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"This is a Moment to Build on Our Strengths": A Discussion with Dean Thomas J. Miles
Thomas J. Miles found his intellectual home at the University of Chicago. He earned his PhD here, and he joined the Law School faculty in 2005, a year after arriving as an Olin Fellow in Law and Ec...
Omri Ben-Shahar and Lior Jacob Strahilevitz on United's Contract with Passengers
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Abebe and Baird Elected to the American Law Institute
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New York Times Cites Research by Chilton and Rozema on How Law Clerks Influence Supreme Court Justices
The question of whether law clerks influence the judges they serve is a subject of longstanding debate, but it is no secret that law clerks routinely draft judicial opinions. A new study to be published in The Journal of Law, Economics & Organization found that law clerks do indeed play a role in judicial decision-making.
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Thomas J. Miles, Dean and Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law