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Full-Text Articles in Law
Give Them Back Their Lives: Recognizing Client Narrative In Case Theory, Binny Miller
Give Them Back Their Lives: Recognizing Client Narrative In Case Theory, Binny Miller
Michigan Law Review
This article is about case theory and its implications for incorporating client narratives in litigation. In seeking to understand the connections between voice, narrative, and case theory, I look not only to theory but to my experience as a clinical teacher and criminal defense attorney. I explore how the practice of lawyering can be reconstructed to embrace a greater role for clients in constructing case theories, both through the images of the client the lawyer presents in the case theory and through active client participation in developing and choosing the case theory. Although one aim of case theory is to …
Building Community Among Diversity: Legal Services For Impoverished Immigrants, Robert L. Bach
Building Community Among Diversity: Legal Services For Impoverished Immigrants, Robert L. Bach
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Part I of this Essay introduces the Immigrants' Legal Needs Study (ILNS), which provides most of the data for this Essay. Part II focuses on immigrants' access to legal assistance. It analyzes the problems and needs of recently arrived poor immigrants-both immigrants share with longer established poor residents as well as special needs related to immigrants' residency status. Part III addresses the present day demography of our urban communities, including the levels of new immigration. Parts IV and V detail the legal difficulties faced by poor immigrants, the ways they deal with these problems, and community responses to these needs. …
Eyes To The Future, Yet Remembering The Past: Reconciling Tradition With The Future Of Legal Education, Amy M. Colton
Eyes To The Future, Yet Remembering The Past: Reconciling Tradition With The Future Of Legal Education, Amy M. Colton
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Note explores the relationship between legal education and the legal profession, and what can be done to stop the two institutions from drifting farther and farther apart. Part I examines the history of the American law school, focusing on how the schools came into existence and what goals they intended to serve. Part II questions whether these goals have been reached, and dissects the present-day law school curriculum in search of both its triumphs and its failures. A necessary part of this curriculum analysis includes examining the evolution of the profession into a creature of both law and business, …
Power From The People, Milner S. Ball
Power From The People, Milner S. Ball
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano's Vision of Progressive Law Practice by Gerald P. López
Making Elite Lawyers: Visions Of Law At Harvard And Beyond, Daniel A. Cohen
Making Elite Lawyers: Visions Of Law At Harvard And Beyond, Daniel A. Cohen
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Making Elite Lawyers: Visions of Law at Harvard and Beyond by Robert Granfield
Prosecutors' Peremptory Challenges - A Response And Reply, Lynn A. Helland, Sheldon N. Light, William J. Richards
Prosecutors' Peremptory Challenges - A Response And Reply, Lynn A. Helland, Sheldon N. Light, William J. Richards
Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)
Three federal trial attorneys disagree with Professor Richard Friedman's proposal to eliminate the prosecution's peremptories, while Friedman defends his view.
Recalibrating The Balance: Reflections On Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Lehman, Sheldon Danziger
Recalibrating The Balance: Reflections On Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Lehman, Sheldon Danziger
Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)
During the 1992 presidential campaign, Candidate Clinton promised, in Putting People First, "to make work pay" and to "end welfare as we know it":
"It's time to honor and reward people who work hard and play by the rules. That means ending welfare as we know it not by punishing the poor or preaching to them, but by empowering Americans to take care of their children and improve their lives. No one who works full-time and has children at home should be poor anymore. No one who can work should beable to stay on welfare forever."
Class Of 1994 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1994 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This addendum is a compilation of alumni responses to the open-ended comments sections.
Class Of 1994 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1994 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This report summarizes the findings of a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni five years after graduation.
Imagining The Law, James Boyd White
Imagining The Law, James Boyd White
Book Chapters
My aim in this paper is to trace out a certain line of thought about what it might mean to think of law rhetorically. In doing this I shall be resisting the impulse, quite common in our culture, to see the law from the outside, as a kind of intellectual and social bureaucracy; rather I am interested in seeing it from the inside, as it appears to one who is practicing or teaching it. Throughout I shall conceive of the law as a system of discourse that the lawyer and judge must learn and use, and of which we can …
Responding To Gender Bias In The Courts: Progress Without Accountability, Suellyn Scarnecchia
Responding To Gender Bias In The Courts: Progress Without Accountability, Suellyn Scarnecchia
Articles
On December 19, 1989, we received the final report of the Michigan Supreme Court Task Force on Gender Issues (task force report). The task force made 91 recommendations, plus an additional 18 joint recommendations with the Task Force on Racial/Ethnic Issues in the Courts. The Michigan Supreme Court, the State Bar of Michigan and other individuals and organizations have made much progress in responding to the recommendations, with one glaring omission-Although jointly recommended by both task forces as "essential to the realization of the goals envisioned in the goals envisioned in the reports," the Supreme Court has failed to appoint …
Critical Rules In Negotiating Sales Contracts: The Lawyer's Job, James J. White
Critical Rules In Negotiating Sales Contracts: The Lawyer's Job, James J. White
Other Publications
In my experience, lawyers begin negotiating only after the business people have decided upon the description and quality of the product, the time of delivery, and the mode and amount of payment. The lawyers are left with the pathological problems--who gets what in case of trouble. Most of those problems relate to the seller's responsibility if the product does not conform to the contract or otherwise fails to please the buyer. These failures can cause economic loss to the buyer, economic loss to a remote purchaser, or personal injury or property damage to immediate or remote parties. Third parties may …