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Carole Silver
The Northern Illinois University College of Law will host the 20th annual Francis X. Riley Lecture on Professionalism at 3 p.m. Friday, April 5, in the Riley Courtroom of Swen Parson Hall. Friday’s lecture, titled “Re-contextualizing Professionalism,” will be given by Carole Silver, a professor at Indiana University (Bloomington) Maurer School of Law who specializes...
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David Kraft, director of the Chicago-based Nuclear Energy Information Service, will speak Monday, April 22, at NIU as a part of Earth Day celebrations. Kraft will talk on “Chernobyl, Fukushima, Iran and Now North Korea: A Planet is a Terrible Thing to (Rad-)Waste – Proliferation and A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy.” He will touch on...
Cherilyn G. Murer
The NIU College of Law will present the final installment of the 2012-13 Murer Lectures on Professionalism at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, in the Regency Room of the Holmes Student Center. The lecture will be presented by program sponsor Cherilyn Murer, chair of the NIU Board of Trustees. Murer will speak on “Professionalism and...
Second-year NIU Law students Amanda Wielgus and Anthony Gough stand with Chief Judge Michael P. McCuskey of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois.
Second-year NIU College of Law students Anthony Gough and Amanda Wielgus were the winners of the 31st Annual Prize Moot Court Competition held at the NIU College of Law. Gough and Wielgus competed through several rounds of competition over the course of three weekends before achieving victory during the final round of the competition Saturday,...
DeKalb County Circuit Clerk Maureen Josh is joined by (from left) Kate McCabe, a member of the 2012-13 Board of Visitors of the College of Law; College of Law Dean Jennifer Rosato; and Greg Anderson, director of Career Opportunities and Development for the college.
The NIU College of Law welcomed more than 90 members of the communities of NIU and DeKalb, Kane and Kendall counties for a March 6 reception. Guests gathered in the ornate second floor atrium of the recently renovated DeKalb County Courthouse. The NIU Law reception was held to celebrate the new 23rd Judicial Circuit and...
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The NIU College of Law hosted its fifth lecture of the academic year Feb. 27 as part of the ongoing Murer Lecture Series on Professionalism. Daniel Lindsey, supervising attorney for the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago (LAF), presented “Accessing Justice for Homeowners: A Lawyer’s Tale” to first-year law students. Lindsey’s discussion centered on the history...
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NIU Libraries has launched a pilot Open Access Fund that will provide small grants to faculty and graduate students to help defray the upfront costs associated with open access publishing. Grappling with the costs for expensive journal subscriptions, a number of universities nationwide, including Harvard and MIT, are promoting open access publishing. It provides unrestricted...
Melinda Rosales-Byerly (’03), and Hon. John McAdams (’95)
The NIU College of Law continued its first-year student professionalism series Feb. 13 with a panel discussion titled “Ethical Perspectives from the Trenches.” NIU Law professor David Taylor moderated the panel, which featured Judge John McAdams (’95), 23rd Judicial Circuit; James A. Doppke Jr., Illinois Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission; Mike Denning (’02), Heyl Royster...
The State of Illinois Appellate Court for the Second District will convene and hear oral arguments from 9:30 to 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, March 6, in the Francis X. Riley Courtroom of the NIU College of Law. Oral arguments will be followed by an informal question-and-answer session. A reception will then be held in the Thurgood...
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The morality of using armed and unarmed drones in warfare will be the topic of a Monday, March 18, panel discussion at the NIU College of Law. The panel will feature NIU law professor Morse Tan; Joy First of the Wisconsin Coalition to Ground the Drones; and published poet Ric Amesquita. Also on the panel...
Clockwise, from top left: Cherilyn G. Murer, Robert T. Boey, Wheeler G. Coleman and John R. Butler
Robert T. Boey, John R. Butler and Wheeler G. Coleman were reappointed Friday, Jan. 18, by Gov. Pat Quinn to the Northern Illinois University Board of Trustees. The reappointments come at a critical time for NIU, as the university is in the midst of a presidential search. “I am pleased the governor has reappointed these...
Cover of November 2012 National Jurist
The NIU College of Law has been named as one of the Top 50 most diverse law schools in the nation by the National Jurist magazine. NIU Law made the list as part of the publication’s “Most Diverse Law Schools” article in its November 2012 issue. “I am particularly proud of our law school’s recognition...
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