News & Events

09/25/2024 - Professors Sarnoff and Grynberg Co-Appointed 2024-2025 Niro Professor of Intellectual Property Law

​DePaul Law Professors Joshua Sarnoff and Michael Grynberg have been co-appointed the 2024-2025 Raymond P. Niro Professor of Intellectual Property Law.  “Professors Sarnoff and Grynberg have been valuable members of the DePaul law faculty for many years, and we are very excited to recognize their leadership in intellectual property with this honor,” says Interim...

02/28/2023 - DePaul Law’s Interdisciplinary Technology, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Certificate Program Recognized by Bloomberg Law 

​Bloomberg Law’s inaugural Law School Innovation Program recognized law schools changing legal education through innovative instruction and experiential learning. In addition to the overall finalists, Bloomberg acknowledged the highest-scoring law school programs in specific categories that included technology, business and justice, among others. In its Analysis: How Innovative...

09/30/2022 - Student Spotlight: Liya Levin

​Liya Levin ('23) has emerged as one of DePaul Law's most remarkable students.  Levin externed with both the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and among her most notable accomplishments is a winning placement at a national moot court competition and receiving an intellectual property (IP) law legal writing...

07/01/2021 - DePaul Law Alumna Kari Kammel Testifies Before U.S House Judiciary Committee

In May 2021, DePaul law alumna Kari Kammel (JD '08), assistant director of education and outreach at the Michigan State University Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection, testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet on the SHOP SAFE Act of 2021 in her first appearance before the...

03/05/2021 - DePaul Law Student Mary Hannon Publishes “The Patent Bar Gender Gap”

​​​​In November 2020, DePaul law student Mary Hannon ('21) published “The Patent Bar Gender Gap: Expanding the Eligibility Requirements to Foster Inclusion and Innovation in the U.S. Patent System" in the Indiana University Maurer School of Law's IP Theory online journal.  In the article, she examines the lack of diversity in patent bar membership due to...

07/27/2020 - IP/IT Faculty Achievements – Spring-Summer 2020

CIPLIT® would like to congratulate its IP/IT faculty members for their remarkable achievements throughout the first half of 2020. These include publishing articles on the importance of legal tech education and the doctrine of equivalents, winning an award for cultural heritage preservation, and publishing a book on Jewish tradition, among many other accomplishments....

03/30/2020 - Faculty Profile: Roberta Kwall

​Roberta Kwall is the Raymond P. Niro Professor of Intellectual Property Law; teaches Family Law, Property Law and Intellectual Property (IP) Law; and is the founder of the Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology (CIPLIT®) and co-founder of the Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies.  Her latest book, Remix Judaism: Preserving Traditions in a Diverse World, was...