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One might say it was fate that Adam Chilton found his way to the Law School more than a decade ago, when he was a JD and PhD student at Harvard considering his next move. Already a serious scholar, he had his sights set on academia. He had plans to head to DC, where his then girlfriend, now wife, Britt, had launched her own career as a lawyer. But UChicago beckoned.
After five and a half years at a big firm that she had joined right after graduating from the Law School, Sheila Kadagathur, ’05, did some soul-searching.
Before he came to the Law School, Jim Parsons, ’77, was a history major at Denison University. He loved Denison’s academic, cultural, and social life, and he loved studying history.
Jessica A. Hough, ’97, entered the University of Texas at Austin as an accounting major, initially thinking she would focus on tax. She even sat for the CPA exam. But a senior-year internship made her rethink her plans. “I liked tax, but I didn’t like the compliance aspect of it and doing tax returns,” she said.
For generations, the University of Chicago Law School has stood out for its rigorous academics, intellectual vibrancy, and commitment to fostering dialogue on tough legal issues. But as Dean of Students Brandi Welch knows, this intellectual paradise can also be intimidating—especially for first-year students.
Faculty in the News
Clinical Professor Craig B. Futterman, director of the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project, was cited prominently in a Salon commentary piece on deportation raids in Chicago.
“We are in a fight for America," says Futterman. "And make no mistake, there is no guarantee that we will win. Absent a rebellion or inability to execute the law with regular forces, the President may not deploy the military against American citizens. But that is exactly what President Trump has done in cities like Los Angeles and Chicago.”
In a new Global Restructuring Review interview, Prof. Anthony J. Casey reflects on: the rise of sponsor control and private credit in U.S. restructurings, lessons from developing markets like India on building trust in new insolvency systems, and why he believes the US Supreme Court got its Purdue Pharma decision wrong.
Casey also shares his path from law practice to academia, and how mentorship, teaching, and intellectual curiosity continue to shape his career.
In an opinion piece for Inside Higher Ed co-authored with Yale Law Professor Robert Post, Tom Ginsburg, the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law and faculty director of the University's Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression, urges universities not to strike deals with the Trump Administration in order to free their federal funds.
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Participating faculty: Adam Chilton, Samuel L. Bray, Richard H. McAdams, Jennifer Nou, David A. Strauss