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University Of Michigan Law School Faculty, 08/09, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

Biographies of the University of Michigan Law School faculty.

Tributes To Professor Andy King, Karen H. Rothenberg, William L. Reynolds, Jana Singer, Gordon G. Young

Maryland Law Review

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The Articulate Frank Allen, James J. White

Articles

Frank Allen had all of the wonderful talents that Ted St. Antoine and Rick Lempert ascribe to him. He was exceptionally smart and thoughtful (no one gets to give those fancy lectures who is not). He was a wise man (he led the faculty through the tough times at the end of the Vietnam War). And he was compassionate but tough as nails (he favored affirmative action, but was willing to close down the BAM affirmative action disruption with police if necessary-Frank's statement of his intention to call the police after the law school classes were disrupted forced the timorous …

Francis A. Allen--Dean And Colleague, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Articles

Frank Allen was chosen as Dean at Michigan during my first year on the Law School faculty. I had never met him but my colleagues had provided splendid reports about his work and about him personally. I was also impressed by his response to our inquiry concerning his possible interest in the deanship. He said he had established a couple of conditions for being a dean anywhere. First, it would have to be at a school to which he felt a special attachment. Second, it would have to be at an institution where he felt he could make some particular …

In Memoriam: Francis A. Allen, Yale Kamisar

Articles

Francis A. Allen graced the law faculties of five universities in the course of a remarkable, forty-six-year teaching career. In that time, he established himself as one of the half-dozen greatest twentieth century American scholars of criminal law and criminal procedure.

Dear Alumni And Friends:, Lauren K. Robel

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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Discovering William Cook: Ten Sources For Reconstructing The Life Of A Lawyer, Margaret A. Leary

Articles

Ms. Leary uses a case study to describe ten categories of resources for reconstructing a Manhattan lawyer's life. These resources answer questions about his law practice, scholarship, personal life, personality, values, and philanthropy. The case study uses today's resources to look far back into the details of the life of William W. Cook, who gave his fortune to the University of Michigan Law School.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Commander In Chief, Elizabeth L. Hillman

Faculty Scholarship

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A Response: Why William Nelson’S Analysis Of The Law Department 1946–1965 Is Wrong, Paul A. Crotty

NYLS Law Review

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A Tribute To Robert L. Oakley, James S. Heller

Library Staff Publications

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Fighting For The City In Context: William Nelson And The Legal History Of New York, William P. Lapiana

NYLS Law Review

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Global Climate Change Offers Hot Career Opportunities, Michael B. Gerrard

Faculty Scholarship

Michael Gerrard, editor of Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, is passionate about global warming and the role lawyers can play in improving the environment. Student Lawyer's Donna Gerson talks to Gerrard about his career path and how law students can make a difference combating climate change.

Dedication, Brian E. Gray

Faculty Scholarship

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Tribute To Professor Jim Mooney, Charles Wilkinson

Publications

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Book Review Of Dalia Mitchell’S Architect Of Justice: Felix S. Cohen And The Founding Of American Pluralism, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

Other Publications

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Alumni Profile, Lynn Burke

Human Rights Brief

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Women Of Distinction Honored (Photograph)

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

The Girl Scouts of Tulip Trace Council, Inc. 2007 Women of Distinction Awards Dinner held on Friday, Nov. 16. Pictured from front left are Mary Krupinski (Honoree), Lauren Robel (Honoree), Anna Weigand (Honoree), Janet Skillman (Honoree), Jenny Morgan (Honoree), Alisa Wright (Honoree). In the back row from the left are Pam Freeman (Honoree), Ann Shea (WTIU producer-mistress of ceremonies), Deborah O'Brien (Girl Scouts of Tulip Trace Council CEO), Regina Moore (Bloomington city clerk and event co-chair), Sue Wanzer (Girl Scouts of Tulip Trace Council Board president).

Tribute In Honor Of Oliver W. Hill, Esq., Jonathan K. Stubbs

Law Faculty Publications

Memorial tribute to Oliver W. Hill, pioneer Richmond civil rights attorney.

Representing Saddam Hussein: The Importance Of Being Ramsey Clark, Lonnie T. Brown, Jr.

Scholarly Works

This article examines the professional life of former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark in an effort to understand the many controversial representations and causes that he has undertaken during his post-government career. I do so through the vehicle of perhaps his most perplexing client choice - deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Although Hussein had other competent attorneys prepared and willing to represent him, Ramsey Clark nevertheless felt compelled to volunteer his services to the defense team. Why would he do so, and was his decision an ethically proper one under the circumstances?

These are the specific questions that this …

The Imagination Of James Boyd White, Lee C. Bollinger

Michigan Law Review

For several decades, James Boyd White has been a unique voice in the law. It is a voice of extraordinary intellectual range, of erudition and of deep commitment to a life of self-understanding and of humane values. His point of access is language - all language, in every context. Armed y a lifetime of thought about words, he justifiably has regarded no field or discipline or communicative activity as foreign and outside his ken. Whoever reads him must feel his sense of intellectual empowerment that our world, sectioned as it is by expertise, would deny us.

Educative Friendship - A Personal Note, Jeanne Gaakeer

Michigan Law Review

In 1992, when I started my doctorate research in the interdisciplinary field of Law and Literature, The Legal Imagination was one of the first books I read. To European eyes, it was a most unusual book since in continental legal theory in those days, the Anglo-analytical tradition was predominant, and French deconstruction had for some time been the up-and coming stream. Fascinated as I became with Professor White's works, I decided to try to get in contact with him in order to ask him about the genesis of his ideas. So much for the dangers of the intentional fallacy Whimsatt …

Speech, Silence, And Ethical Lives In The Law, Robin West

Michigan Law Review

As his many appreciative readers know, James Boyd White brought his learning to bear on the relation between ethical living and ethical speaking, and particularly as it pertains to how we live and speak in law. His prodigious writing, teaching, and speaking career, as far as I can tell, was motivated by a singular, passionate belief: that the human capacity for language can and should serve as a bridge from mind to mind and spirit to spirit, so that we might cohabit the earth not only peaceably, but with the pleasures and grace of each other's company. Language, White taught, …

Introduction To The Stewart Lecture Series, Lauren K. Robel

Indiana Law Journal

William R. Stewart Lecture given at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington on October 31, 2006.

The Folklore Of Legal Biography, Mark Fenster

UF Law Faculty Publications

This essay reviews Spencer Weber Waller's recent biography of the legal realist Thurman Arnold (NYU Press 2005). Arnold's academic and popular writings during the 1930s - which not only critiqued what he saw as the foolishness and ill effects of legal formalism and political conservatism, but also recognized the symbolic authority of legal forms and conservative beliefs and the need for any reform movement to respect and appropriate them - force us to reconsider the entire project of legal biography. Arnold's life and work reveal the ways in which the forces of modernity - forces that Arnold celebrated in his …

Memorial To William R. Stewart, William B. Gould Iv

Indiana Law Journal

This Memorial is based on remarks delivered at Arlington National Cemetery, February 27, 2004.

Jutstice Kennedy And The Environment: Property, States' Rights, And The Search For Nexus, Michael Blumm

ExpressO

Justice Anthony Kennedy, now clearly the pivot of the Roberts Court, is the Court’s crucial voice in environmental and natural resources law cases. Kennedy’s central role was never more evident than in the two most celebrated environmental and natural resources law cases of 2006: Kelo v. New London and Rapanos v. U.S., since he supplied the critical vote in both: upholding local use of the condemnation power for economic development under certain circumstances, and affirming federal regulatory authority over wetlands which have a significant nexus to navigable waters. In each case Kennedy’s sole concurrence was outcome determinative.

Justice Kennedy has …

2007-08 Marked By Historic Gifts, Lauren K. Robel

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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Historic $35 Million Gift Supports Student Scholarships

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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The Power And Promise Of Transformative Philanthropy, Lauren K. Robel

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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Roger Groot, Legal Historian, David K. Millon

Scholarly Articles

A tribute to Professor Roger Groot.