How does the patent system work? “Through the marketplace,” explained Professor Jonathan Masur when we sat down to discuss the complex intersection of law, economics and innovation in today’s global ...

I am deeply grateful to the participants in this online symposium for their engagement with the book, and to Jack Balkin for hosting it. The commentators are all terrific scholars, and they are ...

Chicago has long been a hub of Fish activity,” said President & Chief Executive Officer John Adkisson. “We are very active in the Northern District of Illinois, serve many clients in the Chicago area, ...

This is the first installment of a Q&A series focusing on UChicago Law alumni whose career paths have taken them into public ...

Every president tests the limits of their authority. Yet no opening presidential bid for power compares to President Donald Trump’s out-of-the-blue freeze of federal funds across the government.

Space tourism has to be regulated as a subset of private spaceflight activities, whereby humans are sent to outer space in a fundamentally private context. In addition to space law, air law would be ...

Judge Bright, 62, of Columbia, is currently the chief judge of the Appellate Court. He is being nominated to fill the associate justice seat on the Supreme Court that was most recently held by the ...

A Venezuelan migrant swept up in local immigration raids who was ordered released last night by a federal judge is now back in federal custody at an out-of-state immigration detention center. The ABC ...

Prof. Alison Siegler will host an alumni panel to discuss clerkships on the Seventh Circuit and the Northern District of Illinois. Students who are considering applying for clerkships should attend ...

The Federalist Society is a group of libertarians and conservatives interested in the current state of the legal order. The Society was founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve ...