Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein's treatise State Taxation (3d ed. 2020) and his law review article, "Construing the Uniform Division of Income for Tax Purposes Act: Reflections on the Illinois Supreme Court's Reading of the 'Throwback' Rule," 45 University of Chicago Law Review 778 (1978), were cited and quoted extensively by the Michigan Supreme Court in Honigman Miller Schwarts and Cohn LLP v. City of Detroit (May 18, 2020) involving Detroit's income tax.
Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law Christopher Bruner presented "Private Power and Public Good: Harnessing the Corporation for a Sustainable Future" for the University of Oslo Faculty of Law. The online event was organized by Oslo's Research Group Companies, Markets and Sustainability.
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured on Bloomberg Law regarding Johnson & Johnson's decision to phase out its talc-based baby powder. The article titled "J&J Talc Phase-Out Seen as Possible Prelude to Settling Lawsuits" was written by Jef Feeley and Riley Griffin and published 5/20/20. This article was reprinted by other media outlets across the country.
Smith Professor Hillel Y. Levin published "Stopping the resurgence of vaccine-preventable childhood diseases: Policy, politics, and law" in 2020 University of Illinois Law Review 233 (2020) (with S.P. Kershner, T.D. Lytton, D. Salmon and S.B. Omer).
Woodruff Chair in International Law Diane Marie Amann presented "Intersectional Sovereignties: Dr. Aline Chalufour, Woman at Nuremberg - and at Paris, Ottawa, and Dalat" as part of "Global History and International Law," a seminar organized under the auspices of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (SciencesPo). Dr. George Giannakopoulos of King's College London and NYU London served as discussant.