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The Law School recently celebrated the establishment of the Richard A. Posner Professorship of Law in the Wallman Society of Fellows and the installation of Thomas J. Miles as its inaugural occupant. Miles was also simultaneously named a Distinguished Service Professor for his exceptional decade of service as dean of the Law School.
Frank Easterbrook, ’73, a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, will be honored with the prestigious Coase Medal by the American Law and Economics Association at its annual conference on May 15.
During Reunion Weekend 2026, the Law School unveiled a portrait honoring Geoffrey R. Stone, ’71, a nationally renowned First Amendment and constitutional law scholar and academic leader who has taught at the Law School for more than a half century.
The 2026 Ulysses and Marguerite Memorial Schwartz Lecture drew an overflowing crowd of students on April 21 to hear from Justice Ben Kioko, former judge and vice president of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
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But if billionaires are not necessarily tilting power to one party or another, they do hold enormous sway over the two-party system in general. And that goes back to Buckley.
“If those justices had been aware then of what we now face, my guess is that we would have had the opposite result,” said Geoffrey Stone, a law professor at the University of Chicago and co-editor of a new book of Buckley scholarship. “They weren’t imagining the current world.”
Democracy holds elections. But what makes them meaningful? In an era of polarization, algorithmic amplification, elite capture, and institutional distrust, Gita Wirjawan conversation with Tom Ginsburg asks a deeper question: what sustains constitutional democracy, and what erodes it from within? From Southeast Asia’s dramatic transformation since the 1980s to the rise of authoritarianism at home, this episode weaves these threads together to examine the institutional architecture that makes freedom possible.
“It’s Halloween, and somebody is going to die tonight.” Those were the chilling words of a Chicago gang member who made good on his threat by firing a hail of bullets into a car on Halloween night in 2009 in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. A passenger in the car was shot multiple times and died. It’s a tragedy we sadly see all too often in Chicago. It also was entirely preventable.
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