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Senior Lecturer Richard Allen Posner, a longtime University of Chicago Law School scholar, former federal appellate judge, and pioneer in the field of law and economics, died on November 10. He was 87.

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In an endowed chair lecture celebrating his appointment to the Harry N. Wyatt Professorship, Darrell A.H. Miller traces the evolution of gun rights—and challenges conventional thinking about the amendment's purpose.

In 1991, retired Chief Justice Warren Burger went on PBS and called the idea that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to own a gun a “fraud” on the American people.

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From students arguing cases before the Seventh Circuit to the growing role of artificial intelligence in legal practice, UChicago Law's clinical program continues to evolve.

His scholarship was cited in five Supreme Court opinions over the past year, while his analysis helped shape public understanding of some of the nation’s most consequential legal debates

Professor Samuel L. Bray, ’05, has received a 2026 Academic Communicators Network (ACN) Excellence Award from the University of Chicago, recognizing his outstanding work communicating legal scholarship and expertise to public audiences.

Hajin Kim stands in front of the Law School building in a black shirt, smiling, and with her arms folded.

In her award-winning paper on corporations’ environmental, social, and governance efforts, Hajin Kim puts one of ESG’s biggest criticisms to the test

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Alison LaCroix on the origins of American federalism

The idea that power should be shared across state and federal government did not, as some scholars have argued, emerge spontaneously with the drafting of the Constitution... "But as a historian, I increasingly became aware of the fact that a lot was changing between those two foundings and was puzzled by the fact that we didn’t have a good story to account for that period in constitutional history terms."

Sharon R. Fairley on Chicago's next police superintendent

Craig Futterman on racial bias in Chicago curfews

Craig Futterman, a clinical professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School who has focused on civil rights issues and police accountability, said the racial disparity in the city’s curfew violations reports was particularly concerning. He pointed to CPD's obligations under a federal consent decree to reform its policing practices and policies.