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Thursday, November 29, 2018 @ 12:15pm — 1:20pm
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2017 Ulysses and Marguerite Schwartz Memorial Lecture, featuring Sally Yates

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Monday, November 20, 2017 @ 12:15pm — 1:20pm
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Thomas J. Miles, stepping down as dean at the end of the academic year, is lauded for a decade of “steady and consistent leadership” that has enhanced the Law School’s prominence.

After a decade of service as the Law School’s fourteenth dean, Thomas J. Miles will hand over leadership reins on June 30 and return to full-time teaching and scholarship on the Law School faculty.

Nadia Alfadel Coloma

An advocate of education, he established two prizes to honor students for outstanding legal writing

Two new scholars bolster the Law School’s strengths in judicial remedies, tax, economics, and interdisciplinary research

The Law School is pleased to welcome two new scholars to its academic faculty: Samuel Bray, ’05, who joins the faculty on July 1, 2025, and Lucy Msall, MLS ’23, PhD ’25, who will begin in July 2026 after completing a post-dissertation fellowship at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mark A. Cohen

On June 7, a total of 300 students were welcomed into UChicago Law’s alumni community

The Law School held its 27^th Annual Diploma and Hooding Ceremony at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel on Saturday, June 7, welcoming 300 graduates to the ranks of its alumni. A total of 215 JD students, 82 LLM students, and 3 JSD students were awarded degrees, at the event, which followed the University of Chicago Convocation.

Remarks Offered by Alison L. LaCroix at the 2025 Law School Diploma and Hooding Ceremony

Thank you very much, Dean Miles, for that introduction.

Class of 2025, families, and friends, it is a tremendous honor for me and for all of the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School to join you here on this momentous day.

Alison L. LaCroix

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On the night of Saturday, June 7, President Trump issued an order directing National Guard troops to Los Angeles “to temporarily protect ICE and other United States Government personnel who are performing Federal functions.” The order calls for two thousand National Guard troops to be deployed for at least 60 days, and authorizes the Secretary of Defense to deploy regular federal troops “as necessary” to augment their

Aziz Huq Analyzes the Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling in Trump v. US

In Trump v. United States, a six-justice majority of the Supreme Court created a pair of new presidential immunities from criminal prosecution, supplemented with additional broad new evidentiary barriers. These newly minted immunities, which directly inhibit criminal indictment or conviction of the president, are also likely to cast a shadow on the prosecution of subordinate officials, not least as a consequence of new evidentiary rules of uncertain breadth.

Alison LaCroix on Fox32 to Discuss Constitutional Law Around Presidential Deployment of National Guard

The at-times violent protests in Los Angeles over ICE arrests are causing clashes between the Trump administration and California leaders.