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![Professor Bridgette Carr teaching students in a classroom Professor Bridgette Carr teaching students in a classroom.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-06/human-trafficking-clinic-classroom-2023-20-web-thumb-update.jpg.webp?itok=XEI-JZxn)
![Professor Bridgette Carr teaching students in a classroom Professor Bridgette Carr teaching students in a classroom.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2024-06/human-trafficking-clinic-classroom-2023-20-web-thumb-update.jpg.webp?itok=wSAhjSn_)
@UMICHLAW Summer 2024
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.
![Law and Technology Faculty Share What’s on Their Minds A portrait of Aaron Perzanowski(left) and Salomé Viljoen(right)](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-05/lawandtechnology-q-a-web.jpg.webp?itok=vQTdo3NT)
![Law and Technology Faculty Share What’s on Their Minds A portrait of Aaron Perzanowski(left) and Salomé Viljoen(right)](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2024-05/lawandtechnology-q-a-web.jpg.webp?itok=KBe72pS1)
@UMICHLAW Summer 2024
Law and Technology Faculty Share What’s on Their Minds
Law Quadrangle asked two faculty members with expertise in law and technology about what’s been on their minds lately.
![Fall 2023 UMICHLAW International Faculty Thumb Exterior architectural view of the Reading Room.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-11/fall2023-umichlaw-international-law-faculty-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=wxVu0SXj)
![Fall 2023 UMICHLAW International Faculty Thumb Exterior architectural view of the Reading Room.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-11/fall2023-umichlaw-international-law-faculty-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=bvwsCn43)
@UMICHLAW Fall 2023
At the Cutting Edge of International Law: Four Michigan Law Faculty Discuss Their Latest Work
The University’s founding statute in 1837 required the law department to hire a faculty member devoted to international law. Ever since, Michigan Law has been uniquely committed to the study of law beyond US borders.
![Fall 2023 UMICHLAW Law and the Global Economy Thumb Conference participants sitting around a large table.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-11/fall2023-umichlaw-law-global-academy-forum-2023-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=V7HbGIdl)
![Fall 2023 UMICHLAW Law and the Global Economy Thumb Conference participants sitting around a large table.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-11/fall2023-umichlaw-law-global-academy-forum-2023-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=KW-Vvfsv)
@UMICHLAW Fall 2023
Conference Launches New Program on Law and the Global Economy
Michigan Law inaugurated the Program on Law and the Global Economy this fall by hosting an international conference on investment arbitration.
![Fall 2023 UMICHLAW Affirmative Action Thumb View of an empty classroom.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-11/fall2023-umichlaw-affirmative-action-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=-qE55Ywz)
![Fall 2023 UMICHLAW Affirmative Action Thumb View of an empty classroom.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-11/fall2023-umichlaw-affirmative-action-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=-GGzIidQ)
@UMICHLAW Fall 2023
Affirmative Action: The Cliff Where Diversity in Higher Education Now Teeters
Senior Assistant Dean Sarah Zearfoss, ’92, has led the Law School’s admissions and financial aid offices since 2001. In this essay, which originally appeared on bet.com, she weighs in on two recent Supreme Court cases, Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admission v. University of North Carolina.
![Fall 2023 UMICHLAW CEC Thumb Student speaking in front of a group of people](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-11/fall2023-umichlaw-cec-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=OtrnzlSw)
![Fall 2023 UMICHLAW CEC Thumb Student speaking in front of a group of people](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-11/fall2023-umichlaw-cec-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=inWSxMyn)
@UMICHLAW Fall 2023
Strengthening Southeast Michigan through Small Businesses
Students in Michigan Law’s Community Enterprise Clinic work under faculty supervision to help revitalize and reinvigorate urban communities across Michigan, promoting community and economic development in disinvested cities by supporting organizations that have a mission beyond the bottom line.
![Black alumni reunion at University of Michigan law school. Black Alumni Reunion at University of Michigan law school.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-07/umls_black_reunion_march_2023_256.jpg.webp?itok=_wHRxHKu)
![Black alumni reunion at University of Michigan law school. Black Alumni Reunion at University of Michigan law school.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-07/umls_black_reunion_march_2023_256.jpg.webp?itok=NbVhyhot)
@UMICHLAW Spring/Summer 2023
The 2023 Black Alumni Reunion: "Celebrating Our Legacy, Empowering Our Future"
Michigan Law’s Black Alumni Reunion brought together more than 200 alumni and their guests to support, learn from, and celebrate the Law School’s Black community, and to promote the matriculation and success of Black students at Michigan Law. It was the fourth edition of the Black Alumni Reunion and the first to take place in person since 2017.
@UMICHLAW Spring/Summer 2023
Forty Years of Protecting the Great Lakes Watershed and Training Environmental Lawyers
![Spring 2023 Atumichlaw Leah Litman and Christopher Walker Discuss Their Rising-Scholar Honors and the Collegiality of Michigan Law Leah Litman won the American Constitution Society’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg Scholar Award, while Christopher Walker won the Federalist Society’s Joseph Story Award. Each award is the respective organization’s highest honor for rising scholars.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-07/leah_litman_chris_walker_004.jpg.webp?itok=si2ZWD8n)
![Spring 2023 Atumichlaw Leah Litman and Christopher Walker Discuss Their Rising-Scholar Honors and the Collegiality of Michigan Law Leah Litman won the American Constitution Society’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg Scholar Award, while Christopher Walker won the Federalist Society’s Joseph Story Award. Each award is the respective organization’s highest honor for rising scholars.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-07/leah_litman_chris_walker_004.jpg.webp?itok=NZLzgr4v)
@UMICHLAW Spring/Summer 2023
Leah Litman, ’10, and Christopher Walker Discuss Their Rising-Scholar Honors and the Collegiality of Michigan Law
Litman and Walker were honored by two organizations at different ends of the policital spectrum, which they say highlights Michigan Law’s collegial atmosphere. In fact, the two have worked together on a number of projects this year, including teaching Federal Courts.
![Spring 2023 Atumichlaw Faculty Celebrate Frier and Whitman Faculty gathered in March for a pandemic-delayed celebration of Bruce Frier and Christine Whitman’s retirements. They are pictured at the dinner with Dean Mark West (center).](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-07/frier_west_whitman.jpg.webp?itok=4PoEv-t5)
![Spring 2023 Atumichlaw Faculty Celebrate Frier and Whitman Faculty gathered in March for a pandemic-delayed celebration of Bruce Frier and Christine Whitman’s retirements. They are pictured at the dinner with Dean Mark West (center).](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-07/frier_west_whitman.jpg.webp?itok=4f5eCEBD)
@UMICHLAW Spring/Summer 2023
Faculty Celebrate Frier and Whitman
Faculty gathered for a pandemic-delayed celebration of Bruce Frier and Christina Whitman's retirements from the faculty.