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On Friday, November 6, the University of Chicago Law School's Legal Forum will convene its 2026 Symposium, titled "America 250: Tradition, Innovation, and Norms."
Nitro Nostalgia, an ice cream and board game café in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, took top honors at the 13th Annual South Side Pitch, a competition hosted by the University of Chicago Law School’s Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship (IJ).
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.
Jhossueth Almeida, LLM ’27, has already experienced constitutional law from an unusually close vantage point. In Ecuador, he served on the legal defense team of the country’s president during an impeachment proceeding.
Faculty in the News
“When the legislatures of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas prescribed a particular form of the Ten Commandments for public school classrooms, the forms they chose provided theological answers to contested theological questions,” said the paper by Samuel L. Bray of the University of Chicago law school, Nathan S. Chapman of the University of Georgia law school, and Brent A. Strawn, a professor of law and the Old Testament at Duke University.
Craig Futterman, a clinical professor of law at the University of Chicago and one of the attorneys representing the coalition of community groups, noted how the Illinois Supreme Court in 2020 rejected a similar argument from the FOP when the union attempted to have misconduct records destroyed after five years.
“The Illinois Supreme Court said, ‘No, no, no, no, no, that violates fundamental public policy of the state and any collective bargaining agreement that is contrary to public policy is void and unenforceable,” Futterman told the Tribune.
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Participating faculty: Aziz Z. Huq, Richard H. McAdams, Farah Peterson