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Non Reunion Classes
Even if its not your Reunion year, we'd love to have you join us for some "all alumni" events.
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Join us for the traditional Loop Luncheon with Adam Samaha,
Assistant Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching
Scholar, on “Muskets and Glocks: The Second Amendment Reborn?” Location: The Standard Club, 320 South Plymouth Court, Chicago.
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Take a Walking Tour of Millennium Park,
a center for world-class art, music, architecture and landscape design,
with a docent from the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Advance
registration required. Location: Meet outside of Park Grill - 11 North Michigan Avenue.
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Relax at the Alumni Wine Mess with classmates, faculty, and students. Alumni from all class years are welcome to attend. Location: Millennium Park Chase Promenade (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Monroe Streets).
Saturday, May 3
All events from 9:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M. will be held at the University of Chicago Law School, 1111 E. 60th Street.
8:30 a.m. & 8:40 a.m. Shuttles from downtown to Law School Location: Meet in front of the Gleacher Center 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Town Hall Meeting with Dean Saul Levmore
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Chicago’s Best Ideas Lectures
- “Subprime Lending and Other Perils” presented by Douglas G. Baird, Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor of Law
- “Empirical Studies of Judicial Decision-making” presented by Thomas J. Miles, Assistant Professor of Law
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. A Taste of Hyde Park Luncheon Reminisce
on the old and sample the new flavors of Hyde Park with an eclectic
buffet including Medici, Harold’s Chicken, Snail Thai Cuisine, and more!
2:00 p.m. Tours Departing From Law School (advance registration required).
Devil in the White City Bus Tour of Hyde Park and the South Side.
Erik Larsen’s book “The Devil in the White City” brings the 1893
Columbian Exposition to life. Tour some of the site and learn more
about this influential period of Chicago and Hyde Park history. The bus
tour departs from the Law School. Advance registration required.
Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House Tour. Tour
this historic landmark with a guide from the Wright Preservation Trust.
The group will meet in front of the Law School and will proceed to the
Robie House, 5757 South Woodlawn Avenue. Advance registration required.
Smart Museum of Art Tour. Explore
the Smart Museum of Art, which houses a permanent collection of over
10,000 objects, spanning five millennia of both Western and Eastern
civilizations. The group will meet in front of the Law School and will
proceed by bus to the museum, 5550 South Greenwood Avenue. Advance
registration required.
Oriental Institute Tour. Visit
the Oriental Institute, a world-renowned showcase for the history, art,
and archaeology of the ancient Near East. The museum displays objects
recovered by Oriental Institute excavations in permanent galleries
devoted to ancient Egypt, Nubia, Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia,
and the ancient site of Megiddo, as well as rotating special exhibits.
Advance registration required.
2:00 p.m. Shuttle from Law School to downtown
4:00 p.m. Shuttle from Law School to downtown
Sunday, May 4 10:00
a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Continue the conversations from your Class Dinner and
see fantastic views of the city from the 95th floor of the John Hancock
Center over brunch at the Signature Room at the 95th with Dean Saul Levmore. Advance registration required. Location: The John Hancock Center, 875 North Michigan Avenue
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