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Curtis A. Bradley has been named the Allen M. Singer Distinguished Service Professor of Law, effective July 1. Bradley has served as the Allen M. Singer Professor since he joined the Law School in 2021. He was the inaugural recipient of that professorship.
Dean Miles, thank you for the nice introduction.
Faculty, distinguished guests, proud families, friends, and, most importantly, the Law School graduating Class of 2024, good afternoon. I am honored to be part of this celebration and to be present as you begin or continue a wonderful professional journey.
Congratulations, Class of 2024! What a treat it is to have the chance to share a few thoughts with you, as you wrap up your time at the Law School. My topic will be “the Art of Agreeable Disagreement.”
The second annual Donald M. Ephraim Prize in Law and Economics has been awarded to Jacob Goldin, Richard M. Lipton Professor of Tax Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Faculty in the News
Kate Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Will Baude, a law professor at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown and the author of “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic,” to reflect on the dramatic end to the Supreme Court term.
After a deadly holiday weekend in Chicago, city leaders and community members are grappling with how to combat gun violence in their neighborhoods. University of Chicago Law Professor Sharon Fairley weighed in.
In late June, the Supreme Court struck down a decades-old precedent known as the Chevron deference, which instructed judges to defer to the expert advice of federal agencies in cases where laws are vague.
Many of the agencies affected by the change deal with matters of public health — including, but not limited to, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, Environmental Protection Agency, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.
