% Employment Rate for Class of 2004
- 91.2% Bar Passage Rate for Class of 2004
- 58% of Class of 2004 who went into private practice
- 42% of Law Faculty hold advanced degrees in other fields
- 32% increase in alumni giving to Law School Annual Fund in last 2 years
- $7,482,632 - "new gift" dollars (current use and deferred) last year
- 3,500 daily visitors on Professor Solum and Professor Ribstein's web blogs
- 1,372 cases handled by the Law Clinics in last decade
- $1,000 raised by Student Bar Association for Hurricane Katrina law students
- 166: The LSAT median score of this year's entering 1L class (+ 3 point increase)
- 34: The number of active student organizations at the College of Law
- 20 College of Law student organizations hosting fund-raisers in last year
- 20 endowed faculty chairs and professorships
- 17 countries represented by this year's class of LL.M. and exchange students
- 12/1 Student to Faculty ratio
- 10 specialty programs in the College of Law
- 9 new tenured/tenure-track faculty hires made in the last two years
- 5 days between inception of a plan and enrollment of four Hurricane Katrina displaced students
- 2 moving vans transported donations of clothing, food and other items to Hurricane Katrina victims thanks to Black Law Students Association
September 2005
- Our success in recruiting a Top-15 entering class, whose credentials reflect a 3-point increase in our median LSAT score and whose diversity leads the Big Ten
- The forthcoming celebration of Professor John Cribbet's iconic role in the College's history through the investiture of Professor Larry Solum as the inaugural
holder of the John E. Cribbet Professorship, newly created by Rick ('55) and Liz Heiligenstein
- The College's creation of a new Program in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, co-directed by Professors Andy Leipold and Richard McAdams
- The impressive honors recently bestowed upon Professors Michael Moore, Tom Ginsburg, and Matthew Finkin
- Our students' and our alumni's remarkable generosity, taking the College's fund-raising successes to record highs
- The renovation of the College's Jenner Law Library that is breathing life into a long-dated facility.
May 2005
- Professor John Colombo testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee
- The College revises its first-year lawyering skills program as a result of ground-breaking changes in the Jenner Law Library and fresh vision from the College's Legal Writing Faculty
- The Street Law Program takes the law to local high schools
- The Transactions & Community Economic Development Clinic bridges town and gown
- The 2005 class gift campaign achieves record-breaking participation rates
- The Latino/Latina Law Students Association has a banner year
- Our European Alumni invite all to the Brussels European Alumni Reunion
- The College celebrates Visiting Scholar of the Month, Youngkee Lee
- Wanted! Alumni volunteers to boost Annual Fund participation
- Alumni leaders set a 20% Annual Fund participation goal
April 2005
- The College hires another super-star faculty member--Professor Larry Solum (University of San Diego)
- Professor David Hyman garners extraordinary publicity for his path-breaking work
on medical malpractice insurance premiums and is named the College's 2005-2007 Galowich-Huizenga Faculty Scholar
- The College implements an ambitious Loan Repayment Assistance Program through the generosity of students and alumni
- The College wins a record-breaking number of campus awards
- The Distinguished Faculty Award for International Achievement was awarded to Professor William J. Davey;
- The Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching was awarded to Associate Professor Thomas B. Ginsburg;
- The Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) Award was awarded to Assistant Dean John M. Rossi ('96)
- Professor Jacqueline Ross hosts a highly-acclaimed international conference on under-cover police surveillance techniques
- The Animal Law Society persuades the College to avoid offering swordfish at major events!
- What goes around comes around: Good deeds by College of Law staff and students
March 2005
- "The State of the School" (an excerpt from the College of Law's Annual Report to the Provost)
- The Appointment of two New Faculty Members!--Professors Jennifer Robbennolt and Ekow Yankah
- The Appointment of Professor Richard Painter as Special Assistant to the President and Associate White House Counsel
- The Gift of a New Professorship: The Ross and Helen Workman Professorship
- The Students Answer the Workman Challenge: An Endowed Table!
- The Appointment of a New Assistant Director for Admissions and Financial Aid, Kelly Griffith
- The New Online Journal of the University of Illinois Business Law Society
- The College's Visitor of the Month: Judge Junko Semmatsu from Japan
- The College's Third Annual Gala Dinner-Dance and Keynote Address by President B. Joseph White
- The March Calendar of College of Law Events
February 2005
- The College's Ambitious Faculty Hiring Agenda
- The Appointment of Professor Ralph Brubaker as the Next Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
- News from the Asian Law, Politics, and Society Program
- Research Grant Support Secured by Professor Bruce Smith
- Winning Trial Work by Students in the Civil Litigation Clinic
- Visiting Professor in Residence Joon-Sung Koh
- Other Fundraising Successes
December 2004 - January 2005
- The College's experiment with small first-year courses
- Blackstone's new home in the Jenner Law Library, together with that of new faculty
- Dr. Vladimir Luzin, this month's featured Visiting Scholar from Russia
- The appointment of Paul Pless as the Assistant Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid
- Alumni volunteerism and the College's all-important Law School Fund
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