July 2008
Dear Alumni and Friends,
Whether you’re strolling through the Law Quad as Garrison Keillor recently did or curling up on a beach with a book by someone like 1984 Michigan Law grad Meg Waite Clayton, summertime in Michigan allows ample opportunities to experience beauty and truth. We hope this selection of clips will help you connect with those things, wherever you may be.
— Dean Evan Caminker
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Guy Noir could use the training
The beauty of the Law Quad inspires Garrison Keillor, in the opening segment of his live Prairie Home Companion broadcast from Hill Auditorium, to wax poetic on the possibility of attending law school himself. (Ultimately Keillor resists the temptation, which he notes about two-and-a-half minutes into the program. Perhaps he spotted some of those thick leather-bound volumes in the library.)
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A feminist fete
1968 grad Jean Ledwith King, whose activism helped (among other things) double the salaries of women professors at U-M, was recently honored by the Veteran Feminists of America for her contributions between 1963 and 1975 to improving gender equity. She joined Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and 28 other women’s rights activists at the Harvard Club in New York City.
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Presidential campaign fund-amentals
Sometimes, a whole lot of fundraising in the political process isn’t such a bad thing, as Prof. Steve Croley ably argues in the Sunday Free Press of Detroit.
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Trumpet your support for Sax
The Law School is teaming up with Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment to endow a scholarship in the name of leading environmental law scholar and former Michigan Law Prof. Joseph L. Sax.
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Two M Law profs in 1 paragraph in SCOTUS opinion
Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion in a recent Supreme Court decision rejecting the death penalty in cases involving child rape cited one study co-authored by Prof. Richard Friedman and a second co-authored by Prof. Sam Gross---all in the space of a single paragraph.
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Sisters are doing it for themselves
Writer and 1984 grad Meg Waite Clayton, whose new novel The Wednesday Sisters has just hit bookstores, visits the Borders book shop on East Liberty at 7 p.m. July 21 for a book signing. She’ll also read from her novel, which recounts the quest of five women to become writers – and friends – in the turbulent America of the late 1960s.
Video interview here; book review here
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A new pilot for the Port Authority
New York governor David Paterson appoints Stanley Grayson, ’75, to a seat on the board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
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Michigan Law's Asian occasion
Assistant Dean for International Affairs Virginia Gordan greets Dean Wang Liming of China's Renmin Law School at a Beijing reception for Michigan Law alums. Wang was a research scholar at Michigan Law in 1989-90. Prof. Nico Howson, Prof. Mark West and Dean Evan Caminker also visited Asia, with stops in China and Japan.
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