What kind of news and faculty updates does UChicago Law publish?

The University of Chicago Law School's homepage (law.uchicago.edu) publishes two main streams of updates: school news about its community and programs, and faculty news highlighting scholarship and public commentary. If you want to know what the school is currently talking about — admissions milestones, student profiles, awards, and faculty media appearances — these sections are where that information appears.

School news: community, admissions, and academic debate

The "News" section covers the life of the school rather than administrative notices. Based on the current homepage, it includes:

• Curricular and topical debates — for example, a feature asking "What Role Should AI Play in Legal Education?" that gathers perspectives from members of the incoming class.
• Class profiles and admissions data — "Meet the Class" entries introduce individual JD students, and a separate item reports that the school welcomed 202 JD students for the 2026–27 academic year, drawn from 34 states, 88 undergraduate institutions, and 65 undergraduate majors, selected from a pool of nearly 6,400 applicants.
• Student background stories — profiles such as Elijah Wiesman, '29, who came to the law school with experience in immigration law and as an FBI intelligence analyst, and Grant Booker, '29, an active-duty Marine Corps officer selected for the Funded Law Education Program.
• Awards and recognition — coverage of the Library of Congress awarding the John W. Kluge Prize to Martha C. Nussbaum as the 2026 recipient.

Faculty updates: "Faculty in the News"

A dedicated "Faculty in the News" section tracks where faculty scholarship and expertise appear in public discussion. The current example is Samuel Bray, whose paper is referenced in an article about Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms; the item quotes his argument that the forms legislatures prescribed "provided theological answers to contested theological questions."

This section is useful if you want to see how faculty research connects to live legal and policy debates, rather than just internal academic announcements.

What else the homepage surfaces

Alongside news, the homepage links to "The UChicago Experience" and an "Events" section, so visitors can move from reading about the school to exploring campus life and upcoming programming. There is also a Media Inquiries contact point for journalists seeking faculty comment.

How to use these sections

The homepage functions as a rolling feed, so specific stories rotate over time; the categories above are the stable structure you can expect when checking back for new content.