Baude: On its own terms, Justice Barrett’s opinion is excellent. Sophisticated, careful, clear and correct. Giving the lower ...

The former first lady says she’s done being a Democratic Party spokesperson and will focus on her podcast. Because podcasters ...

Alison Siegler has been named the Lillian E. Kraemer Clinical Professor in Public Interest Law, effective July 1. Siegler is the founding director of the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic (FCJC), the ...

Although some appreciate Obama’s behind-the-scenes candor — now that she’s been relieved of first lady duties and is an empty-nester— fully supporting that it’s her time to finally shine. Others say ...

After a decade of service as the Law School’s fourteenth dean, Thomas J. Miles will hand over leadership reins on June 30 and return to full-time teaching and scholarship on the Law School faculty.

Though Congress acted after the U.S. withdrew from Vietnam to restrain presidents in their use of military force, recent ...

The “audacity of hope” presidency has given way to the fierce lethargy of semi-retirement.

CHICAGO (CN) — University of Illinois Chicago law students objected to what they saw as the racist conduct of their tenured professor Jason Kilborn in December 2020. Four years later, the controversy ...

The law that then-state Sen. Barack Obama sponsored aimed to collect law enforcement data and reduce racial disparities in police traffic stops but has fallen short, a WBEZ / Investigative Project ...

Media Obama biographer on letters to 44's ex he hopes the public never sees, how Michelle changed since Chicago days 'Barack made it clear to me that he hoped I would never read them,' biographer ...

Michelle Obama is interviewed by two Hyde Park Academy High School students, Zaida Soumanou and Micaela Turner, in a surprise visit to the school on Oct. 17, 2022.

Barack and Michelle Obama attended the groundbreaking ceremony in Jackson Park at the future site of the Obama library in Chicago.