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By Jared Wadley, University of Michigan News Service
Senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett, '81, took a break May 8 from advising President Barack Obama to dispense a few pearls to 310 graduating Michigan Law students instead.
"Please savor the pride and satisfaction in the challenges you've met, and the obstacles you've overcome,"Jarrett told graduates and their families at Hill Auditorium. "Let your much-deserved self-confidence carry you forward to the next phase of your life, because you will need that confidence, and it will be tested time and time again." More ...
By John Masson, Amicus editor
The Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition, a Michigan Law tradition that stretches back more than 80 years, earned top team and best brief honors in April for 3Ls Jake Walker and Jane Metcalf, and a best oralist award for 2L Cheryl Palmeri.
Palmeri and classmate Rory Wellever were runners-up for the best team award. More ...
By John Masson, Amicus editor
Tom Whitaker, tough as the stony Vermont hillsides that cradle the farmhouse his great-grandfather built, clearly doesn't believe in aging gracefully. The hero of Emeritus Professor David Chambers' new novella, The Old Whitaker Place, speaks sharply, makes plenty of mistakes, and will do what it takes to stay in his going-to-seed family home despite his increasing pain and confusion.
Chambers' lean, elegant prose takes us unflinchingly through the closing years of narrator Tom Whitaker's life, chronicling his relationship with his son, with other people who love or at least tolerate him, and with the Green Mountain soil his life is grounded in. More ...
Prof. Richard Primus is quoted in New York Times analysis of Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination.
Meanwhile, the Law Library compiled information about Elena Kagan's legal work on a special website.
Emeritus Prof. Eric Stein pens a guest editorial in the latest Common Market Law Review.
1990 grad David Meyer is the new dean at Tulane.
James D. Zirin, '64, on terrorism and technology in The Huffington Post.
CNNMoney.com and The New York Times
are among those citing Prof. Adam Pritchard on the recent day of reckoning for Goldman Sachs.
June 2: Service Day, Michigan Law's annual introduction to public service for incoming Summer Starters, takes place at various locations around Ann Arbor.
Prof. Ted Parson leads a story in Toronto's Globe and Mail on the promise and perils of deliberately engineering the climate as a rapid response to global warming.
Prof. Becky Eisenberg helps The New York Times interpret a ruling in a controversial DNA patent case.