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Imagine that you’re sitting in a law school classroom learning how to build a generative AI tool. Now imagine that this tool you create is released to millions of people to help them understand and navigate the law. Starting this fall, this scenario will become reality for students at the University of Chicago Law School thanks to a new course called the AI Lab.
Passionate about First Amendment law, Seth Moskowitz, ’27, decided to spend his summer in Washington, DC, at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
Veronica Tait’s, ’27, summer experience has taken her to Honolulu, Hawai’i, to work in the state’s Office of Consumer Protection (OCP). The opportunity was offered to her via the American Bar Association’s Janet D. Steiger Fellowship.
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is railing against voter suppression—in Texas. He’s grandstanding on late-night TV as he hosts Democratic lawmakers fleeing the Lone Star State to block GOP redistricting efforts. But if he’s serious about democracy, Mr. Pritzker should start at home, where his state has its own form of voter suppression: Illinois holds local elections in February during off-cycle years, which keeps turnout low and helps insiders cling to power.
Perhaps the least interesting thing about the reported decision by US President Donald Trump’s administration to allow Nvidia and AMD to export high-end semiconductors to China in exchange for 15% of the revenues is that it is probably unlawful. More important is the window it opens onto how the presidency is using its national security powers not to advance the country’s interests, but for its own, narrower ambitions.
What historical forces have led to the rise of demagogues in the past and how to they compare to the increasing power of populism today? What are the benefits and drawbacks of empowering leaders from outside politics during these times?
