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4 unusual facts about University of Chicago Law School


James P. Pope

Born in Jonesboro, Louisiana, Pope graduated from Louisiana Industrial Institute (now Louisiana Tech University) in 1906 and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1909.

Jewel Lafontant

In 1946, she was the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School.

Philip J. Finnegan

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Finnegan received an LL.B. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1913 and entered private practice in Chicago.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact

In 2006, Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and professor at the University of Chicago Law School, wrote a book called Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency.


16-inch softball

United States Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan played 16-inch softball while she was a member of the faculty at the University of Chicago Law School.

Andy Berke

Following his graduation from the University of Chicago Law School, he worked as a law clerk for Judge Deanell Reece Tacha of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Lawrence, Kansas.

Grant Gilmore

Grant Gilmore (1910 – 1982) was an American law professor who taught at Yale Law School, University of Chicago Law School, the College of Law (n/k/a Moritz College of Law) at The Ohio State University, and Vermont Law School.

Joseph Henry Beale

In 1902, at the request of William Rainey Harper, first President of the University of Chicago, for assistance from Harvard's faculty in setting up a law school at Chicago, Beale was "lent" by Harvard to became the first dean of the University of Chicago Law School.

Miguel Poiares Maduro

He has worked as a lecturer at numerous institutions, including: College of Europe, Catholic University of Lisbon, the New University of Lisbon, School of Economics London, School of Chicago Law School, Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies in Spain, Instituto Ortega y Gasset in Madrid and Institute of European Studies of Macau.

Nell Minow

The daughter of Josephine (Baskin) and former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton N. Minow, and sister of Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow and library law expert Mary Minow, she is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (1974) and the University of Chicago Law School (1977).

Suzanna Sherry

A graduate of Middlebury College, where she studied under Murray Dry, and the University of Chicago Law School, she is the Herman O. Loewenstein Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School.

Woods Fund of Chicago

Barack Obama - (Director 1994–2002) - Associate (1993–1996), Of counsel (1997–2004), Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland; Lecturer (1992–1996), Senior Lecturer (1996–2004), University of Chicago Law School; Illinois State Senator (1997–2004); winner (1993), Crain's Chicago Business "40 Under 40" award; former President (1990–1991), Harvard Law Review; former Executive Director (1985–1988), Developing Communities Project


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