Issue: Fall 2023
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Class Note Fall 2023
The Hon. Paul D. Borman of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has assumed senior status after nearly three decades of service in the district’s Detroit division. Before his appointment in 1994, he served as chief federal defender in the Eastern District of Michigan and as an assistant US attorney.
Class Note Fall 2023
Linda Silberman, the Clarence D. Ashley Professor of Law Emerita at New York University School of Law, recently celebrated 51 years of teaching and scholarship at NYU. The school’s Center on Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law, of which she is the co-director, convened friends, colleagues, and legal luminaries for a two-day conference discussing her scholarship in transnational civil litigation, comparative law, choice of law, and recognition and enforcement of judgment, in addition to jurisdiction.
Class Note Fall 2023
John R. Nolon, distinguished professor of law emeritus at Pace University, received the Anita P. Miller Advocacy Award from the American Bar Association Section of State and Local Government Law. The award recognizes outstanding legal advocacy within the area of state and local government law. Nolon founded Pace University’s Land Use Law Center in 1993 and continues to serve as co-counsel. He is the co-author of Land Use and Sustainable Development Law: Cases and Materials (West Academic Publishing, 2017), which is in its ninth edition.
Class Note Fall 2023
Herb Kohn, a longtime partner in the Kansas City, Missouri, office of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, recently retired from the firm and launched Herb Kohn Mediation LLC. The new enterprise specializes in mediating business and commercial disputes.
Cover Story Fall 2023
Michigan Law in Service around the World
The University of Michigan Law School is an international institution in every sense of the word. Students come from around the globe to study in the Law Quad, and they go on to represent the Law School all over the world through opportunities as students and throughout their careers. The fall 2023 issue of Law Quadrangle shares some of their stories.
Features Fall 2023
Susanne Baer, LLM ’93: “It's the Highest Honor to Serve”
With her election as a justice on Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court in 2011, Susanne Baer made history. She became only the second nominee of the country’s Green Party and the first out and elected lesbian and radical feminist to serve as one of the court’s 16 justices.
Features Fall 2023
Rossa Fanning, LLM ’00: “I Am the Government's Lawyer”
When Rossa Fanning became attorney general of Ireland in late 2022, he didn’t need to endure the confirmation process of his counterpart in the United States. Instead, in two head-spinning days, he transitioned from his successful legal practice to a seat in the cabinet of Ireland’s prime minister.
Features Fall 2023
Raphael Lotilla, LLM ’87: “For the Benefit of My Country”
Raphael Lotilla was appointed secretary of energy in the Philippines in July 2022—for the second time—and he reassumed the role during a period of significant challenges: righting the privatization of the energy sector, confronting climate change, and addressing poverty.
Features Fall 2023
The President’s Ambassadors Abroad
Hundreds of Michigan Law alumni represent the interests of the United States and its citizens in
various levels of the government around the world. A handful, however, have risen to the highest level by being appointed as ambassadors, including Donald Blome, ’90; W. Robert Kohorst, ’78; and Kenneth Salazar, ’83.
Features Fall 2023
Emily Boening, ’12: Voice from the Civil Service
“I have worked on some extremely challenging issues—Afghanistan, Syria, terrorism, Russia…. It probably won’t be me who solves the world’s problems, but whoever succeeds will be someone unafraid to fail.”