Recent News About The University Of Chicago
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Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, was recently named a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL).
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Brian Shaw will serve as one of the moderators at the American College of Bankruptcy's Seventh Circuit Education Seminar.
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Tyler McBrien, Managing Editor of Lawfare, sat down with Lisa Luksch, a curator at the Architekturmuseum der TUM; Anjli Parrin, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Global Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago; and Brad Samuels, a founding partner at SITU and the Director of SITU Research.
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Israeli Lawyer on Course to Pursue a Legal Academic Career.
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Reed Smith welcomed its first director of applied artificial intelligence (AI), Richard Robbins. In this role, Robbins will lead the design and development of generative AI, predictive AI, data science and other disciplines for the delivery of Reed Smith’s legal and business services.
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Plaintiffs claims tuition would've been cheaper but for an agreement among some of America's top colleges and universities, including University of Chicago, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Brown, Yale, Cal Tech, MIT and Duke, among others.
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A judge has removed University of Chicago Medical Center from a civil rights suit filed by parents, who alleged the hospital turned them in to state child neglect investigators for refusing legally required shots for their newborns, finding the hospital did so on its own, without authority.
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Traditional media beclowned itself last week at a Chicago conference on “disinformation.” That’s a story in itself, but the bigger story is how they covered up even that story, peddling disinformation about a conference on disinformation. The guilty include Illinois media, which is further guilty of still suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story that is part of what sparked the fireworks at the conference.
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The time has come for the general public to easily access information about court cases online, so judges can be adequately evaluated by voters and held accountable for their actions, says Matt Rosenberg, of Wirepoints.
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Jones Day adds seven U.S. Supreme Court clerks from the October 2020 Term.
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Thomas D. Donofrio Promoted to Partner in Tressler's Insurance Practice Group.
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Barack Ferrazzano Congratulates Six Newly Elected Partners.
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Illinois just reached an alarming milestone: each Illinois household is now on the hook for, on average, $110,000 in government-worker retirement debts. That figure is the result of dividing Illinois’ $530 billion in state and local retirement shortfalls among the state’s 4.9 million households. In 2019, the burden was $90,000 per household.
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Plaintiffs leading the class action say Nuk products aren't 'orthodontic,' as label indicates
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Chicago restaurateur Michael Olszewski says Loyola should abate all the rent he owes for his upscale restaurant Onward, because it was the unversity's refusal to allow him to reopen that left him unable to pay the $10,000 a month rent he owed for the restaurant the university recruited him to open in the Loyola-owned building.
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James Stevens, Experienced Legal Advisor to Community Associations, Joins Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Condominium and Community Associations Practice in Chicago.
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Union said Black workers were disproportionately laid off in 2011, while CPS blamed declining enrollment.
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More than half of employers could require worker vaccinations by the end of 2021, potentially setting the stage for a surge of lawsuits, should requests for exemptions be ignored or denied.
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Chicago restaurateur Michael Olszewski says Loyola recruited him to open a fine-dining restaurant in their new hotel building in Rogers Park, but is now seeking to evict him after blocking the restaurant from earning any money since the onset of COVID.
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A federal judge tossed a class action lawsuit from Loyola University students who were sent home and forced into online instruction amid campus closures over COVID-19, and wanted the Chicago school to refund at least some of the tuition they paid in 2020.
