…and 50 percent left to go.
2Ls and LLMs celebrated the halfway point of their Michigan Law careers at Midway Mixer, sponsored by the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, in February.
Law in the Key of B Minor
Margo Schlanger, the Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law, and an ensemble of Michigan Law students put aside the complexities of the law in exchange for the complexities of Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet during a rehearsal in the Lawyers Club Lounge.
Nicholson Price, assistant professor of law, in a Scientific American article about a massive price hike for a prescription antidote to opioid overdose.“Epi-Pen happened, and everyone was like, ‘Wow, this is terrible, we shouldn’t allow this to happen. And we haven’t done anything about that, and it’s not clear what the solution is. Now, shocker, it’s happening again.”
100+
alumni participated in February’s Meet the Employers networking event for 1Ls, held for the first time this year at Michigan Stadium.
2,114
downloads of Professor Emeritus J.J. White’s “The Pros and Cons of Getting to Yes,” which was published in 1984, were recorded by the Law Library in 2016.
960
cases of bottled water were donated to residents of Flint, Michigan, through a collection drive organized by the Catholic Law Students Association, Latino Law Students Association, Black Law Students Association, Racial Justice Coalition, and Law School
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Age of the Codex of Justinian, which, together with the Digest, is the core of the Byzantine compilation of Roman law called the Corpus Iuris Civilis. Bruce Frier, the John and Teresa D’Arms Distinguished University Professor of Classics and Roman Law,
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Airports where 26 Michigan Law graduates are known to have offered pro bono assistance to stranded travelers in the wake of President Trump’s executive order on immigration in January.
Dana Thompson, ’99, clinical professor of law and founding director of Michigan Law’s Entrepreneurship Clinic, in a Financial Times article, “How to bring out every lawyer’s inner entrepreneur.”“This generation of students is excited about innovation and the idea of being an innovator.”
“I’m looking forward to preventing the use of old foster care records against former foster children who are now parents in the child welfare system. The Skadden Fellowship will allow me to devote the time and effort required to begin to change this unfair practice.”
3L Dana Leib, on her 2017 Skadden Fellowship at Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem. Michigan Law has had 34 Skadden Fellows since the program’s inception in 1988.
Big Data, Big Problems?
Richard Berner, director of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (OFR), delivered a keynote address during the Big Data in Finance Conference held at Michigan Law in October. Kara Stein, commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Harvard economist and MacArthur Fellow Sendhil Mullainathan also gave keynote addresses. U-M’s Center on Finance, Law, and Policy—which is led by Michigan Law Professor Michael Barr—and OFR co-sponsored the event.
Reading Room
The Reading Room recently made Town and Country’s “America’s Most Beautiful College Libraries” list and was named the state of Michigan’s most beautiful library by Business Insider Malaysia.
Former NRA President Sandra Froman, who discussed gun control issues with Professor Len Niehoff, ’84, days before the 2016 presidential election in a Federalist Society-sponsored luncheon.“Our ads warn that Hillary [Clinton] will take your guns because we believe that Hillary will take your guns.”
“Because life is rarely a straight path, my advice is to follow your interests (not your passion), have the right attitude, and give back to your community.”
— May Liang, ’89, at the annual Origins banquet, sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. Liang, who is general counsel and chief financial officer for OpenConcept Systems Inc., delivered the keynote address.
“Public service is a tremendous career. Every morning I woke up and wanted to go to work. ...I felt like I had the best job in Washington.”
Elise Bean, ’82, who spoke to public interest students as part of the Inspiring Paths lecture
series in February. Bean spent 30 years working for Sen. Carl Levin [D-MI] as staff
director and chief counsel of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Richard Primus, the Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor of Law, quoted in numerous news outlets about President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.“[Gorsuch] may be the closest thing the new generation of conservative judges has to Antonin Scalia.”
