Alum-Turned-Adjunct Honored for Work with ITC, Habitat for Humanity

Alum-Turned-Adjunct Honored for Work with ITC, Habitat for Humanity

Adjunct Prof. Carl Valenstein says there were two important messages delivered when his firm, Bingham, recently honored him with a public service award for his work setting up a microfinancing fund with Michigan Law's International Transaction Clinic and Habitat for Humanity.
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Ready for the Real World

Ready for the Real World

Like many first-year law students, Taylor Garrett, '03, assumed that after graduation he would head off to work at a law firm. He couldn't quite see the path that led there, but he took it as a given that sooner or later he'd end up on it.
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MLaw Students, Alums Find Camaraderie on the (Hockey) Bench

MLaw Students, Alums Find Camaraderie on the (Hockey) Bench

There is no shortage of rules in the game of hockey or in the practice of law, but just one in the locker room of Michigan Law's ice hockey team.
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MLaw Grads Claim 100 Clerkships for 2013

MLaw Grads Claim 100 Clerkships for 2013

For the second time in a decade, at least 100 recent Michigan Law graduates have secured coveted clerkships in judges' chambers across the country—and overseas, as well.

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One Year Later, Exoneree Still Adjusting

One Year Later, Exoneree Still Adjusting

Phones that aren't plugged into the wall. Phones that take pictures and play music. Phones that go on the Internet. The Internet itself, for crying out loud.
 
All new to Michigan Innocence Clinic exoneree David Gavitt.
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Interest in Energy Law Drives New Course Offerings, Student Group at MLaw

Interest in Energy Law Drives New Course Offerings, Student Group at MLaw

Michigan Law's energy law-related courses have increased fourfold in the last year alone as student interest has spread across the energy spectrum, from renewables to issues associated with more traditional forms. Student group MEnergy has led the charge on behalf of students for more energy law offerings in the curriculum.
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Ann Arbor's Song of Summer

Ann Arbor's Song of Summer

Michigan Law's Summer Starters may get an academic head start on the rest of the student body, but they also get a few intangible benefits -- not least of which is living in Ann Arbor during the laid-back summer months.

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Michigan Business Breakthrough Benefits U-M Startup

Michigan Business Breakthrough Benefits U-M Startup

Internal bleeding can be a life-threatening problem even when it happens in the controlled environment of Tier 1 trauma centers like those at the University of Michigan Health System. In remote villages in Ghana, it's too often fatal.
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Research Scholars Study Caselaw-in-the-Making as EU Battles Financial Crisis

Research Scholars Study Caselaw-in-the-Making as EU Battles Financial Crisis

These are landmark times in the legal system of the European Union, Michigan Law research scholars Samo Bardutzky and Elaine Fahey say. Together with the Michigan Journal of International Law, the pair have prepared an Emerging Scholarship symposium that examines judicial response to the Eurozone crisis.

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Summer Starters Begin Their Student Careers With Integrity Pledge

Summer Starters Begin Their Student Careers With Integrity Pledge

For Michigan Law's incoming Summer Starters, the first order of business is integrity.
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If the PHID House Could Talk

If the PHID House Could Talk

At the age of 99, the Georgian manse of Phi Delta Phi lives on like a roguish old gentleman, enjoying the peace of old age but still smiling over memories of a wild youth.

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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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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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FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS

Prof. Rebecca Scott is interviewed on BlogTalkRadio about her book Freedom Papers, which recently won two prestigious awards. (Interview begins after minute two.)

Prof. Bridget Mary McCormack has been elected to the Michigan Supreme Court for an eight-year term, report Michigan Radio, the Detroit Free Press, and The Detroit News.

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... More...

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. More...

Michigan Law professor David Uhlmann has been named one of two 2012 "Conservation Champions" by the Michigan League of Conservation Voters. More...

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 aggressive stance taken by Texas officials in two high-profile cases may backfire... Michigan Law professor Ellen Katz argues in a new paper. 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.

Prof. Richard Friedman comments in a Detroit Free Press story regarding former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's change of venue request for his upcoming corruption trial.

Prof. Phoebe Ellsworth, along with Prof. David Moran, is quoted in a Detroit Free Press story about a holdout juror who had not been forthcoming about potential biases.

Prof. Bridgette Carr is interviewed for a Christian Science Monitor cover story on human trafficking.

MLAW PEOPLE

Universities must give faculty unlimited freedom to conduct and publish research...the dean of the Yale Law School said Thursday.. More...

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...  More...

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. More...

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...  More...

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... More...

The three recipients of Michigan Law's 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award have achieved eminent careers in business, the judiciary, and academia. More...

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). 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...

ALUMNI

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"... More...

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. More...

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. More...

The three recipients of Michigan Law's 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award have achieved eminent careers in business, the judiciary, and academia. More...

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...

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... More...

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

STUDENTS

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. More...

For Michigan Law 3L Ted Lawrence, his first lesson in electoral politics was a sweet one. More...

Mr Wolverine 2012: The Slideshow.

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. More...

MULTIMEDIA

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...

Michigan Law's Early Interview Week (EIW) took place August 21–24.

Contact

Jared Wadley
University News Service
jwadley@umich.edu
Office: 734.936.7819

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