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Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Weekly round-up for July 30

by Jordan Holliday

Sunil Kumar, an operations professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, will take over as the next dean of the Booth School on January 1, 2011

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Jordan Holliday

Weekly round up for July 2

by Jordan Holliday

Ian Cumings' memorial service planned for the fall; the Medical Center settles Neonatal ICU case

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Former Chicago colleagues call Kagan "tough," "non-ideological"

by Crystal Tsoi

Supreme Court-nominee Elena Kagan served as an assistant professor at the Law School from 1991 until 1995, overlapping with Obama's tenure there.

Law School, Physics department get a lift in rankings

by Adam Janofsky

Chicago’s Law School moved up one spot in the U.S. News and World Report’s Graduate School rankings yesterday.

Undue process

by Maroon Editorial Board

U of C students face unnecessary challenges in the law school application process

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Jeremy Martin

University opens Law School time capsule

by Nahid Gardezi

Preservationists from the Regenstein Library opened the envelopes to reveal letters from academics, publishers, and prominent legal figures. These included letters from five Supreme Court Justices, including William Brennan.

University pulls a “coup” in landing new law dean

by Michael Lipkin

Schill has plans to grow the Law School’s faculty and usher in a new legal movement.

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Tom Tian

Justice Breyer speaks on Shakespeare and law

by Michael Lipkin

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer spoke to students, faculty, and staff in the Law School’s auditorium as part of a two-day conference on Shakespeare and the Law, with law professor Martha Nussbaum, appellate judge Richard Posner, and English professor Richard Strier.

Firms put jobs on hold for Law School graduates

by Ella Christoph

Many graduating students at the University of Chicago Law School are scurrying to make plans post-graduation, after being deferred for up to 18 months from the law firms that hired them after internships last summer. Law school career services says this level of deferral is unprecedented.

Nussbaum receives jurisprudence prize for life's work

by Holly Lawson

University of Chicago Law professor Martha Nussbaum received the 2009 Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence, presented by the American Philosophical Society.

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Law School dean Saul Levmore announces 2010 retirement

by Rachel Cromidas

Saul Levmore announced that he will be resigning his position as dean of the University’s Law School in an e-mail sent to students and faculty on Tuesday. As dean, Levmore received praise and criticism for cutting off wireless internet access in the Law School’s classrooms in an attempt to prevent students from distracting themselves during class last year. He also rejected pressures to change the school’s complex letter-grading system.

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The Professor and the President

by Michael Lipkin

Former colleagues and students reflect on implications of Obama presidency - including Douglas Baird, Richard Epstein, Saul Levmore, Geoffrey Stone, Dennis Hutchinson, and Austan Goolsbee

Former law professor appointed to International Monetary Fund reform committee

by Hannah Fine

Kenneth Dam, professor emeritus at the Law School has been appointed to an IMF committee to enhance internal functioning.

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