Thomas H. Hill Visiting Professor of Law

Professor Hill joined the adjunct faculty at Chicago-Kent in 2005 and was named distinguished practitioner-in-residence in 2006. Since 2007, he has been a visiting professor of law, teaching Business Organizations, Business Transactions and International Trade.

Professor Hill has also taught and lectured at the Catholic University of Lublin in Poland, the University of Gdansk in Poland, Shih Chien University in Taiwan, the Beijing Institute of Technology in China, and Peking University in China. Professor Hill was named Coleman Scholar in Entrepreneurship at Illinois Institute of Technology for 2008-09.

Professor Hill obtained a B.A. from Dartmouth College, a J.D. from New York University School of Law, and an LL.M. from Columbia University School of Law. He was also a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Private International Law in Hamburg, Germany, and at the UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles.

Before coming to Chicago-Kent, Professor Hill was general counsel at Hunter Douglas NV, a publicly traded Dutch manufacturing company. Previously, he was senior counsel for the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and an associate at Fried, Frank, a New York-based law firm.

Professor Hill has published articles on international trade, foreign sovereign immunity, law and economic development in Latin America, and the Act of State doctrine.