No point is ever moot when you're preparing to argue before the United States Supreme Court.
Hence the widespread practice of running through your arguments—a.k.a mooting—in front of various audiences ahead of the big day...
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With the 150th anniversary of the
Emancipation Proclamation rapidly approaching, the
University of Michigan has plans for a commemoration
that draws upon the institution's strengths in the
history of race and law.
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A never-before-seen photo of Frederick Douglass, a bronze
maquette of Thomas Ball's Freedmen's Memorial, a document
written by a medium under trance... More...
The Los Angeles Times publishes a story on refugees who flee to the nearest country, which is solely responsible for them, and cites the work of
Prof. James Hathaway, who has proposed the responsibility be split among many countries.
Universities must give faculty unlimited freedom to
conduct and publish research...the dean of the Yale Law School said Thursday..
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Who better qualified to speak on Abraham Lincoln than
the man who's done everything from winning the Pulitzer,
Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes for his published work on
Lincoln, to advising Disney...
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When Fetchnotes, a University of Michigan student start-up venture, needed legal support recently, its founders knew just where to go: Michigan Law's Entrepreneurship Clinic.
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There's not a lot of documentation surrounding early patents, with one exception—the patents themselves.
Consider the example of a paddle-wheel ship powered by horses walking on a sort of glorified gerbil wheel...
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Associate Justice Elena Kagan gave an inside look at the Supreme Court during a morning talk ....
Later in the day, at the dedication of South Hall, the focus was on the building's importance to a Michigan Law legal education...
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The three recipients of Michigan Law's 2012
Distinguished Alumni Award have achieved eminent careers
in business, the judiciary, and academia.
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If it's a little lonely at the Office of Career Planning, it's only because many of the staff have decamped to a nearby hotel to help students navigate Michigan Law's Early Interview Week (EIW).
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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!"
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Here's some heartening news: even those MLaw grads not in the top 10 land fascinating jobs.
Cindy Cohn,'89, is living proof. "I was nowhere near the top of the class"...
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Il-Won Kang's appointment to Korea's
Constitutional Court marks the third time since 2010
that MLaw LLMs from the class of '93 have been named to
their country's highest courts.
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The deplorable condition of the criminal justice and public health systems was the subject of a recent lunchtime talk by
1983 Michigan Law grad Brad Brockmann.
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The three recipients of Michigan Law's 2012
Distinguished Alumni Award have achieved eminent careers
in business, the judiciary, and academia.
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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.
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The Washington Post reports that Maria Lourdes Aranal Sereno, LLM '93, has been appointed as the Philippines' Chief Justice of the Supreme Court—the first woman to hold this position.
Michigan Law graduates are known for serving the community, and
Tara Mahoney, '05, is no exception. Mahoney was named president of the board of directors at the Neutral Zone in Ann Arbor...
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Colleen Manwell, '12, had no interest in becoming a lawyer, a fact she referenced in her Michigan Law application.
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New 1Ls, LLMs, and research scholars kicked off the school year with a day of community service on August 30. More...
Betsy Fisher has spent summers in the Middle East before, so she had some idea what to expect...
Freshly returned from eight weeks in the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq, Fisher now knows even more than before. More...
The Commitment to Integrity ceremony has been a part of
Michigan Law's orientation for new students since 2009.
... The pledge reminds students that the future of the country is, in many ways, tied to the integrity of the legal profession. More...
Michigan Law's Early Interview Week (EIW) took place August 21–24. This year, the annual jobs gathering featured representatives from almost 500 top legal employers from around the country... More...
Michigan Law students are part of an innovative partnership between the U-M and a key Detroit community organization: Focus: HOPE.
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For Michigan Law 3L Ted Lawrence, his first lesson in electoral politics was a sweet one.
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Twenty-seven years of bitter injustice ended at 1:20 p.m. June 6 when a prison door swung open in Carson City, Mich., and David Lee Gavitt walked out a free man.
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The
dedication ceremony for South Hall focused on the building's importance to a Michigan legal education, and on the generous donors who made the building possible.
Associate Justice Elena Kagan gave an inside look at the Supreme Court on September 7, during a
morning Q&A with Law School Dean Evan Caminker at the Power Center.
New 1Ls, LLMs, and research scholars kicked off the school year with a day of community service on August 30. More...
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