L O Y O L A U N I V E R S I T Y C H I C A G O S C H O O L O F L A W
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Influential educator
For the second year in a row,
Dean David Yellen,
left, has
been named one of the
25 Most
Influential People in Legal
Education
by the
National
Jurist
. The magazine calls Yellen
an innovator for his leadership
role in the national dialogue
addressing challenges and
opportunities in legal education.
Leading
in legal
education
Loyola University Chicago School of Law’s
leadership in education, scholarship,
policymaking, and community engagement
is attracting nationwide attention. Here are
a few of the ways Loyola’s contributions in
teaching, research, and community service
were recognized during 2014-15.
Competition champs
#
1
Top 10
Longtime
leader
in health law
T
he
Beazley Institute of
Health Law and Policy,
which
celebrated its 30th anniversary
this past fall, offers
three different
campus-based degree programs,
JD certificates in both health law
and compliance, as well as the
rapidly expanding Master of Laws
(LLM) and Master of Jurisprudence
(MJ) online degree programs.
Law Street Media ranked
Loyola’s
health law program #1
in the country
in 2014.
US News & World Report
continually ranks Loyola as
one of the
top health law
programs
in the country.
More than
1,500 alumni
of Loyola’s health law
programs are
working across
the US and world.
1,500+
• ABA National Criminal Justice
Trial Advocacy Competition,
pictured below,
National Champions, Best Advocate
• Appellate Lawyers Association
Moot Court Competition
National Champions
• Frederick Douglass
Moot Court Competition
National Best Brief,
Regional Champions
• Thomas Tang Moot
Court Competition
Regional Champions, Best Brief
A sampling of Loyola’s many competition honors this year:
Top ADR Neutral
Teresa Frisbie (JD ’86),
director of Loyola’s Dispute
Resolution Program,
above,
was named one of Illinois’s
Top 10Women ADR Neutrals.
Frisbie writes and speaks
regularly on the topic of dispute
resolution and is a columnist for
the
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.
Best in the
country
in family law
Loyola is ranked
#1 in
Family Law
in Law Street
Media’s 2015 specialty rankings.
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