Philip N. Hablutzel Professor of Law

Professor Hablutzel teaches courses in corporations, securities regulation, banking law, commercial law and international capital markets. From 1985 until 1996, he was Director of the Graduate Program in Financial Services Law. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University and master’s and law degrees from the University of Chicago. Before joining the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1971, he served as a research attorney with the American Bar Foundation.

Professor Hablutzel was the project leader and draftsperson for the Model Residential Landlord-Tenant Code, published in 1969. It later became the Uniform Residential Landlord-Tenant Act, now adopted in 22 states and several cities, including Chicago and Evanston. He is also a co-author of the Model Business Corporation Act Annotated (3 vols.) (1971). His book International Banking Law (2 vols.) was published in 1994.

From 1984 to 1988, Professor Hablutzel served as reporter for the revision of the Illinois Not-For-Profit Corporation Act and has been a member of the Secretary of State’s Corporation Acts Advisory Committee since 1986. He was chair of the ABA Subcommittee on Adoption of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, 1984-86, and chair of the Corporation Law Committee of the Chicago Bar Association during 1988-89.

During the fall of 1992, Professor Hablutzel taught in England as part of the London Law Consortium. He was a Senior Fulbright Professor at the University of Mainz, Germany, for the spring and summer of 1993. During 1993-94, he served as chair of the Section of Commercial, Banking and Bankruptcy Law of the Illinois State Bar Association.