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Securing a clerkship at the US Supreme Court is one of the most prestigious opportunities available to a recent law school graduate. This year, University of Chicago Law School alumni have achieved a remarkable milestone: our graduates will clerk for seven of the Court’s nine justices during the October 2025–26 Term.
For the first time in more than thirty years, a Law School team has qualified for the international rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, one of the largest and most competitive moot court contests in the world.
Conventional wisdom in law and economics holds that legal rules should be designed solely to promote efficiency, leaving income redistribution to the tax system. But when does this principle hold true, and when might it fall short?
April Rice became a methamphetamine user at a young age in Galesburg, Illinois, and had many scrapes with the law, including a felony conviction for meth possession. So, when she pleaded guilty to a more serious charge—conspiracy to manufacture and distribute meth—in 2012, she faced an especially harsh prison term.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a judge’s order that the Trump administration facilitate the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, but neither country’s president seems interested in getting Kilmar Abrego Garcia home. During a visit to the White House on Monday, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said: “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?" As It Happens host Nil Kӧksal spoke to Nicole Hallett, director of the Immigrants' Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School.
Recently, Cook County’s new state’s attorney, Eileen O’Neil Burke, issued a policy instructing assistant state’s attorneys to object anytime a judge orders an individual to be released on electronic monitoring when the state’s attorney originally requested pretrial detention.
In the Chicago area and beyond, international students are having their J-1 and F-1 visas revoked. Their universities and the federal government have provided little-to-no information regarding why their status was changed.
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