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Katherine Adams, ’90, Apple’s general counsel and senior vice president of Legal and Global Security, joined the Kirkland & Ellis Corporate Lab for a lunch conversation on October 23 as part of the clinic’s ongoing speaker series.
Ariel Scotese, the associate director of user services at the D’Angelo Law Library, was a few years into her career as a practicing attorney when she began rethinking her future aspirations. She had a love for the law, but was not finding joy in its practice. When Scotese started volunteering at the local public library, she had an epiphany. What about law library science?
Clinical Professor Emily Underwood, ’13, was recently appointed to a four-year term on the Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee (SBCFAC) by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
What policies and programs can society implement to make a tangible, lasting impact on people’s lives?
Faculty in the News
Dr. Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and founder and Director of Chicago's Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values. His teaching and research interests are in moral, political, and legal philosophy, in both the Anglophone and Continental European traditions, and the law of evidence.
Dr. Jaime Edwards is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago, where he teaches political philosophy.
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After the 2020 US election, it took days for major news networks to project the winner of the presidential race, and many more weeks for Americans – and the world – to know if there would be a peaceful and orderly transition of power. There wasn’t. The incumbent, Donald Trump, conspired to overturn the results, and then encouraged a mob of his followers to storm the US Capitol.
Today is Election Day and the polls are open across Illinois until 7 p.m. Fear is an animating force in American politics. For example, Democrats fear the consequences of Donald Trump’s potential reelection to the White House. Republicans fear whom they think Kamala Harris would and would not represent if she’s elected.
