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Impact Winter 2020
Recent Gifts: Winter 2020
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Briefs Winter 2020
News in Brief: Winter 2020
Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon receives NOW award | U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, ’05, presents Constitution Day address | Six Michigan Law alums join the Supreme Court Bar | Fiske Fellows announced | and much more...
Impact Winter 2020
New Student Fellowship to Bolster Internationalism at Michigan Law
“It’s been on my mind to do something that would allow me to leave a small footprint at one of my alma maters,” says Thomas Schürrle, LLM ’87. Schürrle and Alfred Wiederkehr, MCL ’68, co-founded the European Alumni Fellowship Fund to demonstrate to prospective students the strength of the Law School’s European alumni community.
Features Fall 2020
Class of 2020: Graduating Together, From Afar
Before the pandemic forced Michigan Law to postpone Senior Day in 2020, David Louison was chosen by his peers to deliver the student keynote.
A month or so into COVID-19 lockdown, as the Law School prepared an online celebration for the graduating 3Ls, LLMs, and SJDs—an in-person ceremony is planned for 2021—Louison went for a walk to consider what a virtual commencement speech could look like. “I was just thinking, ‘Am I going to do a speech at all?’”
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Santacroce Honored by AALS for Service to Clinical Legal Education
David Santacroce, an associate dean for experiential education and a clinical professor of law, was selected as a recipient of the 2019 William Pincus Award for Outstanding Service and Commitment to Clinical Legal Education.
Features Winter 2019
Law Training in the Fast Lane
A lawyer’s job is to present a client’s case with a compelling argument, so U-M’s undergraduate debate team has been a fertile ground for future Michigan Law students. “The only downside to my debate background is that when I became a professor, I had to learn to slow down my speech,” laughs Robert Hirshon, ’73, “because my students couldn’t follow me.”
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Clinical Professor Nick Hart retires | Assistant Professor Maureen Carroll honored | Associate Deans appointed | and more...
Impact Winter 2019
Remembering a Friend: A Bond Forged in the Classroom and on the Basketball Court
Jim Stengel and Bev Bartow met John Schrashun during their first year of law school. Little did they know that Schrashun, whose friendship was central to their law school experience, would not be alive to celebrate their fifth reunion.
Briefs Winter 2019
Reunion 2018
Emeriti and the Classes of 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, and 1988 kicked off reunion season the weekend of September 21–23. Celebrations continued October 12–14, when the Classes of 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, and 2013 returned to campus in honor of their milestone anniversaries.
Impact Winter 2019
An Alumnus’s Gift Celebrates the Life of His Father and Former Michigan Law Professor
“My Michigan training has held me in good stead, as it did for my dad. I find it meaningful to do anything I can to help provide scholarships for others to experience what we’ve had the opportunity to do.”