NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW - Key Persons
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- Instructor, Assistant Dean of Students and Dean of International Programs, Director LLM Program
Alina received their BA in Psychology and Statistical & Data Sciences from Smith College in 2020. As the Center's program assistant, Alina supports the work of the career counselors and assists with employer programming.
Allison joins the Career Strategy Center after having previously worked at Northwestern Law in 2004, initially as a career adviser, advising on judicial clerkships, alternative careers, and alumni job searches, and later teaching CLR as a Clinical Assistant Professor. Allison subsequently worked as a career adviser, writing coach, and interview coach at several other Chicago area law schools. A graduate of Middlebury College and Notre Dame Law School, Allison's career prior to entering into higher education included working as a federal judicial law clerk and as an attorney in both the public and private sectors.
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- Assistant Director for Alumni Advising
Amy is the career advisor for alumni. Amy has been working for law schools in career services and other roles since 2008, including more than seven years at Georgetown University Law Center, where she most recently led the team advising 2Ls, 3Ls, and recent graduates. Amy graduated from Cornell University, magna cum laude, and earned her J.D. at Duke University School of Law. After law school, Amy clerked for the late Judge William C. O'Kelley in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and practiced labor and employment law at a large Atlanta firm. Amy has served in leadership roles at NALP and is a graduate of an ICF-certified leadership coaching program.
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- Legal Assistant
- Complex Civil Litigation and Investor Protection Clinic
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- Assistant Dean of Academic Services and Registrar
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- Assistant
- Assistant Phone
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Diversity Research, Implementation and Vendor Accountability
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- Member of the Active
- MSL '16, Regulatory Compliance Manager, Walgreens, Chicago
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, Archer Daniels Midland, Chicago
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- Member at CodeX
- Senior Lecturer / Director of Law and Technology Initiatives
Daniel W. Linna Jr. has a joint appointment at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and McCormick School of Engineering as the Director of Law and Technology Initiatives and a Senior Lecturer. Dan's teaching and research focus on innovation and technology, including computational law, artificial intelligence, data analytics, leadership, operations, and innovation frameworks.
Dan is also an affiliated faculty member at CodeX - The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. He joined Northwestern as a Visiting Professor of Law from Michigan State University College of Law, where he was a Professor of Law in Residence and the founder and Director of LegalRnD - The Center for Legal Services Innovation. At Michigan State, Dan taught Quantitative Analysis for Lawyers, Litigation {Data, Theory, Practice, & Process}, Entrepreneurial Lawyering, and Lawyer Ethics and Regulation in a Technology-Driven World. He has also been a visiting professor at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany, where he has taught Computational Law and Rules-Driven Automation, and an adjunct professor at IE Law School in Madrid, Spain, where he has taught Assessing Artificial Intelligence and Computational Technologies. Dan has also been an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan Law School, where he has taught Negotiation as well as Legal Technology & Innovation: Legal-Service Delivery in the 21st Century.
Dan began his legal career with a one-year judicial clerkship for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge James L. Ryan. After his clerkship, he joined Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, an Am Law 200 firm headquartered in Detroit. Dan was a litigator and member of Honigman's Automotive and Manufacturing; e-Discovery and Information Management; Commercial Transactions; and Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media groups. In 2013, Dan was elected equity partner.
Dan received his BA from the University of Michigan, received a second BA and an MA in public policy and administration from Michigan State University, and graduated magna cum laude, Order of the Coif from the University of Michigan Law School.
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- Associate Dean for Alumni Relations and Development
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- Assistant Dean
- Assistant Dean, Career Strategy Center
Dave received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1995, M.A. in Higher Education and Student Affairs from The Ohio State University in 2003, and B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Iowa in 1992. Before joining the Career Strategy Center in 2006, Dave was the Director in the Career Services Office at The John Marshall Law School and a career counselor at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He also worked as a transactional attorney in Chicago for six years and gained public sector work experience while in law school. Outside of the office, Dave sat on the Public Interest Law Initiative Board of Directors for nine years and is an active member of NALP, including previously serving as the organization's Vice-President of Finance.
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- Associate
- Business Analyst
David received a BA in Psychology from The University of Iowa. David provides system/database support for the Career Strategy Center. One of his many mottos is…"The key to life…is to do what makes you guilt-free happy".
Dean Osofsky's over 50 publications focus on improving governance and addressing injustice in energy and climate change regulation. Her scholarship includes books with Cambridge University Press on climate change litigation, textbooks on both energy and climate change law, and articles in leading law and geography journals. Dean Osofsky's Emory Law Journal article, Energy Partisanship, was awarded the 2018 Morrison Prize, which recognizes the most impactful sustainability-related legal academic article published in North America during the previous year. Dean Osofsky has collaborated extensively with business, government, and nonprofit leaders to make bipartisan progress on these issues through her leadership roles and teaching. She is a fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers.
Her professional leadership roles have included, among others, serving as president of the Association for Law, Property, and Society and as a member of the Dean's Steering Committee of the American Association of Law Schools, Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, International Law Association's Committee on the Legal Principles of Climate Change, Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers, and editorial board of Climate Law. Her leadership and mentorship work was recognized by the Association for Law, Property, and Society's 2016 Distinguished Service Award and the University of Minnesota 2015 Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award.
Dean Osofsky received a PhD in geography from the University of Oregon and a JD from Yale Law School. She clerked for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to joining Northwestern University, Dean Osofsky served as dean of Penn State Law and the Penn State School of International Affairs and on the faculties of University of Minnesota Law School, Washington and Lee University School of Law, the University of Oregon School of Law, and Whittier Law School.
Dean, Penn State Law and Penn State School of International Affairs, Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of International Affairs, and Professor of Geography, 2017-2021, Pennsylvania State University
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- Assistant
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- Associate Dean of Admissions and Career Services
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- Member of the Executive Committee
Doreen Weisenhaus is a Senior Lecturer with a joint appointment at Northwestern's Pritzker School of Law and the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing. Prior to joining Northwestern, she taught media law and ethics at the University of Hong Kong (2000-2017), where she remains an Honorary Associate Professor and Director of the Media Law Project at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre and a Fellow and Board Member at the Centre for Comparative and Public Law. Before HKU, she was City Editor of The New York Times and the first legal editor of The New York Times Magazine before becoming its law and politics editor.
She was also editor-in-chief of The National Law Journal, a leading publication for lawyers in the U.S. that won several major journalism awards during her tenure; a prosecutor in New York City; a television news producer in Chicago, and a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal. She holds a JD from Northwestern's law school and a BS in journalism from Medill.
Her research interests include international press freedom and global trends in media law and policy. She is the author of Hong Kong Media Law: A Guide for Journalists and Media Professionals (Hong Kong University Press 2007) and an expanded second edition in 2014. She is lead editor and co-author of Media Law and Policy in the Internet Age (Hart Publishing Oxford 2017), that documents and analyzes media law reform trends worldwide. She has contributed to a number of publications, including the Oxford Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies (Legal Safeguards of Journalism, forthcoming) International Encyclopedia of Communication (Communication Law and Policy: Asia) and the International Libel and Privacy Handbook. Since 2014, she has served as a member of the expert panel and working group for Columbia University's Global Freedom of Expression Project.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Diversity and Inclusion Programming
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Associate Director of Operations
Fred received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011. He has returned to the Career Strategy Center after previously working as the Program Assistant for the office, as well as a Legal Recruiting Coordinator for McDermott Will & Emery and Administrative Support Specialist at the University of Chicago Law School.
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- Director of the Pritzker Legal Research Center and Senior Lecturer at the Northwestern University School of Law
- Senior Lecturer / Director, Pritzker Legal Research Center
George H. Pike is the Director of the Pritzker Legal Research Center and Senior Lecturer at the Northwestern University School of Law. He teaches legal research, privacy and copyright courses at the School of Law, and is a frequent lecturer on issues of First Amendment, copyright, and Internet law for library professionals. He is also a regular columnist for Information Today, publishing a monthly column on legal issues confronting information producers and consumers. Previously, Prof. Pike was Director of the Law Library at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Associate Law Librarian at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, OR, Reference Librarian at the University of Idaho School of Law, and was a practicing attorney in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Prof Pike received his B.A. degree from the College of Idaho, his law degree from the University of Idaho, and his Masters in Library Science from the University of Washington. He is a member of the American and Idaho State Bar Associations, the American Association of Law Libraries, and the American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association.
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Legal Research
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- Associate Dean, Infrastructure, Planning, and Design
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- Dean
- Dean and Myra and James Bradwell Professor of Law, Professor of Environmental Law and Culture ( Courtesy )
- Myra and James Bradwell Professor of Law / Professor of Environmental Law and Culture ( Courtesy )
Hari M. Osofsky is dean and Myra and James Bradwell Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Professor of Environmental Policy and Culture (courtesy) at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.
As dean, her leadership has focused on advancing the innovation that is needed at this time of change in the legal profession and society. This has included ambitious faculty hiring, cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and teaching initiatives, and concrete action to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion and social and racial justice. She also is very involved in mentorship and sponsorship to support greater diversity in law school and university leadership. The American Bar Association's Legal Technology Resource Center recognized her as one of the 2019 Women of Legal-Tech.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Board
- Member of the Life
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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- Director of Judicial Clerkships, Lecturer
Janet joined the Law School as Lecturer and Director of Judicial Clerkships in 2014. Prior to that, she clerked for the Honorable Sheila Finnegan in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and in the staff attorney's office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She also practiced law for eight years at a large law firm and in state and local government in both Chicago and New York. She received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, M.S. in Management from New York University's Graduate School of Public Service, and B.A. from Tufts University.
Jason C. DeSanto is fascinated by the power of communication and the freedom to engage in it. He teaches courses at the intersection of law and public advocacy, including First Amendment law, and has pioneered the Law School's curriculum geared to preparing lawyers as impactful public persuaders, particularly in the worlds of policymaking and entrepreneurship. He is one of the highest-rated lecturers across the University, has won the Dean's Teaching Award, and was voted by three consecutive Law School graduating classes to deliver the School's annual Last Lecture, an institutional flagship. He also teaches the Northwestern School of Communication's executive courses in persuasion and leadership, and formerly served as a partner at Chicago's Freeborn & Peters LLP, where he handled constitutional and corporate litigation, represented a series of individuals and public entities in cases of public controversy, and acted as a Special Assistant Attorney General of Illinois.
He also served for more than 15 years as a political speechwriter and debate strategist, having assisted U.S. Senators, members of Congress, and multiple American presidential campaigns. He provides public speaking coaching, media training, and communications strategy to C-suite executives at a series of Fortune 500 companies and not-for-profit entities, and has advised prevailing counsel in U.S. Supreme Court litigation. He has critiqued persuasion and political communication for The New York Times, the Today Show, CBS Radio, and the BBC; served as lead commentator on presidential addresses and debates for the award-winning PBS program, Chicago Tonight; and is a periodic analyst of presidential debates at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. He also is founding co-producer of the Newt & Jo Minow Debate Series, Oxford-style public policy debates originated at Northwestern Pritzker Law as a tribute to, and with the participation of, U.S. presidential debate pioneer and Law School alum Newton N. Minow.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he was an Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, an H. Clayton Louderback Legal Writing Instructor, and the winner of the George Schechtman Prize. He holds an undergraduate degree from Northwestern, concentrating in American rhetorical history and graduating magna cum laude. He is a Fellow with the Truman National Security Project, has provided First Amendment training assistance for lawyers and journalists from former republics of the Soviet Union, and is an editorial board member of the journal First Amendment Studies. He also graduated from the Second City Conservatory and periodically appears as a political satirist and commentator on Chicago radio.
Jazzma has served as the Judicial Clerkships Coordinator since 2016. She was also a former chair of the Law School Staff Advisory Council (LSSAC) and is currently a founding chair of the Staff Equity Alliance (SEA). Jazzma graduated
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- Instructor, Assistant Dean of Students and Dean of 1Ls, Director, APEX Program
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- Assistant Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
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- Member of the Life
- Senior Investigator
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- Lecturer, Associate Dean of International Programs
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- Assistant Dean, External Partnerships
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Assistant Director Career Management
Kira received her B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. After law school, Kira worked as an associate at a large family law firm in Chicago, primarily focusing on high net-worth divorce proceedings. Prior to joining the Career Strategy Center, Kira was an assistant director in the Career Management Center at DePaul University's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.
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- Co - Founder and Principal, HeadLights LLC, Chicago
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- Montgomery Foundation Environmental Law Fellow
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- Assistant
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Legal Assistant
- Member of the Board
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- Director of Social Work Services
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- Robert a. Helman Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Clinical Education, Director of the Bluhm Legal Clinic
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- Schuette Clinical Fellow in Health and Human Rights Bio / Children and Family Justice Center
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- Member of the Board
- Administration and Finance
- Legal Practice Administrator
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- Member of the Active
- Member of the Board
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- Lecturer, Chief of Staff, Office of the Dean
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- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Monica Llorente is a Senior Lecturer at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She was also appointed by U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth to the Judicial Screening Committee, which evaluates and recommends candidates for federal district court judge in the Northern District of Illinois.
Monica has broad experience in both the private and public sectors. Monica started her legal career as an attorney in the Corporate & Securities Department of Baker & McKenzie's Chicago Office, where she focused on mergers, acquisitions, and strategic alliances of publicly and closely held corporations, limited liability companies, and partnerships in the United States and across the world. Monica came to Northwestern from the firm to continue practicing through the law school's Bluhm Legal Clinic and run and develop the Children's Law Pro Bono Project, through which she recruited, trained, and supported pro bono volunteer attorneys from law firms in juvenile delinquency and school law matters. She has represented young people in need in various types of judicial and administrative proceedings.
Monica continues to work on local and national campaigns with youth, parents, educators, legislators, and others to advocate for changes in education and juvenile justice. Throughout the years, she has blended her private and public experience to create and develop new organizations and policies to better serve those most in need. For example, in 2005, she co-founded Dignity in Schools, a new organization uniting advocates, policymakers, and other stakeholders to improve juvenile justice and school expulsion policies and implement alternatives through legislation and practice, and, in 2015, she co-created the Transforming School Discipline Collaborative, an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to supporting districts and schools to implement equitable and non-exclusionary discipline practices.
She has served in other organizations outside of Northwestern, including, in the past, as Board Member of the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois and, currently, as Education Co-Chair of the ABA Children's Rights Litigation Committee. She has received several awards, including the American Bar Association Section of Litigation's Award for Outstanding Service.
Apart from teaching, at Northwestern, she currently serves on Northwestern's Tech Advisory Committee, and was a charter member of the university's Experimental Teaching and Learning Analytics Program. Monica has served in many other appointed positions in the law school, such as Acting Director of Diversity Education and Outreach, Acting Director of Career Services, and Faculty Advisor for the Latino Law Students Association.
From 2013 to 2019, Monica taught in the Legal Field Studies courses within the Chicago Field Studies program in the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. Since 2003, Monica has been teaching many different courses for law students at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, including:
Basics of Contract Drafting (seminar that provides hands-on training in contract drafting techniques)
Business Associations (lecture course on law of unincorporated business associations and corporations)
Judicial Practicum (practical course that examines judicial systems and contemporary judicial issues in class while students are externing for a judge)
Public Interest Practicum (experiential learning course that explores practical and ethical issues faced by public interest lawyers and the challenges of enforcing legal rights of low-income clients while students work for a public interest organization)
Creating Change as a Lawyer (course analyzing the role of law and lawyers in making change happen)
Clinic (hands-on course teaching students how to practice law by actually working on real-life cases)
International Team Project (comparative law course where students travel to another country and work on a real project),
Interviews and Investigations (interactive class to develop these skills)
Trial Advocacy and Ethics (simulation class to learn the elements and strategies of a trial and examining the code of lawyers and morality in the law).
Before going to law school, she was a teacher, and she received her bachelor's degree in Comparative Area Studies and Political Science from Duke University. Monica lives in Chicago with her husband, Mike, whom she met in law school, and their two children.
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- Clinical Professor of Law Emerita
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law & Policy Center
Nancy Loeb serves as a member of the board of directors of the Environmental Law & Policy Center (Chair), the National Women's Law Center, and the Chicago Bar Foundation (Chair, Advocacy Committee). She is also a member of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Character and Fitness and the Illinois Supreme Court Planning and Oversight Committee on Judicial Evaluation. She is a member of the Bar in Illinois, New York and Washington, D.C.
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- Adviser for International
- Director, LLM International Advising
Natalie is the career adviser for international LLM students. Prior to joining Northwestern Law, Natalie worked at Santa Clara University School of Law as an Assistant Director of Graduate Employment and as a Lecturer in Law for the Civil Practice High Tech and Social Justice Externship Seminar course. Natalie practiced law for over seven years, specializing in employment-based immigration. She has practiced both in San Francisco and Chicago. Natalie received her JD from Chicago-Kent College of Law and her BA in International Relations from James Madison College at Michigan State University.
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- Professor of Law, Associate Dean of Research and Intellectual Life
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- Director
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Senior Associate
- Marketing and Messaging
Puja joins the Career Strategy Center after having worked as an Assistant Attorney General at the Illinois Attorney General's Office. Prior to joining the Attorney General's Office, Puja was an Associate at Franczek Radelet P.C. practicing education and employment law. Puja received her J.D. from Northwestern School of Law in 2006 and her BA in Environmental Science from Duke University in 2001.
Richard Hoskins combines a successful career as a trial lawyer in sophisticated civil and criminal matters with more than 20 years of teaching at Northwestern Law, as well as four years at the University of Virginia Law School. He is a senior partner, former chair of the Intellectual Property Group, and former member of the Executive Committee at Schiff Hardin LLP in Chicago. A graduate of Northwestern Law, he began his career as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, then served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, before returning to Chicago. The distinctive focus of his teaching is the interaction between the practice of law in the courtroom and the analysis of law in the classroom. Mr. Hoskins is the recipient of the Robert Childres Award for Teaching Excellence, the award for Outstanding First-Year Course Professor, and the Dean's Teaching Award.
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Antitrust Law
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- Clinical Associate Professor of Law
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- Associate Dean for Clinical Education and Director, Bluhm Legal Clinic
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- Founding Director, Energy Transition Lab, Director, Joint Degree Program in Law, Science, and Technology, 2010 - 2017, University of Minnesota Law School
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- Member of the Board
- Interim Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
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- Associate Dean of Marketing and Strategic Communications
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Assistant
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- Clinical Fellow and Policy Director Bio
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- Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Associate Dean and Dean of Students
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- Member of the Executive Committee
Virginia received her J.D. from Duke University School of Law and B.A. from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the Career Strategy Center, Virginia practiced labor and employment law at two large law firms in Chicago.
Yocelyn received a B.S. in Business Administration from DePaul University in 2022. As the office administrator, Yocelyn assists with the daily operations of the Center and provides administrative support.
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- Professor of Law, Associate Dean of Academic Programs