Prof. John Pottow in the Detroit Free Press, on "plain vanilla" banking.
Vintage video of Branch Rickey, circa 1959, nearly stumping the panel on "What’s My Line?"
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 John Masson, Amicus Editor
It may take another 150 years to come up with a weekend in Ann Arbor as perfect as the one marking the Law School’s 150th anniversary.
Cloudless skies and comfortable temperatures punctuated a gala weekend packed with events underlining the importance of the past and the promise of the future. Headlining the event was Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Jr., who began his visit Thursday and didn't leave until after he witnessed the resurgent Wolverines dispatch the Fighting Irish in a Saturday afternoon nail-biter at the Big House. More ...
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By Jared Wadley, U-M News Service
The University of Michigan Law School’s Innocence Clinic triumphed in its first two major cases during the summer, convincing judges in separate cases to release three prisoners because of new evidence that the defendants were innocent. More ...
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By John Masson, Amicus Editor
Michigan Law’s incoming class has arrived in Hutchins Hall, and for faculty and staff, that can only mean one thing: so has the annual letter describing the group, courtesy of Admissions Dean Sarah Zearfoss.
The letter, written with trademark wit and self-deprecating humor, has become something of a rite of fall around the Law School. Through it, faculty and staff get some small sense of the caliber of student drawn to Michigan Law. More ...
Anne T. Larin, ’83, is the new corporate secretary for General Motors Company.
Law.com story notes that tuition at public law schools has spiked in most places – but not here.
Michigan Law’s student chapter of the American Constitution Society is honored at national convention.Poet and 1976 grad Greg Rappleye, fighting macular degeneration, writes about the darkness.
Hey, it beats doing it in a balloon: how 1973 grad Mike Fayhee flew a Piper Meridian around the world in 33 days. Check out Mike’s blog as well.
The New York Times quotes Prof. Nico Howson in a story about the Rio Tinto case.
