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Vol. 50, No. 6, December 1, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Prospective Faculty to Speak Within Next Week •Yingtao, Justified •Persian Pride •More Top 10 Lists •Shopping Guide •Tumble Freely •Dogma Trashed

Vol. 50, No. 5, November 9, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•LSSS Recognizes Bill Bradley Student Group •Yingtao on Guns •New Winter Courses •The J Arch Project •Movie Reviews •Interview of the Year •Music Reviews

Vol. 50, No. 4, October 19, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Curriculum Committee Debates Changes to Interview Season •Winter Grade Curve •Email Abuse •Get Musical! •Hornbook Workout •Larry Returns! •TBIYTC

Vol. 50, No. 3, October 5, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Election Results are In •Affirmative Action •A2: Ripoff City •3 Second Memory •Fashion for Profs •More on Trolleys •Movie Reviews

Vol. 50, No.2, September 21, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Student Senate Elections Next Wednesday & Thursday •The Economist •1L Reflections •What Law Review? •3 Second Memory •Movie Reviews •Gotta Go

Vol. 50, No. 1, September 7, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Vol. 1, No. 1 •The Growing Quad •Issues Still With Us •Cartoons •Asking for Trouble •Interview Tips

Vol. 49, No. 10, April 14, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•SFF Auction Hauls in Over $29,000 •Campbell Finalists Defeat Vouchers •Letter to the Editor •Faculty Hiring Exposed •Alumni Update •Final Tale from Cambodia •Tenure Illustrated •Madness in DC •Interview: Yale Kamisar

Vol. 49, No. 9.5, April 1, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Final Plans for "New" Building Announced •US News Admits Ranking Error: UM Law #1 •ABA Accreditation in Jeopardy Due to Faculty Teaching Practices •The News as We See It •Interview with the Dean •Are You a BPOC? •3Ls Donate Integrity

Vol. 49, No. 9, March 29, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Liberian Book Drive Overwhelming Success •SFF Gears Up for Annual Fundraising Auction •$25,000 Directed by YOU •Fall 1998 Grade Curve •Bruce is Psychic •Going Once, Going Twice

Vol. 49, No. 8, March 17, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•WLSA & Federalists Sponsor Debate •Debt Management Program Banishes 'Firm Future' Nightmares •Juan Tienda Lives On •The RG Finally Gets a Letter •Message from the President •Sure to Become a Classic •Tales from Cambodia •Lawyer Flick of the Year •Eggiweg McMuffin •CDs You've Never Heard Of

Vol. 49, No. 7, February 24, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Terrorism Symposium Sparks Debate •Success for Jessup Team •Think Like a Lawyer •SUV's and Nifty Loopholes •Desensitization •Droit de Seigneur •A Modest Proposal •Sage Advice •Guest Columnist Emeritus

Vol. 49, No. 6, February 15, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Stalking, Robbery, & Embezzlement •Saints Be Praised •Tales From Cambodia •Political Pronouns •Five Gavel Rating •Just Say No •Just Getting' By •Back to Nature

Vol. 49, No. 5, January 28, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•On-Campus Interviews, Part Two •Winter Ball February 4 •Under New Management •Fly the Friendly Skies •For Your Creative Side •Everyone's a Critic •What IS His Problem? •Personal Politics •Ricta Returns

Dicta, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

We all need art, and to see it flourish in our own academic community is cause for celebration and gratitude. Thank you, contributors, for sharing the fruits of your creative energy with your friends and colleagues.

The Editors would also like to extend a hearty thank you to the Law School Student Senate for its continued and generous financial support.

As always, we invite each member of the law school community to get involved with the journal - either as an editor or as a contributor. In the words of Dicta's founding law students, "don't let this good thing die"! …

Honors Convocation, University Of Michigan Law School

Commencement and Honors Materials

Program for the May 14, 1999 University of Michigan Law School Honors Convocation.

Legal Writing Scholarship: Point/Counterpoint, Jan M. Levine, Grace C. Tonner

Articles

Perhaps because the field of legal writing has now matured enough so that we professors constitute a critical mass of experienced teachers and scholars, we find ourselves frequently embroiled in debates about legal writing scholarship. What is it? Can we do it? Should we do it? Should it be considered part and parcel of our responsibilities as members of the law school world? To help us better present our shared view that legal writing professors not only can but should produce scholarship, we sought first to take on the role of devil’s advocate, presenting all the rationales we have heard …

The Changing Face Of Legal Education: Implications For The Practice Of Law And The Courts, John W. Reed

Other Publications

This is the last Conference of the Sixth Circuit in the 1900's. Though the Third Millennium technically does not begin until 2001, the turn of the "odometer" from the 1999 to 2000 leads us all to think of this as the end of a century and of a millennium. The pivotal date is yet sixth months away, but the pundits are already issuing their lists, both profound and trivial - the greatest inventions, the best books, the worst natural catastrophes, the trial of the century (of which there are at least a half dozen), the most influential thinkers, and on …

The African American, Latino, And Native American Graduates Of One American Law School, 1970-1996, David L. Chambers, Richard O. Lempert, Terry K. Adams

Articles

In the spring of 1965, only one African American student and no Latino students attended the University of Michigan Law School. At the time, Michigan, like most American law schools, was a training place for white males. In 1966, the law school faculty adopted a new admissions policy that took race into account as a plus factor in the admissions process. This policy of affirmative action has taken many forms over the years, but, across the decades of the 1970's, the 1980's and the 1990's, about 800 African Americans, 350 Latinos, 200 Asian Americans and 100 Native Americans have graduated …

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?

Doing Well And Doing Good: The Careers Of Minority And White Graduates Of The University Of Michigan Law School, David L. Chambers, Richard O. Lempert, Terry K. Adams

Articles

Of the more than 1,000 law students attending the University of Michigan Law School in the spring of 1965, only one was African American. The Law School faculty, in response, decided to develop a program to attract more African American students. One element of this program was the authorization of a deliberately race-conscious admissiosn process. By the mid-1970s, at least 25 African American students were represented in each graduating class. By the late 1970s, Latino and Native American students were included in the program as well. Over the nearly three decades between 1970 and 1998, the admissions efforts and goals …