Faculty

The faculty at Illinois is one of the most respected and highly cited in the nation, boasting national leaders in the fields of bankruptcy law, corporate law, criminal law, elder law, health law, labor law, property law, and a variety of other fields. Collectively, they consistently rank in the top 25 in the nation for SSRN downloads.

And they bring a range of perspectives to their teaching and research. About half of the College of Law faculty hold advanced graduate degrees in fields in addition to law, including medicine, economics, engineering, business, history, philosophy, and psychology. At Illinois, teaching is not an afterthought. To the contrary, four members of the College's faculty have won the University of Illinois' prestigious Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching.

Spotlight

David Hyman
H. Ross and Helen Workman Chair in Law (August 2012)

Illinois Law Professor David Hyman and Northwestern Law Professor Bernie Black received a $450,000 grant from the Public Health Law Research program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to conduct research on healthcare law and policy. The grant will fund a research project that will examine whether public reporting of hospital infection rates causes hospitals to reduce those infection rates and, if so, for what types of infections, and how does the impact depend on the nature of the reporting rules.