Adam Chilton appointed next dean of the Law School
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Alison Siegler has been named the Lillian E. Kraemer Clinical Professor in Public Interest Law, effective July 1.
When Bill Weaver, ’10, joined a big law firm after graduating, he found his calling in the firm’s energy practice, particularly the part of it dealing with electricity.
Last year, Regan Hunt Crotty, ’03, was named the dean of undergraduate students at Princeton University, bringing to the job thirteen years of experience at the university, in five previous positions.
Larry Kramer, ’84, took office last year as the president and vice chancellor of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
This year, David Applegate, ’78, moved to of counsel status at Williams, Barber and Morel, capping a career of exceptional accomplishments and contributions.
Faculty in the News
Kate Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Will Baude, a law professor at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown and the author of “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic,” to debate how the Supreme Court is handling the pressures of the Trump administration and to discuss the end of the court’s term
Five months into his second term, it is clear that Donald Trump is trying to remake American executive power in fundamental ways. He has taken a series of actions that openly violate the law, and complied with court orders only begrudgingly, often with significant foot-dragging. Meanwhile, he is undermining the authority of the courts rhetorically.
This episode examines The Conformist, Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 political drama set in 1930s Italy. The film centers on Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a mid-level Fascist functionary who is ordered to assassinate his former professor, an anti-fascist dissident living in Paris.
