Adam Chilton appointed next dean of the Law School
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Alison Siegler has been named the Lillian E. Kraemer Clinical Professor in Public Interest Law, effective July 1.
When Bill Weaver, ’10, joined a big law firm after graduating, he found his calling in the firm’s energy practice, particularly the part of it dealing with electricity.
Last year, Regan Hunt Crotty, ’03, was named the dean of undergraduate students at Princeton University, bringing to the job thirteen years of experience at the university, in five previous positions.
Larry Kramer, ’84, took office last year as the president and vice chancellor of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
This year, David Applegate, ’78, moved to of counsel status at Williams, Barber and Morel, capping a career of exceptional accomplishments and contributions.
Faculty in the News
For many legal scholars, being cited even a single time in a judicial decision is a rare and validating achievement.
That’s what made June 27 an especially momentous day in the career of new University of Chicago law professor Samuel Bray, whose scholarship on the topic of universal injunctions was cited over a dozen times by the Supreme Court in the case Trump v. CASA.
Kate Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Will Baude, a law professor at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown and the author of “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic,” to debate how the Supreme Court is handling the pressures of the Trump administration and to discuss the end of the court’s term
Five months into his second term, it is clear that Donald Trump is trying to remake American executive power in fundamental ways. He has taken a series of actions that openly violate the law, and complied with court orders only begrudgingly, often with significant foot-dragging. Meanwhile, he is undermining the authority of the courts rhetorically.
