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Diversity
Matters Award
For the fourth year in a row,
Loyola was
among 10 finalists
for the
2015 Law School Admis-
sion Council’s Diversity Matters
Award.
The award recognizes
outreach and activities that target
students from racial and ethnic
groups underrepresented in the
legal profession.
Notables
Outstanding medical-legal partnership
Loyola’s
Health Justice Project,
a medical-legal partnership (MLP)
that helps students identify and address social and legal issues that
negatively affect the health of low-income individuals, received the
2015
Outstanding MLP Award
from the National Center for Medical-Legal
Partnership at George Washington University.
Health Justice Project
Director Emily Benfer
confers with David Buchanan, MD, Erie Family
Health Center, above.
Recognized for hands-on training
The February 2015 issue of
National Jurist
named Loyola among the
best schools for practical training.
Curricular changes boost practice prep
Loyola’s
newmodel curriculum
ensures all students complete
meaningful hands-on learning experiences
to become more
practice-ready at graduation. Beginning last fall, all students complete
at least two experiential learning opportunities during their legal
education, including at least one live client clinical course or externship.
Top teaching honor
AnitaWeinberg (JD ’86),
director of Loyola’s ChildLaw
Policy Institute,
shown above
with University Interim President
John Pelissero, was awarded the
University’s first
Ignatius Loyola
Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Reappointments
•
Charles Murdock (JD ’63)
was
reappointed to the
Illinois State
Bar Association Business and
Securities Law Section Council.
•
Zelda Harris, director of the
Dan K. Webb Center for
Advocacy,
was reappointed to
the
Ethics Commission for the
Chicago MetropolitanWater
and Reclamation District
and to
Loyola’s
University Senate.
Role model Rhodes
Anne-Marie Rhodes
was named
a
2015 Role Model by the Har-
vard Law Society of Illinois
for
her role modeling in the Chicago
legal community. She was also
voted
Law Professor of the Year
by Loyola’s Class of 2015.
Exemplary service
Josie Gough (JD ’84), director
of experiential learning,
received the
2015 National
Summit of BlackWomen
Lawyers’ Exemplary Service
Award
for her stellar contributions
to the legal profession.
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Studying law with Scalia
US Supreme Court Justice Scalia,
right,
returned to Loyola’s
Study Law Abroad
Program in Rome
in July as a special guest
lecturer. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a
past guest lecturer in the program.
LEADING IN
LEGAL EDUCATION
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Transactional
law triumph
Erica Cribbs (JD ’15), Jenna
Fagerman (JD ’15), and Robert
Hogan (JD ’15),
from left above,
placed
first out of 20 teams from 15
schools
across the country at the 5th
annual L. Edward Bryant, Jr. National
Health Law Transactional Competition
hosted by the Beazley Institute for
Health Law and Policy this spring.
Safeguarding
Latinos’
civil rights
Juan Perea,
right, received the
Latino/a
Law Professors Group’s 2015 Award
for Scholarship, Teaching, and Service
for his scholarly contributions and
advocacy on behalf of the civil rights
of Latinos in the US. His book
Race
and Races: Cases and Resources
for a Diverse America
(3rd ed.,
West Academic Publishing)
(with Delgado, Harris,
Stefancic, andWildman)
was published this year.
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
students were enrolled in one of
the School of Law’s
six online
degree programs
during the
2014-15 academic year. A seventh
online program, focusing on
global competition law, has just
been added.
