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Alison LaCroix Sheds Light on the “Interbellum Constitution” at 2024 Fulton Lecture

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Erica Zunkel Receives 2024 Excellence in Pro Bono Service Award

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The UChicago Experience

Class of 2023
99.1%
employed 10 months after graduation
Graduate employment data
$6,000
guaranteed summer public interest funding
Summer public interest program
5.6:1
student-to-faculty ratio
Life of the mind
2023-2024 School Year
56
full-tuition or more scholarships across the JD student body
JD financial aid

Faculty Focus

M. Todd Henderson
The Making of an Entrepreneur
A Law School course helped create the world’s first centralized collision avoidance platform for space. It also helped shift one student’s career path.

Heading into her third year of Law School, Holly Highfill, ’21, was on track to become a transactional attorney. She was not planning to launch a startup company aimed at preventing satellite colli...

Herschella G. Conyers
University Honors Herschella Conyers with Diversity Leadership Award

Three members of the University of Chicago community will receive Diversity Leadership Awards for their work to build a more equitable society. The awards recognize UChicago faculty, alumni and s...

Omri Ben-Shahar
What If We Each Had Our Own Laws?
The rise of Big Data could give us tools to create different rules for different people. In a new book, Professors Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat argue that personalized law might make us more equal.

Right now, posted speed limits apply to all drivers, regardless of individual experience and skill. In the United States, the wealthy and the poor pay the same parking fines, even though a $100 pen...

News

Immigration
The Immigrants’ Rights Clinic Releases Report Finding That Illinois Fails to Protect Immigrant Victims of Crime

Illinois is failing to protect immigrant victims of crime or trafficking, according to a new report from the University of Chicago.

Chicago Tribune
Inside Higher Ed Covers Analysis from Sonja Starr on Changes to College Essay Prompts
Inside Higher Ed
ALI Approves Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law, Reported by Emily Buss, Colleagues
The American Law Institute
Campus free expression
Geoffrey Stone on We the People Podcast to Discuss Free Speech on Campuses
We the People
Martha Nussbaum Recommends ‘Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life’
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Events

Winter 2024 Quarter Papers Due (non-graduating students)
6/10


1L Spring 2024 Exam Class Grades Release Date
6/12


Structural Injustice: American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPLP) 2024 Conference
9/27

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