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![Lawyers Club in Autumn A student walks in front of the Lawyers Club in the warm autumn light.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-06/umls_beauty_fall_066-web.jpg.webp?itok=5D3QgBCi)
![Lawyers Club in Autumn A student walks in front of the Lawyers Club in the warm autumn light.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2024-06/umls_beauty_fall_066-web.jpg.webp?itok=U_whQN4g)
Features Summer 2024
Stories from the Lawyers Club
The Lawyers Club offered the setting for cherished memories for a century and counting. Here, alumni share a few of those experiences.
![Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit, ’10, and Professor J.J. Prescott Team Up on Transparency Project to Study Racial Disparities in Legal System A portrait of Eli Savit (left) and J.J. Prescott (right).](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-05/eli_savit_jj_prescott_009-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=rBSp4zPW)
![Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit, ’10, and Professor J.J. Prescott Team Up on Transparency Project to Study Racial Disparities in Legal System A portrait of Eli Savit (left) and J.J. Prescott (right).](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2024-05/eli_savit_jj_prescott_009-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=otVZlVVn)
Features Summer 2024
Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit, ’10, and Professor J.J. Prescott Team Up on Transparency Project to Study Racial Disparities in Legal System
Even before he was elected Washtenaw County prosecutor in 2020, Eli Savit vowed to examine racial disparities in the county’s legal system. Led by Savit and Professor J.J. Prescott, the Prosecutor Transparency Project has released its analysis—and it hopes to serve as a model for similar efforts elsewhere.
![Learning on the Ground in Rwanda Thumb Clinic students (in the center, from left to right) Lindsey Corbett, Emily Unger, and Jessica Carter met with Nyiransenguwera Mayimuna (far left), a BioMassters client, and Benjamine Barihuta (far right), a member of the BioMassters team, on a site visit.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-05/rwanda-photo-7-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=1OTlNkuo)
![Learning on the Ground in Rwanda Thumb Clinic students (in the center, from left to right) Lindsey Corbett, Emily Unger, and Jessica Carter met with Nyiransenguwera Mayimuna (far left), a BioMassters client, and Benjamine Barihuta (far right), a member of the BioMassters team, on a site visit.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2024-05/rwanda-photo-7-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=w0aBXyXZ)
Features Summer 2024
Learning International Transaction Law on the Ground in Rwanda
During spring break in February, three Michigan Law students traveled to Kigali, Rwanda to meet with the management of BioMassters Limited, a client with whom they had been working all year in the International Transactions Clinic.
![nterim Dean Kyle Logue Discusses His Vision for the New Role, Relations with Alumni, and What He Loves about the School A portrait of Kyle Logue.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-05/kyle_logue_2023_015-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=N_Ml6IRj)
![nterim Dean Kyle Logue Discusses His Vision for the New Role, Relations with Alumni, and What He Loves about the School A portrait of Kyle Logue.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2024-05/kyle_logue_2023_015-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=WazAbhyT)
Features Summer 2024
Interim Dean Kyle Logue Discusses His Vision for the New Role, Relations with Alumni, and What He Loves about the School
Long-serving faculty member Kyle Logue has assumed the position of interim dean at the Law School while the University seeks a permanent replacement. In this wide-ranging interview, Logue discusses his new role, the Law School’s relations with its alumni base, his feelings about the school, and more.
![New Fund Honors Former Dean Mark West and Supports Future Deans Thumb In 2017, the Law School hosted US Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in conversation with Susanne Baer, ’93, who at the time was a justice on the German Supreme Court. Then Dean Mark West is pictured (center) with Sotomayor (left) and Baer (right).](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-05/sotomayor_baer_021-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=zGYMWnun)
![New Fund Honors Former Dean Mark West and Supports Future Deans Thumb In 2017, the Law School hosted US Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in conversation with Susanne Baer, ’93, who at the time was a justice on the German Supreme Court. Then Dean Mark West is pictured (center) with Sotomayor (left) and Baer (right).](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2024-05/sotomayor_baer_021-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=EaZQgatX)
Features Summer 2024
New Fund Honors Former Dean Mark West and Supports Future Deans
A group of more than 30 alumni and friends—many of whom are members of the Law School’s Development and Alumni Relations Committee or the Dean's Advisory Council—recently established a $500,000 discretionary fund at Michigan Law to honor Mark West’s tenure as dean.
![Fall 2023 Feature Susanne Baer, LLM ’93 thumb A portrait of Susanne Baer, LLM ’93.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-11/fall2023-feature-in-service-baer-susanne-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=0reZIgyR)
![Fall 2023 Feature Susanne Baer, LLM ’93 thumb A portrait of Susanne Baer, LLM ’93.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-11/fall2023-feature-in-service-baer-susanne-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=vhepMieB)
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.
![Fall 2023 Feature Rossa Fanning, LLM ’00 thumb A portrait of Rossa Fanning, LLM ’00.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-11/fall2023-feature-in-service-fanning-rossa-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=ViTouzBD)
![Fall 2023 Feature Rossa Fanning, LLM ’00 thumb A portrait of Rossa Fanning, LLM ’00.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-11/fall2023-feature-in-service-fanning-rossa-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=Q6ezrjdt)
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.
![Fall 2023 Feature Raphael Lotilla, LLM ’87 A portrait of Raphael Lotilla, LLM ’87.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-11/fall2023-feature-in-service-lotilla-raphael-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=Wa_LRcO9)
![Fall 2023 Feature Raphael Lotilla, LLM ’87 A portrait of Raphael Lotilla, LLM ’87.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-11/fall2023-feature-in-service-lotilla-raphael-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=ODY7IPtn)
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.
![Fall 2023 Feature Representatives Abroad thumb A portrait of Kenneth Salazar with the president of the United States.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-11/fall2023-feature-representatives-abroad-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=SxcaxuY9)
![Fall 2023 Feature Representatives Abroad thumb A portrait of Kenneth Salazar with the president of the United States.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-11/fall2023-feature-representatives-abroad-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=0PqrBflo)
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.
![Fall 2023 Feature Voices from the Foreign and Civil Service Emily Boening, ’12 Thumb 002 A portrait of Emily Boening, ’12.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-11/fall2023-feature-foreign-and-civil-service-boening-emily-thumb-002.jpg.webp?itok=i5Wp7I8s)
![Fall 2023 Feature Voices from the Foreign and Civil Service Emily Boening, ’12 Thumb 002 A portrait of Emily Boening, ’12.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-11/fall2023-feature-foreign-and-civil-service-boening-emily-thumb-002.jpg.webp?itok=rlfzJJqU)
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.”