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Senior Lecturer Richard Allen Posner, a longtime University of Chicago Law School scholar, former federal appellate judge, and pioneer in the field of law and economics, died on November 10. He was 87.

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In an endowed chair lecture celebrating his appointment to the Harry N. Wyatt Professorship, Darrell A.H. Miller traces the evolution of gun rights—and challenges conventional thinking about the amendment's purpose.

In 1991, retired Chief Justice Warren Burger went on PBS and called the idea that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to own a gun a “fraud” on the American people.

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From students arguing cases before the Seventh Circuit to the growing role of artificial intelligence in legal practice, UChicago Law's clinical program continues to evolve.

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.

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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Tom Ginsburg Interviewed on the Place of Term Limits in Democratic Government

Tom Ginsburg, the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law, recently appeared on i24 News "Term Limits | Protecting Democracy or Ignoring the Will of Voters?"

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.