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The Law School held its 28th Annual Diploma and Hooding Ceremony at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel on Saturday, June 6, welcoming 283 graduates to the ranks of its alumni. A total of 204 JD students, 75 LLM students, 3 MLS students, and 1 JSD student were awarded degrees, at the event, which followed the University of Chicago Convocation.
Assistant Professor of Law Hajin Kim recently received the 2026 Best (Empirical) Paper Prize from the American Law and Economics Review for her 2025 article, “Does ESG Crowd In or Out Public Support for Regulation?,” written with Joshua Macey of Yale Law S
The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Adriana Z. Robertson as one of four new members of its Investor Advisory Committee.
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Minnesota prosecutors have charged an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent with assault for an alleged shooting earlier this year in Minneapolis during the immigration enforcement surge. The case is drawing national attention because criminal charges against federal law enforcement officers are relatively rare.
The government has the sole power to decide where immigration detainees are held. If federal officials think the Supreme Court would decide against them, they could transfer more detained immigrants to jurisdictions, like Texas, within the Fifth Circuit, which blessed the government’s new interpretation, said Nicole Hallett, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at University of Chicago Law School.
That would put the onus on advocates to seek a nationwide ruling.
There is a new empirical study that lands at a very awkward moment for a very loud political argument.
