http://www.law.illinois.edu/rss/news/faculty The latest faculty news from the Illinois College of Law 60 http://www.law.illinois.edu/news/article/2276?src=rss Law Professor John Colombo argues for the elimination of 501(c)(4) organizations. The problem with the (c)(4) designation is that it is essentially a charity that is permitted to engage in unlimited lobbying and some significant amount of political campaign activity (as long as that activity isn’t the organization’s “primary purpose”) in exchange for denying the organization the ability to receive deductible charitable contributions. http://www.law.illinois.edu/news/article/2276?src=rss Thu, 16 May 2013 14:00:00 GMT http://www.law.illinois.edu/news/article/2279?src=rss Law On Tuesday, May 14, Professor Eric Freyfogle was invested as a Swanlund Chair, the highest endowed title bestowed upon faculty at the Urbana-Champaign campus. http://www.law.illinois.edu/news/article/2279?src=rss Thu, 16 May 2013 14:00:00 GMT http://www.law.illinois.edu/news/article/2255?src=rss Law Professor Richard Ross has been awarded the College of Law’s Carroll P. Hurd Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship for his article, “Distinguishing Eternal from Transient Law: Natural Law and the Judicial Law of Moses.” Given to the most outstanding piece of faculty scholarship published in the previous year, the award was established in 2002 by Heidi Hurd, the David C. Baum Professor of Law, and Michael Moore, the Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Chair. http://www.law.illinois.edu/news/article/2255?src=rss Fri, 10 May 2013 14:00:00 GMT http://www.law.illinois.edu/news/article/2256?src=rss Law Professor Jennifer Robbennolt has been honored with two College of Law annual awards: the Wayne LaFave Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship and the John E. Cribbet Excellence in Teaching Award. http://www.law.illinois.edu/news/article/2256?src=rss Fri, 10 May 2013 14:00:00 GMT http://www.law.illinois.edu/news/article/2272?src=rss Law The National Bankruptcy Conference (NBC) has elected Professor Robert Lawless to membership in the Conference as conferee. The NBC is a non-profit, non-partisan, self-supporting organization of approximately 60 lawyers, law professors, and bankruptcy judges whose primary purpose is to advise Congress on the operation of bankruptcy and related laws and any proposed changes to those laws. The NBC has been a resource to Congress on every significant piece of bankruptcy legislation since that time. http://www.law.illinois.edu/news/article/2272?src=rss Fri, 10 May 2013 14:00:00 GMT http://www.law.illinois.edu/news/article/2211?src=rss Law According to research from Arden Rowell and Jessica Bregant, there is a “highly significant relationship” between law students’ math skills and the substance of their legal analysis, suggesting that legal analysis – and by extension, legal advice – may vary with a laywer’s native math skills. http://www.law.illinois.edu/news/article/2211?src=rss Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:00:00 GMT http://www.law.illinois.edu/news/article/2213?src=rss Law John D. Colombo and Laurie Reynolds weigh in on the constitutionality of the pension reform efforts under consideration in the Illinois Legislature. “Whether [the Nekritz-Biss-Cross] bill is constitutional depends on how the Illinois courts interpret the constitutional language. Read more at Illinois.edu http://www.law.illinois.edu/news/article/2213?src=rss Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:00:00 GMT