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History Lesson Comes From Grant Street Inn, Lyndsey Williams

William Perry Rogers (1896-1902)

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Welcoming Our New Dean

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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A Message From The Dean, Lauren K. Robel

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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The Politicization Of Clarence Thomas, Jagan Nicholas Ranjan

Michigan Law Review

Perception often shapes memory. In particular, the way one perceives a noteworthy public figure often shapes that figure's historical legacy. For example, history largely remembers John Coltrane as one of the greatest jazz saxophone players of our time. His improvisational skill, innovative style, and mastery over his instrument all serve to classify him in the public memory as the ultimate jazz performer. Yet, as the example of Coltrane might demonstrate, perception is unjustly deficient. Coltrane was not merely a great saxophone player; he was first and foremost a religious figure whose spirituality drove his creativity and manifested itself in prayerful …

Justices At Home: Three Supreme Court Memoirs, Laura Krugman Ray

Michigan Law Review

The Supreme Court, once an austere and remote institution, is increasingly the focus of popular attention. The Justices are profiled in the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker, photographed with family members for mass-market books, and - on the evening the Court decided Bush v. Gore - televised leaving the courthouse parking garage. In the spring 2002 television season, two hour-long programs were set in the Supreme Court; both were briskly cancelled, but during their brief runs they featured Justices as heroic figures played by prominent actors. When a former law clerk recently published his account of internecine …

If History Mattered: John Marshall And Reframing The Constitution, Aviam Soifer

Michigan Law Review

What more can there be to learn about John Marshall? We have been blessed recently with a flood of fine books about Marshall and the Supreme Court over which he presided from 1801 until 1835. We also now have readily available an impressive collection of documents concerning the Court before Marshall, as well as a fine series collecting, introducing, and annotating Marshall's papers. With recent bicentennial celebrations marking the beginning of Marshall's career as Chief Justice and the anniversary of Marbury v. Madison, an outpouring of law review articles and scholarly symposia have offered learned exchanges about the great Chief …

Clark Memorandum: Spring 2003, J. Reuben Clark Law Society, J. Reuben Clark Law School

The Clark Memorandum

• Be Healers (Elder James E. Faust)
• Escape from the 85th Floor (Victor Guzman)
• Law School: A Sacred Experience (Jane H. Wise)
• Opening Doors (Edward L. Carter)
• Never Again Foundation (Edward L. Carter)

A Lawyer's Calling, Lauren K. Robel

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

The paths that led the current first-year class, the Class of 2005, to the School of Law are as varied as the paths they - like you - will follow after graduation. Students come to law from other professions, from the study of many other disciplines, from communities across the country and around the world - both communities based on proximihJ and those based on affinity. While the study of law presents new vocabularies, skills, and ideas, that study does not require leaving scholarly, professional, and personal histories at the door. Quite the contrary - what makes law a particularly …

Alumni, Fund Raising At Top Of Iu Law School Dean's List, Barb Berggoetz

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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Remembering Harry Pratter (1917-2002), Samuel Born, Joseph Hays, Sarah Riodan, George P. Smith Ii

Harry Pratter (1976-1977 Acting)

At this year's annual Alumni Weekend, colleagues, family, friends, and former students of the inimitable Professor Harry Pratter, who died in March 2002, gathered to share their recollections of his life and career.

Pratter, who was born in the Ukraine and emigrated to the United States as a child, began teaching at the Law School in 1950, after earning his JD from the University of Chicago. He taught many different subjects, including Commercial Law, Negotiable Instruments, Conflicts of Law, Contracts, Torts, and Family Law. But more fundamentally, "he taught life," according to Professor Fred Aman, longtime dean of the school. …

Remembering Andrew I. Batavia, Michael Ashley Stein

Faculty Publications

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Law School Appoints First Female Dean, Adam Aasen

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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Court May Force Iu's Hand On Affirmative Action, Steve Hinnefeld

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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The University Of Michigan Law School Faculty, 2003, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

Biographies of University of Michigan Law School faculty.

The University Of Michigan Law School Faculty, 2003-2004, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

Biographies of University of Michigan Law School faculty.

Professor Marie Monahan: A Remembrance, 37 J. Marshall L. Rev. Xix (2003), Julie M. Spanbauer

UIC Law Review

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Gentleman, Scholar, Visionary- A Living Tribute To Harold K. Jacobson, Detlef F. Sprinz

Michigan Journal of International Law

Tribute to Harold Jacobson.

The Michigan Way, William Zimmerman

Michigan Journal of International Law

Tribute to Harold Jacobson.

Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917), Janet Butler Munch

Publications and Research

Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917) was a trial lawyer and diplomat.

David E. Feller: The Happy Warrior, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Articles

Dave Feller and I first became acquainted when we were both union lawyers in Washington, D.C. Dave was the ultimate happy warrior. He went joyous into combat, and years later he could recount, joyously, objectively, and without rancor toward old foes, the exact details of the many triumphs and the few defeats. A favorite story came from his Supreme Court clerkship. Dave was already seven years out of Harvard Law School, with experience in university teaching, Army intelligence, and the Justice Department, and he didn't hesitate to tell Chief Justice Vinson he should vote for certiorari in a case close …

Obligations Impaired: Justice Jonathan Jasper Wright And The Failure Of Reconstruction In South Carolina, Caleb A. Jaffe

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Part I of this article, on the historiography of South Carolina Reconstruction, explains the difficulty scholars have had in uncovering the documentary history of Reconstruction, and outlines the development of historical interpretations of Reconstruction from the Nineteenth century Redeemer-era accounts to the revisionists of the 1970's. Part II provides brief biographies of both Justice Wright and William James Whipper. Parts III and IV track the different approaches of Whipper and Wright on two vital issues of their day: (1) whether to repudiate all private debts relating to slavery; and (2) how to construct a homestead law to protect cash-poor landowners. …

Jake And I: A Story Of A Collaboration, Eric Stein

Michigan Journal of International Law

Tribute to Harold Jacobson.

Tribute To Harold Jacobson, John H. Jackson

Michigan Journal of International Law

Tribute to Harold Jacobson.

Blessed And Awarded Are The Peacemakers? An Essay In Remembrance Of Harold Jacobson, J. David Singer

Michigan Journal of International Law

Tribute to Harold Jacobson.

The Creativity Of The Common-Law Judge: The Jurisprudence Of William Mitchell, Charles J. Reid Jr.

William Mitchell Law Review

Mitchell's presence graced the Minnesota Supreme Court for nearly nineteen years, from 1881 to 1900. His output was prodigious. He produced nearly 1600 judicial opinions. It has been estimated “that excluding Sundays, and allowing a month in each year for vacation, Judge Mitchell wrote one opinion in every three days for nineteen years.” Indeed, “[i]n point of numbers, his opinions exceed those of any other justice of the Supreme Court of his state, or the nation.” It is one aspect, perhaps the central aspect, the unifying theme of this prolific body of work, that is the focus of this essay: …

The Deanship, Ellen Ash Peters

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Robel Named Law School Dean

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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A Tribute To Harry Pratter, Terry A. Bethel, Douglass Boshkoff, Maurice J. Holland

Harry Pratter (1976-1977 Acting)

The Board of Editors, in recognition of his lasting service to Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, hereby dedicates Volume 78 of the Indiana Law Journal to the memory of Harry Pratter, who taught at the School of Law from 1950 until 1994, and passed away March 11,2002. As evidenced below, Professor Pratter's influence spread far beyond the bounds of his classroom walls, and his presence in the Law School's community will be sorely missed.

Who Was William Marbury?, David F. Forte

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Of all the disappointed office seekers in American history, only William Marbury has been so honored as to have his portrait hung in the chambers of the United States Supreme Court alongside that of James Madison. The two titular protagonists to the Marbury v. Madison dispute had no idea that their original contretemps would ever find its way to litigation, let alone eventual mythic significance as the foundation stone of judicial review.

Judge Henry Woods: A Reminiscence, Richard S. Arnold

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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