Guadalupe Luna
Professor Guadalupe Luna will serve as the interim associate dean of the NIU College of Law beginning Jan. 1, 2008. She will fill the vacancy left by current Associate Dean Malcolm Morris, who will serve as interim dean.
Luna, who joined the NIU Law faculty in 1992, teaches primary in the areas of agricultural law, immigration law, landlord/tenant law, property law, remedies, voting rights and jurisprudence.
An avid scholar, 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 include writing an article “Chasing Treaty Promises,” for the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, and work on a book chapter, “Global Migrants in the Manner of Local Shelter: Anti-Immigrant Backlash Hits Home.”
In addition to her academic writings, 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. She 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, Luna was a civil rights attorney with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in San Antonio, Texas, and a 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.
Luna and Morris will assume their new positions after the departure of Dean LeRoy Pernell, who is leaving NIU to take a position as dean of the College of Law at Florida A&M University.