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How are courts approaching liability for social media platforms? #UChicagoLaw Prof. Omri Ben-Shahar weighs in on shifting legal frameworks in a new @wsj.com article.

With ICE now operating in airport settings, what are the legal boundaries? Prof. @nicolehallett.bsky.social, Director of #UChicagoLaw’s Immigrants' Rights Clinic, weighs in on enforcement authority and its limits in a new @washingtonpost.com article.

How should A.I. systems be governed? #UChicagoLaw Prof. Aziz Huq contributes to a @newyorker.com discussion exploring the evolving frameworks shaping A.I. development.

What does it mean to be a lawyer in a world increasingly dominated by AI? A #UChicagoLaw course called Generative AI in Legal Practice takes a deep and critical dive into this question. www.law.uchicago.edu/news/uchicag...

A recent episode of @lastweektonight.com w/ John Oliver took a closer look at police sting operations—including an extended segment on litigation led by #UChicagoLaw's Federal Criminal Justice Clinic. 📸 Prof. Alison Siegler

Prof. Martha C. Nussbaum explores the intersection of art and political thought on The Brian Lehrer Show. As she discusses in her new book, Republic of Love: Opera and Political Freedom, opera is far more than performance, it’s a lens for understanding democracy.

Prof. Samuel Bray's "Beginning a Law Review Article" has been featured on Adam Liptak's "What I'm Reading" list in the @nytimes.com. In the piece, Prof. Bray offers practical guidance on making legal scholarship more clear, engaging, and accessible to readers.

How should bankruptcy judges use their broad discretion in business reorganizations? Drawing on Williamson & Hart, Prof. Vincent Buccola argues judges should focus less on pushing deals—and more on preventing value capture beyond pre-distress entitlements. 📄 Read more: bit.ly/4uLtWmf

What does martial law look like and who decides when it begins? In a recent episode of Curious City from @wbez.org, Prof. Alison LaCroix offers historical and constitutional insight into these questions, drawing on the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire.

When SCOTUS ruled last month that sweeping tariffs imposed by President Trump were unlawful, two #UChicagoLaw alumni found themselves at the center of the landmark decision—one as a business owner, the other as a constitutional scholar. Read more: www.law.uchicago.edu/news/uchicag...

Pegah Banihashemi, a doctoral candidate at #UChicagoLaw, and @profpaulpoast.bsky.social dive into the evolving conflict involving the United States, Israel, and Iran and the factors that may shape its duration and consequences.

The Bigelow Cup brings #UChicagoLaw students from across class years together to compete as Bigelow section teams. From relay racing to giant Jenga, students had a blast competing for the second year in a row. 🏆 See photos and read more: buff.ly/Nyn6YJ1

📸 Take a look at highlights from the Ninth Annual Parsons Legacy Dinner, hosted by the Law School's Black Law Students Association:

On the southern edge of Lake Michigan in Whiting, Indiana, a group of surfers began asking a simple but urgent question: what’s in the water? That’s when #UChicagoLaw's Abrams Environmental Law Clinic stepped in to help.

"If a merger substantially reduces competition in any market, it's illegal," says Prof. Eric Posner. "But in practice, the Justice Department has discretion on whether to challenge these mergers. And the courts have discretion on whether to block them."

Prof. Craig Futterman was recently featured in a @commondreams.org opinion article examining the leadership of Attorney General Pam Bondi under President Donald Trump and changes within the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. ⬇️ Read more:

In her new scholarship, Prof. Sharon Fairley argues broader adoption of well-defined and more restrictive foot pursuit policies could reduce preventable harm to both officers and the communities they serve. 📄 Read more: bit.ly/4kY3FfU

Last year, a note in the University of Chicago Law Review flagged a relatively obscure Supreme Court case as a potential threat to mail voting, noting that it could immunize the government from damages when postal workers steal or destroy mail ballots. Well, bad news ... slate.com/news-and-pol...

Profs. Sonja B. Starr and @genevievelakier.bsky.social examine how the second Trump Administration’s attacks on policies associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI] intersect with the constitutional guarantees of equal protection and free expression. 📄 Read more: bit.ly/3OJ525Y

In Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, the U.S. Supreme Court confronted one of the most consequential constitutional questions of the modern era: When can a President act without authorization from Congress? 📄 Read more from Prof. @williambaude.bsky.social: bit.ly/4kVxLAH

"There have been plenty of cases in the past where the Court has said that some action was unlawful or even unconstitutional, but for various reasons...people just don't get back the money that they've paid in those cases," Prof. Jonathan Masur via @abc7.bsky.social:

At a moment when remedies and judicial power are central to public debate, Prof. Samuel L. Bray's article offers a historically grounded and forward-looking account of how equity evolves. 📄 Read more: bit.ly/3MOqRk2

Dean @adamchilton.bsky.social has been nominated for the 2026 Antitrust Writing Awards for his co-authored article The Limits and Promise of Global Antitrust Law. 🗳️ Voting is open through March 3. awards.concurrences.com/en/awards/20...

"People tend to associate democratic erosion with election interference and violent police crackdowns. But there’s a quieter tell that a democracy is endangered: the dissolution of laws that protect public money," Prof. Aziz Z. Huq writes in @nytopinion.nytimes.com:

Prof. @genevievelakier.bsky.social via ABC news: "This is completely lawless, as far as I can tell, to the extent that we don't even know what legal provision the government is relying upon."

Happy Presidents Day! 🇺🇸 Before he was the President of the United States, @barackobama.bsky.social was 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘳 𝘖𝘣𝘢𝘮𝘢 at #UChicagoLaw. He taught in Chicago for 12 years, until his election to the United States Senate in 2004.

Prof. Eric Posner tells Adam Liptak of the @nytimes.com that AI can not only tell journalists what scholarship is newsworthy... it can write their articles too.

Inside @dangelolawlib.bsky.social, Maureen Moran has curated a growing collection of law-themed games—part of the University’s Year of Games initiative celebrating the culture of play at the University of Chicago.

📣 A new SCOTUSblog analysis finds #UChicagoLaw Prof. Darrell A. H. Miller is the most-cited scholar in Supreme Court merits briefing between the 2015–16 and 2024–25 Terms.

In "When the Executive Has Unclean Hands," @williambaude.bsky.social and Samuel L. Bray examine a classic maxim of equity in a modern public-law setting: what happens when the party seeking equitable relief is the government itself? 📄 Read more: bit.ly/4rHE64R

“The state permits them to carry a firearm with a concealed carry license, but they know they are at risk of their life [for] just exercising that right. It definitely waters down the right," Prof. Darrell A. H. Miller tells @wbez.org:

Built by students. Powered by AI. Designed for justice. LeaseChat, created in UChicago Law’s AI Lab, helps renters understand their legal rights—at no cost. Since launching in December, it’s already assisting hundreds of users.

“[Protesters] have to go through the ordeal and expense of defending themselves...which is no small matter.” Prof. Sharon Fairley discusses protest, free speech, and federal charging decisions in a new @economist.com article. 🔽

Prof. Geoffrey Stone via SAN: “The First Amendment protects even allegedly false statements about an individual that would be seen as defamatory...People understood them as jokes, not as factual statements. And therefore, I think it’s utterly implausible that there could be a libel judgment.”

Prof. Craig B. Futterman via Chicago Suntimes: “Chicago is the capital of the code of silence. If you break with that code, you get crushed.”

During the Midway Dinner — a cherished tradition at #UChicagoLaw that marks the halfway point of 2L’s journeys — Prof. @curtbradley.bsky.social had three suggestions for the JD class of 2027: “Stay curious, be tentative in your views, and value community.” www.law.uchicago.edu/news/be-curi...

🎭 This week, M.L. Rantala of the Hyde Park Herald praised Prof. Martha C. Nussbaum’s captivating program essay for Mozart’s Così fan tutte, now on stage at Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Prof. Aziz Huq via the @theatlantic.com: When a direct path to justice is blocked, states must look for a legal work-around.

Several #UChicagoLaw faculty were named among the most influential voices in legal scholarship in new impact rankings from SSRN and HeinOnline. See where they ranked:

Prof. @williambaude.bsky.social weighs in on the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in Trump v. Cook in a new NYT Opinion essay with Kate Shaw and Stephen Vladeck. “The court’s skepticism of the government’s position… was more than I expected.” buff.ly/z2zT551

Prof. @jennifernou.bsky.social tells @nytimes.com the census decision “can be broadly understood to stand for the proposition that the court does not take pretext lightly and can’t be blinded to the real world.”

UChicago has announced that #UChicagoLaw Prof. Eric Posner will deliver the 2026 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture. The event will take place on April 16 at the David Rubenstein Forum, with registration opening in early March. buff.ly/lKQDWlp

Referring to the alliance as the “most important mutual defense treaty of the post-WWII era,” Prof. @curtbradley.bsky.social tells TIME that a U.S. exit would be surprising and that it’s far more likely we’ll see continued tensions rather than a formal withdrawal.

🎧 Prof. Alison L. LaCroix appeared on The Stationary Bandit podcast hosted by #UChicagoLaw alum Isaac LaGrand ’24. Together they dove into the history of American federalism and the constitutional conflicts that defined the 19th century.

In 1956, MLK delivered his first major Chicago speech at UChicago's Rockefeller Memorial Chapel—speaking of hope, justice, and moral courage. On Jan. 28, UChicago will host the 36th Annual MLK Commemoration Celebration in that same historic space. RSVP: buff.ly/7WuYSBe

Prof. @thelior.bsky.social weighs in on the FTC’s lawsuit against an AI chatbot company accused of trapping users in unwanted subscriptions, noting that these practices persist because they remain profitable—even amid regulatory scrutiny.