Professor Hablutzel teaches courses in corporations, securities regulation, banking
law, international capital markets, and international commercial arbitration. From 1985
until 1996, he was Director of the Graduate Program in Financial Services Law. He holds a
bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University and master's and law degrees
from the University of Chicago. He spent three years studying philosophy and law at the
University of Heidelberg, Germany. Before joining the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1971, he
served four years as a research attorney with the American Bar Foundation. Professor
Hablutzel was the project leader and draftsperson for the Model Residential
Landlord-Tenant Code, published in 1969. In 1972, it became the Uniform Residential
Landlord-Tenant Act, now adopted in 21 states and several cities, including Chicago and
Evanston. He is also a co-author of the Model Business Corporation Act Annotated (3
vols.) (1971). His book, International Banking Law (2 vols.) was published in 1994. From
1979 to 1983, Professor Hablutzel was the first president of the Chicago School of
Professional Psychology. From 1984 to 1988, he served as reporter for the revision of the
Illinois Not-For-Profit Corporation Act. He was a member of the Secretary of State's
Corporation Acts Advisory Committee from 1986 until 2005, when it transformed into the
Institute of Illinois Business Law, now located at Chicago-Kent with Professor Hablutzel
as its director. He was chair of the ABA Subcommittee on Adoption of the Uniform Trade
Secrets Act (1984-86); chair of the Section of Commercial, Banking and Bankruptcy Law of
the Illinois State Bar Association (1993-94); chair of the Corporation Law Committee of
the Chicago Bar Association (1988-89); and chair of the Illinois State Bar
Association's Section of Corporation, Securities and Business Law (2009-10). During
the fall of 1992, Professor Hablutzel taught in England as part of the London Law
Consortium. He was a Senior Fulbright Professor at the University of Mainz, Germany, for
the spring and summer of 1993. He has taught shorter courses in Buenos Aires, Augsburg,
Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Bangkok. Since 2004, he has been a public member of the
Business Conduct Committee of the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
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