Dr. Emily Kadens

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Biography

Emily Kadens, Williams Memorial Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, is a legal historian specializing in the medieval and early modern history of commercial law and practice. With a JD from the University of Chicago and a PhD in medieval history from Princeton, she is an expert on early modern English equity court archives. Kadens is currently utilizing previously unexamined equity court files to study the history of commercial practice and commercial fraud in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Her extensive writings cover whether custom functions within law and the concept of medieval law merchant, as well as the early history of English bankruptcy. Kadens is also engaged in a project that involves a neural net platform developed in Europe to create an AI model capable of automatically transcribing sixteenth- to early seventeenth-century English secretary hand with high accuracy, aiming to make equity court materials available in a searchable online repository.

Research Interests

Awards

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Robert Childres Memorial Award

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Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies Historical School

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Sutherland Prize

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Outstanding Year Course Professor

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Richard & Diane Cummins Legal History Research Grant

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Kluge Fellowship

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American Bankruptcy Law Journal Editors’ Prize

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Sutherland Prize

Requirements for Northwestern University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
U.S. Bachelor's degree or equivalent
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Specialization Notes

Standard PhD requirements for TGS departments including Chemistry, Physics, and Sociology.