Phone: 217-244-3446
Email: hhurd@law.uiuc.edu
B.A. Queen’s University
M.A. Dalhousie University
J.D., Ph.D. University of Southern California
Courses
Criminal Law
Torts
Evidence
Advanced Torts
Ethics
Justice, Law and Morality
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A scholar in the areas of criminal law, torts, and general jurisprudence, David C. Baum Professor of Law and Philosophy Heidi M. Hurd served as the College's 11th dean from 2002 through 2007, announcing in May, 2007 that she would return to the faculty. Under her Deanship, the College of Law significantly increased incoming student credentials, ranking among the nation's Top 15 for the past three years based on LSAT scores and median GPA, recruited 17 tenure or tenure-track faculty, lowered the student/faculty teaching ratio to 12:1, and saw faculty productivity climb from the mid-30's to seventh in the nation for the last two years based on the submissions to the Social Science Research Network. Under Dean Hurd's leadership, the College also received an enormous increase in annual fund and endowment support from alumni, setting the stage for the current $50 million Capital Campaign. Professor Hurd co-directs the College's Program in Law and Philosophy and is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Law and Philosophy (Kluwer Press). Before coming to Illinois, she spent most of her career as a Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and co-founded and directed the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Law and Philosophy. While at Penn, she was also a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia Law School and the University of Iowa Philosophy Department, and she spent several summers teaching law and political theory in Hungary, Germany, and Ukraine. Before joining the University of Illinois College of Law, Professor Hurd was the Herzog Research Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Law and Philosophy at the University of San Diego Law School. From January-June 2002, she was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Law Program of Australian National University's Research School of Social Sciences in Canberra, Australia. Professor Hurd is a very active scholar, publishing five articles on topics in political theory, criminal law, and jurisprudence in 2005-2006. She is the author of Moral Combat (1999) which has been widely reviewed and translated into multiple languages. Her numerous articles in the areas of criminal law, torts, ethics, and legal philosophy have appeared in the nation's top law and philosophy journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Legal Theory, Law and Philosophy, Chicago Law Forum, Notre Dame Law Review, Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, Boston University Law Review, Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, and Southern California Law Review. She has presented more than 80 lectures and papers at conferences in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Australia, and in 1999, she provided testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on the proposed Hate Crime Prevention Act of 1999. She regularly teaches criminal law, evidence, torts, and jurisprudence, as well as philosophy courses in ethics and political theory. Dean Heidi Hurd returns to faculty after 5 years.
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