“Often people will consume media and then think about different ways to either dress up or act as or mimic affordances of that character,” said Carly Kocurek, a professor of game design and experimental media at Illinois Institute of Technology. “I don’t think this is unprecedented or unrelated to ways that people have been engaging with media, especially games,” she added.
"If someone is engaging with certain type of posts, they’ll see more of that kind of thing," said Carly Kocurek, associate dean at Illinois Institute of Technology. "So if a teenager is on TikTok and their engaging with lots of things about meet-ups in Chicago, they’ll see more things about meet-ups in Chicago."
"Though I think the (Supreme Court) opinion is misguided in many ways, I do think she has standing," said Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. She noted that Smith had sought what's known as a pre-enforcement challenge, in which she argued that her right to free speech was being chilled by a Colorado state law. "She’s saying I want to do something that's definitely against the law in Colorado. I think that’s probably enough for a pre-enforcement challenge," Shapiro said.
"There would have been a possibility of different rules for state and federal elections, even under the same law," explains Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law who has written about the theory's origins and submitted a friend-of-the-court brief against the theory. "So there would have been enormous chaos."
“The reason for developing a solid-state electrolyte was to make the lithium-air battery more safe and to make recharging cycles more stable,” says Mohammad Asadi, a chemical engineer at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
"I do think Chief Justice Roberts is likely concerned about the Supreme Court being seen as an agent of chaos motivated by outcomes," said Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law.
“There are still questions that have yet to be worked out, and there will be litigation,” said Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, who has written extensively about the theory. “The court has absolutely put a nail in the coffin of the most extreme versions of the ISLT.”
The court “soundly rejected the entirely lawless notion that state legislatures don’t have to follow their own state constitutional restrictions when they regulate federal elections,” said Carolyn Shapiro, a law professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law who has written about the independent state legislature theory. “They have staved off an enormous amount of potential chaos that would have ensued if they had gone the other way.”
“You can file a lawsuit to win. You can file a lawsuit for publicity. You can file a lawsuit to inflict harm on another party,” Harold Krent, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, told Forbes. “But also you can file a lawsuit in hope of incremental social change. And so I think this underlying lawsuit really is both about getting more money to Byron Allen’s companies but also trying to pave the way for some kind of beneficial social change.”
Working with industry partners can bridge the gap between simply acquiring tool-specific knowledge and applying it at work. Raj Echambadi, president of Illinois Institute of Technology, described how the institution has integrated industry credentials into its existing academic framework, listening to employers about future demand. “This has huge implications in terms of students’ employment, but more importantly it gives them confidence, which they need to succeed in a corporate environment,” he explained.
