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Vol. 38, No. 1, September 13, 1989, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Exam Flap Rocks Second Year Class •Family Law Project Gets Staff Attorney •Park Named RG Managing Editor •No Easy Answers •Hitchhiker's Guide to Ann Arbor •The Res Gestae Speaks with Professor •Schneider about the Grading Issue •Art Committee Forms at Law School •LSSS Holds First Meeting •Chronology: How the Events Unfolded •Classifieds •Lawyers Club Welcomes Students Back •1989 Pro Football Preview •Vikings, Oilers to Super Bowl •Why Michigan Won't Be #1 •The Ongoing Adventures of Superclerk: Prologue •Law in the Raw

Persuasion, Joseph William Singer

Michigan Law Review

Lawyers spend a lot of time attempting to persuade other people. They persuade judges to promulgate rules of law that favor their clients. They persuade their law partners to adopt their interpretation of existing law or to adopt their strategy for litigation. They persuade clients to accept the dictates of the law. They persuade adversaries in settlement negotiations and their clients' business associates in contract negotiations. They persuade legislatures to fund legal services for the poor, to adopt or to reject law reforms.

Law professors spend most of their time teaching - or at least practicing - the art of …

Storytelling For Oppositionists And Others: A Plea For Narrative, Richard Delgado

Michigan Law Review

This essay examines the use of stories in the struggle for racial reform. Part I shows how we construct social reality by devising and passing on stories - interpretive structures by which we impose order on experience and it on us. To illustrate how stories structure reality, I choose a single race-tinged event and tell it in the form of five stories or narratives. Each account is followed by analysis, showing what the story includes and leaves out and how it perpetuates one version of social reality rather than another. Part II deals with counterstories, competing versions that can be …

God, Metaprocedure, And Metarealism At Yale, Linda S. Mullenix

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Procedure by Robert M. Cover, Owen M. Fiss, and Judith F. Resnik

Vol. 37, No. 24, April 5, 1989, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Last Crit Lecture Focuses on Alternative Teaching Approaches •Music Industry Discussed in IPSA Lecture •Student Groups Plan Class Boycott •Hail to the Victors •Open Grading •Coming Down the Home Stretch •A Different World •Sessions Invitation Is Symbolic Affront •Fall 1988 Course Curves Finally Released •Lecturer Explains Crit Teaching •New Library Addition to be Built; Art Critics Applaud •Placement Office Adopts New Firm Selection Procedure •Margo Adams To .. . Uh ... Matriculate Here •Classifieds •Crossword •The Res Gestae Course Review: What Classes Are You Going to Take Next Year? •It's Opening Day! The RG Previews the Baseball Season •Professor Writes …

Alumni, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

News about our graduates; more class notes than ever before.

Book & Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A List of Books Received and a Subject Index of Articles, Comments, Notes and Recent Developments Appearing in Leading Law Reviews

Book And Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A List of Books Received and Subject Index of Articles, Comments, Notes, and Recent Developments Appearing in Leading law Reviews

Vol. 37, No. 15, January 25, 1989, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Australian Jurist Speaks on AIDS Crisis •Computer Lab Moves to Legal Research •Trade in Services Subject of New Book •Going, Not Gone •Get Rid of Grades •Living the Sheltered Life •The ACLU: Enemy of Decency •Discovering What Is Really Important •Leave Racism Out •Reflections on the New Year •Diversity Forum Examines Pluralism •Social Committee's New Agenda •Classifieds •Crossword •Lifton Makes IM Sports Debut •Law in the Raw

Class Of 1989 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.

Class Of 1989 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.

Alumni, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Judge Avern Cohn endows research chair; Class of' 63 creates Proffitt professorship; class notes.

Alumni Notes

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

First European alumni reunion honors Stein; news about our graduates; Class Notes

Dispute Resolution Between The General Motors Corporation And The United Automobile Workers, 1970-1982, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Book Chapters

At the end of 1982 the active membership of the United Automobile Workers stood at 1.25 million workers, belonging to about 1,600 local unions in the United States and Canada. There were 1.14 million Americans and 115,000 Canadians. Women accounted for 170,000 memberships in the two countries. A fifth or more of the total may have been retired members. The UAW ranks as the largest manufacturing union, ahead of the United Steelworkers, but behind three unions representing truckers, school teachers, and retail employees. Substantially all the blue-collar workers in the domestic auto industry have been organized, the vast majority by …

Empowerment And Achievement In Minority Law Student Support Programs: Constructing Affirmative Action, Leslie G. Espinoza

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Part I of this Article reviews the findings of the LSAC Report. The LSAC Report is a good beginning for an understanding of the structure of current minority academic support programs. The data provided by the Report, particularly regarding student selection criteria, demonstrates the link between support programs and affirmative action. Part II explores the stigma exacerbated by many academic support programs and the prejudice that stigma perpetuates. Part III examines law school myopia in approach and design of academic support programs. Academic support should do more than reiterate, albeit at a slow and studied pace, earlier classroom material. Students …

Accommodation And Satisfaction: Women And Men Lawyers And The Balance Of Work And Family, David L. Chambers

Articles

This study of graduates of the University of Michigan Law School from the late 1970s reports on the differing ways that women and men have responded to the conflicting claims of work and family. It finds that women with children who have entered the profession have indeed continued to bear the principalr esponsibilitiesf or the care of children, but it alsof inds that these women, with all their burdens, are more satisfied with their careers and with the balance of their family and professional lives than other women and than men.

First Person Singular, John W. Reed

Articles

The hot topic in legal circles is the decline of professionalism. In this often negative age, it ranks right up there with "What's wrong with American schools?" and "Where will we live when the ozone is gone?" and "How can we get a handle on drugs?"-all those terrible things.

Educational Debts And The Worsening Position Of Small-Firm, Government, And Legal-Services Lawyers, David L. Chambers

Articles

Law school operating costs are up. Tuitions are up. The debts of law students are up. What is happening to the students who have borrowed large sums? Are their debts affecting their decisions about the jobs to seek? Once in practice, are they significantly affecting the standard of living they can afford to maintain? What, in particular, is the effect of debts on those who enter-or contemplate entering-small firms, government, legal services, and "public interest" work where salaries are lower than in most other settings in which lawyers work? In the preceding essay, Jack Kramer has performed another extremely valuable …

Vol. 37, No. 11, November 16, 1988, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•ACLU's Holton Police Complaint Clinic To Assist With Civil Rights •Henkin Discusses Constitution's Future •Student Decries Duderstadt Selection •Hanging Out the Shingle •If Only Things Slowed Down •And the Charade Continues •Lost in a Sea of Anonymity •Of Mountains, Molehills and Hypersensitivity •Professor Kahn Should Be Ashamed of Himself •Dworkin to Speak on Male "Oppressors" •Renowned Henkin to Present Cooley Lectures •Temple Law To Offer Summer Sessions Abroad •UM to Win in Ohio, Pasadena •Smith, Kooistra Win 5K Run •Law in the Raw

Vol. 37, No. 8, October 26, 1988, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Law Students Attend DC Public Interest Conference •Boyle Inherently Critical of Law School •Women's Forum Discusses Issues •Fox Emphasis is Economic •Limitless Grade Option •Student Section Rowdyism Okay at Football Games •The Inhumanity of It All •Softball Coverage Inaccurate and Unfair •LSSS Responds to Budgetary Criticism •Michigan Attn 'y General Kelley Visits Campus •Crossword •Schnell is IU's Difference •First Years Sweep Golf, Women's Tennis •Law in the Raw

The Role Of Legal Education In Shaping The Profession, Harry T. Edwards

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

The theme of the 1988 Annual Conference of the Association of American Law Schools - "The Law School's Opportunity to Shape the Legal Profession: Money, Morals & Social Obligation" - raises enormous issues. I suspect that many law professors might find it easy to dismiss this theme as a trite and overworked cliche, but I think that would be an unfortunate mistake. From my present vantage point in the profession, I fear that legal education is falling short in terms of any meaningful effort to "shape the legal profession." This may explain the choice of the theme for this year.

Briefs, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Kamisar looks back at Gideon; profiles of Richard Friedman and Avery Katz; interviews with three visitors from abroad.

The Future Of Liberal Legal Scholarship, Ronald K.L. Collins, David M. Skover

Michigan Law Review

Earl Warren is dead.

A generation of liberal legal scholars continues, nevertheless, to act as if the man and his Court preside over the present. While this romanticism is understandable, it exacts a high price in a world transformed.

The following commentary is a reconstructive criticism written from the perspective of two liberals concerned about the future of "legal liberalism." We present our views as a commentary to emphasize their preliminary character; they represent our current assessment of where liberals stand and where they might redirect their energies.

Alumni, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

An interview with Philippines Supreme Court Justice Irene R Cort

Briefs, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Clinical law at Michigan: a look at five programs and profiles of seven students; Roger Cunningham receives named chair; faculty news.

Preclusion And Procedural Due Process In Rule 23(B)(2) Class Actions, Mark C. Weber

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Article examines whether Rule 23(b)(2) violates the procedural due process rights of absent class members by binding them to the judgment in a class case without notice of the suit. It concludes that the Rule almost certainly violates due process and proposes a reform that would permit nonbinding class actions similar to the old "spurious" class suits.

Vol. 36, No. 20, March 16, 1988, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•FLP: All in the Family •Students Critique Club •CIA Resolution Defeated •Senate Elections Approach •Wimping Out, Part II •MSA: Quit Now •Notices •C.I.A. Violates Democratic Values •Bollinger Responded Appropriately to Protest •Someone Stole My Lunch •Give to S.F.F. •A Special Kind of Olympics at MLS •Spring Sports Hit Law School •Law in the Raw

Vol. 36, No. 17, February 17, 1988, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Michigan Students Lack Public Interest •... While SFF Supports Public Jobs •New VP named for LSSS •Tropics Party Aids Distressed Youth •Review-ing Your Options •Law School Must Foster Public Service •Unwritten Rules of First-Year Education •Blind Grading Protects Against Racism •Turning Back a Troubling Trend •A Fly back Can Sometimes Be A Horror Story •Crossword •Law In The Raw

Vol. 36, No. 16, February 10, 1988, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Hoax Hassles Michigan Law Review •First Years Look For Summer Jobs •McMurray Resigns •Happy Hour Draws Crowd •The Echo Chamber •My Valentine's Day Musings •SFF: Thank You •Those Wonderful Childhood Rumors •Faceless Grading Ruins Brown Nosing •Syverud: Supreme Court to Civ Pro •Law In The Raw

The Twentieth-Century Revolution In Family Wealth Transmission, John H. Langbein

Michigan Law Review

The main purpose of this article is to sound a pair of themes about the ways in which these great changes in the nature of wealth have become associated with changes of perhaps comparable magnitude in the timing and in the character of family wealth transmission. My first theme, developed in Part II, concerns human capital. Whereas of old, wealth transmission from parents to children tended to center upon major items of patrimony such as the family farm or the family firm, today for the broad middle classes, wealth transmission centers on a radically different kind of asset: the investment …