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The UChicago Experience

Class of 2023
99.1%
employed 10 months after graduation
Graduate employment data
$6,000
guaranteed summer public interest funding
Summer public interest program
5.6:1
student-to-faculty ratio
Life of the mind
2023-2024 School Year
56
full-tuition or more scholarships across the JD student body
JD financial aid

Faculty Focus

M. Todd Henderson
The Making of an Entrepreneur
A Law School course helped create the world’s first centralized collision avoidance platform for space. It also helped shift one student’s career path.

Heading into her third year of Law School, Holly Highfill, ’21, was on track to become a transactional attorney. She was not planning to launch a startup company aimed at preventing satellite colli...

Daniel Abebe
Global Impact
How the Law School is Addressing International Challenges and Shaping the Field of International Law

Professor Tom Ginsburg counsels foreign governments and international organizations on constitutional design, is a leading expert on democracy around the world, and cofounded an acclaimed project t...

Elizabeth Kregor
Clearing a Path for Entrepreneurs
How the Law School’s IJ Clinic Helped Pass Illinois Legislation to Remove Entry Barriers for Barbers, Hair Braiders, and Other Business Owners

At just 19, Juan Rivera began serving a life sentence for a murder he didn’t commit. As appeals wound their way through the system, Rivera decided to learn a new skill. “Even though the possibiliti...

News

Policing
Craig Futterman Speaks with CBS Chicago About CPD Preparations for Planned Protests at DNC

After Monday's protests in Chicago to shed light on the crisis in Gaza, in which led to the arrests of several protesters, concerns over security at the Democratic National Convention this August a

CBS Chicago
Jonathan Masur Discusses Real World Prior Art on Podcast
AccelPro IP Law
Policing
Sharon Fairley Speaks with CBS Chicago Following Police Shooting of Dexter Reed
CBS Chicago
Exoneration Project Client Granted Certificate of Innocence in 1994 Murder Case
ABC 7 Chicago
Anthony Casey and Joshua Macey Write About Bankruptcy
Oxford Business Law Blog
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Events

2024 Law Review Symposium: Financial Regulations in the Crucible
4/26

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Room V
Participating faculty: Thomas J. Miles, Aziz Z. Huq, Jennifer Nou, Adriana Z. Robertson

Spring 2024 Quarter Papers Due (Spring Graduating Students)
5/6


The 2024 Maurice and Muriel Fulton Lectureship ft. Professor Alison LaCroix
5/7

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Weymouth Kirkland Courtroom
Participating faculty: Alison L. LaCroix