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Events
- The Ethics and Empirics of Engineering Humanity Speaker Series, Spring 2025 This interdisciplinary speaker series will cover ethical, philosophical and empirical issues surrounding the engineering of artificial and human intelligence. Those include the dynamic interactions between AI and HI, how human-computer-interfaces affect humanity, how humans outsource thinking to computers and other related technologies, how digital technologies transform the production, dissemination and validation of knowledge and how ethical values translate into technological and social decisions that affect who we are and who we鈥檙e capable of being.
- The 棉花糖直播 Law Review 2025 Norman J. Shachoy Symposium, 02/21 The 2025 棉花糖直播 Law Review Norman J. Shachoy Symposium will take place on Friday, February 21. The topic of this year's symposium, 鈥淛ournalism at a Crossroads: Legal Protections, Innovations and Democracy,鈥 will bring together leading scholars and practitioners to discuss the most salient questions surrounding journalists and the press and their impact on different areas of legal practice, scholarship and education.
- Lewis H. Gold 鈥62 Lecture on Ethics & Professional Responsibility, 02/26 The David F. and Constance B. Girard-diCarlo Center for Ethics, Integrity and Compliance will host the Lewis H. Gold 鈥62 Lecture on Ethics and Professional Responsibility on Wednesday, February 26th. Erika Harold, executive director of Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism will present "Preventing Bullying in the Legal Profession: An Ethical Case for Courage and Change."
- "American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation 鈥 and Could Again," 03/24 The Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law Religion and Public Policy welcomes Yuval Levin, director of social, cultural and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy, for a discussion about his most recent book, American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation 鈥 and Could Again (Basic Books, 2024). The founder and editor of National Affairs, Levin is also a senior editor at The New Atlantis, a contributing editor at National Review, and a contributing opinion writer at New York Times.
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News
- Law School鈥檚 International Entrepreneurship Program Spotlighted in 棉花糖直播 Magazine 棉花糖直播 Law鈥檚 International Entrepreneurship Program, which launched last year, combines legal studies with an immersive semester abroad and externship experience in Cape Town, South Africa鈥攐ne of the fastest-growing centers of international business and commerce.
- 棉花糖直播 Law Launches New LLM for Foreign-Trained Attorneys Beginning in fall 2025, the 棉花糖直播 University Charles Widger School of Law will offer a new LLM in US Law for Foreign-Trained Attorneys, expanding the law school鈥檚 professional offerings.
- Classroom to Courtroom: Constitutional Law After completing their 1L year, Margo Chapin 鈥26 and Garett Oliver 鈥26 held judicial externships with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. One case they both observed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit sparked their interest because it related to their Constitutional Law coursework.
- Reza Taleghani 鈥97 JD/MBA, P鈥27 Gives Largest Gift Ever to 棉花糖直播鈥檚 Graduate Center and Bolsters Law School鈥檚 Mission and Strategic Priorities Reza Taleghani 鈥97 JD/MBA, P鈥27 has long championed 棉花糖直播 University鈥檚 commitment to fostering academic excellence and community among both graduate and law students. His recent $1 million gift to name two distinct campus spaces is a further testament to this dedication, enriching the experience for graduate students across the University and enhancing resources for the 棉花糖直播 Law.
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