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Publications | Presentations | Professional Memberships
Prior to joining the John Marshall faculty, Ken Kandaras was a staff attorney for the Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc., and an adjunct professor at IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law. His published works include Discovery in Illinois: Federal and Illinois Practice. Professor Kandaras served as the professor-reporter for the Illinois Supreme Court Sub-Committee on the Selection and Administration of Juries. He also has served as professor-reporter to several Illinois Judicial Conference committees dealing with issues of civil procedure and tort law.
In the past several summers, Professor Kandaras has co-directed (with Chief Justice Liam Hamilton of the Supreme Court of Ireland) intensive training courses in Dublin, Ireland, on comparative trial advocacy and transnational legal negotiations. He is John Marshall's representative to the Chicago Inn of Court and a former member of the Jefferson Inn of Court.
Professor Kandaras joined the faculty in 1976. He directs the Advocacy program and teaches Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Federal Courts, and Trial Advocacy.
Full Curriculum Vitae
Publications: Articles
Kandaras, Survey of Illinois Law: Tort Developments, 17 So. Ill. Univ. L. J. 961 (1993)
Kandaras & Kelley, New Developments in the Illinois Law of Contribution Among Joint Tortfeasors, 23 Loy. U. L. Rev 407 (1992)
1991, Illinois Judicial Conference, Motion Practice in Illinois; Kandaras
1991, Illinois Judicial Conference, Contribution Among Co-Tortfeasors,
1990, Illinois Judicial Conference for Associate Judges, Standing, Indispensable Parties and Intervention; Kandaras (and Johnston)
1989 Kandaras (and Johnston), Illinois Judicial Conference, Judgments, Decrees, and Appealable Orders;
Kandaras & Wozniak, Civil Procedure, 18 Loy. U. L. Rev. (1986);
Kandaras, Federal Property Forfeiture Statutes: The Need to Guarantee a Prompt Trial, 33 U. of Fla. L. Rev. 195 (1981);
Kandaras, Due Process and Federal Property Forfeiture Statutes: The Need for Immediate Post-Seizure Hearing, 34 Sw. L. J. 925 (1980);
Publications: Books
Discovery in Illinois Federal and Illinois Practice (Butterworth, 1985) [co-authored with Johnston]
Presentations
Co-sponsor & Moderator, Lecture and Discussion "Science and Ethics", Speaker: Dr. Bernard Rollins, Director, Bioethical Planning at Colorado State University, Professor of Philosophy, Bioethics, Physiology & Biophysics (March 26, 2007)
Chicago Law Bulletin Program: Strategic Jury Management Conference: Lecture on Strategies and Tips on Jury Selection (October 4, 2006)
Delegation of judges from the Ukraine, (panel discussion on litigation and judicial reform sponsored by the Sponsored by the Library of Congress - Open World Program) (November 3, 2005)
Delegation of Japanese Criminal Justice Officials (discussion of defendant interrogations, the use of videotaped confessions in capital or serious offenses, and the role of career prosecutors in the interrogation process) (September 19, 2005)
Delegation of Russian judges and court administrators (panel discussion on jury trials and jury selection, witness protection programs, and the status of judges American society sponsored by the Library of Congress - Open World Program) (July 15, 2004)
Moderator, "Sit Up and Speak: Giving Voices to the Voiceless" (symposium on the animal welfare and novel approaches to advancing animal protection.) (April 28, 2003)
Delegation of judges from Russia (panel discussion on the adversarial trial process and the role of judicial independence in a democratic society) (June 26, 2003)
Delegation of Russian judges, including the Justice of the Supreme Court and the President of the Federation of Russian Judges (lecture and demonstration on the U.S. approach to teaching trial advocacy skills in law school) (October 14, 2002)
Delegation from the National University of Honduras School of Law (discussion of American approaches to the teaching of ADR and mediation sponsored by the National Center for State Courts) (October 2, 2002)
Delegation from the Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association (panel discussion on the feasibility of employing the "American" approach to legal education in a Japanese law school) (April 4, 2002)
Moderator, "Animal Rights: A Mainstream Social Phenomenon" (March 27, 2001)
Moderator, "Animals and the Law: "A Comparison of the Treatment of Animals in Europe and the United States" (2000)
Professional Memberships
International Academy of Dispute Resolution (IADR):
Member of the Board of Directors (founding member) 2005-07
National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS):
President 2002-present
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