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On the evening of Saturday, January 18, Clinical Professor Erica Zunkel received a phone call that produced “one of the most powerful moments of [her] professional career.”
Five University of Chicago Law School professors have been named among the nation’s top 100 legal scholars in a newly released ranking—two of whom earned spots in the top five.
Professor Emeritus Bill Landes late last year completed teaching his final class, capping a fifty-year career teaching at the Law School.
Editor’s Note: This spotlight is part of a Q&A series focusing on UChicago Law alumni whose career paths have taken them into public service.
Editor’s Note: This spotlight is part of a Q&A series focusing on UChicago Law alumni whose career paths have taken them into public service.
Faculty in the News
Clinical Professor Nicole Hallett, director of the Immigrants' Rights Clinic, spoke on WCPT 820’s “Chews Views” Podcast to discuss of her clinic’s recent work. “
Russell Vought, architect of Project 2025 – the Heritage Foundation’s 900-page compendium of extreme conservative policies – and now head of the White House Office of Management and Budget, explained a couple of years ago what a new Republican administration following his plan would do. It would, he said, ‘throw off the precedents and legal paradigms that have wrongly developed over the last two hundred years’, sloughing off ‘the scar tissue resulting from decades of bad cases and bad statesmen’. It would then ‘study carefully the words of the constitution’, and act accordingly.
Donald Trump has been president for five weeks now. In light of the blizzard of executive orders, funding and hiring cuts, endless nominations and appointments, and above all the nonstop controversial policy declarations on every imaginable topic (and some of which literally are unimaginable), it seems like months or even years.
It’s already clear that President Trump intends to change, not only how Washington and the United States work, but how the whole world works.