Frank H. Easterbrook
Senior Lecturer in Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-702-9579
email: frank_easterbrook@law.uchicago.edu

Current Year Courses

• 49901 10 Independent Research
  Second- and third-year students may earn course credit by independent research under the supervision of a member of the faculty. Such projects are arranged by consultation between the student and the particular member of the faculty in whose field the proposed topic falls.
  Autumn (3)
  
  
• 65302 1 Evolution of Legal Doctrines
  Legal doctrines have life cycles. They are born and mature. Many doctrines fade and die. There is a form of natural selection among doctrines, with several candidates offering to serve the same function in different ways. This seminar looks at the maturation and replacement of doctrines, posing the question why some die and others survive. Scope is eclectic: the doctrines range from separate but equal under the equal protection clause to the original package doctrine under the commerce clause, from the appointment of counsel under the Sixth Amendment to the understanding of the Rules of Decision Act (that is, why Swift gave way to Erie). The premise of the seminar is that those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it. This seminar may be taken for fulfillment of the Substantial Writing Requirement.
  Autumn (3) b
  
  

Other courses taught include:

• Antitrust Law
• Civil Procedure
• Constitutional Law
• Corporate Law
• Criminal Procedure
• Evolution Of Legal Doctrines. 653
• Judicial Process
• Legal Interpretation
• Regulated Industries
• Securities
• Supreme Court