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Students in the Law School’s Employment Law Clinic helped secure a significant appellate victory this spring when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit revived a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by former Ameren Illinois employee Kimberly Ballard.
The Law School’s 2026 Pro Bono Recognition Ceremony celebrated 83 students from the Class of 2026 who demonstrated an outstanding commitment to public service and pro bono during their time at the Law School.
Before coming to the Law School, Luke Chaikovsky, ’26, worked for a government consulting firm in Washington, DC.
The Law School community gathered on May 1-3 to celebrate Reunion Weekend for the classes of 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, and 2021.
The Law School recently celebrated the establishment of the Richard A. Posner Professorship of Law in the Wallman Society of Fellows and the installation of Thomas J. Miles as its inaugural occupant. Miles was also simultaneously named a Distinguished Service Professor for his exceptional decade of service as dean of the Law School.
Faculty in the News
But if billionaires are not necessarily tilting power to one party or another, they do hold enormous sway over the two-party system in general. And that goes back to Buckley.
“If those justices had been aware then of what we now face, my guess is that we would have had the opposite result,” said Geoffrey Stone, a law professor at the University of Chicago and co-editor of a new book of Buckley scholarship. “They weren’t imagining the current world.”
Democracy holds elections. But what makes them meaningful? In an era of polarization, algorithmic amplification, elite capture, and institutional distrust, Gita Wirjawan conversation with Tom Ginsburg asks a deeper question: what sustains constitutional democracy, and what erodes it from within? From Southeast Asia’s dramatic transformation since the 1980s to the rise of authoritarianism at home, this episode weaves these threads together to examine the institutional architecture that makes freedom possible.
“It’s Halloween, and somebody is going to die tonight.” Those were the chilling words of a Chicago gang member who made good on his threat by firing a hail of bullets into a car on Halloween night in 2009 in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. A passenger in the car was shot multiple times and died. It’s a tragedy we sadly see all too often in Chicago. It also was entirely preventable.
