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Risk Reversals

Law often allocates risk, as through tort doctrines. Should people be able to undo or "reverse" such risk allocations by, for example, selling their rights to any claims that may later develop? Scholars have interestingly examined this question, as we...

The Hall Branch Library, Vivian G. Harsh, and the Chicago Renaissance

Humanities Day keynote speaker Jacqueline Goldsby talks about the Chicago Renaissance and the University's surprising role in it, as well as the extraordinary accomplishments of Vivian Harsh, the first African American to head a Chicago branch lib...

South Side Bike Tour

Ride along with the South Side History Bike Tour, which began in Washington Park and ended near the Hyde Park home of Barack Obama