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Vol. 50, No. 6, December 1, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Prospective Faculty to Speak Within Next Week •Yingtao, Justified •Persian Pride •More Top 10 Lists •Shopping Guide •Tumble Freely •Dogma Trashed

Vol. 50, No. 5, November 9, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•LSSS Recognizes Bill Bradley Student Group •Yingtao on Guns •New Winter Courses •The J Arch Project •Movie Reviews •Interview of the Year •Music Reviews

Vol. 50, No. 4, October 19, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Curriculum Committee Debates Changes to Interview Season •Winter Grade Curve •Email Abuse •Get Musical! •Hornbook Workout •Larry Returns! •TBIYTC

Vol. 50, No. 3, October 5, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Election Results are In •Affirmative Action •A2: Ripoff City •3 Second Memory •Fashion for Profs •More on Trolleys •Movie Reviews

Vol. 50, No.2, September 21, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Student Senate Elections Next Wednesday & Thursday •The Economist •1L Reflections •What Law Review? •3 Second Memory •Movie Reviews •Gotta Go

Vol. 50, No. 1, September 7, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Vol. 1, No. 1 •The Growing Quad •Issues Still With Us •Cartoons •Asking for Trouble •Interview Tips

Vol. 49, No. 10, April 14, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•SFF Auction Hauls in Over $29,000 •Campbell Finalists Defeat Vouchers •Letter to the Editor •Faculty Hiring Exposed •Alumni Update •Final Tale from Cambodia •Tenure Illustrated •Madness in DC •Interview: Yale Kamisar

Vol. 49, No. 9.5, April 1, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Final Plans for "New" Building Announced •US News Admits Ranking Error: UM Law #1 •ABA Accreditation in Jeopardy Due to Faculty Teaching Practices •The News as We See It •Interview with the Dean •Are You a BPOC? •3Ls Donate Integrity

Vol. 49, No. 9, March 29, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Liberian Book Drive Overwhelming Success •SFF Gears Up for Annual Fundraising Auction •$25,000 Directed by YOU •Fall 1998 Grade Curve •Bruce is Psychic •Going Once, Going Twice

Vol. 49, No. 8, March 17, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•WLSA & Federalists Sponsor Debate •Debt Management Program Banishes 'Firm Future' Nightmares •Juan Tienda Lives On •The RG Finally Gets a Letter •Message from the President •Sure to Become a Classic •Tales from Cambodia •Lawyer Flick of the Year •Eggiweg McMuffin •CDs You've Never Heard Of

Vol. 49, No. 7, February 24, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Terrorism Symposium Sparks Debate •Success for Jessup Team •Think Like a Lawyer •SUV's and Nifty Loopholes •Desensitization •Droit de Seigneur •A Modest Proposal •Sage Advice •Guest Columnist Emeritus

Vol. 49, No. 6, February 15, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Stalking, Robbery, & Embezzlement •Saints Be Praised •Tales From Cambodia •Political Pronouns •Five Gavel Rating •Just Say No •Just Getting' By •Back to Nature

Vol. 49, No. 5, January 28, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•On-Campus Interviews, Part Two •Winter Ball February 4 •Under New Management •Fly the Friendly Skies •For Your Creative Side •Everyone's a Critic •What IS His Problem? •Personal Politics •Ricta Returns

Confrontation Confronted, Richard D. Friedman, Margaret A. Berger, Steven R. Shapiro

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

The following article is an edited version of the amicus curiae brief filed with the Supreme Court of the United States in the October Term, 1998, in the case of Benjamin Lee Lilly v. Commonwealth of Virginia(No.98-5881). "This case raises important questions about the confrontation clause, which has been a vital ingredient of the fair trial right for hundreds of years," Professor Richard Friedman and his co-authors say. "In particular, this case presents the Court with an opportunity to reconsider the relationship between the confrontation clause and the law of hearsay." On June 10 the Court handed down a decision …

Doing Well & Doing Good: The Careers Of Minority And White Graduates Of The University Of Michigan Law School, 1970 - 1996, David L. Chambers, Richard O. Lempert, Terry K. Adams

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

In the last few yearsm affirmative action in higher education has faced increasing legal scrutiny, in part because of doubts about the kinds of graduates these programs produce. A few years ago, we and some of our colleagues at Michigan started asking whether we could learn the answers to these questions about the careers of our graduates. The Law School already possessed considerable information about our minority graduates - from the surveys we have conducted each year for over 30 years of our alumni five and 15 years after graduation. But, while the annual survey asks many questions about careers …

Dicta, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

We all need art, and to see it flourish in our own academic community is cause for celebration and gratitude. Thank you, contributors, for sharing the fruits of your creative energy with your friends and colleagues.

The Editors would also like to extend a hearty thank you to the Law School Student Senate for its continued and generous financial support.

As always, we invite each member of the law school community to get involved with the journal - either as an editor or as a contributor. In the words of Dicta's founding law students, "don't let this good thing die"! …

Honors Convocation, University Of Michigan Law School

Commencement and Honors Materials

Program for the May 14, 1999 University of Michigan Law School Honors Convocation.

Gender, Risk Taking, And Negotiation Performance, Charles B. Craver, David W. Barnes

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

This Article will evaluate the impact of the confluence of two factors- gender and the availability of a credit/no-credit grading option- on student performance in Professor Craver's Legal Negotiating course at George Washington University. Our empirical assessment will analyze the results achieved on negotiation exercises and on course papers by the 612 male and female law students who took Professor Craver's course over the past eleven years. Do a greater percentage of female students take the Legal Negotiating course on a credit/no-credit basis, when that option is available, than do their male cohorts? Are the woman students who take the …

From Tokenism To Emancipatory Politics: The Conferences And Meetings Of Law Professors Of Color, Linda S. Greene

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

In this paper, the author traces the history of the First National Meetings and conferences since 1969. In Part II, this paper explores the range of meetings and conferences which outlined the development of a proactive agenda for minority student and faculty inclusion within mainstream historically White legal institutions and the evolution of this agenda from one of access to an agenda of security, retention, and the advancement of legal theory and scholarship within and without the established academy. Part III chronicles the maturation of this tradition of independent meetings and conferences of professors of color into a network of …

Some Observations On Teaching From The "Pioneer" Generation, James E. Jones Jr.

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

A paper from the perspective of the "pioneer" generation.

The Compelling Need For Diversity In Higher Education, Michigan Journal Of Race & Law

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

The University of Michigan has brought together a team of leading scholars to serve as its experts in these cases to establish the basis for the University's argument that there is a compelling need for diversity in higher education. Their research is evidence that the use of race in higher education admissions is not only constitutional, but of vital importance to education and to our society.

Expert Report Of Thomas J. Sugrue, Thomas J. Sugrue

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

At the end of the twentieth century, the United States is a remarkably diverse society. It grows more diverse by the day, transformed by an enormous influx of immigrants from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. In an increasingly global economy, Americans are coming into contact with others of different cultures to an extent seen only in times of world war. Yet amidst this diversity remains great division. When the young black academic W.E.B. DuBois looked out onto America in 1903, he memorably proclaimed that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Over …

Expert Report Of Eric Foner, Eric Foner

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Race has been a crucial line of division in American society since the settlement of the American colonies in the beginning of the 17th century. It remains so today. While the American understanding of the concept of "race" has changed over time, the history of African-Americans provides a useful template for understanding the history of race relations. The black experience has affected how other racial minorities have been treated in our history, and illuminates the ways in which America's white majority has viewed racial difference.

Expert Report Of Patricia Gurin, Patricia Gurin

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

A racially and ethnically diverse university student body has far-ranging and significant benefits for all students, non-minorities and minorities alike. Students learn better in a diverse educational environment, and they are better prepared to become active participants in our pluralistic, democratic society once they leave such a setting. In fact, patterns of racial segregation and separation historically rooted in our national life can be broken by diversity experiences in higher education. This Report describes the strong evidence supporting these conclusions derived from three parallel empirical analyses of university students, as well as from existing social science theory and research.

Expert Report Of Claude M. Steele, Claude M. Steele

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Report based on 25-year period of research in the areas of social psychology, the social psychology of race and race relations, and the effects of race on standardized test performance.

Expert Report Of Robert B. Webster, Robert B. Webster

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

The author’s opinions are based primarily upon knowledge and insight gained in the forty years in which he has been a practicing attorney, counselor, arbitrator, mediator, bar officer, and state court judge. Webster’s opinions are also based in part upon materials described in Section IV.B, within.

Expert Report Of Kinley Larntz, Ph.D., Kinley Larntz

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

While working in this matter, the author undertook the task of analyzing the statistical relationship between law school acceptance and ethnicity. In particular, focusing on the strength of the relationship between law school acceptance and being a member of certain ethnic groups, controlling for qualifications for admission such as undergraduate grade point average, Law School Admission Test score, and selection index, and for other factors such as residency in the State of Michigan, gender, and a measure of economic disadvantage, waiver of the fee for application.

Legal Writing Scholarship: Point/Counterpoint, Jan M. Levine, Grace C. Tonner

Articles

Perhaps because the field of legal writing has now matured enough so that we professors constitute a critical mass of experienced teachers and scholars, we find ourselves frequently embroiled in debates about legal writing scholarship. What is it? Can we do it? Should we do it? Should it be considered part and parcel of our responsibilities as members of the law school world? To help us better present our shared view that legal writing professors not only can but should produce scholarship, we sought first to take on the role of devil’s advocate, presenting all the rationales we have heard …

The Changing Face Of Legal Education: Implications For The Practice Of Law And The Courts, John W. Reed

Other Publications

This is the last Conference of the Sixth Circuit in the 1900's. Though the Third Millennium technically does not begin until 2001, the turn of the "odometer" from the 1999 to 2000 leads us all to think of this as the end of a century and of a millennium. The pivotal date is yet sixth months away, but the pundits are already issuing their lists, both profound and trivial - the greatest inventions, the best books, the worst natural catastrophes, the trial of the century (of which there are at least a half dozen), the most influential thinkers, and on …

Generations: Nanook Of The Law School Library And The Classroom, Rennard Strickland

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Many of the essays in this symposium are rooted in the Western Law Professors of Color Conference held in Oregon in the Spring of 1998. The University of Oregon minority colleagues, as faculty of one of the co-sponsoring law schools, were charged, among other tasks, with the selection of the conference theme and tee-shirt design. The title “Generations” was chosen to focus on the challenges across the years for law faculty of color.