Issue: Winter 2025
114 results
Impact Winter 2025
Charles Knox, ’73, Honors His Father, the Hon. William W. Knox, ’35, Through a Legacy Gift to Michigan Law
Knox recently gave $200,000 to the Law School in honor of his father, William W. Knox, ’35, using two Charitable Gift Annuities (CGAs), a type of legacy gift. The gift establishes the Honorable William W. Knox Family Endowed Scholarship Fund.
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Arn Tellem, ’79: Taking Chances and Giving Back
Arn Tellem, ’79, and his wife, Nancy Tellem, established the Arn Tellem Faculty Research Support Fund in 1999. They amended it in July 2025 by adding $500,000 and renaming the fund to the Arn and Nancy Tellem Faculty Support Fund.
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Ashley M. Washington, ’10: Serving the Next Generation
Staying connected to Michigan Law is important to Ashley M. Washington, ’10, and her involvement with her alma mater comes in many forms. She has served on her class’s Reunion planning committee and, since graduation, has remained a loyal donor to the Law School Fund, Michigan Law’s primary discretionary fund.
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Aaron Lewis, ’05: Embracing, and Extending, a Family Legacy
Aaron Lewis, ’05, comes from a long line of Michigan Law graduates. Lewis, a partner at Covington & Burling LLP in Los Angeles, recently made a $100,000 gift to the Wade Hampton McCree Jr. Scholarship Fund. The fund was established in 2006 by a gift from a 1971 Michigan Law graduate who had clerked for Lewis’s grandfather.
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Gillian C. Steinhauer, ’76: Success in All Seasons of Life
Gillian C. Steinhauer, ’76, has developed a knack for finding her footing wherever she lands. Now, in retirement, she balances her personal travel and duties as a grandmother with her involvement at Michigan Law. Gillian recently amended a gift she made to the Law School in 2016, more than doubling the original amount.
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Q&A: Bagley and Klass on Abundance
The concept of “abundance” has gained considerable traction in academic and policy circles. Michigan Law Professors Nicholas Bagley and Alexandra Klass are both active in the abundance movement, and they sat down recently to discuss the topic.
Features Winter 2025
Meet Dean Neel U. Sukhatme
On July 1, the Law School welcomed its 19th dean, Neel U. Sukhatme—the first fully external dean in Michigan Law’s 166-year history. Sukhatme is an interdisciplinary empirical scholar whose research focuses on crime, intellectual property, voting rights, and AI and the law, among other areas. He joined the Law School from Georgetown University Law Center, where in addition to his faculty titles, he served as associate dean for research and academic programs and co-directed the Georgetown Law and Economics Workshop series.
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“To Veronica, With Love, Ben”
In 2022, Eddie Mears, ’16, discovered a box of his late grandmother’s belongings in Flint, Michigan, that included a faded photograph of a young Chinese man standing beside her in front of the former Alpha Lambda Chinese fraternity in Ann Arbor. Mears’s quest to learn more took him on a multiyear, trans-Pacific sleuthing expedition.
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Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, LLM ’98, a Former Shepherd Who Now Shepherds Ghana’s Legal System
Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, LLM ’98, grew up in a small town on the savannah grasslands of northeast Ghana. As a shepherd in his youth, he did not consider formal education an option until an unexpected encounter led him to enter school at 11 years old. In the years since, Ayine has risen to the highest levels of the Ghanaian government, first as a member of parliament and now as attorney general and minister for justice.