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  • 2/11/2013Phil Ciciora, Business & Law Editor writer Phil Ciciora, Business & Law Editor by Phil Ciciora, Business & Law Editor published by Phil Ciciora, Business & Law Editor
    Most courts disregard the immigration status of workers who file suit against former employers, says a study from Michael LeRoy, a professor of law and of labor and employment relations at Illinois.
  • 1/3/2013Phil Ciciora, Business & Law Editor writer Phil Ciciora, Business & Law Editor by Phil Ciciora, Business & Law Editor published by Phil Ciciora, Business & Law Editor
    The fiscal-cliff bill passed by Congress settles most of the significant tax issues that would have an immediate and direct impact on the average taxpayers pocketbook, says Richard L. Kaplan, the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Professor of Law at the University of Illinois.
  • 12/4/2012Jeff Unger writer Jeff Unger by Jeff Unger published by Jeff Unger
    Five professors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been named Swanlund Chairs, the highest endowed titles on the Urbana campus.
  • 11/5/2012Phil Ciciora, Business & Law Editor writer Phil Ciciora, Business & Law Editor by Phil Ciciora, Business & Law Editor published by Phil Ciciora, Business & Law Editor
    Adopting a loser-pays-all rule for criminal litigation would likely be feasible only if the rule applied to defendants who are wealthy, says a study from law professor Nuno Garoupa, the H. Ross and Helen Workman Research Scholar at the University of Illinois.
  • 9/25/2012Phil Ciciora, Business and Law Editor writer Phil Ciciora, Business and Law Editor by Phil Ciciora, Business and Law Editor published by Phil Ciciora, Business and Law Editor
    Federal law ought to play a stronger role in regulating social networking sites by allowing users to determine what happens to their digital afterlives, says a recently published paper by a University of Illinois expert in intellectual property law.