Gibson Dunn has elected 42 lawyers to its partnership, effective January 1, 2026—the largest partner class in the firm’s history. The promotions reflect continued growth driven by expanding client ...

Each year, UChicago Law faculty share the books that have stayed with them—titles that have challenged their thinking, sparked new questions, or simply offered a great story. What began as a casual ...

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) has announced the appointment of Rachel Laser to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom ( USCIRF ).

The first year of US President Donald Trump’s second term has taken a heavy toll on the rule of law. While this bedrock ideal of American governance has long been invoked to capture a broad range of ...

Vatsala Kumar, ’23, has been awarded a Skadden Fellowship to work with the MacArthur Justice Center (MJC) on enforcing and advancing the impact of Illinois’s Pretrial Fairness Act—the first law in the ...

The inaugural cohort of the Public Interest Leadership Program (PILP), which launched this fall, includes 24 second-year students pursuing a wide range of paths in public service—from impact ...

Paul Grewal, ’96, was serving as a federal magistrate judge in northern California when he first heard of cryptocurrency in 2011. The US government was conducting a criminal investigation, sought to ...

One might say it was fate that Adam Chilton found his way to the Law School more than a decade ago, when he was a JD and PhD student at Harvard considering his next move. Already a serious scholar, he ...

Artificial intelligence is transforming nearly every industry, and the legal profession is no exception. At the Law School, faculty and administrators are weaving AI into the curriculum with care, ...

This term, seven University of Chicago Law School graduates are clerking for seven different US Supreme Court justices. And overall, UChicago Law ranks ahead of any other law school for federal ...

The influence of Ronald Coase's 1960 paper, "The Problem of Social Cost," cannot be overstated. Originally published in the Law School's own Journal of Law and Economics, of which Coase was editor ...