And a producer’s sidebar, with more on Carr’s role.
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He’s traded all-night meetings in a Washington office he jokes was the size of a bowling alley for the leaded-glass charm of book-lined, ninth floor digs in the Legal Research Building. After two crisis-driven years as one of President Barack Obama’s point men on financial reform, Assistant Treasury Secretary Michael Barr is about to become, once again, Michigan Law’s Professor Michael Barr. More |
By John Masson, Amicus editor
The Law School community was saddened last week by the loss of former Law School Administrator Dores McCree, whose family roots at Michigan Law ran deep and who was familiar to generations of students who attended prior to her retirement in 2001.
"The term ‘grand dame’ must have been designed for her," said Sarah Zearfoss, ’92, one of Dores McCree’s neighbors and Michigan’s Assistant Dean for Admissions and Special Counsel for Professional Strategies. "She had an incredible combination of grace and dignity. But then she also had a simply hilarious sense of humor." More
By John Masson, Amicus editor
As the final moments of his Trusts and Estates class ticked away on Dec. 6, retiring Prof. Lawrence Waggoner found himself on the receiving end of a longstanding Michigan Law tradition he’d undoubtedly participated in many times himself.
Outside his classroom, respectful colleagues were clandestinely gathering before entering, lining the walls, and applauding—"clapping him out," as is the Michigan Law custom, of his last class. More
By John Masson, Amicus editor
Michigan Law’s Prof. Susanne Baer, one of the Law School’s five William W. Cook Global Law Professors and a Michigan alumna, has been elected to the German Federal Constitutional Court.
Prof. Baer, who began teaching at Michigan a year ago, also is a professor of public law and gender studies and dean of academic affairs at the Law Faculty at Humboldt University in Berlin. Her research areas include socio-cultural legal studies, gender studies, law against discrimination, and comparative constitutional law. She earned an LL.M. at Michigan Law in 1993. More
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Two Michigan Law 3Ls recently learned they’ve earned coveted Skadden Fellowships to fund their self-designed public interest legal projects for the next two years.
The Skadden Foundation awarded fellowships to Pat Mobley and Sarah St.Vincent as part of a program once described by the Los Angeles Times as "a legal Peace Corps." More
An accompanying AP video piece cites Carr, as well.
Prof. David Moran, ’91, discusses the 6th Amendment with NPR affiliate’s host, Lynn Rivers.
A CARP CALAMITY: They can weigh up to 100 pounds and grow to a length of four feet or more. They are voracious eaters, and from a reproductive standpoint, they make rabbits look chaste. For 1998 Michigan Law grad Noah Hall, keeping bighead and silver carp from establishing permanent residency in the Great Lakes is one of the most critical challenges facing the State of Michigan.
Jan. 17: Civil rights attorney Evan Wolfson marks MLK Day with talk on marriage equality.
Feb. 11: Michigan Law, U-M’s Center for Chinese Studies, and Wayne State University Law School co-host U.S.-China Economic Law Conference in Detroit.
Prof. John Pottow’s study on elder bankruptcies draws the attention of US News & World Report – and tons of other media outlets.
For LawTunes impresario Lawrence Savell, ’82, following up his 2009 "Season’s Briefings" CD of lawyer-themed holiday tunes was only natural. Hence this year’s slightly more rocking CD: "Yule Hear From Our Lawyers!!!" Where else will you see a song called "Second Seat Santa?"
The Washington Post is among more than 200 papers to publish AP's national investigative piece, citing Prof. Bridgette Carr, ’02, on human traffickers' abuse of student visas.