Provost’s Leadership Retreat 2019 Breakout Questions

Theme: How Might We Realize the Potential of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies in the Urban Setting of Chicago

Given what you know about UIC and UIC-JMLS, do we have the potential to address any of the
following problems through interdisciplinary legal approaches to teaching, research, and service,
and if so, how?

  • Public school achievement gap
  • Housing segregation
  • Overcrowding in jails
  • Police misconduct
  • Gun violence
  • Inequities in transportation, infrastructure, etc.
  • Health disparities
  • Unemployment among young men

What role does law play in the current configuration of the following problems and what nonlegal
knowledge would be critical to assessing the role that law and/or other forces are playing?

  • Public school achievement gap
  • Housing segregation
  • Overcrowding in jails
  • Police misconduct
  • Gun violence
  • Inequities in transportation, infrastructure, etc.
  • Health disparities
  • Unemployment among young men

What structures at the University might be created to support interdisciplinary legal scholarship
and pedagogy to address the following issues?

  • Public school achievement gap
  • Housing segregation
  • Overcrowding in jails
  • Police misconduct
  • Gun violence
  • Inequities in transportation, infrastructure, etc.
  • Health disparities
  • Unemployment among young men