Senior Day Speaker Larry Dean Thompson, general counsel of Pepsico, addresses the graduates.
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Dodgers legend, M Law grad Branch Rickey -- and a new
professorship created in his name -- honored at Mets' new stadium
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In the stately rotunda that bears Jackie Robinson’s name, the New York Mets rolled out the red carpet in celebration of the Law School’s new Branch Rickey Collegiate Professorship.
Mets principal owner Fred Wilpon, LSA ’58, one of the benefactors of the Rickey Professorship, welcomed about 240 people to a reception April 30 at the Mets’ new Citi Field, where Rickey, JD ’11, was remembered as epitomizing Michigan Law’s values. |
He's not royalty, but Michigan Law student Nick Chang is in the purple anyway as fellow student Rukku Singla bombards him with a burst of colored powder. Sponsored by the South Asian Law Students Association, the April 17 celebration on the Law Quad marked Holi, an annual rite of spring celebrated by Hindus around the world. More ...
Team of 2Ls takes top honors
The champions of the 2009 Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition could hardly have afforded not to win.
Because if 2Ls Frances Lewis and Usman Ahmed had come up short, Lewis says they would have felt compelled to try again in 2010.
"Now we don’t feel the need to come back and compete again next year," said an only partly joking Lewis, who also captured Best Oralist honors. The Best Brief award went to the other team that reached the finals -- Isabel Daniels and Dan Hipskind, both third-year students. More ...
Law.com reports Aaron McCree Lewis, ’05, named to Justice Department post.
1995 Michigan Law grad Jasbina Ahluwalia, fascinated by matchmaking, falls for the love biz.
In Sunday New York Times, Nicholas Kristof argues, with help from 1988 grad Elisa Massimino, that White House needs to confront the legacy of Bush Administration interrogation techniques. Massimino makes similar point for herself on NPR’s Diane Rehm show.
You could look it up: Chicago Tribune profiles "Dictionary Man" Theodore Utchen, ‘58.
The Supremes should leave adjustment of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act to our elected representatives in Congress, despite the election of Barack Obama, Ellen Katz argues in National Law Journal op-ed.
Clap on that white 10-gallon hat and cinch up that bolo tie -- Jon Stewart interviews 1981 grad and new Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show."
Prof. Richard Primus writes in The New Republic on how future presidents can avoid the increasingly requisite cradle-robbing that goes on when picking Supreme Court justices.
The Wall Street Journal notes, with help from Prof. Jessica Litman, contributions made to American intellectual property law made by U.S. Register of Copyrights Barbara Ringer.