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James Martin: Friend And Co-Author, David G. Epstein
James Martin: Friend And Co-Author, David G. Epstein
Michigan Law Review
A tribute to James A, Martin
James A. Martin, Paul D. Carrington
James A. Martin, Evan A. Davis
James A. Martin, Ronald Dekoven
Marcus L. Plant, Walter Byers
Marcus L. Plant, Wex S. Malone
Marcus L. Plant 1911-1984, The University Of Michigan Law Faculty
Marcus L. Plant 1911-1984, The University Of Michigan Law Faculty
Michigan Law Review
A Tribute to Marcus L. Plant
Marcus L. Plant, Allan F. Smith
(An Enthusiastic) Tribute To Professor Marcus Plant, Joel M. Boyden
(An Enthusiastic) Tribute To Professor Marcus Plant, Joel M. Boyden
Michigan Law Review
A Tribute to Marcus L. Plant
Preface, Journal Of Law Reform
Preface, Journal Of Law Reform
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This collection of essays is offered not as a .finished product but as part of an on-going discussion among faculty, between faculty and students, and between Michigan faculty and others concerned with legal education. It is our hope that this collection will convey to students that faculty members take seriously their responsibility to provide a comprehensive, quality legal education, to individual faculty members that other faculty are thinking about similar issues, and to faculty at other schools that several ideas about legal education are being explored by Michigan faculty members.
Why I Teach Water Law, Joseph L. Sax
Why I Teach Water Law, Joseph L. Sax
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
I began my first law school job in 1962 and water law is the only subject I have taught every year since then. Though I am enthusiastic about all the courses I teach, I confess that water law remains my favorite. I have often asked myself why, because few subjects are considered more peripheral to the central mission of the law schools. In the East and Midwest the course is rarely taught, and in the West-where it has long been a staple- it is pretty much treated as a "nuts-and-bolts" offering for students who will practice in appropriation doctrine states. …
Why Would Law Students Benefit From Studying Economics?, Michelle J. White
Why Would Law Students Benefit From Studying Economics?, Michelle J. White
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Why would law students benefit from studying economics? Three reasons come to mind. First, knowing some economics should enable students to understand more fully the issues encountered in a variety of areas of the law. Second, in a variety of areas of the law, economic analysis constitutes a central component of the legal arguments made in prosecuting and defending the case. Third, many law students will become involved in policy-making, whether because they end up working in the executive branch of government or because they become legislators, lobbyists, or legislative staff.
In the following sections, I treat each of the …
Doctrine In A Vacuum: Reflections On What A Law School Ought (And Ought Not) To Be, James Boyd White
Doctrine In A Vacuum: Reflections On What A Law School Ought (And Ought Not) To Be, James Boyd White
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Although this paper will reach a wider audience, in it I mean mainly to address the students and faculty of the University of Michigan Law School. It is meant to be part of a conversation in which members of this community talk to each other about the life they share.
I have written elsewhere about the expectations-the fears and hopes-that one can appropriately bring to law school. In this paper I speak to those who are immersed in ·the process of legal education, on one side of the podium or the other, and wish to say something of what I …
The Law School Of The University Of Michigan: 1859-1984: An Intellectual History, Elizabeth Gaspar Brown
The Law School Of The University Of Michigan: 1859-1984: An Intellectual History, Elizabeth Gaspar Brown
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The intellectual history of the University of Michigan Law School is recorded in the titles of contributions to legal literature published from its organization in October 1859 to the present. These writings demonstrate a continued commitment to legal scholarship and illustrate both the changing patterns in the subjects chosen for research and writing, and the methods utilized for treatment of the subjects.
Is Thinking Like A Lawyer Enough?, Sallyanne Payton
Is Thinking Like A Lawyer Enough?, Sallyanne Payton
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Every year that I attend meetings of the Law School's Committee of Visitors I ask members of the committee how the school might improve the training that we give to our graduates. Every year until this one the lawyers who have responded to this question have given a standard answer: the young lawyers are smart, they say, smarter in many respects than their seniors, but they don't know how to write well. This response usually leads to a discussion of the proper place of skills training in the law school curriculum; lawyers and professors engage in a little jousting over …