Investiture of Eric A. Johnson as the Edward W. Cleary Professor of Law
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The University of Illinois College of Law will celebrate the investiture of
Eric A. Johnson as the
Edward W. Cleary Professor of Law
Tuesday, February 24
12 pmRemote attendees may join the ceremony live at: https://www.youtube.com/live/wrRNQg7Pn8g
Free and open to the campus community; a reception will immediately follow in the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Pavilion.
Eric Johnson teaches and writes about criminal law, criminal procedure, and evidence. His current research is focused on the roles of causation and risk in substantive criminal law. His work has been published in an array of peer- and student-edited journals, including Law and Philosophy, the Boston University Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the U.C. Davis Law Review, and the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. In 2014 and again in 2016, he received the college’s annual Carroll P. Hurd Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship.
Eric’s research and teaching both are informed by his long experience as a government attorney. He spent 11 years in the Alaska Attorney General’s Office, first as an assistant attorney general (1990-1996) and then as a chief assistant attorney general (1996-2001). From 2001 to 2004, he was an assistant solicitor general in the New York State Attorney General’s Office. From 2004 to 2009, he directed the prosecution clinic at the University of Wyoming College of Law.
About the Edward W. Cleary Professorship of Law
The creation of the Edward W. Cleary Professor in Law was made possible through the thoughtful planning and a generous estate donation of Albert E. Jenner, Jr. ’30 in honor of Professor Cleary.
Professor Edward W. Cleary ’32 left private practice to join the Illinois law faculty in 1946, quickly establishing himself as one of the nation’s leading authorities on legal procedure and evidence. Professor Cleary wrote Cases on Pleading, the Handbook of Illinois Evidence, and served as general editor of McCormick on Evidence. He also served on an advisory committee charged with drafting Federal uniform rules of evidence. The rules were adopted in 1975 for use in all Federal courts.