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Leveling the Political Field

In 1986 Samuel Issacharoff was in Springfield, Illinois, handling an election law case that revolved around restrictions on black politicians. Issacharoff, then 32, had been around...

From Darkness

Thomas Buergenthal ’60 has a picture of himself and his parents taken in the spring of 1937. He is three, a blond, curly-haired boy who looks...

Follow the Numbers

Empirical Legal Studies is a relatively new trend in legal scholarship that applies scientific method to legal data. Almost two dozen faculty at the Law School...

A Chat with Ma Ying-jeou

In a landslide victory last spring, Ma Ying-jeou (LL.M. ’76) was elected president of Taiwan, winning in part on his campaign pledge to finally clean up...

European Central Bank President Discusses Downturn at Policy Forum

The last eighteen months have not been kind to the U.S. economy. The collapse of American subprime asset-backed securities have left housing numbers weak and financial...

Welters Named New Chair of Trustees

Just three decades after becoming the first person in his family to graduate from college and pursue an advanced degree, Anthony Welters ’77 will become the...