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Publications | Professional Memberships
Passionate about both civil rights and teaching, Susan Connor brings considerable litigation experience to the classroom. Immediately after law school, she was engaged in private practice in Honolulu, Hawaii, focusing on civil rights and land use law. She then served as an assistant state's attorney in Lake County (Illinois), where she was responsible for the county's land use litigation.
Professor Connor has authored articles and books on zoning and subdivision controls, housing discrimination, and employment discrimination, most recently contributing chapters to several land use and municipal law books published by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education. For several years she wrote a monthly online publication, Flashpoints: Employment Law, which surveys current developments in the field.
In addition to teaching and writing, she continues to do pro bono litigation, mostly involving employment discrimination and fair housing cases that implicate zoning restrictions. Professor Connor also is an urban planner and active with the American Planning Association, serving for many years as chair of its Amicus Curiae Committee.
Professor Connor joined the faculty in 1980. She teaches Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, and Land Use Control.
Full Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Illinois Employment Termination, "Employment Discrimination and Discharge," Chapter 2, Employment Law, IICLE 2008.
Illinois Municipal Law, "Takings," Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 2006.
"Contrasting Illinois and Federal Takings Jurisprudence," 11 Illinois Real Estate Journal 2005
"Zoning and Matters of Age: Teens, Tots and Seniors," 2 American Bar Association Journal of Probate and Property 2005.
Illinois Agribusiness Law, "Land Use Regulation, Subdivision and Preservation of Agriculture," Chapter update, IICLE 2005.
Illinois Employment Termination, "Employment Discrimination," Chapter update, IICLE 2005.
Illinois Municipal Law, "Takings," Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 2003.
Illinois Employment Termination, "Employment Discrimination," Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 2002.
"Flashpoints: Employment Law", Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, monthly, (report on Supreme Court, Seventh Circuit and Illinois cases, decided during preceding month, concerning employment law) Jan. 2000- 2003.
Illinois Agribusiness Law, "Land Use Regulation, Subdivision and Preservation of Agriculture" Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 2001.
Illinois Municipal Law, "Zoning," Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 2000.
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Professional Memberships
Member, Chicago Council of Lawyers
Member, American Planning Association.
Past Chair and founding chair, Planning and Law Division
Chair, American Planning Association's Amicus Curiae Committee, 1985- 2000.
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