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Diane S. Kaplan
Associate Professor
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Phone: 312.987.2371
Email: 7kaplan@jmls.edu
Office: Room 1108
Office Hours: Mon. 2-5 p.m. | Tues. 1-3 p.m., 5:30-6:30 p.m. and by appointment
AB, with highest honors, University of California-Berkeley
JD, Yale Law School
Diane Kaplan was an editor of the Yale Law Journal during law school. After graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Hubert L. Will of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and practiced at the Chicago law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt. Her litigation experience includes state and federal commercial, criminal, Native American, health, mental health, and juvenile law.
Professor Kaplan is a member of numerous bar and professional associations including the Illinois State Bar, the State Bar of California, the District of Columbia Bar, the Federal Trial Bar for the Northern District of Illinois, and the American Bar Association. In 1996, she was invited to teach Corporations and Civil Procedure as a visiting professor at Boston University School of Law. In 1999, 2004, and 2006, she presented papers on family law topics at Oxford University in England. In the summer of 2005, she taught law in Beijing, China. She has published in the areas of health, mental health, Illinois and federal procedure, juvenile, and corporate law.
Professor Kaplan joined the faculty in 1983. She teaches Children in the Legal System, Civil Procedure I, and Corporations.
Scholarship
An Introduction to the American Legal System, People's Republic of China, Office of Intellectual Property (December 2010)
Presentations
Global Legal Studies Conference, "How to Teach Foreign Law Students About the American Legal System," The John Marshall Law School (2011)
"Teaching Beyond Borders: An Introduction to the American Legal System," The John Marshall Law School (2009)
