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Vol. 48, No. 5, November 19, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•UPDATE: New Computers Actually En Route to Room 200 Computer Lab •Dean Lehman Speaks on Successful Fundraising Drive •Summer Job Survey of Last Year's 1Ls •Manning's Memories •Piranha Feeding Frenzy, et al. •Blank's Last Word •Legal Lad •Bringuel Goes Out with a Bang •Book, Movie and TV Reviews

Vol. 48, No. 4, October 28, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Revealing the Future of Life in Commercial Law •New Student Group Seeks to Spur Discussion of Women's Perspectives •A Glimpse into the High-Rent Cul-de-Sac of Larry's World •Rachel Preiser Continues her Culinary Tour of A2 •Bruce Manning Parties Hearty with Twisted Sister •Hit the Silver Screen •Law School Grade Curve! •B&B Offer 15 Ways to Leave Your Law School Lover

Vol. 48, No. 3, October 3, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Tech Wars •The FBI v. the 1st Amendment •Larry Kills His Parakeet •Vending Machine Alternatives •Eric Fuller Gets a Warm Fuzzy and Free Pitcher •Go See a Flick •Blanks Fails to Turn in His Article •B&B Eavesdrop in Room 200

Developing A Child Advocacy Law Clinic: A Law School Clinical Legal Education Opportunity, Donald N. Duquette

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Clinical legal education has become an accepted and integral complement to traditional law school curricula. Professor Duquette argues that clinical education is uniquely able to integrate the teaching of practical skills and legal doctrine, elevating students' understanding of both. Duquette maintains that a child advocacy law clinic can teach a broad range of practical skill benefit the hosting law school by providing an opportunity for interdisciplinary education as well as a public relations benefit, while simultaneously serving an important need in most communities for quality representation of all parties in child abuse and neglect cases. Most importantly, participation in a …

Vol. 48, No. 2, September 22, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•SFF Kicks Off Friends and Family Flyback Program •The Mann Speaks •Start the Presses! •Interview with Anthony Collings •Larry's World •The King Speaks •Blanks' Culture Corner •Bruce Manning's Memories •Summer Starter Softball

Vol. 48, No. 1, September 5, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Blowing Smoke •Who's Who in New, Visiting and Adjunct Professors at Michigan This Fall •Symposium Speakers Announced •Larry's World •The RG's Advice on Food and Fun in Ann Arbor •SEX •Book Reviews •Paul Luongo's Summer Adventures •Dueling Cartoons

Vol. 47, No. 11, April 16, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Possible Transcript Changes Source of Student Concern •Indigenous Genius: "Law Revue" Showcases Law School Talent •Discussion, Debate in the Desert Dust at the National Indian Law Conference •So You Think You Wanna Be on a Journal? •Michigan Bids Farewell to "The Saint" •3Ls Reflect •The Educational Environment Committee Speaks •So Does Larry Sager •B&B Offer the Wisdom of the Ages

Quad Angles, University Of Michigan Law School

Newsletters

Volume 1, Number 3 of the University of Michigan Law School Staff Newsletter.

Vol. 47, No. 10, April 1, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Five Superstar Faculty Hired •Visiting Professor Program Ended •Laptops Banned From Classrooms •Faculty to Undergo Transition •Kamisar v. Orentlicher on the "Right to Die" •Results of SFF Auction •Letters to the Editor •Committee and Discussion Group on Racism Formed •Larry's World •How to Pass/Fail •B&B Vent Spleen

Vol. 47, No. 9, March 18, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Professor Rosenbaum Speaks on California's Proposition 209 •Indian Gaming: Law, Economics, and Sovereignty •Going Once, Going Twice, SOLD! •Update: Female Enrollment Drop a National Trend? •US News Rankings •Letters to the Editor •Journal Ed Boards Announced •1996 Fall Grade Curve •B&B Offer Last Minute Job Hunt Advice

Vol. 47, No. 8, February 24, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Killer Curve!!! •BLSA Sponsors Lecture on Affirmative Action •Legal Practice Retooled for the Millennium •RG Rescues Jobless 1Ls •Sager-Toothed Tiger Attacks •Traffic 1, Pedestrians 0 •Josh Barron Goes to the Video Store •Hey, 1st Year Summer Starter •B&B Vent Spleen

Vol. 47, No.7, February 10, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

parks Controversy •Enter the Bizarro World of Larry Sager •Mr. Ford Goes to Washington •Take the RG Career Survey •On Location in Florida •B&B Highlight Summer Starter Bliss

International & Graduate Office Newsletter, University Of Michigan Law School

Newsletters

Vol. 1, No. 2 of the University of Michigan Law School International & Graduate Office Newsletter.

Legal Narratives, Theraputic Narratives: The Invisibility And Omnipresence Of Race And Gender, Leslie G. Espinoza

Michigan Law Review

My first introduction to Denise Gray was through a form. The intake sheet was dated October 17, 1994. The legal problem was straightforward. My introduction to Denise Gray would come much later. I am a clinical law professor. The clinic, Boston College Legal Assistance Bureau, is known as "LAB." I teach students law by supervising them as they represent, usually for the first time, a real person with real problems.

Vampires Anonymous And Critical Race Practice, Robert A. Williams Jr.

Michigan Law Review

I can only explain what Vampires Anonymous has done for me by telling my story. I know, stories, particularly autobiographical stories, are currently being dissed by some law professors. Raised in an overly obsessive, objectively neutralized cultural style, they are plain and simple Storyhaters. Their middle to upper class parents had money, a home in the burbs, and nice kids who were going to go on from their fancy grade schools and college preparatory gigs to Harvard/Stanford/Yale - all those types of pricey places where law professors usually come from. These kids were raised to be objective, neutral, neutered, fair, …

Rodrigo's Thirteenth Chronicle: Legal Formalism And Law's Discontents, Richard Delgado

Michigan Law Review

Professor! You're back! Rodrigo leaped to his feet and shook my hand fervently. "I heard a rumor you might be coming. What good news! Sit down. Did the authorities give you any trouble?"

Vol. 47, No. 6, January 28, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Students Lament Syvereud's Departure •Law School Panel on Affirmative Action for MLK Day Celebration •Exam Ticket Frustration •Blanks Pans Hip New Music •Michigan Students Explore Cambodia •Whitman Takes the Reins •The Two Sides of Larry Flynt •B&B Reveal Resolutions

Going To Trial: A Rare Throw Of The Die, Samuel R. Gross, Kent D. Syverud

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Few of the suits that are filed continue to trial, but some plaintiffs and defendants find their interests served best by going to trial.

This essay is adapted from "Don’t Try: Civil Jury Verdicts in a System Geared to Settlement," appearing in 44 UCLA Law Review 1 (1996). Publication is by permission. A complete, fully cited version is available from the editor of Law Quadrangle Notes.

If it is true, as we often hear, that we are one of the most litigious societies on earth, it is because of our propensity to sue, not our affinity for trials. …

Eye On The World, Jose E. Alvarez, Virginia A. Gordon

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

In a special section coinciding with the International Reunion of Law School graduates, Law School graduates who are deeply involved in the globalization of legal practice respond to the question, "If you could leap ahead 10 years, how do you think what you are doing now will change?" And in a thought-provoking prologue, Professor of Law Jose Alvarez and Assistant Dean for International Programs Virginia A. Gordan consider the historical - and historic - impact of Law School graduates from overseas on the legal profession.

A New Nuremberg?, Jose E. Alvarez

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

The following essay is based on presentations given recently at the University of Michigan, Harvard Law School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. While most citations have been removed for publication here, the author gratefully acknowledges the work of Mark Osiel, whose article, "Ever Again: Legal Remembrance of Administrative Massacre," 144 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 463 (1995), inspired much of the analysis here

On May 25, 1993, acting under the same powers it had used to authorize the Gulf War, the United Nations Security Council established the first international war crimes tribunal since post World War II …

The Michigan Law Quadrangle: Architecture And Origins, Kathryn Horste

About the Buildings

The Michigan Law Quadrangle: Architecture and Origins is intended to combine elements of a history and a guidebook. For those students, alumni, and visitors to Ann Arbor who have long admired the sequestered spaces and the noble corridors ofthe Quadrangle, the book is meant to answer some ofthe many questions that come to mind about its historical styles and the significance of its rich decorations, as well as to serve as a ready source book for those encountering the Quadrangle for the first time. Chapters 2 and 3 recount the history of the Quadrangle as a construction project and the …

Who Is Black Enough For You? An Analysis Of Northwestern University Law School's Struggle Over Minority Faculty Hiring, Leonard M. Baynes

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This Article considers the factors that should be used in hiring a person of color to a faculty position and raises the following questions: Apart from potential teaching ability and scholarly productivity, should faculty appointments committees look to other criteria for candidates of color? Provided that we can still consider the race and ethnicity of prospective candidates of color at private institutions, should faculty appointments committees be concerned about how closely identified a candidate is to an essentialized conception, for instance, of Black persons? Should a faculty hiring committee focus its efforts to hire African Americans on a Black person …

Dicta, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

This is the third year of Dicta, the law school's literary journal and a child of the vision of two 1996 graduates, Miles Yanick and Matt Morris. We hope that this creative forum will continue to grow and to flourish, enriching the law school community by offering a spectrum of poetry, fiction, essays, photography, and artwork. The editors faced a difficult task again this year as we again received more material than we could publish. We continued the policy of considering all submissions anonymously. This final product reflects the often conflicting views of the editors who tried to select a …

Honors Convocation, University Of Michigan Law School

Commencement and Honors Materials

Program for the May 9, 1997 University of Michigan Law School Honors Convocation.

Moving Ground, Breaking Traditions: Tasha's Chronicle, Angela I. Onwuachi-Willig

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This Note uses a fictional dialogue to analyze and engage issues concerning stereotypes, stigmas, and affirmative action. It also highlights the importance of role models for students of color and the disparate hiring practices of law firms and legal employers through the conversations and thoughts of its main character, Tasha Crenshaw.

Selecting And Designing Effective Legal Writing Problems, Grace C. Tonner, Diana Pratt

Articles

Legal research and writing courses are unlike most substantive first year law school classes in that they teach using the problem method. The success of a legal writing course depends on the quality of the problems. The purpose of this article is to provide some guidance for legal writing professors in designing legal writing problems. The article addresses (1) general considerations in problem design, (2) designing expository problems, (3) designing persuasive problems, and (4) sources of problems. In the first section, we discuss problem design as it relates to the overall goals for teaching the basic forms of legal analysis, …

An Interdisciplinary Seminar In Child Abuse And Neglect With A Focus On Child Protection Practice, Suellyn Scarnecchia

Articles

Given the myriad of professionals involved in protecting children from abuse and neglect, legal practice in the field of child protection requires an understanding of the various disciplines these professionals represent. Professor Scarnecchia argues that such an understanding is necessary in order for the attorney to serve as a zealous advocate for her client. In hopes of creating this understanding in students at the University of Michigan, an interdisciplinary seminar in child abuse and neglect has been created. Professor Scarnecchia details the substantive content of the seminar, discussing specific issues that arise in protecting children. She explains that by using …