NIU Law Professor Guadalupe Luna Named Interim Associate Dean
November 08, 2007
DeKalb, Ill. – The Northern Illinois University College of Law is pleased to announce that Professor Guadalupe Luna will serve as the interim associate dean beginning January 1, 2008. Professor Luna will fill the vacancy left by current Associate Dean Malcolm Morris, who will serve as interim dean.
Professor Luna joined the NIU Law faculty in 1992. Her primary areas of teaching and expertise include Agricultural Law, Immigration Law, Landlord/Tenant Law, Property Law, Remedies, Voting Rights, and Jurisprudence.
An avid scholar, Professor Luna has written and lectured extensively on property and agricultural law issues with a focus on race. She has published numerous scholarly articles, as well as book reviews and other publications. Her current projects, among others, include penning the article “Chasing Treaty Promises,” for the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, and she is working on a book chapter, Global Migrants in the Manner of Local Shelter: Anti-Immigrant Backlash Hits Home.
In addition to her academic writings, Professor Luna has conducted numerous presentations and workshops nationwide. She is a board member and frequent presenter for LatCrit, Inc. (Latino & Latina Critical Legal Theory, Inc.), which promotes social awareness and activism through scholarly projects and colloquiums. Professor Luna also has presented for the National Association of Latino Law Students, the National Association of Chicana/o Studies, and the American Association of Law Schools.
Prior to teaching, Professor Luna was a civil rights attorney with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in San Antonio, Texas and judicial law clerk for the late Hon. Theodore McMillian. She received her B.A. and J.D. from the University of Minnesota, where she was editor-in-chief and staff member of the Law & Inequality Journal.
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For more information, contact:
Melody Mitchell
Director, Alumni Events & Public Relations
(815) 753-9655
mmitchell@niu.edu