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The new Law Students Association President shares what the LSA has in store this year, her favorite Law School traditions, and her advice for 1Ls

The new Law Students Association President shares what the LSA has in store this year, her favorite Law School traditions, and her advice for 1Ls.

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In annual competition run by the Law School’s Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship, the Bronzeville business took first place

Nitro Nostalgia, an ice cream and board game café in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, took top honors at the 13th Annual South Side Pitch, a competition hosted by the University of Chicago Law School’s Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship (IJ).

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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.

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.

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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.