Nov. 23: The Middle Eastern Law Students Association sponsors a talk on the Goldstone Report: Israel, Gaza, and International Law.
Dec. 4: Law School and U-M's Ross School of Business team up to present symposium on "Markets for Patents: Emerging Practices and Directions for Research." Registration deadline Dec. 1.
Dec. 18: Senior Day ceremonies for December graduates.
Have a story of interest to fellow alumni? Contact Amicus editor John Masson, Media Relations Officer for Michigan Law, at amicusnews@umich.edu or call 734.647.7352.
By Becky Freligh, Law School Development
Robert and Ann Aikens have made a $10 million gift to the University of Michigan Law School for the School’s ongoing building expansion and renovation project. Robert Aikens, of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., is chairman of Robert B. Aikens & Associates L.L.C., a commercial real estate development and management firm based in suburban Detroit, and a 1954 alumnus of the Law School. The gift is the largest ever made to the Law School by a living donor. More ...
By John Masson, Amicus editor
A new ranking of American law schools finds Michigan Law in second place, trailing only Harvard in the estimation of Super Lawyers magazine.
The ranking system, published last week, reduces the convoluted comparisons used by other ranking systems to a single, eminently practical criterion: the number of graduates who go on to become Super Lawyers. It’s a method Super Lawyers publisher Bill White says makes perfect sense. More ...
By John Masson, Amicus editor
Guantánamo Bay almost certainly won’t close on schedule in January, a panel of experts told a Law School audience recently—but that doesn’t mean the Obama Administration’s ambitious public one-year timeline to close the detention facility was for naught.
The panel—comprising the Navy’s retired top lawyer, Rear Admiral John Hutson; retired Major General William Nash, who commanded troops in the first Iraq war and in Bosnia; and 1988 Law School graduate Elisa Massimino—addressed legal problems surrounding the facility, as well as the difficulties of protecting the United States once the prison is closed. The discussion was sponsored by the Law School’s Office of Public Service and moderated by Michigan Law Professor Monica Hakimi. More ...
By John Masson, Amicus editor
Clearly the holiday spirit, for Lawrence Savell, includes a healthy dollop of music—and legal humor.
The New York City litigator and 1982 Michigan Law grad is releasing his fifth CD, “Seasons Briefings from the LawTunes,” which he composed, performed, and recorded in his home studio in what he dubiously refers to as his spare time. More ...
The media buzz around U-M blows out Harvard – and the rest of the pack, too, says one recent study.
1992 Michigan Law grad and Seton Hall law Prof. Rachel Godsil guest blogs on Concurring Opinions.
The New Yorker quotes Prof. Jim Hines in a story about White House economist Larry Summers.
TIME magazine comments on the Innocence Clinic’s latest triumph: the release of a man imprisoned for eight years for a murder he didn’t commit.
And, in the way of the modern media, a second story in TIME revisits the question a few days later.
Annarbor.com tells more of the Innocence Clinic story.
Angel Reyes III, ’91, writes in Texas Lawyer about starting his own firm.
Michigan Law 3L Alexis Grant previews Alvarez v. Smith for SCOTUSBlog.
Prof. Vivek Sankaran, ’01, opens the new Law School Center for Family Advocacy in Detroit.
Prof. Reuven Avi-Yonah tells Bloomberg about the possibility of foreign banks being taxed by the U.S. for 
Prof. Monica Hakimi explains to NPR’s All Things Considered how it’s becoming easier to kill suspected terrorists than it is to figure out a way to legally detain them.
Down, set, hut: 1987 grad Michael Huyghue, commissioner of the freshly minted United Football League, on his creation.
2000 grad Jeffrey Crouch, an assistant professor of American politics at American University, publishes The Presidential Pardon Power.