Megan Bess
Director, Externship Program; Assistant Professor of Law
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About
Megan Bess is an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Externship Program at UIC Law School in Chicago. In addition to externship courses, she teaches Professional Responsibility and a leadership seminar. Her research and scholarship focus on professional identity formation, legal ethics, and the future of legal education. At UIC Law, she serves on the Executive Committee and the Diversity, Equity, & inclusion Committee. She serves on the Executive Committees of the AALS Sections on Professional Responsibility and Balance and Well-Being in Legal Education (of which she also served as chair).
Professor Bess served as co-chair of the AALS Clinical Section Externship Committee and regularly teaches case round pedagogy to the externship community. She is a member CLEA’s Best Practices Committee and an editor of the upcoming new edition of Building on Best Practices. Prior to joining the UIC Law faculty in 2019, she served as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she oversaw online degree programs and six graduate degree programs. Before entering academia, she practiced in the litigation department of an Am Law 50 firm in Chicago. She earned her B.S. from the University of Arizona and J.D. from Vanderbilt University.