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Randal C. “Randy” Picker, ’85, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law and a beloved teacher, influential scholar, and deeply committed citizen of the University of Chicago, died unexpectedly on August 15.
Ciera Borden, ’27, pursued two opportunities this summer: one in the in the Office of Legal Counsel of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and the other in the other at Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization
Willie Crawford III, ’27, spent his summer in New York City working in the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. In this role, he had the opportunity to work on an M&
Ben Stone, ’28, has been spending his summer exactly as he’d hoped— in a judicial internship in Washington, DC. Working under Judge Armando O.
Faculty in the News
In today’s edition of “The Docket,” New York Times Chief Legal Affairs Correspondent Adam Liptak mentions a recent paper co-authored by Professor Sam Bray and a study conducted by Professor Eric Posner and a collaborator.
One theme of Randy Picker’s work was to delve into the details of the success and failure of firms and industries. Firms like AT&T and IBM were dominant but eventually, famously, gave way to other firms. Randy studied the rise and fall of many firms, and especially tech firms, and then tried to examine the role that law played in their demise.
Records from the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, though, show that since 2023, more Latino CPD officers have been accused of wrongdoing than any other racial group.
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Participating faculty: Adam Chilton, Alison L. LaCroix
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Participating faculty: Adam Chilton, William H. J. Hubbard