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Linda Crane has authored numerous articles for law journals on various subjects, including family law, immigration law, legal education and civil rights. She is a frequent speaker on the subjects of civil rights, generally, and economic disparity and mortgage lending discrimination, in particular. In August 2000, at the request of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, she testified during its national hearings on predatory lending.
Professor Crane is a member of numerous non-profit boards, including the Greater Chicago Food Depository, Mac Cormac Business College, Chicago State University Foundation, and Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Inc. She is the past board president of the Cabrini-Green Tutoring Program, Legal Elections in All Precincts Research and Educational Fund, Inc. (Project LEAP), and the Central States Law Schools Association.
She is also a past chair of the Committee on Audit and Investment Policy for the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in Washington, D.C. She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards; in 1999, Today's Chicago Woman Magazine selected her as one of the 100 Chicago Women Making a Difference.
Professor Crane joined the faculty in 1989. She served as associate dean for faculty development from 2004-2007. She teaches Property Law, Commercial Law, and Federal Securities Regulation.
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Publications
Reflections From The Chair: Honoring The Decade of Scholarship By Law Professors of Color in U.S. Law Schools and The People of Color Legal Scholarship Movements (1989-1999) -- A Quest For Quality, 20 Boston College Third World L. J. 13 (Winter 2000);
Living Your Dream And Do Good Too" (contributing author) "Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Words of Wisdom from Multicultural Women Attorneys Who've Been There and Done That, edited by Karen Clanton, American Bar Association Press (Spring 2000);
Grading Law School Examinations: Making A Case For Objective Exams to Cure What Ails 'Objectified' Exams, 34 New England Law Review 1 (May 2000);
From Gibbons to Lopez: Does the Commerce Clause Remain a Viable Tool for Eliminating the Vestiges of Slavery?, 4 Barry University Law Review 71, Symposium Issue Fall 2004 -- Civil Rights: Looking Back - Looking Forward
Women's Policy Committee Equal Opportunity Workgroup: Briefing Paper on Affirmative Action Authored as a member of the Women's Policy Committee, EEO Workgroup of the Obama for President Campaign. The paper was accepted without change by the national campaign committee leadership and I was told that it was used as a model for other authors of papers commissioned by authors to provide Senator Obama with information and talking points on various topics and subjects throughout the 2007-2008 Presidential campaign. Dated: August 28, 2007.
Accepting the Job and Key First Steps. "Be careful what you wish for!" What should you be thinking about/negotiating for if you get an offer? What are the key first steps for a dean once you are appointed
New Horizons for Capitalism: Emerging Economies and the Lure and Limits of Capitalism, Paper and presentation prepared for the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) 5th International Conference on Law, July 17-20, 2008, Athens, Greece. (Forthcoming) More Publications
New Horizons for Capitalism: Emerging Economies and the Lure and Limits of Capitalism.
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Presentations
Moderator, "Women Rainmakers" panel discussion, The John Marshall Law School, February 8, 2000.
Panelist, "Affirmative Action and City Contracts", The Chicago Bar Association Committee on Minorities in the Profession, March 21, 2000.
Panelist, "Women of Color: Breaking the Glass Ceiling", National Industry Liaison Group, 2000 National Conference, Chicago, Illinois, September 20, 2000.
Expert Witness, Federal Reserve System Hearings on Predatory Lending Practices in the Home-Equity Lending Market, Chicago, Illinois, August 16, 2000.
Panelist, "Affirmative Action", University of Illinois at Chicago, October 24, 2000.
Symposium participant, "Civil Rights: Looking Back, Looking Forward", Barry University Law School, Orlando, Florida, February 14, 2003.
Panelist, NAACP of Evanston, Current Issues in Civil Rights, November 18, 2003.
Panelist, "The New Civil Rights..." Sponsored by the Cook County Bar Association, Apostolic Church of God, Chicago, Illinois, February 21, 2004.
Presenter, "Race and the Law"BLSA 8th Annual Race and Law Symposium: Segregation in Chicago 50 Years After Brown v. Board of Education, Loyola University Chicago, April 17, 2004. ,
Presenter, "Civil Rights: Past, Present, and Future, Reflections on Brown v. Board of Education"sponsored by various student organizations at The John Marshall Law School, April 7, 2004. ,
Moderator, "E-Voting Conference", Sponsored by the Center for Privacy and Information Technology, The John Marshall Law School, October 1, 2004.
Panelist, "Law and Education", Second National Meeting of the Six Regional People of Color Legal Scholarship Conferences, America, Race, and Law at the Crossroads, The George Washington University School of Law, October 8, 2004.
Panelist, "Why and How to Become a Law School Dean" , Second National Meeting of the Six Regional People of Color Legal Scholarship Conferences, America, Race, and Law at the Crossroads, The George Washington University School of Law, October 8, 2004.
Panelist, "Taxing the Taxed", Second National Meeting of the Six Regional People of Color Legal Scholarship Conferences, America, Race, and Law at the Crossroads, The George Washington University School of Law, October 10, 2004.
Workshop Leader: "Spirit Teaching: Reigniting the Passion Within -- A Restorative Workshop for SoTL Travelers", International Society for The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Annual Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, July 2-5, 2007.
Obama for President Campaign. member of the Women's Policy Committee, EEO Workgroup. Designated by campaign as an official Surrogate/Speaker on the subject of Affirmative Action. July 2007 - present.
Panelist: Accepting the Job and Key First Steps. "Be careful what you wish for!" What should you be thinking about/negotiating for if you get an offer? What are the key first steps for a dean once you are appointed? Co-Panelists: Dean Ed Rubin (Vanderbilt) and Dean Avi Soifer (Hawaii). : Deanship Workshop, Sponsored by Seattle University School of Law and Society of American Law Teachers (SALT). Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington, September 28-29, 2007.
Panelist: Best Practices in Legal Education. This panel will discuss two recent publications, Educating Lawyers, by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and Best Practices for Legal Education, by Roy Stuckey, and explore the best teaching practices for accomplishing the goal of "Training Leaders in the Social Justice Movement.", Southeast/Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference 2008, "Teaching for Change: Training Leaders in the Social Justice Movement", April 10-13, 2008, North Carolina Central University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina.
Panelist: Advising Women Entering the Legal Profession. Program co-sponsored by The John Marshall Law School Women's' Caucus and Black Law Students Association, February 13, 2008.
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Professional Memberships
American Bar Association (A.B.A.), Section on Legal Education; Business Law Section, Federal Securities Law Committee, Market Regulation Subcommittee; Property and Probate Section
Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), Member
Association of American Law Schools (A.A.L.S.), Chair (2001-2002), Committee on Audit and Association Investment Policy. Member since 1989, Minority Law Teachers Section; Property Law Section; Commercial Law Section;
Cook County Bar Association (C.C.B.A.), Chair, Affirmative Action Committee, 1998-2000; Chair, Legal Education Committee, 1997; member, Judiciary Committee
Chicago Bar Association (C.B.A.), Vice-Chair of the Hearings Division and member of the J.E.C. Executive Committee, 1998-99, and member of Judicial Evaluation Committee (J.E.C.) Hearings Division, 1991-96, 1998-99
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