Kevin L. Hopkins
Professor of Law
Brody-O'Neill Endowed Faculty Scholar
Contact
- Building & Room:
- C-1013
- Address:
- 300 S. State Street, Chicago, Illinois 60604
- Office Phone:
- (312) 427-2737 ext. 29392
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About
Kevin Hopkins is a Professor of Law at the University of Illinois-Chicago School of Law where he teaches Torts and Advanced Torts. After law school, Kevin Hopkins joined the firm of Woodward, Hobson & Fulton in Louisville, Kentucky, where he practiced in the areas of tort law, corporate defense, and civil litigation. He has visited and taught at numerous law schools including Widener University School of Law, Washington & Lee School of Law, Rutgers University School of Law, Seattle University School of Law, East China University of Politics & Law (Shanghai, China), and the State Intellectual Property Office in Beijing (“SIPO”).
In 2021, Professor Hopkins was selected to serve as the inaugural “Brody-O’Neill Endowed Faculty Scholar,” a position established to encourage innovative teaching projects and new practices in legal education. Additionally, he is a multi-recipient of the UIC Law Student Bar Association’s “Best Professor Award” and the Lex Ancilla Justitiae Award (“Law is the Servant of Justice”) an award given by the graduating class in recognition of his service to the law school student body. In 2025, Professor Hopkins received the UIC Black Law Student Association’s Pillar of Justice Award.
His scholarship has been published in several law journals, including the Georgetown Law Journal, the Rutgers Law Review, the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, and the New York University Review of Law & Social Change. He researches and writes in the areas of Tort Law, Legal and Judicial Ethics, and Race.
Professor Hopkins currently serves as an Ethics Commissioner with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (“MWRD”) and Reporter for the Illinois Judicial Ethics Committee (“IJEC”). He is a member of the Kentucky Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
Professor Hopkins is admitted to Practice in the Supreme Court of Kentucky, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.