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Robert P. Burns
Northwestern University School of Law
Expertise
- Procedure
- Jurisprudence
- Evidence
- Trial Advocacy
- Legal Ethics
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- Illinois
- Supreme Court of Illinois
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- 7th Circuit
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- Northern District of Illinois Federal Trial Bar
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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- United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
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Professional Experience
- William W. Gurley Memorial Professor of Law
- Northwestern University School of Law
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- Professor of Law, 1980 - present.
- General Counsel
- Illinois Legislative Commission to Revise the Public Aid Code: Author of Proposed Code.
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- Staff Attorney
- Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago
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- Public Benefits Litigation Unit (1977); Supervisor of Attorney Continuing Education (1979).
Education
- University of Chicago
- Ph.D. (1982)
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- The University of Chicago Law School
- J.D. (1974)
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- Fordham University
- A.B. (1969)
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- Honors: Magna Cum Laude
- Activities: Majors: Philosophy and American History; Minor: Classical Languages and Literature.
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Professional Associations
- American Bar Association
- Member
- Current
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- Northern District of Illinois Federal Trial Bar
- Member
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- Supreme Court of the United States
- Member
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- United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Member
- - Current
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- Supreme Court of Illinois
- Member
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- United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
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