Faculty expertise
ADVANCING LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP
Women in Litigation Conference
“Leadership Trends, Challenges,
and Opportunities”
Children’s Legal Rights Journal Conference
“Shifting Perspectives in Children’s
Mental Health”
Annual Institute for Investor
Protection Conference
“The Twentieth Anniversary of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act”
Public Interest Law Reporter Conference
“Community Lawyering and the Campaign
for Reparations for Burge Torture Victims”
Annals of Health Law and Beazley
Institute for Health Law and Policy’s Ninth
Annual Symposium
“Consolidation and Its Impact on Quality,
Accessibility, and Cost of Care”
Life After Innocence Sixth
Anniversary Luncheon
“A Conversation with Amanda Knox”
Center for Criminal Justice Research,
Policy, and Practice
“Emerging Adults and the Criminal
Justice System: Charting the Course for
Policy and Practice”
Loyola University Chicago International
Law Review and Loyola’s Business Law
Clinic Conference
“Small Business in a BigWorld”
National Security and Civil Rights Program
“The New Law of War Manual: Accurate?
Authoritative? Influential?”
Consumer Law Review Conference
“Advertising in Digital Media: Disclosures
and Transparency in Social Media”
Race and Law Symposium
“Examining Police Accountability in the
Criminal Justice Process”
Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies
Sixteenth Annual Antitrust Colloquium
National Security and Civil Rights Program
“Islamophobia and the Rule of Law”
Loyola University Chicago Law
Journal Conference
“Decisions, Decisions: Exploring
Factors that Affect the Judicial Decision-
Making Process”
Children’s Summer Institute
“Trauma and Resilience:
UnderstandingWork with High-Risk
Children and Adolescents”
Dispute Resolution Program
“Applying Neurobiology to Negotiation
and Mediation”
Conferences and symposia
Preventing sex
trafficking
Melina Healey,
a postgraduate
teaching fellow with the Civitas
ChildLaw Center, was interviewed
and cited in several news reports
on sex trafficking on Native
American reservations.
Nixing lead poisoning
AnitaWeinberg (JD ’86)
offered
her expertise on lead poisoning
prevention to local media and
at numerous academic and
community events. Her op-ed on
the topic was published in the
Chicago Tribune
.
Expanding mediation
Teresa Frisbie (JD ’86)
was
invited to meet with John Phillips,
the U.S. ambassador to Italy, to
advise on expanding the use of
mediation in Italy.
Bringing together prestigious scholars, professionals, and thought leaders to
discuss cutting-edge and emerging legal topics, the School of Law hosted
numerous conferences and symposia in 2015–16, including 23 Illinois
MCLE-accredited programs. Notable programs included:
High-profile conferences at the School of Law let students hear a wider range of perspectives.
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