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CHICAGO — Maybe we should start first with Kevin Warren’s starter home in Overland Park, Kan., way back in the early 1990s when he was just out of law school and getting his career off the ground as an agent. At the time, Warren admits, the yard outside the house…

Our Federal Criminal Justice Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School recently released the first comprehensive national investigation of federal pretrial detention—Freedom Denied: How the Culture of Detention Created a Federal Jailing Crisis. We conducted this study to understand why the federal system jails 75% of those pending trial,…

I'm delighted to report that Alison Siegler (@SieglerAlison)—Clinical Professor of Law, the Founding Director of the University of Chicago Law School's Federal Criminal Justice Clinic (FCJC), and the lead author of Freedom Denied: How the Culture of Detention Created a Federal Jailing Crisis (2022)—and one of her coauthors, Jaden Lessnick,…

A New Course at Notre Dame Law School

A brief report on Justice Sonia Sotomayor's remarks to the Assocation of American Law Schools conference.

US News & World Report pledged to modify its law school rankings after a growing number of institutions, including Yale and Harvard, called the rankings “flawed.”

U.S. News & World Report will change how its rankings of law schools are calculated in response to a boycott by a number of top programs

During her 2010 Senate confirmation hearings, centrist-liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan famously allowed that “we are all originalists.” In a 2015 interview at Harvard Law School honoring her then-colleague Justice Antonin Scalia, Kagan proclaimed that “we are all textualists now.”

Downgrading reputational surveys and abolishing points for per-student expenditures are steps in the right direction.

U.S. News and World Report is making some significant changes to the way it ranks law schools.

The Journal of Legal Analysis at Harvard Law School is trying to broaden its coverage