Scholar Profile

Philip O'Sullivan

Law

Biography

Philip graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude from the University of Chicago with a major in US History with honors and a minor in mathematics. At UChicago, Philip worked as a research assistant in sociology professor Robert Vargas' Violence, Law, and Politics Lab. He will also be co-authoring an article with Professor Vargas for the University of Chicago Law Review for publication in 2021. He also won the History Department's annual Barnard Thesis Prize, given to the best undergraduate thesis in US History, for his senior thesis on civil liability and police torture in Chicago. In the Fall of 2022, Philip will start a joint JD/PhD in Statistics at Harvard University.

High school:  School Without Walls Senior High School

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