Students

Each year, DePaul's outstanding IP/IT curriculum, faculty, and extracurricular programming attracts an increasing number of qualified students interested in the intellectual property program. The high caliber of these students creates a rigorous, invigorating academic environment.

IP Legal Writing Program
Our unique IP Legal Writing Program places specific emphasis on current topics in IP as part of the first-year Legal Research, Analysis & Communication curriculum. Admission into the program is highly competitive.

Placement Success
Each year, students in the First-Year IP Legal Writing Program and other qualified students are placed in paid IP/IT summer positions with a variety of firms and organizations after their first year of law school. Additionally, CIPLIT places upper level students in summer and permanent positions. These job opportunities provide students with valuable legal experience as a significant first step on their career path.

Study Abroad
The Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology offers students many opportunities to study abroad. These opportunities allow students to appreciate and conceptualize the universal nature of intellectual property law.

IP Society
The Intellectual Property Law Society's mission is to put DePaul students in touch with the IP legal community, through mentoring, publishing a legal digest, and hosting practicing IP professionals as speakers. The IP Society also works closely with CIPLIT to offer DePaul students the chance to learn about the evolving and diverse legal landscape of IP, and strives to provide practical opportunities for students within their chosen career field.

IP Digest
The Intellectual Property Digest addresses a variety of issues in contemporary IP Law. The Digest is meant to act as a tangible resource that represents the members of the greater IP community at the College of Law. The focus is to provide the student body with an opportunity to express their interests in a particular area of IP law. Our mission is to allow our members to showcase their writing and research abilities so as to educate and engage the reader on a wide range of topical areas.

Contests & Competitions
This page contains information about intellectual property contests and competitions which are of special interest to law students. This page will give you information about IP writing competitions, Moot Court competitions, and Journal Write-Ons.

Scholarships
This page contains information about intellectual property scholarships which are of special interest to law students.

Journal of Art, Technology and Intellectual Property Law
Published twice a year under the direction of a student board of editors and in cooperation with the non-profit organization Lawyers for the Creative Arts. The Journal includes articles by students and professionals that address current legal issues in the visual and performing arts. Students who have completed their first year of law school in good academic standing are invited to join the Journal's editorial staff through a write-on competition.

Journal of Sports Law and Contemporary Problems
The problems that affect sports are the same ones that affect people in their everyday lives, form labor agreements to discrimination. This student-produced Journal explores these critical issues with articles written by professionals and students. The Journal also organizes and presents an annual symposium that addresses the most pertinent issues facing sports.

CIPLIT

News

11TH ANNUAL NIRO SCAVONE HALLER & NIRO DISTINGUISHED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LECTURE & LUNCHEON
From Maimonides to Microsoft: The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print

Featured Speakers:
David Nimmer
Of Counsel, Irell & Manella LLP; Professor from Practice, UCLA School of Law
Neil Netanel
Professor, UCLA School of Law

Location: Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies; 610 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
12:15 - 2:00 p.m.

Registration: www.law.depaul.edu/niro08

The fee for the luncheon and lecture is $20.
Luncheon is free for DePaul Students, Faculty & Staff but registration is required.
The Niro Lecture has been approved for 1.5 hours of CLE credit.

Acquiring and Maintaining Collections of Cultural Objects: Challenges Confronting American Museums in the 21st Century
On October 16, 2008, the DePaul University College of Law Center for Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology (CIPLIT®) and Center for Art, Museum and Cultural Heritage Law will hold a major conference where leading experts will examine the basic rules of nonprofit museum governance and how those rules apply to the growing challenge of collecting cultural property in light of new laws, court decisions and professional ethical guidelines; evolving museum practices and standards in collecting antiquities; sovereign immunity and immunity of art works; and the need for further standards for donor/collector museum relationships.

For more information and/or to register, please visit the Symposium website by clicking here.

Visiting Artist: ZACH HELM, Screenwriter and DePaul Theatre School Alumnus.
Presented by CIPLIT and the Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law.
April 23, 2008

Helm was the College of Law's third annual Visiting Artist, known for his writing of Stranger Than Fiction and directing of Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. He was the featured speaker on a panel discussing the recent screenwriters' strike with Professors Alan Salzenstein and Margit Livingston.
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Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in the Developing World
DePaul University College of Law co-sponsored a roundtable discussion with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on September 20, 2007. This event focused on the issue of access to essential medicines in the developing world, in particular, the global pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories’ refusal to launch a new version of the HIV/AIDS drug Kaletra in Thailand.

Click here for more information and to view the Podcasts from the event.

Click here to read the article published in the December edition of The Advocate, written by DePaul Law student, Rose Rivera.
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