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Editors' Note, Michigan Law Review
Editors' Note, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A reflection on the origins of the Michigan Law Review book review issue.
A Footnote For Jack Dawson, James J. White, David A. Peters
A Footnote For Jack Dawson, James J. White, David A. Peters
Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)
In the jointly-authored section below, "I" refers to Professor James J. White and "we" refers to White and co-author David A. Peters.
Jack Dawson, known to many at Michigan as Black Jack, taught at the Law School from 1927 to 1958. Much of his work was published in the Michigan Law Review, where he served as a student editor during the 1923-24 academic year. We revisit his work and provide a footnote to his elegant writing on mistake and supervening events.
In Part 1, we talk a little about Jack the man. In Part II, we recite the nature …
Foreword, Jeffrey S. Lehman
Foreword, Jeffrey S. Lehman
Michigan Law Review
Why celebrate? Some people hate law reviews. They would think it unseemly to celebrate a centennial such as this. They might compare it to a 1448 celebration of the first hundred years of the Bubonic Plague. Their criticisms are familiar. Why do we entrust the development of the scholarly canon to second- and third-year law students? Why do law reviews publish really bad things and reject really good things? Why do they encourage a style of argument in which each article must begin by summarizing all that has been written before? Why do they insist that any assertion of fact, …
The Writings Of John Barker Waite And Thomas Davies On The Search And Seizure Exclusionary Rule, Yale Kamisar
The Writings Of John Barker Waite And Thomas Davies On The Search And Seizure Exclusionary Rule, Yale Kamisar
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After browsing through many volumes of the Michigan Law Review, searching for the article I would discuss on the occasion of the law review's 100th anniversary, I wound up with two "finalists": a 1955 article by Professor John Barker Waite on the law of arrest search and seizure (on further reflection, four Michigan Law Review commentaries on the general subject written by Waite between 1933 and 1955)' and a monumental 200-page article (surely one of the longest articles ever to appear in the Michigan Law Review) by Thomas Davies on the "original Fourth Amendment. 2
Eleonora V. Eckert, Kent D. Syverud, Gregory P. Magarian, Christina B. Whitman, Rodney D. Martin
Eleonora V. Eckert, Kent D. Syverud, Gregory P. Magarian, Christina B. Whitman, Rodney D. Martin
Michigan Law Review
Tributes to Eleonora V. Eckert
Events
Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)
Senior Day: fond farewells; Law Review sponsors symposium on legal storytelling; Campbell Competition tackles right to counsel; first William W. Bishop Lecture looks at Single European Market.
The Michigan Law Review: A Survey, John B. Waite
The Michigan Law Review: A Survey, John B. Waite
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"The Michigan Law Review was instituted as a means of special education for those seniors in the Law Department who proved themselves particularly capable of profitting[sic] therefrom. It stands also as an extremely valuable service of the Law School to its alumni and to practicing lawyers in general."