Chicago-Kent College of Law
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- The Chicago-Kent review, Oct. 1927:p. 3 (Chicago-Kent College of Law)
- LC data base, 4-16-84(hdg.: Chicago-Kent College of Law)
- PC Strategies for Lawyers Conf. (4th : 1988 : Chicago, Ill.). Technological evolution of the legal profession, c1988:t.p. (IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law)
- Law and legal info. dir., c1983:p. 193 (Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago-Kent College of Law)
- Patterson's Amer. educ., 1989:p. 579 (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law)
- Chicago-Kent College of Law WWW Home page, Jan. 21, 2004(Recognizing that equal justice before the law could only be attained through equal access to legal education, Judge Thomas Moran and Judge Joseph Bailey founded the Chicago Evening Law Classes [no publs. in LC data base] to offer evening instruction to working men and women; originally held in the judges' chambers, the classes quickly moved to a more formal setting; a year later, in 1888, Chicago College of Law was incorporated; during this same period, Marshall D. Ewell, former dean of Northwestern University Law School, returned to academia to found Kent College of Law, named after Chancellor James Kent; within ten years, Chicago College of Law and Kent College of Law merged to form Chicago-Kent College of Law)
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Wikipedia description:
Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of the Illinois Institute of Technology, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It is the second oldest law school in the state of Illinois. Chicago-Kent was founded in 1888 by Justice Joseph M. Bailey. Today, it employs more than 140 faculty members and hosts more than 700 students in its Juris Doctor program, Master of Laws, and joint degree programs. The school is recognized for its three-year legal writing curriculum and offers J.D. concentrations in business law, criminal litigation, environmental and energy law, intellectual property, labor and employment, and privacy law.
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