Felice Batlan Assistant Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Law and the Humanities

Professor Batlan joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2006 after two years as an associate professor of law at Tulane Law School. She teaches 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 was an adviser to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s historical society. She is an associate editor and book review editor of Continuity and Change, an academic journal dedicated to exploring the legal and social structures of past societies. Further, she is an associate editor for the Macmillan-Gale Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States with responsibility for sections on women, gender and sexuality as well as corporations. She is also on the board of H-Net, an interdisciplinary Web site for humanities and social sciences. Recently Professor Batlan received the IIT Julia Beveridge Award for service to students. In 2003, she was a fellow at the J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. That year she 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.