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The Law School recently welcomed two new members to its academic faculty, Vincent Buccola, ’08, and Darrell A.H. Miller, whose appointments were effective July 1. In addition, William A. Birdthistle joined the faculty last April as a Professor from Practice.
Professor Farah Peterson was awarded the prestigious Pushcart Prize for her essay, “Alone with Kindred,” which first appeared in the Threepenny Review last year. Established in 1976, the Pushcart Prize honors the best essays, fiction, and poetry published each year by the nation's small presses.
The American Law Institute (ALI) recently approved a Restatement on Children and the Law, the first initiative of its kind to comprehensively e
Curtis A. Bradley has been named the Allen M. Singer Distinguished Service Professor of Law, effective July 1. Bradley has served as the Allen M. Singer Professor since he joined the Law School in 2021. He was the inaugural recipient of that professorship.
Dean Miles, thank you for the nice introduction.
Faculty, distinguished guests, proud families, friends, and, most importantly, the Law School graduating Class of 2024, good afternoon. I am honored to be part of this celebration and to be present as you begin or continue a wonderful professional journey.
Faculty in the News
In 2020, the law professors John Rappaport and Ben Grunwald published an article called “The Wandering Officer,” where they found that police officers who had been fired earlier in their career were more likely to be fired again—and more likely to receive a “moral character violation” complaint. The research has informed the debate about police reform in the years since.
In a recent essay in The Chronicle, the Johns Hopkins political scientist Steven Teles asserted that “the public’s impression that American higher education has grown increasingly closed-minded is undeniably correct.” He pointed to the declining presence of conservatives on academic faculties and in graduate cohorts, arguing that it poses an acute problem for how academe functions and is a serious drag on how higher education is perceived.
Aziz Huq, professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School and author of The Rule of Law: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2024), talks about his new book, plus the latest on the Trump federal indictments.
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Online-Only Law School Event
Participating faculty: Thomas J. Miles, Aziz Z. Huq, Alison L. LaCroix, David A. Strauss