Eve Rips
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Eve Rips is an Assistant Professor at UIC Law. Her research focuses on legislation impacting children and young adults, with an emphasis on school discipline and juvenile justice. She earned her JD from the University of Chicago and her BA in Philosophy with honors in Ethics in Society from Stanford.
Prior to joining UIC, she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law and at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. She was also a Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Legislation & Policy Clinic at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she oversaw student work on policy projects related to juvenile justice, education, and child welfare systems. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in journals including the American University Law Review, the Journal of Legal Education, the Michigan Journal of Law Reform, and the Michigan State Law Review.
Professor Rips’s practice experience includes serving as the Director of Regional Strategy and the Acting National Deputy Director for Young Invincibles, a national nonprofit that advocates for access to economic opportunity for young adults. She also previously worked as an attorney with the Education Equity Project at the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where her work focused primarily on the school-to-prison pipeline and on class-action litigation related to race discrimination at public schools in the Chicagoland area.