On the Planet Lex podcast, Tina Tchen (JD '84), former chief of staff to Michelle Obama and president and CEO of Time’s Up Now and the Time’s Up Foundation, discusses how the law can actually impede progress in critical areas of workplace discrimination, and how businesses and government can more effectively move the needle.

In March, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law was proud to welcome the Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr. for the 2021 Pope & John Lecture Series on Professionalism. The hourlong conversation with Interim Dean James Speta covered voter suppression, current conversations on modifying the filibuster law, and Judge Merrick Garland’s appointment as the new attorney general under the Biden administration.

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the Northwestern University Law Review are proud to honor Marshall S. Shapo, the Frederick P. Vose Professor of Law Emeritus, with an online Festschrift recognizing his achievements.

In addition to their ongoing work related to the COVID-19 pandemic, attorneys at the Bluhm Legal Clinic have been engaged in Chicago’s protests of the racial injustice and police brutality enacted against Black Americans.

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law alum Brendan Duffy (JD ’17) will clerk for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett for the October 2020 term. Duffy is one of four clerks selected by Justice Barrett, and the only of her clerks who has not previously completed a Supreme Court clerkship. He also clerked for Justice Barrett in the Seventh Circuit in 2018-19.