Anthony Casey, ’02, did not have academia on his mind when he graduated from the Law School. About six years into practice, as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis focused on bankruptcy and corporate...

Vincent Buccola, ’08, will never forget his first experience at the Law School as a visitor, observing a class. Sitting in on a torts class taught by Professor Saul Levmore, then dean of the Law...

Although Peter Salib, ’16, loved philosophy, even planning to do his PhD in philosophy, he was turned off after meeting a few people deep into that trajectory. He wasn’t sure that he quite fit in. The...

In the first year of her PhD in anthropology at the University of Chicago, Deepa Das Acevedo, ’16, shifted her focus. In her application, she proposed studying religious tolerance among Hindu...

At the tail end of earning her doctorate in philosophy, Courtney Cox, ’14, had a perfect day. She taught a class in the morning, then watched someone present their work that afternoon, then she...

From the first time Jared Mayer, ’21, read a Supreme Court decision from Chief Justice John Marshall in his high school AP US History class, he knew that he wanted to attend law school. By his junior...

To Eileen Prescott, ’18, practicing law meant advocating for people in need. It was in an undergraduate mock trial program where she first felt the spark for legal advocacy, and she decided to spend...

In her second year at the Law School, Franita Tolson’s, ’05, mindset toward learning changed. It was during a year-long seminar with Lisa Bernstein, the Wilson-Dickinson Professor of Law, where Tolson...