Law, Policy & Society

July–Aug/13

A Law School course examines First Amendment issues from former prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s first-hand perspective.

July–Aug/13

Jewel C. Stradford Lafontant broke many barriers as a lawyer and public servant.

06.28.2013

An early 20th-century student called for Indian independence and Gandhian ideals.
06.26.2013

Learning, or not, at the DuSable Museum’s Civil War reenactment.

06.11.2013

Jeff Connaughton, MBA’83, played the game and lost, coming to believe that it’s rigged against all but the most powerful interests.

05.17.2013

Different points of view, but the same point: there is dignity in the struggle for restraint.
May–June/13

William Browder, AB’85, was once the biggest capitalist in Russia. After his lawyer was tortured and died in jail, he became one of the Kremlin’s fiercest enemies.

May–June/13

A justice, a judge, a philosopher, and an English professor

May–June/13

American Jordan Long, AM’06, joins the European struggle for gay rights.

04.16.2013

At an Institute of Politics event, Republican leaders offer diagnoses and prognoses for a wounded party.

Mar–Apr/13

From grief to decay to funerary traditions, Caitlin Doughty’s popular web video series tackles the tough questions about death.

Mar–Apr/13

Mortician, medievalist, and video sage Caitlin Doughty tries to change the way Americans think about death.