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The University of Chicago Law School kicked off a national alumni welcome tour for its new dean, Adam Chilton, with a lively reception in Chicago on September 30. The event launched a series of “Meet the Dean” gatherings across the country, giving alumni the opportunity to celebrate Chilton’s new role and hear his vision for the Law School’s future.
Professor Anthony J. Casey has been shortlisted for the Global Restructuring Review’s Cross-Border Insolvency Academic of the Year award as part of the 2025 GRR Awards.
This term, seven University of Chicago Law School graduates are clerking for seven different US Supreme Court justices. And overall, UChicago Law ranks ahead of any other law school for federal clerkship placements. This has been true for four of the last five years, including this year.
UChicago Law students recently had the opportunity to participate in the Law School’s long-running Works-in-Progress (WIP) tradition in which faculty members workshop their unpublished scholarly works, typically with each other.
Curtis A. Bradley, the Allen M. Singer Distinguished Service Professor of Law, has been recognized with an Honorable Mention from Scribes for his recent book, Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs: Constitutional Authority in Practice (Harvard University Press 2024).
Faculty in the News
In an opinion piece for Inside Higher Ed co-authored with Yale Law Professor Robert Post, Tom Ginsburg, the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law and faculty director of the University's Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression, urges universities not to strike deals with the Trump Administration in order to free their federal funds.
The Trump administration's militarization of US cities – apparently selected because of their partisan divergence from the White House – represents a failure of federalism, according to Aziz Huq in a Project Syndicate opinion piece.
William Baude, the Harry Kalven, Jr. Professor of Law, joined Kate Shaw, a contributing New York Times opinion writer, and Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown, for a conversation to assess a very busy Supreme Court as it enters a new ter.
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Participating faculty: Jonathan S. Masur
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Participating faculty: Adam Chilton, Vincent Buccola