William Baude and Alison L. LaCroix have been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Baude is the Harry Kalven, Jr. Professor of Law and faculty director of the Constitutional Law Institute. LaCroix is the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law and an associate member of the Department of History.

Baude teaches a range of subjects such as federal courts, constitutional law, election law, conflict of laws, and elements of the law. His current research interests include judicial remedies available against the federal government, the Supreme Court's emergency docket, and the legacy of William Winslow Crosskey.

The co-editor of two textbooks, The Constitution of the United States and Hart & Wechsler's Federal Courts in the Federal System, Baude is also a podcaster and blogger at Divided Argument. In 2025 he won both the University of Chicago's Academic Communicators Network Excellence Award for digital media, and the Diversity Leadership Faculty Award (with Clinical Professor of Law Judith Miller).

Baude received his BS in Mathematics from the University of Chicago and his JD from Yale Law School. 

LaCroix is a scholar of US legal history specializing in constitutional law, federalism, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century legal thought. 

LaCroix’s second, prizewinning, book is The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms (Yale University Press, 2024). Supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, the book examines the transformation of US constitutional law between the Founding and the Civil War. She is also the author of The Ideological Origins of American Federalism (Harvard University Press, 2010). In 2021, President Biden appointed her to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. In 2025, she won the Best Overall Communicator Award from the University of Chicago's Academic Communicators Network.

LaCroix holds a PhD in history from Harvard University, a JD from Yale Law School, and a B.A. summa cum laude from Yale University.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1780, is an honorary society that recognizes and celebrates the excellence of its members as well as an independent research center convening leaders from across disciplines, professions, and perspectives to address significant challenges.