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Professor Anthony J. Casey has been elected to the National Bankruptcy Conference.
Bob Mendes, ’91, grew up in Chicago, went to the University of Illinois, and after graduating from the Law School he practiced law in Chicago for four years. Then, he and his wife decided it was time for an adventurous change. They moved to Nashville, where they knew no one and had no jobs waiting for them.
Three Law School alumni were among nine Tony Patiño Fellows admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States last week.
Several years after graduating from the Law School, after stints as a federal judicial clerk, an associate at a major law firm, and a clinical fellow at the Law School’s Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, Jonathan Baum, ’82, contacted about twenty Chicago law firms with an offer: he would do billable work two-thirds of the time, for two-thirds of what would have been his pay, and he would commit the othe
Faculty in the News
2024 often felt manic, with assassination attempts on Donald Trump, war in the Middle East and the implosion of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. But there’s no reason to think 2025 will be any calmer.
That’s not just because Trump is likely to preside over a volatile second term in the White House. Based on his first term, that is to be expected. But there will also, undoubtedly, be unexpected shocks that no one can predict in advance.
Is human intelligence necessarily more rational and just than artificial intelligence? How involved should AI be in our law and government? Professor Aziz Huq of the University of Chicago School of Law joins for a fascinating conversation about everything from the “right to a human decision” to the dystopian terrors of Tinder.
Americans love inexpensive meat. Many think it would be a terrible fate to be deprived of cheap diner bacon and drive-through burgers. For over a century the meat industry has catered to and cultivated this taste, mass-producing beef, pork, and chicken in ways that permit efficiencies of scale—but necessitate inhumane treatment of the animals. These creatures are warehoused like objects and herded along fear-ridden assembly lines to certain death.
