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Briefs Fall 2017

Michigan Law Alumni Reconnect in Rome

Rome was the backdrop for the European Alumni Reunion, which took place in June and brought together JD, LLM, and SJD alumni, as well as former lecturers, visitors, research scholars, and other friends of the Law School.

Beauty image of the Law School Reading Room

Briefs Spring 2017

News in Briefs: Spring 2017

Halfway through... | Michigan Law hosts Big Data in Finance conference | and more...

Briefs Fall 2017

News in Brief: Fall 2017

Michigan Law hosts 11th Annual Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Workshop and Writing Retreat | 3Ls Win Detroit Bar Association’s Legal Scholar Writing Contest | and more...

Briefs Spring 2017

University Bicentennial Colloquium Features Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Susanne Baer, LLM ’93

Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Supreme Court, and Justice Susanne Baer, LLM ’93, of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, headlined the first President’s Bicentennial Colloquium, “The Future University Community,” during a January visit to campus.

Briefs Fall 2017

Innocence Clinic Victories

The Michigan Innocence Clinic has secured the release of three clients from prison this year, two of whom were exonerated. Desmond Ricks, who, in 1992, was charged with murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison, was released in May.

Briefs Spring 2016

News in Brief: Spring 2016

SFF Auction raises more than $59k | Record-breaking exonerations | Mini-seminars bring students into faculty homes for small group discussions | and more...

Public Interest Law

Judge Haddad sitting at desk in front of windows

Briefs Spring 2015

Human Trafficking Clinic Helping to Create New Clinic in Brazil

Michigan Law’s Human Trafficking Clinic is working with a university in Brazil to create a similar legal clinic there in which law students will represent people who have been forced into slave labor in South America’s largest country.

Robert Fiske, ’55, with the 2014 Fiske Fellows (left to right): Samuel Hall, ’13, Elizabeth Grossman, ’12, Meredith Garry, ’13, and Austin Hakes, ’12.

Briefs Spring 2015

2014 Fiske Fellows Gratefully Pursue Their Passions

The Fiske Fellowship was established in 2001 by Robert Fiske, ’55, a senior counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell and a former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Three-year fellowships are awarded annually to up to four Michigan Law graduates who serve as government lawyers.