The campus continues as a center of innovation and discovery today. Faculty members have been recognized for their exceptional research, with memberships in the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering. They are recipients of the Nobel Prize, Crafoord Prize in Biosciences, National Medal of Science, Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, and MacArthur Fellowships. The University is home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, several national centers for research, and a Research Park featuring EnterpriseWorks, a high-tech business incubator to 20 start-up companies.

In this fertile environment, the curriculum and faculty at the College of Law cover a deep and broad spectrum of intellectual property and technology law, including in the areas of trademark, internet, patent, copyright, supercomputing, biotechnology, information science, and engineering. Campus, state, and national leaders solicit the faculty’s legal expertise on IP issues arising from a host of new technologies, and organizations such as Google, Microsoft, and Department of Homeland Security fund research at Illinois Law.