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Professor Anthony J. Casey has been elected to the National Bankruptcy Conference.
Bob Mendes, ’91, grew up in Chicago, went to the University of Illinois, and after graduating from the Law School he practiced law in Chicago for four years. Then, he and his wife decided it was time for an adventurous change. They moved to Nashville, where they knew no one and had no jobs waiting for them.
Three Law School alumni were among nine Tony Patiño Fellows admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States last week.
Several years after graduating from the Law School, after stints as a federal judicial clerk, an associate at a major law firm, and a clinical fellow at the Law School’s Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, Jonathan Baum, ’82, contacted about twenty Chicago law firms with an offer: he would do billable work two-thirds of the time, for two-thirds of what would have been his pay, and he would commit the othe
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Americans love inexpensive meat. Many think it would be a terrible fate to be deprived of cheap diner bacon and drive-through burgers. For over a century the meat industry has catered to and cultivated this taste, mass-producing beef, pork, and chicken in ways that permit efficiencies of scale—but necessitate inhumane treatment of the animals. These creatures are warehoused like objects and herded along fear-ridden assembly lines to certain death.
When a new presidential administration begins, the executive branch often changes position on some cases pending before the Supreme Court. But why wait till inauguration day to hear the views of the incoming administration?
The temptation for President Joe Biden to use his pardon power to benefit his only surviving son was strong, and Biden’s misuse of this power pales beside his predecessor’s. But the pardon of Hunter Biden in violation of the President’s repeated pledge not to do it was disappointing. This Article considers three effects of the pardon—rescuing the younger Biden from possible future prosecution, setting aside his convictions, and saving him from a possible prison sentence.
