A Family for Feleke

A Family for Feleke

Before the lost visas and passports, before the treacherous travel and the frantic search for prednisone somewhere in the middle of Ethiopia, before one father asked another to keep his son on the other side of the world—before all of that, Kyle and Ruth Ann Logue had a conversation.
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Directors’ College, NACD Hold Program for General Counsels

Directors’ College, NACD Hold Program for General Counsels

Directors, general counsels, and senior executives of U.S. businesses were given practical guidance about navigating an increasingly challenging global business landscape at a program presented this week by the Directors' College for Global Business and Law at the University of Michigan Law School and the National Association of Corporate Directors.
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From Opposite Sides of the World, Students Find Friendship at MLaw

From Opposite Sides of the World, Students Find Friendship at MLaw

Born into different cultures and raised on opposite sides of the world, 2Ls Thomas Kadri and Surya Kundu were living far from parallel lives when their paths crossed one summer's day in a courtyard at Michigan Law.

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Tax Student's Research Grabs International Attention

Tax Student's Research Grabs International Attention

International Tax LLM student Amir Pichhadze is still adjusting to the fact that his paper in Tax Notes International is currently the fouth-most-downloaded among tax practitioners.
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"42" Generates New Interest in Rickey—Just As His Descendent Graduates MLaw

"42" Generates New Interest in Rickey—Just As His Descendent Graduates MLaw

With the Jackie Robinson bio-pic "42" clocking in among top-grossing movies, the topic of Michigan Law grad Branch Rickey -- who signed Robinson -- was bound to come up during Senior Day festivities.

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Messages of Inclusion, Passion, and Determination Infuse Senior Day

Messages of Inclusion, Passion, and Determination Infuse Senior Day

Wherever life may lead, be a champion for a more inclusive America, outgoing U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, '81, bid graduates of the Michigan Law Class of 2013 Sunday afternoon.
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Detroit Center for Family Advocacy: Review Finds High Success Rate in Keeping Kids with Families

Detroit Center for Family Advocacy: Review Finds High Success Rate in Keeping Kids with Families

The Detroit Center for Family Advocacy (CFA) has achieved high rates of success in its efforts to keep kids out of foster care and with family members, according to a new report by an outside evaluator, and now the CFA is working with organizations in other states to replicate the model it has established
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MLaw Prof Explores Evangelical Underrepresentation Among Legal Elite

MLaw Prof Explores Evangelical Underrepresentation Among Legal Elite

Are evangelicals underrepresented among America's legal elite? It is a question that has intrigued Michigan Law Prof. Dan Crane for more than a year and one he revisited this month while guest blogging for the Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University Law School.
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Michigan Law Clinics Help Fill Justice Gap

Michigan Law Clinics Help Fill Justice Gap

For hundreds of clients who benefit every year from the pro bono services of as many as 17 Michigan Law clinics, it's hard to imagine a more effective combination of the practical and the theoretical in legal education.

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MLaw Students, Alumni Awarded Fellowships for Public Service, Research

MLaw Students, Alumni Awarded Fellowships for Public Service, Research

With the aid of a wide range of merit-based fellowships, many Michigan Law students and alumni will have the ability this year to continue their studies abroad, provide legal assistance to underserved populations, and pursue government work that may have been impossible without financial assistance.

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MLaw Grad Appointed to Traineeship with the International Court of Justice

MLaw Grad Appointed to Traineeship with the International Court of Justice

Moments after arriving home at her London apartment following a visit to the United States, Michigan Law graduate Sarah St. Vincent learned that she had been selected for a coveted traineeship on the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

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Interactive Map Shows Global Reach, Diverse Careers of MLaw Grads

Interactive Map Shows Global Reach, Diverse Careers of MLaw Grads

Michigan Law's reputation and global reach means that, after you complete your education, there is virtually no limit on where you can go. Our new interactive feature highlighting employment statistics demonstrates that geographic reach and details the diverse legal work our graduates do.
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Legal Aid Lawyers Offer Career Advice, Insight to Public Service

Legal Aid Lawyers Offer Career Advice, Insight to Public Service

The life of a legal aid lawyer isn’t easy, but it can be infinitely rewarding, legal aid attorneys Lisa Ruby, ’91, Kate Sharkey, and Tracy Van den Bergh told Michigan Law students during a recent panel discussion on the topic.

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Lawyers Club Renovation to Provide New Spaces and Upgrades for Residents

Lawyers Club Renovation to Provide New Spaces and Upgrades for Residents

When the Lawyers Club reopens in fall 2013, residents will experience more than renovated living spaces. They'll also have an opportunity to gather in 11 new corridor lounges, or Club Rooms, that are designed to foster community and camaraderie within the housing complex.

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Roopal Shah—a 1995 MLaw graduate who has a background practicing law for the government and in the private sector, as well as starting a nongovernmental organization in India—has been named assistant dean for international affairs. More...

Slideshow: 1L Emerson Girardeau III is the recipient of the 35th annual Alden J. "Butch" Carpenter Memorial Fund Scholarship, which is awarded each year to first-year Michigan Law students who exemplify its namesake's ideals.

1L students launch a new speaker series called TALK that seeks to build community and compassion among peers. More... 

Slideshow: The South Asian Law Students Association hosted its own Holi celebration on March 30. Holi, known as the Hindu festival of colors, involves coating participants with colorful powder in a gesture of good will and camaraderie. 

MLaw students, on the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision Gideon v. Wainwright, gathered during a lunchtime talk to hear experts discuss the current state of indigent representation in Michigan and elsewhere. More...

NPR's Michele Norris made a stop at the Law School as part of the Race Card Project, which aims to have an open dialogue with students and others about race. More...

When Michigan Law 2L Kelly O'Donnell set off for Belize this spring, she wasn't in pursuit of the sort of color one might associate with a Caribbean destination. More...

Michigan Law's Headnotes traverse the Law School on Valentine's Day, springing tuneful surprises on unsuspecting students, professors, and staff: video.

Annual events Mr. Wolverine, Valograms, and Midway Madness are a unique part of the student experience: slideshow.

When the Lawyers Club reopens in fall 2013, residents will experience more than renovated living spaces. They'll also have an opportunity to gather in 11 new Club Rooms designed to foster community and camaraderie. More...

Brandon Weiner, '11, may not have known what he was getting into when he checked out an art show one day at North End Studios in Detroit. More...

Denise Brogan-Kator, '06, who runs the Rainbow Law Center in Ann Arbor along with partner Mary Kator, was a featured speaker at MLaw on cross-cultural lawyering. More...

Back when Shuping Qi, '12, was a scientist, she had to work hard to remember what life was like outside the lab. Qi, who earned a PhD in pharmacology, found herself wondering whether it might be better for her to see what the wider world might hold. More...

Adjunct Prof. Curtis Mack, LLM '73, offers lessons on giving back and paying it forward. More...

William McClain's career has been marked by success despite the odds, from his role as the first black city solicitor of a major U.S. city to becoming the first black common pleas court judge in Cincinnati. Now 100, McClain, '37, reflects on lessons learned. More...

Visiting Prof. Karthy Govender ties together King, Mandela, and Gandhi during MLK Day talk focusing on the struggle for human rights. More...


Christine Gregory, '96, knows how important the Michigan Access Program (MAP) can be for students, because when she was a student, the program was a fundamental part of her success. More...

Clerking on Germany's highest court wasn't necessarily on Judith Schmidt's radar when she arrived at Michigan Law to begin her LLM studies in 2008. More...

Collegiality finds a home at Aikens Commons: video.

Betsy Fisher has spent summers in the Middle East before, so she had some idea what to expect when she decided to spend this one in Iraq, helping displaced Iraqis. More...

Dean Caminker gave the 2013 Blue Jeans Lecture. Now in the final months of his deanship, he was asked by students to highlight his Top 10 funny, surreal, and unexpected moments. Read a recap and view a slideshow from the event.

Slideshow: The Law School Student Senate hosted the spring semester faculty wine and cheese reception, which offers the chance for students and faculty to interact in a casual setting away from the classroom.

Prof. Kim Thomas receives the Justice for All Award from the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan for her work on behalf of juvenile justice. More...

Clinical Assistant Prof. Nancy Vettorello, '97, is named the 2013 L. Hart Wright Award recipient, thanks to the efforts of former and current students who banded together to honor their well-respected teacher. More...

Slideshow: Prof. Jim Hathaway, along with students and leading experts, convened March 22-24 for the Sixth Colloquium on Challenges in International Refugee Law.

MLaw professors discuss same-sex marriage cases during a recent lunchtime talk. More...

Prof. Bridgette Carr, director of MLaw's Human Trafficking Clinic, was chosen for Michigan's State Commission on Human Trafficking. More...

Five MLaw professors were appointed to named professorships. More...

A roomful of prospective Michigan Law 1Ls got a firsthand look at a sampling of faculty members—and what they can expect to learn from those faculty members—during Preview Weekend. More...

Michigan Law's new Child Welfare Appellate Clinic, scheduled for launch this fall, aims both to raise the bar on legal writing and to improve appellate representation of people whose parental rights have been terminated. More...

As oral argument approaches in a Supreme Court case challenging a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Prof. Ellen Katz and the Voting Rights Initiative argue that the VRA's regional provisions continue to provide vital protection to minority voters in the places where they apply. More...

A paper by Michigan Law's Kyle Logue and the University of Chicago's Omri Ben-Shahar has captured the 2013 Liberty Mutual Prize for the year's most exceptional article on the law of property and casualty insurance. More...

It looks a little like a clinic. It looks a little like an externship. But the new Michigan Law Transactional Lab, coming this fall, is actually neither. More...

Prof. Sam Gross is the editor of the National Registry of Exonerations, a joint project of Michigan Law and Northwestern University School of Law. The database lists all known exonerations in the United States since 1989.

A distinguished panel of Michigan Law professors gathered during the lunch hour today to help 1997 grad Chad Readler get ready to face the United States Supreme Court. More...

Mark D. West, associate dean for academic affairs at Michigan Law and a highly regarded scholar whose research focuses on the Japanese legal system, will be the 17th dean of the Law School beginning Sept. 1, 2013. More...

Prof. J.J. White teaches his final class in December: article and slideshow.

Whether he’s pumping out scholarly papers or flying off to all corners of the globe to participate in high-level discussions about international tax, it's obvious that Prof. Reuven Avi-Yonah doesn't find the work—pardon the pun—taxing. More...

Prof. David Uhlmann, director of the Environmental Law & Policy Program, pens "Toward A Sustainable Future: An Environmental Agenda for the Second Term of the Obama Administration." More... 

Prof. Sonja Starr's research shows large unexplained gender disparities in federal criminal cases. More...

Prof. Rebecca Scott's book Freedom Papers recently won two prestigious awards. More...

No point is ever moot when you're preparing to argue before the United States Supreme Court. Hence the widespread practice of...mooting... More...

It wasn't long ago that Eve Brensike Primus, '01, was a student copiously studying from Modern Criminal Procedure. Now, she's an MLaw professor who not only uses the casebook in class, but coauthored the latest edition. More...

William Bock III, '89, and Betsy Andreu, BA '89, spoke at an April Law School event about ethical lessons learned from the Lance Armstrong doping case. More...

Former Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner visited the University of Michigan Law School April 18, for an off-the-record conversation with Michigan faculty and students from across the University. More...

Michigan Law alumnus Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, is set to deliver this spring's commencement address at Law School Senior Day ceremonies May 12. More...

Life Behind Bars: Former prisoner Khalil Shabazz spoke to law students about spending time in solitary confinement in a Michigan prison. Shabazz's talk was presented by MLaw's Prisoners' Rights Organization of Students. More...

Slideshow: Prof. Jim Hathaway, along with students and leading experts, convened March 22-24 for the Sixth Colloquium on Challenges in International Refugee Law.

MLaw students, on the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision Gideon v. Wainwright, gathered during a lunchtime talk to hear experts discuss the current state of indigent representation in Michigan and elsewhere. More...

NPR's Michele Norris made a stop at the Law School as part of the Race Card Project, which aims to have an open dialogue with students and others about race. More...

A symposium on "The Future of Class-Action Litigation," convened by the Michigan Journal of Law Reform and co-sponsored by U-M's Law School and Ross School of Business, featured a line-up of nationally prominent experts. More...

Dark money rises. And no, we're not discussing an upcoming "Batman" sequel. We're talking about the amount of untraceable money being spent each cycle on elections, including appellate judicial elections. More...

One of the small thrills of Wolverine life is strolling along in some far-off corner of the world and suddenly hearing the universal exhortation, "Go Blue!" More...

The Michigan Journal of Race & Law presented a Feb. 2 symposium that explored the impact of solitary confinement on those who are subjected to it. More...

Faculty needs unlimited freedom to conduct research, scholar says. More...

Proclaiming Emancipation Conference: slideshow.

Detroit, the former industrial behemoth that gave rise to America's automobile culture, has had for decades to contend with a notoriety brought on by urban decay, racial tension, and corrupt politics. More...

Environmental and social justice activist Maria Gunnoe—who was awarded the University of Michigan's 22nd Raoul Wallenberg Medal—gave a lunchtime talk. More...

The Federal Circuit Bar Association gathered experts at Michigan Law to discuss patent litigation during a recent conference. More...

Dean Evan Caminker has a conversation with Associate Justice Elena Kagan.

Who better qualified to speak on Abraham Lincoln than the man who's done everything from winning the Pulitzer Prize for his work on Lincoln, to advising Disney on its Hall of Presidents? More...

Starting life from scratch after being wrongly imprisoned for 27 years for murder and arson is no easy task, as David Lee Gavitt, recently exonerated thanks to the efforts of Michigan Law's Innocence Clinic, can attest. More...

In July, the Michigan Supreme Court overturned a felony child support conviction against Michigan Innocence Clinic client Selesa Likine. More...

Law school should be a time of exploration and an opportunity to get to know yourselves and your interests, Michigan Law graduate Amy Cocuzza, '09, advised students during a banquet honoring their public interest and pro bono work. More...

John Sloss, '81, film sales agent-turned-lawyer, shares his thoughts on the world of independent films. More...

Roopal Shah—a 1995 MLaw graduate who has a background practicing law for the government and in the private sector, as well as starting a nongovernmental organization in India—has been named assistant dean for international affairs. More...

William Bock III, '89, and Betsy Andreu, BA '89, spoke at an April Law School event about ethical lessons learned from the Lance Armstrong doping case. More...

Angel Pachev believes some things should be left to fate. But he readily admits that having "the right competence at the right time" can give fate a helping hand. This philosophy led to his leaving a respected clerkship at the Court of Justice of the European Union to pursue an LLM at Michigan Law.

Chris Rizik, '86, chief executive officer of Renaissance Venture Capital Fund, is helping to make Ann Arbor and southeast Michigan the center for the next generation of entrepreneurial ventures. More...

Michigan Law alumnus Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, is set to deliver this spring's commencement address at Law School Senior Day ceremonies May 12. More...

Prof. Bridgette Carr, director of MLaw's Human Trafficking Clinic, was chosen for Michigan's State Commission on Human Trafficking. More...

Sisters in law: They call each other Nealie and Margie, but for decades, others had a different way of addressing Cornelia Kennedy and Margaret Schaeffer: Your Honor. More...

A highlights of Tom Simon's lifelong love affair with baseball history almost didn't happen. Simon, a 1990 Mlaw grad who practices in Vermont, was filtering through his mail one day last fall when he came across an envelope from the Baseball Hall of Fame. More...

Hannah Gold, '12: "I don't think I would have been as successful in law school if I hadn't [taken a clinic]." More...

Joseph Morrison, Jr., arrived at Michigan Law with an interest in practicing corporate law, but after discovering that "Ann Arbor and Detroit have a young and vibrant entrepreneurial community"... More...

Brandon Weiner, '11, may not have known what he was getting into when he checked out an art show one day at North End Studios in Detroit. More...

Back when Shuping Qi, '12, was a scientist, she had to work hard to remember what life was like outside the lab. Qi, who earned a PhD in pharmacology, found herself wondering whether it might be better for her to see what the wider world might hold. More...

Adjunct Prof. Curtis Mack, LLM '73, offers lessons on giving back and paying it forward. More...

William McClain's career has been marked by success despite the odds, from his role as the first black city solicitor of a major U.S. city to becoming the first black common pleas court judge in Cincinnati. Now 100, McClain, '37, reflects on lessons learned. More...

Bob Stefanski: How the 1989 Michigan Law graduate went from corporate attorney to entrepreneurial advisor. More...

More than 200 Michigan Law alumni gathered at 10 locations across the country for the fourth year of the Alumni and Friends Service Day. Slideshow and article.

As a child growing up in New Jersey, Bruce Tuchman, '89, had "two abiding interests" for when he entered into adulthood: He longed to travel the world, and he dreamed of working in entertainment. More...

Colleen Manwell, '12, had no interest in becoming a lawyer, a fact she referenced in her Michigan Law application. More...

For the first time, all of the editors-in-chief of Michigan Law's journals are women. It's noteworthy, but not unexpected, several EICs said. More...

Slideshow: The Law School Student Senate hosted the spring semester faculty wine and cheese reception, which offers the chance for students and faculty to interact in a casual setting away from the classroom.

Slideshow: 1L Emerson Girardeau III is the recipient of the 35th annual Alden J. "Butch" Carpenter Memorial Fund Scholarship, which is awarded each year to first-year Michigan Law students who exemplify its namesake's ideals.

1L students launch a new speaker series called TALK that seeks to build community and compassion among peers. More... 

Slideshow: MLaw hosts the finals of the 2013 Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition.

3L Elana Beale is one of only 32 law students selected nationwide to serve as an American Constitution Society's Next Generation Leader. More...

Slideshow: Dores McCree's legacy of helping minority students adjust to life at Michigan Law was recently carried out by the Black Law Students Alliance. The group hosted local minority high school students to help them learn about careers in the law. More...

Admitted students get a taste of life at Michigan Law during Preview Weekend: slideshow.

Slideshow: The South Asian Law Students Association hosted its own Holi celebration on March 30. Holi, known as the Hindu festival of colors, involves coating participants with colorful powder in a gesture of good will and camaraderie. 

Slideshow: Prof. Jim Hathaway, along with students and leading experts, convened March 22-24 for the Sixth Colloquium on Challenges in International Refugee Law.

When Michigan Law 2L Kelly O'Donnell set off for Belize this spring, she wasn't in pursuit of the sort of color one might associate with a Caribbean destination. More...

Michigan Law's Headnotes traverse the Law School on Valentine's Day, springing tuneful surprises on unsuspecting students, professors, and staff: video.

Annual events Mr. Wolverine, Valograms, and Midway Madness are a unique part of the student experience: slideshow.

SFF Auction: Dancing, bidding, and singing off-key, for a good cause. More...

Greer Donley, a 2L, researched and published a paper about prenatal whole genome sequencing during a two-year pre-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. More...

Chilling with MLaw's hockey team: article and slideshow.

When some people encounter the trademark vivid green carpeting in Michigan Law's underground library for the first time, they think of Ireland. Dan Wojciak wasn't one of those people. He thought of mini-golf. More...

Michigan Law unveils the first of its kind Debt Wizard—a calculator that provides a simple method for students to explore different ways to service their prospective law school debt. More...

Michigan Law 3L Liz Gary has been meeting with the ideal people to carry on, after she graduates, her tireless effort to encourage Law School composting. Ninjas. More...

The Michigan Journal of Race & Law presented a Feb. 2 symposium that explored the impact of solitary confinement on those who are subjected to it. More...

Michigan Law 3L Liz Lamoste pens a Huffington Post blog on Medicaid expansion. More...

Christine Gregory, '96, knows how important the Michigan Access Program (MAP) can be for students, because when she was a student, the program was a fundamental part of her success. More...

MLaw student Liz Och gets plenty of rest, despite being involved and making the most of her Law School experience. More... 

Twenty-two teams competed in the Law Students for Reproductive Justice's second annual Sex Ed Trivia Night on Oct. 18. All of them were required to choose a team name; most of them cannot be reprinted here. More...

Slideshow: Michigan Law hosts a senior celebration—class photo included—for graduating JDs, LLMs, and SJDs.

Slideshow: The Law School Student Senate hosted the spring semester faculty wine and cheese reception, which offers the chance for students and faculty to interact in a casual setting away from the classroom.

Slideshow: 1L Emerson Girardeau III is the recipient of the 35th annual Alden J. "Butch" Carpenter Memorial Fund Scholarship, which is awarded each year to first-year Michigan Law students who exemplify its namesake's ideals.

Slideshow: Dores McCree's legacy of helping minority students adjust to life at Michigan Law was recently carried out by the Black Law Students Alliance. The group hosted local minority high school students to help them learn about careers in the law. More...

Admitted students get a taste of life at Michigan Law during Preview Weekend: slideshow.

Slideshow: The South Asian Law Students Association hosted its own Holi celebration on March 30. Holi, known as the Hindu festival of colors, involves coating participants with colorful powder in a gesture of good will and camaraderie. 

Slideshow: Prof. Jim Hathaway, along with students and leading experts, convened March 22-24 for the Sixth Colloquium on Challenges in International Refugee Law.

Michigan Law hosted its first-ever Philanthropy Awareness Day March 13, a fun opportunity for the Law School community to appreciate how much alumni and friends do for Michigan Law: slideshow.

Presidents' Day (Feb. 18) marked the closing of the "Proclaiming Emancipation" exhibit at U-M's Hatcher Graduate Library. It was also Kids' Day at the exhibit: slideshow.

Michigan Law's Headnotes traverse the Law School on Valentine's Day, springing tuneful surprises on unsuspecting students, professors, and staff: video.

Annual events Mr. Wolverine, Valograms, and Midway Madness are a unique part of the student experience: slideshow.

Senior Day December 2012: video and slideshow.

Chilling with MLaw's hockey team: article and slideshow.

The Headnotes help students and faculty de-stress during a holiday concert: slideshow.

Proclaiming Emancipation Conference: slideshow.

South Hall Dedication, Sept. 7, 2012: slideshow.

Dean Evan Caminker has a conversation with Associate Justice Elena Kagan.

Collegiality finds a home at Aikens Commons: video.

The last day of classes was all the more joyous for students thanks to a celebratory picnic sponsored by the Law School Student Student: slideshow.

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University News Service
jwadley@umich.edu
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