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National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver, ’88, has spent much more of his professional career on basketball courts than in law courts. Nonetheless, he is quick to point out how valuable his legal education was in preparing him for a leadership career at the NBA.
Adam Chilton, Howard G. Krane Professor of Law, recently released a book, Trial by Numbers: A Lawyer’s Guide to Statistical Evidence, which he coauthored with Kyle Rozema, a law professor at Northwestern University.
Assistant Professor of Law Bridget Fahey has been named co-director of a new Research Initiative at UChicago’s Data Science Institute, following a $1 million dollar grant she received with co-directors Raul Castro F
The University of Chicago Legal Forum will convene scholars from across the country on November 8 for a day-long symposium on “Crisis, Calamity, and Catastrophe: Law in Times of Disaster.”
When Judge Amy St. Eve was appointed as a United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of Illinois in 2002, she was one of the youngest federal judges in the country.
Faculty in the News
The Thirteenth Amendment provides, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Professor Adam Davidson examines the Thirteenth Amendment’s Except Clause in his article, Administrative Enslavement.
The Supreme Court’s “Presumptive Immunity” Standard
An especially baffling aspect of the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States is its concept of “presumptive” presidential immunity. The Court ruled that a president’s exercise of “core” powers is “absolutely” immune from prosecution and added that it might hold the exercise of “noncore” powers absolutely immune as well. For now, however, the Court held a president’s use of “noncore” powers only “presumptively” immune.
A striking feature of US politics nowadays is the flight of “workers” – meaning non-professionals, usually blue-collar or clerical – from the Democratic Party. For many decades after the New Deal, the Democrats were the party that championed unions, workplace safety, and the minimum wage, and the Republicans were the champions of business.
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Participating faculty: Thomas J. Miles, Genevieve Lakier, Anup Malani, Jared I. Mayer, Mark N. Templeton, Michael A. Scodro