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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.
On the evening of Saturday, January 18, Clinical Professor Erica Zunkel received a phone call that produced “one of the most powerful moments of [her] professional career.”
Five University of Chicago Law School professors have been named among the nation’s top 100 legal scholars in a newly released ranking—two of whom earned spots in the top five.
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We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the federal government’s recent treatment of Columbia University.
The First Amendment protects speech many of us find wrongheaded or deeply offensive, including anti-Israel advocacy and even antisemitic advocacy. The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing such viewpoints. This is especially so for universities, which should be committed to respecting free speech.
Last year, pro-Palestinian “liberation zones” popped up all over American campuses, demanding that universities divest from Israel and advocating for an end to the war in Gaza. Now, ICE’s arrest and detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader in Columbia University’s student protests, has created a climate of fear and frustration among student protesters across the country.
A new study from University of Chicago Law School researchers has uncovered a stark contrast between AI and human judicial decision-making, potentially reshaping our understanding of technology’s role in the legal system. The research, conducted by Eric A. Posner and Shivam Saran, replicated an experiment previously run with 31 U.S. federal judges but used OpenAI's GPT-4o as the decision-maker in a simulated international war crimes appeal.
