Join the entire Law School Community for a very special Wine Mess. Dean Tom Miles and Professor Martha C. Nussbaum will announce the winner of the 2020 Ernst Freund Fellowship in Law & Philosophy.

The award, given each year to either a law student or a graduate student in philosophy, is designed to encourage advanced law and philosophy scholarship among graduate students and was created in 2016 when Professor Martha C. Nussbaum donated a portion of the proceeds from her Kyoto Prize to the Law School and the Department of Philosophy. 

One winner is selected each year and receives a $5,000 prize. 

The Ernst Freund Fellowship is named for Ernst Freund, chief architect of the University of Chicago Law School, who believed that interdisciplinary cooperation between lawyers and philosophers was essential to address pressing social problems. His own contributions included work on immigration, the police power, and free speech: he was the first influential legal thinker to defend the free speech rights of dissidents in wartime. 

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