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Vol. 7, No. 10, December 13, 1957, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Wigge and Robbe, Sponsored by the Barristers Society •Wigge and Robbe Pre-Parties •Law Club Open House and Christmas Musicale •Melvin Belli, Famed San Francisco Personal Injury Attorney will be Here •Snow Failed to Stop •Phil Thorpe •Eugene Harting and Gil Wanger •In the Circuit Court •At the Flicks

Vol. 7, No. 9, December 6, 1957, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Wigge and Robbe; Annual Winter Dance, Will be Held Saturday •Fraternity Social Events •SBA Wives Groups to Meet This Week •Final Listings of Home Addresses •Law Club Volleyball Team Won the Law School Championship •Silver Trophy for the Best Brief •Quarter Final Round of Campbell Competition Will be Held Thursday •230 Different Higher Educational Institutions are Represented •At the Circuit Court •At the Flicks

Vol. 7, No. 8, November 22, 1957, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Last Blast II is This Sunday •Junior Class Committee Has Been Appointed •Barristers Society Will Present Wigge and Robbe •Fraternity Social Events •Law School Student Body Comes From 43 States and 22 Foreign Countries •Literature Group of SBA Wives •Payments on Quad Contracts •In the Circuit Court •At the Flicks

Vol. 7, No. 7, November 15, 1957, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Fraternity Social Events •Law Club Social Events •SBA Will Present Movie "The Nuremberg Trial and Its Lesson for Today" •Alumni Committee and Faculty Committee Meeting Today •Professional Fraternity Touch Football •Pairings for Campbell Competition Have Been Made From Top Case Club Competitors •Organizational Meeting of Legal Aid Society Was Held Last Evening •Law Library Will Remain Open Evenings Until 11:00 •Circuit Court •At the Flicks

Vol. 7, No. 6, November 8, 1957, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Courtroom Capers •Second and Third Lectures of Series "The Doctor and the Law" •National Moot Court •Louis Rome Elected Freshman Class President •Fraternity Social Events •Law Club Glee Club Needs Members •Touch Football Report •Cleveland Orchestra •SBA Bookstore's Stock of No-Longer-Used Law Books •In the Circuit Court •At the Flicks

Vol. 7, No. 5, November 1, 1957, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•"Age of Space Law" •Freshman Class President Election •Fraternity Social Events •Law Club Social Calendar •Legal Aid Society •Assistant Dean Proffitt is Speaking Today to Law School •At the Circuit Court •Professional Fraternity Touch Football •Total Law School Enrollment is 869 •Placement Service Reports 19 Firms Have Interviewed Seniors So Far •At the Flicks

Vol. 7, No. 4, October 25, 1957, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•On the Docket of the Circuit Court •Fraternity Social Calendar •At the Flicks •Results of Last Thursday's Touch Football Games •Law Club Social Notes •Junior Fall Term Oral Arguments in Case Clubs

Vol. 7, No. 3, October 18, 1957, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•SBA •Senators John Bricker and Albert Gore •Election of Freshman Class President and SBA Vice President •Fraternity Social Calendar •Quad Editor Peter Knowlton •Representatives of the Four Legal Fraternities •Last Week's Professional Fraternity Football Games •Returns from California •New Members of the Barristers •American Atomic Power Policies •At the Flicks •Circuit Court Docket

Vol. 7, No. 2, October 11, 1957, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Fraternity Social Calendar •Home List for Last Year's Freshman Class Equaled 14.4% •New Members of the Psurfs •On the Docket of the Circuit Court •At the Flicks

Vol. 7, No. 1, October 4, 1957, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Calendar •Xmas Vacation Extended 4 Days •SBA Sponsors Film On Zola •Wives to Meet Sunday •Hoya Elected Law Club President; Other Council Members Chosen •One Week Left in Which to Buy the 1958 Quad at a Discount •At the Flicks •Furth Named National Student Bar Officer •PAD's Elect New Officers •Circuit Court Docket

Vol. 6, No. 2, May 1957, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Conditions of Cook •New Faculty Members •Elections Held •Circuit Conference •The President's Letter •A Word from the Ladies •Order of the Coif •New Law Review Editors •Faculty Focus •Sportscope

Vol. 6, No. 1, March 1957, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Honor System Proposed •Message from Dean Stason •Chancellor's Court In Session March 9th •Institute on Advocacy •The President Speaks •Fiat Lux •Lapsus Calami •"Place Aux Dames" •Sportscope •Rushing Begins •Wanted •Student Bargain •Faculty Facts •This Could Mean Money

Program From The Ninth William W. Cook Lectures, University Of Michigan Law School

Cook Lecture Materials

The program from the ninth William W. Cook lectures, held March 24-28, 1957, at the University of Michigan. The lecture series was "Planning for Freedom: The Government of the American Economy" by Eugene V. Rostow.

The Quad

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

Yearbook of the Class of 1957.

Class Of 1957 Fifteen Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School

UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports

This report summarizes the responses to a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni fifteen years after graduation.

Class Of 1957 Fifteen 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 1957 Fifteen Year Report Preface, University Of Michigan Law School

UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports

This preface describes changes at the University of Michigan Law School between the time the class of 1956 came to the Law School (1954) and the time of the survey (1972).

Law Students' Handbook, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

This booklet has several purposes. It is designed, first of all, to help the first year student make the adjustment to a new and, we hope, interesting and even exciting experience. It is also designed to assist the more sophisticated upperclassmen in dealing with such problems as curricular planning and the choice of legal career.

The University Of Michigan Law School As Seen By A Visitor, C.J. Hamson

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

A statement prepared by C.J. Hamson after returning to Cambridge from visiting the University of Michigan Law School.

Introduction To Advocacy: Suggestions And Rules For Case Club Work, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

The transition from classroom to courtroom requires much time and effort on the part of the aspiring law student. Case Club work is an aid to the student in making this transition. Since the Case Clubs play such an important role in the Law School program, the editors have prepared this pamphlet to explain their purpose and functioning.

Our aims in preparing this pamphlet have not deviated since the publication of the first edition. We feel confident that the success of this edition will match that of the first. -- Executive Committee

Symbolic Logic: A Razor-Edged Tool For Drafting And Interpreting Legal Documents, Layman E. Allen

Articles

A large amount of the litigation based on written instruments-whether statute, contract, will, conveyance or regulation-can be traced to the draftsman's failure to convey his meaning clearly. Frequently, of course, certain items may purposely be left ambiguous, but often the question in issue is due to an inadvertent ambiguity that could have been avoided had the draftsman clearly expressed what he intended to say. In this Article it is suggested that a new approach to drafting, using certain elementary notions of symbolic logic, can go a long way towards eliminating such inadvertent ambiguity. This new approach makes available to draftsmen …

Compulsory Joinder Of Parties In Civil Actions, John W. Reed

Articles

The plaintiff in a civil cause ordinarily is permitted to select the persons with whom he will litigate. The initial designation of parties to an action is made by the plaintiff, and if he chooses to sue B and not A,' that is ordinarily of no concern to B or to A or to the court. So also where the plaintiff without A as co-plaintiff sues B. Not always, however, is the plaintiff permitted unfettered choice in naming the parties to his lawsuit. On the one hand there are persons whose relationship to the situation in litigation is outside the …

What Is This Thing Called Hearsay?, John W. Reed

Articles

This article is based on an address delivered at the 1956 Advocacy Institute at the University of Michigan. A re-examination of elementary principles, the discussion proceeds on the express assumption that much of the uncertainty and confusion in usa of the hearsay rule is unnecessary because it is due to failure to recall and employ these principles.