Cecil J. Hunt II
Professor of Law
Contact
- Building & Room:
- C-1010
- Address:
- 300 S. State Street, Chicago, Illinois 60604
- Office Phone:
- (312) 427-2737 ext. 29665
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About
Cecil Hunt’s areas of academic interest include Constitutional law, Jurisprudence, lending discrimination, and human rights. He currently teaches Property and Human Rights, Race, and Mass Incarceration. His other teaching areas include Secured Transactions, Banking Law, Contracts, Lending Discrimination, and Race and the Law. Professor Hunt has received many teaching and scholarship awards over the years.
Professor Hunt graduated from Harvard College and Boston College Law School, where he was an editor of the Third World Law Journal and a member of the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court team. After law school he worked in private practice in the Boston area for eight years, specializing in real estate and banking law. He began his academic career as an assistant professor at the University of Puget Sound Law School in Tacoma, Washington (which is now Seattle University Law School). He also taught at Touro Law School in New York and Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. While at Suffolk, he founded and directed a summer law school preparatory program aimed at minority and other nontraditional entering first-year students and also directed a four-week residential summer program sponsored by the Council on Legal Education Opportunity. He was also a faculty adviser and moot court team coach. In addition to his community service work and membership in various bar associations, he was a frequent speaker and presenter at programs and conferences, often appeared on television, and hosted a weekly live radio show on legal issues.
Professor Hunt joined the Law School faculty starting in 2004. In 2016 he received the Faculty Scholarly Achievement Award and was awarded Lee Chair in Constitutional Law in 2018-2019.