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“Answering complex questions around AI — such as those pertaining to liability and intellectual property — will require both legal and technical expertise. I am pursuing legal scholarship to do my part in answering these questions and building a positive future for humans and AI systems to thrive."

Madison Van Doren, ’29, brings a background in linguistics and artificial intelligence research to UChicago Law. A Colorado State University graduate who grew up in England and the United States, Van Doren has led research on AI safety and studied the challenges posed by rapidly evolving technology.

“As a movement lawyer, I hope to be just one small part of broader social change, leveraging my privileged understanding and access to confront unjustifiable systems in court while also empowering social movements to think beyond it.”

Sharp Queener comes to UChicago Law with a background spanning international human rights and grassroots advocacy. A Stanford graduate and former Fulbright Scholar in Nuremberg, Germany, Queener has worked as a tenant organizer and with a legal aid organization in his hometown of Santa Barbara, California.

“Working with nonprofit leaders, I’ve felt inspired by their love for and connection with the communities they serve. I hope to achieve that level of that dedication in my career as a lawyer.”

Vyomika Gandhi, ’29, brings an interdisciplinary background in science and public service to UChicago Law. A Georgetown University graduate with degrees in psychology and neuroscience, Gandhi has worked in the nonprofit sector and conducted research on the effects of opioids and HIV on the brain.

“Competing on 'Survivor' … taught me an openness to adventure and a stick-to-itiveness that I don’t think I’d have otherwise."

Drew Basile, ’29, has taken an unconventional path to UChicago Law. A University of Pennsylvania graduate and Barry Scholar at Oxford, he has also won seven games on Jeopardy!, competed on Survivor, and worked as a freelance writer.

With her heart set on public interest work, Zoë Mieres Fleishaker, ’27, returned to her home state of New York for the summer to work at Brooklyn Defender Services—an experience, she said, that has been a dream come true. &

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New York Times Cites Sam Bray, '05, on Constitutionality of Texas Ten Commandments Law

In a research paper posted last month, Nathan Chapman, a law professor at the University of Georgia, along with Samuel Bray of the University of Chicago and Brent Strawn of Duke, assessed the Texas law requiring all public elementary and secondary school classrooms in the state to display a poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments and found it to be clearly unconstitutional, noted Adam Liptak, chief legal affairs correspondent of the New York Times.

Adam Chilton and William H. J. Hubbard discuss the Law School's AI strategy

America’s top law schools are figuring this out on the fly: for the new academic year, the University of Chicago Law School will ban phones, tablets and laptops from core first-year classrooms, so students cannot use technology shortcuts that “stunt intellectual growth."

Samuel Bray and Aziz Huq Discuss Presidential Power and the Limits of the Court

But Samuel Bray, a law professor at the University of Chicago, said courts are so powerful they must observe certain restraints. They cannot decide disputes not brought to them, for instance, and they can decide only cases in which the plaintiffs have a real stake.

“Courts have the special power of giving judgments that are obeyed, even in the bitterest disputes,” he said. “But the special powers and special constraints of courts go together. And in the long run, the legitimacy of a judicial system depends on the judges’ commitment to working in a judicial mode, come what may.”