The Faculty Blog

The Faculty Blog posts articles and observations by scholars associated with the University of Chicago Law School and links to the related The Faculty Podcast.

Author: The authors are mainly on faculty or are somehow affiliated with the University of Chicago Law School. Blawggers include Eric Posner; Shyam Balganesh; Anu Bradford; Anupam Chander, who also authors Anupam Chander and contributes to Law School Innovation; Jacob Gersen; Tom Ginsburg; Saul Levmore; Randy Picker; Geoffrey Stone; and Lior Strahilevitz.

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Recent Posts from The Faculty Blog

Student Blogger - Summer WIP: Bernard Harcourt on Neoliberal Penality
A lively WIP commenced Thursday with Bernard Harcourt presenting his ongoing project (previously seen as one of Chicago's best ideas) on what he calls "neoliberal penality." The idea behind neoliberal penality is that as the…
Student Blogger - Summer WIP: Todd Henderson and the "Nanny Corporation"
Professor Todd Henderson kicked off Chicago's Summer Works in Progress events with a presentation of his latest project, "The Nanny Corporation and the Market for Paternalism." Henderson identifies corporate nannyism as the increasing trend amongst…
Video: Shakespeare and the Law Conference
Last month, the Law School hosted an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to exploring the legal dimensions of Shakespeare's plays. The keynote conversation, featuring Justice Stephen Breyer, Judge Richard Posner, and Professors Martha Nussbaum and Richard Strier,…
Student Blogger - Ambiguity about Ambiguity
Professor Anup Malani on how we know when we don't know What are judges supposed to do when statutes are ambiguous? This question is the source of endless quantities of legal scholarship and is at…
Epstein Debates the Employee Free Choice Act
Over at the Federalist Society website, Richard Epstein today participated in a discussion with Thomas Kochan (MIT), Eugene Scalia (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP), and Patrick Szymanski (Change to Win) to debate the policy and…
Sonia Sotomayor and the Hypocrisy of "Conservative" Critics
The May 30, 2009, New York Times contains two interesting articles about Sonia Sotomayor. One deals with her views of affirmative action, the other with her views of campaign finance regulation. According to these articles,…
Student Blogger - Can Charities Be Too Rich?
Professor Takeshi Fujitani on charitable wealth accumulation Charities generally exist to help the poor - but they themselves are sometimes quite rich. Is this a problem? Some people seem to think so. Universities and other…
David Frum (American Enterprise Institute) on Judge Sonia Sotomayor: Subprime Reporting
David Frum of the American Enterprise Institute took the air last night—and the blogosphere—to blast President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. In his diatribe “Sotomayor not a justice for these times,” Frum attacked Judge…
Student Blogger - Claire Priest Reassesses the Death of the Fee Tail
The fee tail, as any first year property student knows (or knew, then promptly forgot), is a type of interest in property that renders it inalienable, instead automatically passing on to the owner's heirs upon…
Obama's Speech on National Security: "The Most Difficult Issue We Have to Face"
In his speech on Thursday about Protecting Our Security and Our Values, President Obama touched on many of the challenges posed by the threat of terrorism. I want to address one challenge in particular: What…