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Editor’s Note: This story is part of an occasional series on research projects currently in the works at the Law School.
Securing a clerkship at the US Supreme Court is one of the most prestigious opportunities available to a recent law school graduate. This year, University of Chicago Law School alumni have achieved a remarkable milestone: our graduates will clerk for seven of the Court’s nine justices during the October 2025–26 Term.
For the first time in more than thirty years, a Law School team has qualified for the international rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, one of the largest and most competitive moot court contests in the world.
Conventional wisdom in law and economics holds that legal rules should be designed solely to promote efficiency, leaving income redistribution to the tax system. But when does this principle hold true, and when might it fall short?
April Rice became a methamphetamine user at a young age in Galesburg, Illinois, and had many scrapes with the law, including a felony conviction for meth possession. So, when she pleaded guilty to a more serious charge—conspiracy to manufacture and distribute meth—in 2012, she faced an especially harsh prison term.
Faculty in the News
In 1978, the United States adopted the Bankruptcy Code and its Chapter 11, which allows companies to restructure their obligations. Chapter 11’s hallmark is that it’s company driven; the company’s management decides if, when, and how it will use Chapter 11 to address its financial distress. To be sure, other stakeholders, such as secured lenders and private equity sponsors, heavily influence those corporate decisions by working in tandem with, and at times taking over, the company’s management.
The law is harsh, but it is the law: so says the AI judge in a recent study from the University of Chicago Law School. The study analysed the differences between AI and human legal decision-making, and found that human judges were significantly influenced by non-legal and emotional factors, unlike OpenAI’s GPT-40.
Witness List
- Mr. Charlie Carey, Chairman, Commodity Markets Council, Chicago, IL.
- Dr. Richard L.
