Issue: Fall 2023
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Briefs Fall 2023
News in Brief: Fall 2023
A deer in the Law Library | Eric Holder visits the Quad | Dan Crane on the NCAA sign-stealing investigation | Drones, surveillance, and the Fourth Amendment | and much more...
In Practice Fall 2023
Kristin Johnson ’03: Protecting Consumers by Policing Crypto Markets
As one of five members of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a sister agency to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Kristin Johnson and her colleagues are charged with regulating US derivatives markets. As such, they oversee the creation and enforcement of rules to prevent fraud and manipulation in the markets they supervise—including crypto.
Class Note Fall 2023
Jayne Rizzo Reardon, ’83: Alumna Honored with ABA Ethics Award
Resolving legal conflicts by way of shouting is not how Jayne Rizzo Reardon, ’83, handles things. But that wasn't always the case, and it took a particularly fraught negotiation early in her career to set her on a search for a better way to practice law.
In Memoriam Fall 2023
Eric E. Bergsten, ’56
Eric E. Bergsten, ’56, of Vienna, died on July 1, 2023, at the age of 91. He co-founded the Vis Moot, a Vienna-based international commercial law and arbitration competition.
Class Note Fall 2023
Clarence Armbrister, ’82: Transforming an HBCU
The early tenure of Clarence Armbrister as president at Johnson C. Smith University was not for the faint of heart. Two weeks before his term started on January 1, 2018, he learned that the school’s accrediting agency had placed it on probation for financial reasons. Then came hurricanes and the coronavirus pandemic.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.