[13] At the time of its opening, the law school consisted of 78 students (76 men and two women). LLSO majors graduate with a uniquely diverse set of analytical skills, cultivated from taking LLSO-dedicated courses. Admission into the LL.M. Faculty. [69][70], The law school's full-time faculty has included the 44th U.S. President Barack Obama, Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia, John Paul Stevens and Elena Kagan, leaders of the legal realism movement Karl Llewellyn and Herman Oliphant, tax law doyen Walter J. Blum, leading constitutional law scholars Harry Kalven and Michael W. McConnell, founder of the law and literature movement James Boyd White, and one of the most widely-cited legal scholars in the world, Cass Sunstein. The University of Chicago Magazine. Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development; Director, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies. John P. Wilson Professor of Law, David and Celia Hilliard Research Scholar, Director of the Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Program in Behavioral Law, Finance and Economics Room 405 773-702-5188 Properties of Concentration ... University of Virginia School of Law (Fall 2006); Professor, Univer-sity of Illinois College of Law. Prof. When the University of Chicago was founded in 1892, its president William Rainey Harper expressed a desire to establish a law school for the university that would improve democratic government. [8] At the time, Harper observed that, "[t]hus far democracy seems to have found no way of making sure that the strongest men should be placed in control of the country's business. The founding faculty members were Blewett Harrison Lee and Julian Mack, who had both taught at the law school of Northwestern University; James Parker Hall, who had taught at Stanford Law School and turned down an offer to teach at Harvard Law School; Clarke Butler Whittier, who had also taught at Stanford; Harry A. Bigelow, a notable scholar at Boston University who recognised limitations in the casebook method;[12] and Freund. It was renovated in 2008, preserving most of Saarinen's original structure. Past Holberg laureates include Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, a former member of the University of Chicago Law School faculty; British-Canadian scholar Griselda Pollock; British scholar Paul Gilroy; Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst and philosopher Julia Kristeva; German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas; ⦠[46], The law school employs a grading system that places students on a scale of 155–186. program is highly competitive: in 2017, the law school enrolled 179 students from an applicant pool of 4,459. Other notable scholars, widely regarded as institutional figures and leading thinkers in their respective areas,[26] were Walter J. Blum and Bernard D. Meltzer, who studied and taught at the law school for their entire academic careers. [10] The law school invented the J.D. From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. The law school also counts among its alumni four recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom; two Pulitzer Prize winners; the first female African-American U.S. senator, Carol Moseley Braun; the first African-American to serve as a United States federal judge, James Benton Parsons; civil rights attorney and chairman of the Fair Employment Practices Committee, Earl B. Dickerson; the first female president of the American Law Institute and of the American Bar Association, Roberta Cooper Ramo; the first African-American woman to practise law before the U.S. Supreme Court, Violette Neatley Anderson; Pulitzer Prize-winner Studs Terkel; civil rights activist and the first woman to graduate from the law school, Sophonisba Breckinridge; and the founder of the intelligent design movement, Phillip E. Johnson. Phone: ⦠Other federal appellate judges include Abner Mikva, who later served as White House Counsel in the Clinton administration; Frank H. Easterbrook, who currently teaches at the law school; and Jerome Frank, who served as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and, together with fellow alumnus Herman Oliphant, played a leading role in the legal realism movement in the U.S. eraikhel@uchicago.edu. Renovated in 2006, it features a second-story reading room. The spaces are available during Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Reservations will reopen for the Spring Quarter on April 5. and the Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.S.D.). [45] The 25th and 75th GPA percentiles were 3.72 and 3.95, respectively, with a median of 3.89. They are as follows:[38], The law school has five current and past policy initiatives:[39], The D'Angelo Law Library is part of the greater University of Chicago library system. The law school counts among its alumni recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Fulbright Scholars, Rhodes Scholars, Marshall Scholars, Commonwealth Fellows, National Humanities Medallists, and Pulitzer Prize winners. 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A dom Getachew | Assistant Professor of Political Science | agetachew@uchicago.edu. with the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, or a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) The faculty team included Henderson; Nagorsky; Daniel Abebe, Assistant Professor of Law; and Douglas Baird, the Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor of Law. [10], In 1901, Harper announced that the new law school would be established the following year. David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy, Diversity Liaison (2020-21) vogue@uchicago.edu. Wieboldt Hall, Room 401. In the judiciary, notable alumni include Lord Thomas, who served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2013 to 2017, and former President of the Supreme Court of Israel, Shimon Agranat. In 2015 Picker, ABâ80, AMâ82, JDâ85, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, became the first professor at the Law School to teach a massive open online course, or MOOC.