Law

Dean Michael Schill says initiative aims "to re-create the same bubbling caldron of ideas that gave rise to the first law and economics movement"

Judges like Rebecca Pallmeyer, JD’79, say the Law School fosters public service and understanding of complex, conflicting views.

As CPD’s Chief Data Officer, Brett Goldstein, SM’05, uses predictive analysis to find trouble spots.

When lawyers for International Justice Mission first encountered a Kenyan inmate named Peter in late 2009, he had been languishing in prison without bail for 12 months on charges of robbery with violence—an offense punishable by death.

When the government of Kenya wanted outside advice this year on drafts of the country’s new constitution, one of their consultants was University of Chicago Law School professor Tom Ginsburg, one of the world’s foremost experts on how to write an ...

A PhD defense can be nerve-wracking, even for Yuval Levin, conservative author and former Bush administration staffer.

Looking back on his intellectual journey in a 1979 speech, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, AB’41, made the case that his core legal skills stemmed from his training as an undergraduate English student at the University of Chicago.

Nell Minow, JD’77, is shaping a national debate on executive salaries and accountability.

With an actor’s sense of emotion and human flaws, Martha Nussbaum develops creative ideas about social justice and the humanities.