Spring/Summer 2018

Briefs

News in Brief: Spring/Summer 2018

Megan Brown headshot

2L Megan L. Brown

was named the first African American editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review.

 

Alexis Bailey headshot

Skadden Fellow Named

Alexis Bailey, ’17, has been named a 2018 Skadden Fellow. Bailey, a U.S. Air Force veteran, will join Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service in Lansing, where she will provide direct representation to Michigan veterans with disabilities. The Skadden Fellowships, founded by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, annually fund 28 new graduates in full-time work for legal and other advocacy organizations, and encourage graduates to build public service careers based on helping underserved groups.

 

Top Gun Lawyers holding trophy

Top Guns

3L Eric Fleddermann and 1L Olivia Dworkin were semi-finalists in the 2018 National Trial Competition, sponsored by the Texas Young Lawyers Association. The pair also finished second at Baylor Law School’s invitation-only “Top Gun National Mock Trial Competition.”

 

Richard Primus

Richard Primus, @Richard_Primus • Feb 1, Just finished judging moot court quarter final @UmichLaw. And man, did I see some good lawyering. — The final round of the 93rd annual Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition was held in March. 3L Johannah Walker won the competition; 3L John He was the runner-up.

 

Dan Crane
Dan Crane

Daniel A. Crane, @DanielDancrane • Feb 6 — Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars starting in 2024, a decade before NASA. It’s not too early to start thinking about governance rules for the red planet.

“The breadth of our competition was striking.”

1L Lindsay Wardlaw, about the global teams she and her Michigan Law cohorts competed against in the 25th Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna in March. The prestigious event was founded by Eric Bergsten, ’56, and featured more than 360 teams from 82 countries.

 

Professor speaking to law class

“Thanks for including me. @UMich and @UMichLaw do MLK Day right. Lots of programs, lots of service, lots of justice fight. No golf.”

Tweet from Yale Law Professor James Forman Jr., who delivered Michigan Law’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day lecture based on his book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. The book was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in April.

 

“#MeToo Has Done What the Law Could Not”

The headline of a New York Times op-ed about sexual harassment penned by Catharine A. MacKinnon, the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law.

Higher Power

Some of the notable high-ranking foreign positions held by Michigan Law graduates

  • Asif Amin, LLM ’96, Head of International Law Department, Danish Ministry of Defence
  • Susanne Baer, LLM ’93, Justice, Constitutional Court of Germany
  • Holger Fleischer, LLM ’93, Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
  • Charles Forrest, ’87, Head of Legal Operations Unit, International Fund for Agricultural Development, Rome
  • Il-Won Kang, LLM ’93, Justice, Constitutional Court of Korea
  • Christopher Kendall, LLM ’93, SJD ’01, Judge, Federal Circuit Court of Australia
  • W. Robert Kohorst, ’78, U.S. Ambassador to Croatia
  • Tamas Kovacs, LLM ’96, Deputy Head of Unit, European, Commission-Fraud Prevention, Brussels
  • Zdenek Kühn, LLM ’02, SJD ’06, Judge, Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech RepublicKatarina
  • Mathernova, LLM ’89, Deputy Director General, European Commission’s Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations
  • Siniša Rodin, LLM ’92, Judge, Court of Justice of the European Union
  • Goran Selanec, LLM ’02, SJD ’12, Justice, Constitutional Court of Croatia
  • Petr Válek, LLM ’05, Director, International Law Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic


 

More From This Issue

Spring/Summer 2018 Feature Recovery

Spring/Summer 2018 Cover Story

The Legal Climate of Climate Change: Preparedness and Recovery

As Hurricane Sandy bore down on the East Coast of the United States in 2012, Damon Vocke, ’89, stepped into his Connecticut yard with his two dogs, Winston and Diva. For Winston, it was business as usual—he seemed oblivious to the approaching storm. But Diva knew something was wrong. She was scared and wanted back into the house, where she then went to hide.
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Spring/Summer 2018 In Practice

Opportunity and Complexity in the Middle East

“Why have I been able to be successful there? Largely because of my U-M legal training,” Bajwa says. “Yes, I have language and technical skills that help. But the Middle East is trying to develop a U.S. capitalist model, so you can do a lot of good by bringing the M&A know-how you acquired in the United States into the region.”
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Spring/Summer 2018 In Practice

Bringing Cybercrimes to Justice and the Law up to Speed

“This is an area where the law hasn’t caught up to people’s conduct, and where victims have limited access to legal counsel,” says Van Engelen. “It takes real people on the ground, working every day as a team, to bring a cybercriminal to justice.”

Related Reading

Ajitesh Kir, LLM ’18

Fall 2022 @UMICHLAW

India’s Supreme Court Cites Article by SJD Student Ajitesh Kir, LLM ’18

It’s not very often that a junior scholar gets published in an esteemed peer-reviewed law journal. It’s even less common for that junior scholar to have their article cited favorably by a country’s highest court.
Bojana Urumova, ’96

Spring 2017 In Practice

On the Front Lines of Europe’s Human Rights Concerns

Sometimes Bojana Urumova, ’96, works on high-profile issues with regional or global implications. Sometimes the work simply concerns individuals. But in her line of work, nothing is really simple.
Veterans saluting during the ceremony

Spring 2016 Features

Veterans on the Law Quad: Stories of Service

Alexis Bailey, 2L, and Mir Ali, ’09, were already loyal to the country and to the military before the terrorist attacks. Afterward, their support only grew. Read more about their journeys and the launch of the new Veterans Legal Clinic.