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A team of students in the Law School's Abrams Environmental Law Clinic got first-hand experience on one of the country’s biggest legal stages this January. The students spent their winter break working on an amicus brief representing former top federal officials in a Ninth Circuit climate lawsuit.
The Law School community gathered on February 26 for the Ninth Annual Judge James B. Parsons Legacy Dinner to honor Judge Kai Niambi Scott of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
For more than four decades, the Federalist Society (FedSoc) at the University of Chicago Law School has played a visible role in campus intellectual life, convening students, scholars, judges, and practitioners together to debate fundamental questions about law, governance, and constitutional interpretation.
The Law School held its annual Coase Lecture on February 10, drawing students, faculty, and other guests into a packed auditorium for a tradition that began in 1992. This year’s lecture, titled, “What’s Optimal(ity) in Financial Contracting?”, was delivered by Professor Vincent Buccola, ’08, a scholar in corporate law and finance.
The Chicago Law Foundation went full Casino Royale: License to Bid for its 29th annual auction. From White Sox, Bulls, and Cubs tickets to Chicago Symphony Orchestra seats, labubu pins, dinners with professors, and handmade art — students showed up ready to play their hand.
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Omri Ben-Shahar, a professor and director of the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School, said the potential harms from privacy regulations needed “to be taken into account when we think about scope and the type of regulatory techniques that we are using.”
"If a merger substantially reduces competition in any market, it's illegal. Courts sort of take that literally," says University of Chicago law professor Eric Posner, who held a senior antitrust position in the U.S. Justice Department under former President Joe Biden.
"But in practice, the Justice Department has discretion on whether to challenge these mergers," Posner tells NPR. "And the courts have discretion on whether to block them."
Curtis Bradley, an international law professor at the University of Chicago, highlighted Trump’s ongoing legal battle with the American Civil Liberties Union over his use of the Alien Enemies Act to rapidly detain and deport Venezuelans alleged to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang. The statute gives the president extraordinary power to expel citizens of enemy nations, when there is a declared war or in the event of an “invasion” or “predatory incursion.”
