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Jhossueth Almeida, LLM ’27, has already experienced constitutional law from an unusually close vantage point. In Ecuador, he served on the legal defense team of the country’s president during an impeachment proceeding.

His scholarship was cited in five Supreme Court opinions over the past year, while his analysis helped shape public understanding of some of the nation’s most consequential legal debates

Professor Samuel L. Bray, ’05, has received a 2026 Academic Communicators Network (ACN) Excellence Award from the University of Chicago, recognizing his outstanding work communicating legal scholarship and expertise to public audiences.

Marta Ostrowska, LLM ’27, seemed destined for a legal career in criminal justice from an early age. Her professional path ultimately led in a different direction.

Global Human Rights Clinic Director will draw on years of experience investigating human rights violations and supporting families searching for missing loved ones

The United Nations Human Rights Council has appointed Anjli Parrin, associate clinical professor of law and director of the University of Chicago Law School’s Global Human Rights Clinic, to its Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.

Hajin Kim stands in front of the Law School building in a black shirt, smiling, and with her arms folded.

In her award-winning paper on corporations’ environmental, social, and governance efforts, Hajin Kim puts one of ESG’s biggest criticisms to the test

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Samuel Bray Paper Referenced in Ten Commandments in Classroom Article

“When the legislatures of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas prescribed a particular form of the Ten Commandments for public school classrooms, the forms they chose provided theological answers to contested theological questions,” said the paper by Samuel L. Bray of the University of Chicago law school, Nathan S. Chapman of the University of Georgia law school, and Brent A. Strawn, a professor of law and the Old Testament at Duke University.

Craig Futterman on Illinois Supreme Court case that will determine future of Chicago police misconduct process

Craig Futterman, a clinical professor of law at the University of Chicago and one of the attorneys representing the coalition of community groups, noted how the Illinois Supreme Court in 2020 rejected a similar argument from the FOP when the union attempted to have misconduct records destroyed after five years.

“The Illinois Supreme Court said, ‘No, no, no, no, no, that violates fundamental public policy of the state and any collective bargaining agreement that is contrary to public policy is void and unenforceable,” Futterman told the Tribune.

New York Times Cites Sam Bray, '05, on Constitutionality of Texas Ten Commandments Law

In a research paper posted last month, Nathan Chapman, a law professor at the University of Georgia, along with Samuel Bray of the University of Chicago and Brent Strawn of Duke, assessed the Texas law requiring all public elementary and secondary school classrooms in the state to display a poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments and found it to be clearly unconstitutional, noted Adam Liptak, chief legal affairs correspondent of the New York Times.