Collin Delaney ’08

4/23/24: Collin Delaney was selected for the U.S. Air Force’s 2023 Donald C. Rasher Award, recognizing outstanding contributions to the JAG Corps’ education and training programs. Collin is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force Reserve and serves as the Staff Judge Advocate for the 301st Fighter Wing. In his civilian capacity, Collin is a […]

Patrick Krekels ’88

5/20/24: After more than 23 years with the financial services company Swift, Patrick Krekels is retiring as General Counsel at the end of June. In retirement, he plans to study art history, travel, volunteer, catch up on reading, and spend more time with family.

Susanna Lee ’14

4/23/24: Susanna Lee ’14 has been named to the National Association of Women Lawyers’ 2024 Rising List. The NAWL Rising List recognizes early- to mid-career attorneys committed to NAWL’s mission by either advancing women in the profession or advocating for women under the law.

Christopher Pratt ’09

5/20/24: Christopher W. Pratt has been appointed an at-large circuit judge on the Eighth Judicial Circuit, with his appointment effective June 10. Previously, Pratt was Adams County’s chief public defender; he will now fill the remainder of a term left vacant with the removal of Judge Robert Adrian.

2005-06 Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History

Membership in Communities and States in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Legal Rules, Social Judgments, and the Negotiation of Citizenship Organized by Richard Ross, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, the linked processes of statebuilding and overseas colonization in the Atlantic world drew upon and helped transform inherited citizenship practices. […]

2006-07 Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History

Law, Religion, and Social Discipline in the Early Modern Atlantic World Organized by Richard Ross, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There has been much scholarship in the last generation on the intertwined use of law and religion in early modern Europe to “discipline” populations. Discipline in this context does not mean “social control” so much […]

2007-08 Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History

Criminal Justice in the British Atlantic World, 1500-1850 Organized by Bruce Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Author-Meets Readers Session 1 Andrea McKenzie, Tyburn’s Martyrs: Execution in England, 1675-1775, (Hambledon, 2007) Reader 1: Randall McGowen, University of Oregon Reader 2: Michael Meranze, University of California, Los Angeles Response: Andrea McKenzie, University of Victoria Panel I: Capital […]