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.

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 ...

Obama—“Professor” for 12 years to his UC Law School students—and his formidable partner, South Shore native and former UChicago Medical Center administrator Michelle Obama, have strong ties to the ...

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. The Obama Foundation/The Obama ...

It's near the law school where President Obama taught, and only a few miles from where he worked as a community organizer, and where Michelle grew up. It's also the area Obama represented in the ...

Two Law School professors supporting opposite sides of a lawsuit surrounding the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) engaged in a debate and conversation at the Law School on Tuesday. The student ...

U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama speaks during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Monday, July 25, 2016. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Her buffed ...