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Experience 100+, University Of Michigan Law School
Experience 100+, University Of Michigan Law School
Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications
100+ facts about the University of Michigan Law School and Ann Arbor, Michigan for the 2017-2019.
Law Library: 1859-2017, Barbara H. Garavaglia
Law Library: 1859-2017, Barbara H. Garavaglia
Book Chapters
The Law Library was established in 1859 as part of the Law Department and continues to be "maintained and administered as a part of the instruction and research operation of the Law School." The library has been considered the "apparatus" of the Law Department and "the lawyer's laboratory." Indeed, this underlying view led the library to build a comprehensive collection that would provide "the means necessary for original investigation" and "permit scholars to do research work in any field of law, regardless of country or period." The collection development policy--to collect primary sources of law: statutes, civil law codes, court …
Creating (And Teaching) The "Bail-To-Jail" Course, Jerold H. Israel
Creating (And Teaching) The "Bail-To-Jail" Course, Jerold H. Israel
Articles
Yale Kamisar has explained how events that occurred about fifty years ago led to the creation of a stand-alone criminal procedure course and, a few years later, led to the division of that stand-alone course into two courses. The second of those courses came to be called, almost from the outset, the "Jail-to-Bail" course. My focus today is on why that course was created and how it was shaped. Modern Criminal Procedure, as Yale has noted, was the first coursebook designed for a stand-alone course in criminal procedure. Modern was published in 1966. A year earlier, the first version …
100+, University Of Michigan Law School
100+, University Of Michigan Law School
Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications
100+ facts about the University of Michigan Law School and Ann Arbor, Michigan for the 2015-2016 academic year.
100+, University Of Michigan Law School
100+, University Of Michigan Law School
Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications
100+ facts about the University of Michigan Law School and Ann Arbor, Michigan for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Teaching Legal History Through Legal Skills, Howard Bromberg
Teaching Legal History Through Legal Skills, Howard Bromberg
Articles
I revolve my legal history courses around one methodology: teaching legal history by means of legal skills. I draw on my experience teaching legal practice and clinical s.kills courses to assign briefs and oral arguments as a means for law students to immerse themselves in historical topics. Without detracting from other approaches, I frame this innovation as teaching legal history not to budding historians but to budding lawyers.
Michigan Law At 150: An Informal History, James Tobin
Michigan Law At 150: An Informal History, James Tobin
Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications
An informal history of the University of Michigan Law School.
Gabriel Franklin Hargo: Michigan Law 1870, Margaret A. Leary, Barbara J. Snow
Gabriel Franklin Hargo: Michigan Law 1870, Margaret A. Leary, Barbara J. Snow
Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications
A brief biographical sketch of Gabriel Franklin Hargo, the first African American graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.
The Canon Has A History, Richard A. Primus
The Canon Has A History, Richard A. Primus
Reviews
Legal Canons, edited by J. M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson, is a collection of fourteen essays on subjects related to canonicity in law and legal education. Balkin and Levinson have two principal aims. One is to expand the category of things that can be canonical: not just texts, they say, but also arguments, problems, narrative frameworks, and examples invoked in conversation or teaching. In their view, what makes something canonical is its ability to reproduce itself in the minds of successive generations.' If generation after generation of legal academics argues about the countermajoritarian difficulty, then the countermajoritarian difficulty is a …
The Cutting Edge Of Poster Law, Michael A. Heller
The Cutting Edge Of Poster Law, Michael A. Heller
Articles
Students place tens of thousands of posters around law schools each year in staircases, on walls, and on bulletin boards. Rarely, however, do formal disputes about postering arise. Students know how far to go-and go no farther despite numerous avenues for postering deviance: blizzarding, megasigns, commercial or scurrilous signs. What is the history of poster law? What are its norms and rules, privileges and procedures? Is poster law effident? Is it just?
Advanced Legal Studies, University Of Michigan Law School
Advanced Legal Studies, University Of Michigan Law School
Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications
The Law School is part of the University of Michigan, among the world's premier research and teaching universities. The University is renowned for its top-ranked graduate programs in the social sciences and humanities; its schools of law, engineering, business, medicine and music; and its specialized research institutes and centers of study. Law students are able to take advantage of the rich intellectual life and the tremendous resources such as libraries, cultural and recreational facilities, and curricular offerings in other fields, made possible by the larger university environment.
The Law School Of The University Of Michigan: 1859 - 1959, Elizabeth Gaspar Brown
The Law School Of The University Of Michigan: 1859 - 1959, Elizabeth Gaspar Brown
Articles
On October 3, 1959, the law school of the University of Michigan will have completed a hundred years of functioning existence. A century earlier, on October 3, 1859, James Valentine Campbell delivered an address On the Study of the Law at the Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor, officially opening the law department.
A Book Of The Law Quadrangle At The University Of Michigan, Fred Nathan
A Book Of The Law Quadrangle At The University Of Michigan, Fred Nathan
About the Buildings
William Wilson Cook ardently believed that the future of democratic institutions must depend in large measure upon the ability and integrity of the members of the legal profession. He hoped to improve the quality of the leadership provided by that profession by improving the law schools. As the immediate object of his philanthropy he chose his Alma Mater, The University of Michigan Law School. The Law Quadrangle is the physical embodiment of one aspect of his idea and marks a milestone in legal education. In making possible a close fellowship between lawyers, teachers, and students in an inspiring environment he …
A Short History And Some Of The Graduates Of The Department Of Law Of The University Of Michigan, Burke A. Hinsdale
A Short History And Some Of The Graduates Of The Department Of Law Of The University Of Michigan, Burke A. Hinsdale
Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications
History of the University of Michigan Law School reprinted from The Michigan Alumnus March, 1908 issue.
Legal Education In The United States, Horace Lafayette Wilgus
Legal Education In The United States, Horace Lafayette Wilgus
Articles
The origin of law schools is lost in antiquity. It is probable there were advocates in Babylonia,1 and schools for the education of judges and scribes (perhaps the ancestral lawyers) in Egypt,2 more than 2000 years B.C. The Civil Code of Deuteronomy was published 621 B.C.,3 and soon afterward schools of the prophets were formed for its study.4 When Ezra left Babylon for Jerusalem (485 B.C.) he "set his heart * * * to teach in Jerusalem statutes and judgments,"5 and the ruins of his school could be seen by the law students at Husal, 500 years later.6 It is …
Founding Of The College Of Law Of The Ohio State University, Horace Lafayette Wilgus
Founding Of The College Of Law Of The Ohio State University, Horace Lafayette Wilgus
Articles
It is proper for me to say, in the beginning, that I have been delegated to bear, and I have the honor to present to the College of Law of the Ohio State University, upon this occasion the sincere congratulations and most hearty good wishes of the largest University Law School in the United States--the Department of Law of the University of Michigan. In addition to this, it is with much satisfaction, and is a very great personal pleasure, that I have the privilege of joining in the festivities of this dedication of the beautiful Temple of Themis, wherein the …
Recollection Of The Law Department, Jerome C. Knowlton
Recollection Of The Law Department, Jerome C. Knowlton
Articles
In 1859 the Department of Law began its work in education at the the university of Michigan, with three professors and ninety students. The faculty consisted of Thomas M. Cooley, James V. Campbell and Charles I. Walker. Judge Cooley resided in Ann Arbor and the other gentlemen lived in Detroit. At this time these men were young and inexperienced in educational work and had not achieved in any marked degree, success at the bar. Today the lives of Cooley, Campbell and Walker make up some of the best chapters in the history of the State of Michigan, and the better …
94 Law Class: "Our Book"
Yearbooks & Class Year Publications
On induction to emeritus class of University of Michigan in June 1946, the surviving members of the Law Class of 1894 tell of their activities and experiences during the first 50 years following their graduation and admission to the bar in 1894.
Law Schools And Legal Education, Henry W. Rogers
Law Schools And Legal Education, Henry W. Rogers
Articles
In the February number of the AMERICAN LAW REGISTER, there appeared an interesting article from the pen of Mr. Henry Budd, discussing the relation of law schools to legal education. The motive which inspired the writing of the article, was a commendable one, and the desire of the writer to have a higher standard established, governing admissions to the bar, will be quite generally concurred in. No one could read the article in question, however, without readily perceiving that the law schools of the United States were considered to be, in large measure, responsible for the admission to the bar …
History Of Law Class Of 1883 Of Michigan University, Charles I. York
History Of Law Class Of 1883 Of Michigan University, Charles I. York
Yearbooks & Class Year Publications
The origin of this book, which is a "new departure," and ever to be remembered as a production of the La.w Class of 1883 of the Michigan University, without a precedent from which to conceive its peculiarities of style, is as follows: In a convention hel1882, to put in nomination Senior Officers, the author was nominated for Class Historian, to be balloted for in about a week thereafter. During the time intervening between nomination nnd election day, the author imagined his election and began to inquire of the oflice, which led to his conception that a departure from the usual …