In a program honoring the impact and ideas of Judge Posner, Thomas J. Miles, the recipient of the inaugural Posner Professorship, delivered an endowed chair lecture on the state of legal scholarship today
The Law School recently celebrated the establishment of the Richard A. Posner Professorship of Law in the Wallman Society of Fellows and the installation of Thomas J. Miles as its inaugural occupant. Miles was also simultaneously named a Distinguished Service Professor for his exceptional decade of service as dean of the Law School.
The event, which included remarks from several speakers and an endowed chair lecture from Miles, honored Posner, one of the most influential figures in American law, who was a longtime Law School faculty member and an appellate judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit for nearly four decades.
In his opening remarks, Dean Adam Chilton expressed his gratitude to the many donors who made the endowed chair possible, giving special mention to UChicago alumni Imran Siddiqui, Sorin Siddiqui, ’01, Amy Wallman, and Richard Wallman “for their incredible leadership and vision in helping to establish this chair.”
Chilton also emphasized Posner’s reverberating influence both in the law and in the Law School’s curriculum and culture. And praised Miles for his importance as a scholar in the law and economics movement.
