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Professor James Hines Jr. Professor James Hines Jr.

@UMICHLAW Fall 2014

Prof. Hines Honored for Public Finance Work with Prestigious Professorship

Professor James Hines Jr. has been named the recipient of the 2014 Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship, a prestigious award honoring scholars in public finance. Hines, the L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law and co-director of the Law and Economics Program, delivered the sixth Richard Musgrave Lecture—“International Taxation and National Interests”—in Munich in April.

An alumni speaking at a 2014 reunion event An alumni speaking at a 2014 reunion event

@UMICHLAW Spring 2014

Future Law Professors Workshop Helps Legal Academics Find their Footing

The Future Law Professors Workshop, now in its third year, allows attendees to meet up with Michigan Law faculty and fellow alumni who are interested in teaching. “The Future Law Professors Workshop provided an invaluable opportunity to reconnect,” says Amna Akbar, ’04.

Kristina Daugirdas Kristina Daugirdas

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Prof. Daugirdas Wins Writing Award

An American Journal of International Law (AJIL) article written by Assistant Professor Kristina Daugirdas has been awarded the Francis Deák Prize, which honors outstanding scholarship by younger authors. 

Gloria Steinem, Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon, and Professor Ann Bartow of Pace Law School, one of the people who nominated MacKinnon, at the awards ceremony. Gloria Steinem, Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon, and Professor Ann Bartow of Pace Law School, one of the people who nominated MacKinnon, at the awards ceremony.

@UMICHLAW Spring 2014

MacKinnon Wins Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award

This year, the Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) Section on Women in Legal Education recognized Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon with the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award. MacKinnon, the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at U-M and the long-term James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard, is only the second woman to receive the honor, after Supreme Court Associate Justice Ginsburg herself. 

Martha Jones and William Novak Martha Jones and William Novak

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Journal of the Civil War Era to Preserve Emancipation Scholarship

The Law School exhibit commemorating the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation—and challenging its myths—may have come and gone, but the conversation it inspired is continuing with the publication of the project’s scholarly contributions in The Journal of the Civil War Era, Vol. 3, No. 4. 

Margaret Jane Radin, the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at Michigan, and Bridget Mary McCormack, a lecturer at Michigan Law and a justice of the state Supreme Court Margaret Jane Radin, the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at Michigan, and Bridget Mary McCormack, a lecturer at Michigan Law and a justice of the state Supreme Court

Briefs Spring 2014

Radin, McCormack Elected to ALI

The American Law Institute (ALI) elected a new group of members in the fall that included Margaret Jane Radin, the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at Michigan, and Bridget Mary McCormack, a lecturer at Michigan Law and a justice of the state Supreme Court.