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With the Michigan summer heating up, so are the studies of 95 intrepid law students who have become part of Michigan Law’s Summer Starter tradition.
The Council of the American Law Institute – an organization of judges, practicing attorneys and legal scholars that helps improve the American justice system by clarifying and simplifying the law – last month elected Michigan Law Prof. Douglas Laycock to serve as its second vice president.
Professor Margaret Jane Radin, a noted property theorist and scholar of the jurisprudence of cyberspace, has been named a member of the 2008 class of fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is the 10th Michigan Law faculty member to be named to the prestigious academy.
Students at Michigan Law will help shape international deals from microfranchises to multinationals as part of a new International Transactions Clinic being established at the Law School this fall.
Michigan law to launch new innocence clinic in 2009
A recently awarded Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellowship will help Michigan Law 3L Kate Pomper continue her dedication to public service as she helps work through such pressing social issues as public housing, affordable housing, and public education.
Yale dean and author gus speth at m law to speak on environment
James Gustave (Gus) Speth, a leading environmentalist and the dean of Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, will bring his ideas to Michigan Law April 14 as the final speaker in this academic year’s Environmental Law & Policy Program lecture series.
STUDENT FUNDED FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM RAISES $70,000
The Student Funded Fellowships program may have celebrated its 30th birthday this year, but no one is suggesting the event has lost a step as it ages. This year’s program displayed the same verve, enthusiasm, and generosity on the part of the Michigan Law community that have fueled its previous 29 incarnations. And this year, SFF participants also posted a record-breaking total of more than $70,000 to aid students in public service work this summer.
Michigan law professor joins Guggenheim elite
Michigan Law Prof. Richard Primus this week joined an international cross-section of intellectual luminaries when he was awarded one of two inaugural Guggenheim Fellowships in Constitutional Studies.
BACH-ARMAS AND BORGHESAN ARE CAMPBELL MOOT COURT CHAMPS
A Michigan Law tradition dating back more than 80 years culminated in honors for Marcus Bach-Armas and Dario Borghesan, whose arguments at the Henry M. Campbell Moot Court finals March 27 netted them the championship.
2007 graduate named to prestigious Bristow Fellowship
With a highly sought-after appeals court clerkship under his belt, 2007 Michigan Law graduate Shiva Nagaraj has added to an already formidable resume with a coveted Bristow Fellowship at the U.S. Solicitor General’s Office.
campbell moot court finals slated for March 27
Finalists in Michigan Law’s 82-year-old Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition are putting a last coat of polish on their finely-honed arguments as the day of the finals in the annual competition approaches.
Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellowship in works for M Law 3L
A recently awarded Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellowship will help Michigan Law 3L Kate Pomper continue her dedication to public service as she helps work through such pressing social issues as public housing, affordable housing, and public education.
Torture, Rule of Law and Security on tap for Levin talk at M Law Michigan's senior senator is scheduled to deliver a Dean's Special Lecture February 18 as part of Michigan Law's 2008 International Law Workshop series.
Children's Law Fellowship Goes To Michigan Alumna
A two-year Zubrow Fellowship from the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia will help 2007 Michigan Law grad Emily Keller continue to pursue the passion for children’s law that drew her to law school in the first place.
Michigan Law Hosts Symposium on Diversity in Education
On Saturday, February 9th, the Michigan Journal of Race & Law will be holding its winter symposium, “From Proposition 209 to Proposal 2: Examining the Effects of Anti-Affirmative Action Voter Initiatives” at the University of Michigan Law School. The event will include opening and closing remarks by Dean Frank Wu of the Wayne State University Law School and Dean Guy-Uriel Charles of the University of Minnesota Law School, and will also include panel discussions showcasing many prominent scholars in the field of educational diversity.
Gunderson Gift Helps Keep Renowed Practitioners in Michigan Law Classroom
A generous gift from the estate of distinguished 1930 graduate Harvey J. Gunderson will allow the Law School to create a new professorship to help ensure Michigan Law students continue studying under accomplished legal practitioners who are at the top of their fields.
Three From Michigan Law Land Skadden Fellowships
Three recent Michigan Law students will get a boost in prospective public service careers thanks to newly awarded fellowships from the Skadden Fellowship Foundation.
Dean Announces New Jeffrey F. Liss Professorship From Practice
A newly created professorship at the University of Michigan Law School is designed to add an accomplished legal practitioner to an already formidable faculty of legal scholars, Dean Evan H. Caminker announced today.