Elizabeth W. Milnikel
Director of The Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship and Lecturer in Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-834-3108
email: emilnikel@ij.org

EDUCATION
University of Michigan Law SchoolJ.D. magna cum laude, May 1999
Clarence Darrow Scholar - Three-year, full-tuition merit scholarship
Certificate of Merit Awards in Torts and Unjust Enrichment courses
Order of the Coif
Michigan Law Review, Staff and Managing Editor

Yale University
B.A. Comparative Literature, magna cum laude, May 1996Phi Beta Kappa, distinction in major
Hajo Holborn Prize - For the best undergraduate essay on a topic in German public affairs
Bianca Maria Calabresi Prize - For the best Senior Essay in Comparative Literature

EXPERIENCE
University of Chicago Law School
Lecturer in Law and Director of the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship, 2003 - present.

Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Chicago, Illinois, and New York, New York
Associate, 2000-2003

Hon. Bruce Selya, First Circuit Court of Appeals, Providence, Rhode Island
Judicial Clerk, 1999-2000

Professor Hanoch Dagan, Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Research Assistant, 1998-1999 

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, New York
Intern with the General Counsel, Summer 1998