Law Quadrangle

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Q&A: Bagley and Klass on Abundance

The concept of “abundance” has gained considerable traction in academic and policy circles. Michigan Law Professors Nicholas Bagley and Alexandra Klass are both active in the abundance movement, and they sat down recently to discuss the topic.

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Neel U. Sukhatme Begins Service as the Law School’s 19th Dean

On July 1, Neel U. Sukhatme joined the Michigan Law community as the David A. Breach Dean of Law and professor of law. The appointment, which the U-M Board of Regents approved on March 20, runs for a five-year renewable term. He succeeds Professor Kyle Logue, who served as interim dean from January 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025.

Book covers of recent faculty publications

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Hot off the Press: New Books from the Faculty

New books by Michigan Law faculty.

Michelle Adams and Victoria Pedri at the Fifth National Conference on School Diversity

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Student Project Draws on Professor Adams’s New Book to Highlight Integration Efforts in Detroit

As students in Professor Michelle Adams’s Race, Law and History class, Michelle Landry, ’24, and Victoria Pedri, a rising 3L, were so inspired by class readings on school desegregation that they launched a digital project to extend and share their learnings.

Professor Frank Vandervort met weekly with Nithya Arun (center) and Hiba Dagher as they worked on their guardian ad litem case.

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Michigan Law’s 1L Advocacy Clinic Provides Early Exposure to Real-world Lawyering

Michigan is one of the few law schools in the country to house a clinic for first-year students, who are allowed by the Michigan Supreme Court to do certain types of legal work. The experience can be transformative for students new to law school.

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Edward S. Rogers, Trademark Law Pioneer and Michigan Law Alum, Gets New Attention from Professor Jessica Litman’s Book Chapter

Edward S. Rogers was a three-time Michigan Law alumnus and an adjunct faculty member, but his most lasting contribution to the law is authorship of the Lanham Act, the core US trademark law. Professor Jessica Litman is bringing new attention to Rogers’s story with a chapter in a book coming out this fall.

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Professor Bridgette Carr teaching students in a classroom.

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Human Trafficking Clinic Finds Multidisciplinary Solutions

The Law School’s Human Trafficking Clinic had been representing victims of labor and sex trafficking for more than a decade when its director, Bridgette Carr, ’02, began to envision a broader mandate for the clinic—one that would help combat trafficking before people become clients.