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Jennifer Levi, ’92, a nationally recognized expert on transgender legal issues and the senior director of Transgender and Queer Rights for GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law), was recently named among UChicago’s 2025 Alumni Award honorees
Judge Rachel Bloomekatz has worn many hats throughout her career: Supreme Court law clerk (on both the state and federal levels), assistant attorney general, appellate lawyer at a large law firm, civil rights litigator at a boutique firm, and—perhaps less common among federal judges—solo practitioner.
Matthew Corey, ’25, and Andy Wang, ’25, recently took first place in a nationwide moot court competition hosted by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
Professors Alison L. LaCroix and William Baude have both been named 2025 recipients of the University’s Academic Communicators Network (ACN) Excellence Awards.
Faculty in the News
John D. Graham’s Regulatory Reform from Nixon to Biden is an ambitious and accessible look at how modern Presidents have put their stamp on the administrative state. Graham deftly surveys over 50 years of shifts in substantive regulatory policy as well as structural and procedural reforms.
A federal judge in the US state of Colorado has ordered the Trump administration to give Venezuelan migrants currently held in the state 21 days' notice before deporting them.
It comes after the US Supreme Court paused President Donald Trump's administration from deporting Venezuelan men, including gang members, currently held in immigration custody.
- Guest: Aziz Huq, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago
- Producer: Josie Sargent
The first 90 days of President Trump’s second term have been marked by a series of aggressive legal maneuvers. Among them: shaking down law firms the president regards as “anti-Trump”; threatening to revoke tax-exempt status from Harvard; the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador and green-card holders on campus; and more.