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New Report Reveals Record Number of Exonerations in 2014

A record 125 exonerations of wrongly convicted criminals were recorded in 2014, according to a new report released Jan. 27 by the National Registry of Exonerations.

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Issues in Immigration Reform to Drive <em>Michigan Journal of Law Reform</em> Symposium

Issues in Immigration Reform to Drive Michigan Journal of Law Reform Symposium

One of the more hotly debated subjects in American politics today, immigration reform will also lead discussion at the Michigan Journal of Law Reform's annual symposium Feb. 7.

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Justice Ginsburg to Deliver Tanner Lecture at U-M on Feb. 6

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, will present the University of Michigan's 2015 Tanner Lecture on Human Values on Friday, Feb. 6, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Hill Auditorium.

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Checking Boxes: Prof. Martha Jones Discusses Life at the Intersection of Law and Mixed-Race Identity for MLK Day

As the featured speaker for Michigan Law's Martin Luther King Jr. Day lecture, Prof. Martha Jones reflected on her mixed-race experience to open up an understanding of how legal culture has wrestled with the idea that Americans might check more than one box of racial identity.

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Five Michigan Law Students Named Dow Sustainability Fellows

Five Michigan Law students will soon add their experience and views to an array of sustainability efforts as members of the 2015 cohort of Dow Sustainability Fellows at the University of Michigan.

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Meet the Employers Previews Career Prospects for 1Ls

Before Early Interview Week and the 4,600 interviews that accompany it, there is Meet the Employers and the opportunity for 1Ls to begin building the breadth of research and relationships that can launch their legal careers.

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Southwick, '09, and Davidson, '06: A Fight for the Rights of a Transgender Student

When the ruling came down in a high-profile gender identity discrimination case, Paul Southwick, ’09, and Cliff Davidson, ’06, recognized that it wasn’t everything they had hoped for. Still, they considered it a big win for their client, who had been expelled from a Christian college after revealing on a television show that she was assigned the male sex at birth.

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mcdonald's facing civil rights suit

"If the plaintiffs prevail in this case, I think it will be very significant in both setting legal precedent and sending a message that franchisors are responsible for the actions of the people who bear their brands and who send money back to the source."

—Samuel Bagenstos, Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, in an Aljazeera.com article on the lawsuit filed against McDonald's and one of its franchisees alleging violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

mcdonald's facing civil rights suit

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