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Sue Pak joined the Law School on November 10 as the director of Public Service and Pro Bono in the Office of Career Services—a role that reflects the Law School’s commitment to supporting public service pathways and strengthening its pro bono culture. In this position, she will lead programs and career advising for students and alumni interested in public service and pro bono work.
The Law School recently launched the Public Interest Leadership Program, a new initiative designed to deepen institutional support for students pursuing public interest and public service careers, foster a sense of community among those students, and highlight the Law School’s longstanding commitment to using the law in service of society.
At the Endowed Chair Lecture marking her appointment as the Lillian E.
This Friday the University of Chicago Law School’s Legal Forum will convene their 2025 Symposium titled: “Authority, Oversight, and Accountability.”
After five and a half years at a big firm that she had joined right after graduating from the Law School, Sheila Kadagathur, ’05, did some soul-searching.
Faculty in the News
Spotify episode description: In this episode, I sit down with Alison LaCroix, the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, to discuss her recent book: The Interbellum Constitution (2024). It looks at the period between the end of the War of 1812 and the Civil War and tells a very different story about Constitutional meaning and change. One that brings in different characters and gives us a new way to understand the role between history and law.
President Trump’s Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago, set to the theme of “The Great Gatsby,” reenacted the decadence of that story’s licentious era: befeathered flappers shimmying in the crowd; gilded and onyx décor; scantily clad women posing in an enormous champagne coupe. The revelatory moment says so much about where we stand today — and what we could be lurching into next.
Attorneys representing a group of protesters, clergy and journalists suing the federal government over what they allege are excessive and “indiscriminate” use of tear gas and pepper spray argued before a federal judge Wednesday morning, saying the court should issue a preliminary injunction that would stop federal agents from using crowd control chemicals against protesters and others in the Chicago area.
