DePaul College of Law lags with bar passage, rankings as Dean faces review
Shane René, Editor-in-Chief
November 18, 2019
DePaul University College of Law (COL) has gone five years under the command of Dean Jennifer Rosato Perea, over which time the school’s national ranking has fallen, distinguished professors have exited and its students have graduated less and less prepared to practice law. Now Rosato Perea, who...
Letter to the Editor
Terrie Sullivan, College of law alumni
January 22, 2019
This letter is in response to the shocking article by [Benjamin Conboy], “Second law professor files discrimination suit,” outlining the College of Law’s disciplinary actions against Professor Sumi Cho and her subsequent federal civil rights lawsuit against the university. What is shoc...
Photo gallery: Law School Commencement all smiles at McCormick Place
Jacob Emerson, Photographer
May 14, 2018
DePaul's College of Law commencement ceremony took place in the McCormick Grand Ballroom on Sunday, May 13.
Law professor draws ire of students after using ‘N-word’ in lecture
Shane Rene, Sports Editor
March 5, 2018
DePaul College of Law professor Donald Hermann is under fire from students for using the N-word multiple times in a lecture to his criminal law class on Feb. 22 and refusing to apologize in following classes. During that class, Hermann says he was posing a hypothetical situation — a standard teach...
DePaul College of Law discusses broken criminal justice system
Luisa Fuentes
February 1, 2015
As part of the university’s commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the College of Law hosted the first of a two-part conversation focusing on the structural failure of the criminal justice system in the U.S. in light of the fatal killings of young African-Americans across the country. Read More »...
Detained immigrants aided with DePaul College of Law’s Spring Break Border Project
Natalie Taylor
January 25, 2015
For the past 17 years, DePaul law students have gone to Harlingen, Texas on the United States-Mexico border, to participate in the Spring Break Border Project. Read More »...
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Monday that there are no plans to suspend Illinois' automatic voter registration...
Chicago’s low-income communities receiving a $20M investment
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Underprivileged areas in Chicago will receive an estimated $20 million investment...
1-year-old Chicago toddler shot in parents’ gun struggle
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A 1-year-old boy whose father claimed had been shot in the head by a gunman...
DePaul adds new Board of Trustees members
January 27, 2020
DePaul University’s Board of Trustees will bring aboard six newly elected...