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The Housing Initiative Transactional Clinic was Ilana Lewis’s first choice for a clinical experience at the Law School. Lewis, ’26, developed an interest in real estate law during her 1L summer working as a summer associate at a big law firm.
Three members of the Law School faculty have received named professorships, effective January 1. William H.J. Hubbard, ’00, deputy dean, has been named the Clifton R. Musser Professor; Thomas J. Miles, former dean of the Law School, has been named the first Richard A. Posner Distinguished Service Professor of Law in the Wallman Society of Fellows; and Darrell A. H.
The ongoing debate about free expression in higher education has grown increasingly complex and contentious in recent years, shaped by a variety of societal and political factors that are continuously evolving.
Each year, UChicago Law faculty share the books that have stayed with them—titles that have challenged their thinking, sparked new questions, or simply offered a great story. What began as a casual conversation has become a much-anticipated annual list, reflecting the wide-ranging intellectual interests that define the Law School community.
Vatsala Kumar, ’23, has been awarded a Skadden Fellowship to work with the MacArthur Justice Center (MJC) on enforcing and advancing the impact of Illinois’s Pretrial Fairness Act—the first law in the United States to eliminate cas
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Spotify episode description: In this episode, I sit down with Alison LaCroix, the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, to discuss her recent book: The Interbellum Constitution (2024). It looks at the period between the end of the War of 1812 and the Civil War and tells a very different story about Constitutional meaning and change. One that brings in different characters and gives us a new way to understand the role between history and law.
President Trump’s Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago, set to the theme of “The Great Gatsby,” reenacted the decadence of that story’s licentious era: befeathered flappers shimmying in the crowd; gilded and onyx décor; scantily clad women posing in an enormous champagne coupe. The revelatory moment says so much about where we stand today — and what we could be lurching into next.
Attorneys representing a group of protesters, clergy and journalists suing the federal government over what they allege are excessive and “indiscriminate” use of tear gas and pepper spray argued before a federal judge Wednesday morning, saying the court should issue a preliminary injunction that would stop federal agents from using crowd control chemicals against protesters and others in the Chicago area.
