Bach’s Lunch: The law may make a music all its own, but a little Shostakovich never hurts, either. The faculty and students of the Classical Music Society recently treated the Law School to its first lunch-hour concert of the year; listen to the music and watch a slideshow here.
HALFTIME CEREMONY: MLaw invited leadership donors in the building project back to campus for a special capstone ceremony marking the halfway point of construction Oct. 15-16.
Remember sipping sangria while studying for Con Law, or trying to master the art of pouring beer from a large Mason jar into several smaller ones? We want to hear about your experiences at Dominick’s for possible inclusion in a story in the Law Quadrangle. For inspiration, see this article from Michigan Today.
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By John Masson, Amicus editor
The crowd began forming more than an hour before the taping was scheduled to start at Slate.com’s popular Political Gabfest podcast in Honigman Auditorium Nov. 10.
By showtime, a line snaked backward from Hutchins Hall’s State Street doors, down the stairs, around a corner, and all the way to the snack bar beneath the Reading Room. More than 350 people turned out for the taping, sponsored by the Law School, the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, and TIAA-CREF. More
By John Masson, Amicus editor
A recently signed Memorandum of Understanding between Michigan Law School and Jindal Global Law School of O.P. Jindal Global University, near Delhi, establishes a Joint Centre for Global Corporate and Financial Law & Policy, as well as opening the door for future cooperative efforts between the two schools. More
By John Masson, Amicus editor
This month’s Bishop Lecture in International Law was a homecoming of sorts for Yale Prof. Harold H. Koh, now the Legal Adviser to the United States Department of State.
"In 1984 I came out here … to look for a teaching job under the auspices of Yale Kamisar," Koh told a packed Hutchins Hall lecture room Nov. 11. "We fell in love with the place, but we ended up being called to New Haven, which is my hometown." More
By Katie Vloet, Law Quadrangle editor
Michigan Law’s global presence goes back at least as far as 1878, when two students from Japan earned their degrees here, and continues today with its leadership in international, comparative, and foreign law, and the global perspective that faculty bring to their teaching and scholarship. More
Republican Rick Snyder, ’82, is elected governor of Michigan.
Republican Justin Amash, ’05, is elected to Congress from Michigan’s west side.
Is being deferred always a bad thing? Not if you’re working for Freedom Now, like ’09 grad Beth Schwanke is, and one of your clients wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Hindu, one of India’s largest newspapers, is one of dozens around the world to take note of the new Michigan Law/Jindal Global Law School collaboration featuring MLaw Prof. Vikramaditya Khanna.
A 1937 MLaw grad and the first black member of the Cincinnati Bar Association, Judge William McClain, is profiled by the Cincinnati Enquirer.
2002 graduate and Prof. Bridgette Carr’s announcement about partnering with a university in Mexico to fight human trafficking goes global.