- Thesis Submission Deadlines:
- Winter: Noon on January 19th, 2024
- Spring: Noon on April 5th, 2024
- Focus Field Forms due on November 15th, 2023
- Submissions for Charles Wegener Essay Competition and Wayne Booth Student Leadership due at 5pm on May 11th, 2024
- Application Portal Opens
- November 13th, 2023
- Informational Session
- November 16th, 2023 at 3:30pm in the Social Sciences Tea Room (SSRB 201)
- Application Workshop
- January 4th, 2023 at 3:30pm in the Social Sciences Tea Room (SSRB 201)
- Application Portal Closes
- January 11th, 2023
- Admissions Decisions Sent Out
- Week of January 29th
- Welcome Event for Newly-Admitted Students
- TBD during mid-to-late February
Events
Aziz Rana On “The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came To Idolize A Document That Fails Them”
MAY 9, 2024 @ 5:30 pm | Social Science Research Building, Room 122
LLSO, along with The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory and The Chicago Center on Democracy welcome Provost’s Distinguished Fellow at Boston College Law School, Aziz Rana, discussing his book, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them with William Baude (Harry Kalven, Jr. Professor of Law andFaculty Director, Constitutional Law Institute).
This is the official welcome event for the Law, Letters, and Society class of 2026.
Book Talk: Nelson Lichtenstein on "A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism"
November 8, 2023 @ 5:00 pm |Social Science Research Building, John Hope Franklin Room (Room 224)
Law, Letters, and Society is proud to welcome Nelson Lichtenstein for a discussion of his new book, A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism, co-authored with Judith Stein
Book Talk - “After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice And Democratic Stability” With Monika Nalepa.
November 16, 2023 @ 5:00 pm | Social Science Research Building, John Hope Franklin Room (Room 224)
The Forum on Law and Legalities hosts Prof. Monika Nalepa, professor of Political Science and Director of the Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability Lab at The University of Chicago, to discuss her book After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability.
Refreshments and snacks will be provided.
The "Palestine Exception to Free Speech": A Signpost for Eroding Constitutional Rights
November 6, 2023 @ 4:30 pm | Stuart Hall, Room 101
with Dima Khalidi, Founder and Director of Palestine Legal
Amid a nationwide push to curtail the teaching of institutional racism and the dark sides of US history, we can learn important lessons from another subject on which campus communities have long experienced attacks on free speech and academic freedom: Palestine. In what can only be characterized as a “Palestine
Exception to free speech,” academics, students, and others who speak out for Palestinian rights are routinely falsely accused, investigated, surveilled, harassed, and sometimes suffer severe consequences to their reputations and careers. Right-wing efforts to dictate what academics and others can and can’t say, teach, or write are proliferating. What is at stake? What can we learn from Palestinians and their allies whose histories, narratives, and experiences are constantly denied, erased, and criminalized, even in academia? How can we ensure that universities and other entities can be bastions of academic freedom and free speech, and not enforcers of corporate, lobbyist, and governmental political litmus tests?
Latin American History Workshop - Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom And Law In Colonial Mexico [ Book Talk ]
OCTOBER 26, 2023 @ 12:00 pm | Social Science Research Building, John Hope Franklin Room (Room 224)
Book talk with Yanna Yannakakis, Professor of History - Emory University
Co-sponsored with the Katz Center for Mexican Studies and the Forum on Law and Legalities.
Refreshments and snacks will be provided.
Book Talk: As Gods Among Men with Guido Alfani
OCTOBER 9, 2023 @ 12:30 pm | Social Science Research Building, Tea Room, Room 201, 1126 E 59th St.
Join CISSR and Law, Letters, Society as we welcome Guido Alfani to speak on his upcoming book called As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
The Forum on Law and Legalities: Laura F. Edwards on “Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power inthe Nineteenth-Century United States”
OCTOBER 17, 2023 @ 5:00 pm | Social Science Research Building, John Hope Franklin Room (Room 224)
The Forum on Law and Legalities welcomes Prof. Laura F. Edwards, the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University, to discuss her new book Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power inthe Nineteenth-Century United States. The talk will include a roundtable discussion with Rashauna Johnson, Alison LaCroix, and Jon Levy.
Refreshments and snacks will be provided.