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Features Summer 2026
Learning and Serving in Michigan Law’s Clinical Program
The 17 clinics at Michigan Law offer students invaluable practical experience while also providing clients with legal help they might not otherwise receive. At the same time, the strength of the program—and its willingness to change with the times—gives Michigan a competitive edge over its peer schools.
Features Summer 2026
Pro Bono Program Offers Additional Opportunities for Students to Gain Practical Experience and Help the Community
Particularly attractive to students who may not be quite ready to commit to an intensive, semester-long clinic experience, the Pro Bono Program offers students a chance to do some meaningful work, develop marketable skills, and maybe begin a lifelong habit of volunteering.
Features Summer 2026
Immigrant Justice Lab Teams Law Students with Undergraduates on Asylum Cases
In a unique partnership, the Immigrant Justice Lab teams up Michigan Law students with Undergraduates in the School of Literature, Science and the Arts to help young immigrants seeking asylum.
@UMICHLAW Summer 2026
Ruben Piñuelas, ’26: Exoneree Helps Free Wrongly Convicted Client
Ruben Piñuelas, ’26, knows firsthand how the legal system can wrongfully convict someone of a crime they didn’t commit—and how that same system can sometimes be used to right the wrong.
@UMICHLAW Summer 2026
New Michigan Law Workshop Explores American Indian Law
A new American Indian Law Workshop led by Matthew Fletcher, ’97, the Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law, provides students with the opportunity to engage with a wide range of scholars and examine more granular, niche issues relating to American Indian law.
Features Summer 2026
Decades of Careers Launched by the Fiske Fellowship Program for Government Service
Robert B. Fiske Jr., ’55, HLLD ’97, understood that having government service experience early in a professional career can be formative. To make it easier for Michigan Law students to pursue that experience, he endowed the Robert B. Fiske Jr. Fellowship Program for Government Service at Michigan Law in 2001. Law Quadrangle spoke with Fiske Fellows from years past to learn more about the impact the fellowship has had on their careers.
Features Winter 2025
AI and the Evolution of Law and Legal Education
As society pieces together how artificial intelligence (AI) fits into the education puzzle, Professor Nicholson Price invites Michigan Law students to wrestle with questions of how the law shapes AI and how AI shapes the law.
Features Winter 2025
Michigan Law Mini-seminar Considers AI Doomerism and Technology Risk
Assistant Professor Salomé Viljoen’s mini-seminar, Does AI Pose an Existential Threat to Humanity?, opened with discussion about what AI technologists and philosophers call the alignment problem: Will AI develop in a way that conflicts with the continued existence of humanity?
Features Winter 2025
New Research from Michigan Law Professors Supports Real-World Value of AI for Lawyers
Most past empirical research has concluded that generative AI tools don’t offer much value in real-world lawyering. However, a new study by Professors J.J. Prescott, Patrick Barry, and their colleagues suggests that AI can help with particular legal tasks—in terms of speed, clarity, and, in some cases, accuracy and legal reasoning.
Features Winter 2025
Professor Patrick Barry Wants His Students to Become “Conspicuously Good” at AI
When he teaches about artificial intelligence and the legal profession, Professor Patrick Barry’s goal is for his students to become the go-to person in their office, their industry, or their network when someone needs help with an AI-related issue or wants to learn more about the latest AI innovation.