Felice Batlan Assistant Professor of Law

Professor Batlan joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2006 after two years as an associate professor of law at Tulane Law School. At Tulane, she taught corporate law, securities regulation, legal history and feminist legal theory. She spent nine years in legal practice, first as a corporate and litigation associate in New York and later as head of global compliance and associate general counsel at Greenwich Capital Markets. She later earned a Ph.D. in U.S. history from New York University. 

The New York native is an adviser to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s historical society, and associate editor of Continuity and Change, an academic journal dedicated to exploring the legal and social structures of past societies. She is also on the board of H-Net, an interdisciplinary Web site for humanities and social sciences. In 2003, she was a fellow at the J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She also received the 2003 CCWH/Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians Dissertation Writing Award.

Professor Batlan graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. She served as executive editor of the Harvard Women’s Law Journal. She later clerked for the Honorable Constance Baker Motley of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.  Her undergraduate degree is from Smith College, where she graduated summa cum laude.