Lyneir Richardson, ’90: Applying Entrepreneurial Thinking to Urban Neighborhoods
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"This is a Moment to Build on Our Strengths": A Discussion with Dean Thomas J. Miles
Thomas J. Miles found his intellectual home at the University of Chicago. He earned his PhD here, and he joined the Law School faculty in 2005, a year after arriving as an Olin Fellow in Law and Ec...
When Fear Becomes Hope
It wasn’t the way Martha C. Nussbaum’s work usually began: provoked by an unbidden sense of alarm, unfolding with the sort of restless urgency that preempts sleep and invites unplanned investigatio...
A Superior View
One afternoon a few weeks into the school year, Joshua Pickar, ’17, spent three hours in a Washington, DC, hotel conference room hammering a former Illinois solicitor general with questions. The pr...
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Martha C. Nussbaum on the Narcissism of Asking “What Is It to be Human?”
We humans are very self-focused. We tend to think that being human is somehow very special and important, so we ask about that, instead of asking what it means to be an elephant, or a pig, or a bird. This failure of curiosity is part of a large ethical problem.
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The Law School Advantage
Thomas J. Miles, Dean and Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law