breaking NEW GROUND - Illinois Institute of Technology

“Chicago-Kent’s innovative
approach to integrating law
and technology is helping me
to think outside the box, and
giving me the tools to pursue
a career that will be both
practical and meaningful.”
Ron Michel
Student
Chicago-Kent College of Law
As director of IIT’s Institute for
Science, Law and Technology,
Chicago-Kent Professor Lori
Andrews is leading discussions
that will shape legal policies in
the twenty-first century with
issues ranging from biotechnology
to privacy to environmental
science. Her path-breaking litigation
about reproductive and
genetic technologies and the
disposition of frozen embryos
caused the National Law
Journal to list her as one of the
100 most influential lawyers in
America. Among the many
organizations she has advised
on genetic and reproductive technology
are Congress, the World
Health Organization, and the
National Institutes of Health.
Chicago-Kent Professor Ronald
W. Staudt co-founded the Justice
Web Collaboratory—a law
school center that uses Internet
resources to improve access to
justice through Web tools such
as an Illinois legal assistance Web
portal. He also instigated an
interdisciplinary project to help
reengineer court systems for
self-represented litigants.
With degrees in both religion
and computing and education,
Ron Michel is particularly interested
in finding ways to apply law
and technology to community
service. He is getting hands-on
experience doing just that as a
student consultant to Chicago-
Kent’s public interest committee,
which is developing ways to
bring legal resources and advice
to self-represented litigants via
the Internet.
ACCESSING JUSTICE,
shaping policy
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