Honoring Professor Maureen Collins
Delighted to share the good news that UIC John Marshall Law School’s RIPL – Review of Intellectual Property Law recently honored Maureen Collins with its inaugural Excellence Award.
Maureen taught, counseled, and inspired hundreds of IP students over the years. In addition to being RIPL’s longest-serving faculty advisor, she is the architect of a year-long course that teaches an IP-focused lawyering skills course. She also taught numerous others including Art Law, Copyright and Trademark Law, and Copyright and Trademark Law Practice and Procedure.
Maureen will be retiring from the full-time faculty at the end of this term. I had the pleasure of working with her from my earliest days at the law school. Her zeal for thinking of creative and engaging ways to help her students learn and enjoy classes continues to inspire my teaching.
Our most recent collaboration was to review our IP curriculum and benchmark our courses against those of other top IP programs. This year is the sixth straight year preLaw Magazine award UIC Law its highest “A+” rating based on the Law School’s curricular offerings compared to the offerings of the other 200+ law schools across the nation.
On behalf of our IP program, I thank Maureen for her service and wish her a long and happy retirement.
