The University of Chicago The Law School

Scholars used to argue that democracy, once attained in a fairly wealthy state, would become a permanent fixture. As the late Juan Linz put it, democracy would become “the only game in town.” That ...

In a Washington Post op/ed, Professor Brian Leiter discusses why Supreme Court confirmation hearings are controversial.

It was the third week of a virtual Law School seminar in which Professor Emily Buss and 10 law students were teaching incarcerated teenagers about their constitutional rights, and the topic was div...