Spring 2014

Briefs

Radin, McCormack Elected to ALI

Margaret Jane Radin, the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at Michigan, and Bridget Mary McCormack, a lecturer at Michigan Law and a justice of the state Supreme Court
Margaret Jane Radin, the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at Michigan, and Bridget Mary McCormack, a lecturer at Michigan Law and a justice of the state Supreme Court.

The American Law Institute (ALI) elected a new group of members in the fall that included Margaret Jane Radin, the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at Michigan, and Bridget Mary McCormack, a lecturer at Michigan Law and a justice of the state Supreme Court. 

Radin teaches courses about contracts and patents, as well as those dealing with property theory, the interaction between property and contracts, and the evolution of property and contracts in the digital era. She is the author most recently of Boilerplate (Princeton University Press, 2012), which explores the problems posed for the legal system by adhesion contracts and how they might be ameliorated. Her work has been widely published, and she frequently teaches and presents at other top law schools. 

McCormack was elected to the Supreme Court in 2012. Previously, she served as Michigan Law’s associate dean for clinical affairs, clinical professor of law, and co director of the Michigan Innocence Clinic. Her awards and honors include the Justice for All Award (with Innocence Clinic co-director Professor David Moran, ’91) from the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan in 2010. 

The ALI produces scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. It comprises 4,000 top lawyers, judges, and law professors.

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