Laurie Reynolds
Prentice H. Marshall Professor
Phone: 217-333-6764
Email: lareynol@illinois.edu
B.A. Georgetown University
M.A., J.D. University of IllinoisCourses
American Indian Law
Land Use
Property
State and Local GovernmentProfessor Laurie Reynolds was named the Prentice H. Marshall Professor of Law in February, 2008. Professor Reynolds received an M.A. degree in Spanish linguistics and a J.D. degree summa cum laude from the University of Illinois where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Illinois Law Forum. Before joining the faculty in 1982, she practiced with Jenner & Block in Chicago.
Her current research projects focus on issues of local government law and regionalism. Her article, "Intergovernmental Cooperation, Metropolitan Equity, and the New Regionalism" in 78 Washington Law Review 93 (2003), evaluates the impact of intergovernmental cooperation on metropolitan America. A more recently published article, “Taxes, Fees, Assessments, Dues, and the ‘Get What You Pay For’ Model of Local Government,” published in 56 Florida Law Review 374 (2004), considers the regional implications of local government revenue raising.
With Professor Richard Briffault of the Columbia University School of Law, Professor Reynolds published the sixth edition of State and Local Government Law (West, 2004). With Professor David McCarthy, Dean Emeritus of the Georgetown University Law Center, she co-authored the fifth edition of Local Government Law in a Nutshell (West 2003). She has also published several chapters in a volume on U.S. zoning and planning law in the Kluwer International Encyclopaedia of Laws.
Public service is one of the interests Professor Reynolds tries to foster in her students, and she is a member and past chair of the Champaign Plan Commission. She is a regular volunteer at El Centro por los Trabajadores in Urbana and president of the Board of Directors of the Immigration Project, a downstate non-profit agency that provides legal services to immigrants.
In 2003, Professor Reynolds was recognized with the campuswide award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching. She is also a past recipient of a Fulbright Americas Research Grant for work she did in Brazil. She spent the 2004-2005 academic year in Lisbon as a Fulbright grantee to the School of Law at the Catholic University of Portugal, teaching courses on U.S. Land Use and State and Local Government Law.
