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Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Job openings drop for new lawyers; Steven Pepe to head Clinical Law Program; Prof. William Bishop plans for retirement; Winners announced in Campbell debate; Roger Martindale is Admissions Officer; New sexual conduct law outlined by Virginia Nordby; Survey of arbitrators completed by Prof. Edwards; New legal service offered for women; 24 law graduates receive clerkships; Alumni notes; Recent events

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Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

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Some Comments On Proposals For Reform Of The Federal Appellate Court System, Terrance Sandalow

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

In response to growing concern over the rapidly increasing caseloads of the federal courts of appeal, the 92nd Congress established the Commission on Revision of the Federal Court Appellate System. The Commission was instructed "to study the structure and internal procedures of the federal courts of appeal system" and to recommend such "changes in structure or internal procedure as may be appropriate for the expeditious and effective disposition of the caseload of the Federal courts of appeal...."

In April 1975, the Commission issued a preliminary report of its views. Among the recommendations contained in that report was a proposal that …

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Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

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The Clinical Law Experiment: Michigan's First Five Years, Steven D. Pepe

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Many Michigan law alumni continue to inquire about the Clinical Law Program, now entering its fifth year of fulltime operation. Prof. Al Conard's "Letter from the Law Clinic" in the fall, 1973, Law Quadrangle Notes gave a perceptive and entertaining glimpse into some of the case situations at the clinic and the types of learning in which clinic students are engaged. This article will sketch the development and operation of our clinical experiment in legal education. A future article will explore the goals, methodology, and problems of clinical legal education. A third and final article will focus on a particular …

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Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

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A Bibliography Of The Published Works Of Paul G. Kauper, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Bibliography of the Published Works of Paul G. Kauper

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Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Alfred F. Conrad is Butzel Professor; Words in memory of Paul G. Kauper; Rosberg amd Waggoner join law faculty; Rhonda R. Rivera is named Assistant Dean; Philosopher Rawls is a visiting professor; Professor Blasi host award-winning show; Professor Kamisar praises Michigan Supreme Court; Harris, Siegal, and Wellman take new positions; Student group urges open agency files; Clerkships accepted by 24 law grads; Recent events.

Contract Clauses, James J. White

Book Chapters

Before he turns to the clauses below, the draftsman should consider a few points that apply to drafting in general. The suggestions that follow will not win the Galileo award for 1974, but they bear repeating nevertheless.

Formalizing Hohfeldian Analysis To Clarify The Multiple Senses Of 'Legal Right': A Powerful Lens For The Electronic Age, Layman E. Allen

Articles

Careful communication is frequently of central importance in law. The language used to communicate even with oneself in private thought profoundly influences the quality of that effort; but when one attempts to transmit an idea to another, language assumes even greater significance because of the possibilities for enormously distorting the idea. Word skill is to be prized.

A Complete Bibliography Of Books, Pamphlets, Major Reports, Speeches, And Memoranda Of E. Blythe Stason, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Complete Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets, Major Reports, Speeches, and Memoranda of E. Blythe Stason (Unpublished works can be found in the Michigan Historical Collection, Ann Arbor, Michigan)

Computer Systems For Research, Layman E. Allen

Book Chapters

The legal communication network today is characterized by two features. Any communication network in this century is marked by a division between the extent to which there is a man involved and the extent to which there is a machine involved. And, in terms of emphasis at this stage of things, at least within law, the emphasis is heavily upon the man communicating messages and relatively less upon the machine. The interesting question is, What is going on within this network that is amenable to being handled by machine and what, among those things, is it wise to do that …

How Does The Law Change? The Case For Legal Research, Jeanne W. Halpern

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

Legal research, once synonymous with pretrial investigations, courtroom proceedings, and a rather slavish application of precedent has, since the turn of the century, moved increasingly into university law schools. In so doing, legal research has expanded to include reform, innovation, and vigorous inquiries into the relation of law to the social forces that create it. In the satiric lithograph on the cover, "Les gens de justice" (courtesy of the University of Michigan Museum of Art), Honoré Daumier depicts 19th century lawyers and their "research" as pompous and self-serving. The frontispiece shows the William W. Cook Legal Research Building at the …

Footprints In The Sands Of Time

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

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Right1, Right2, Right3, Right4 And How About Right?, Layman E. Allen

Book Chapters

Careful communication is frequently of central importance in law. The language used to communicate even with oneself in private thought profoundly influences the quality of that effort; but when one attempts to transmit an idea to another, language assumes even greater significance because of the possibilities for enormously distorting the idea. Word-skill is to be prized. Few have expressed this more aptly or succinctly than Wesley N. Hohfeld: ...[I]n any closely reasoned problem, whether legal or nonlegal, chameleon-hued words are a peril both to clear thought and to lucid expression.

Nagel: The Legal Process From A Behavioral Perspective, G. Theodore Mitau

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Legal Process from a Behavioral Perspective by Stuart S. Nagel

Scholarship On Soviet Family Law In Perspective, Whitmore Gray

Articles

The radical changes in the norms of Soviet family law over the past fifty years have reflected the convulsions of Soviet society as well as the revisions of Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism. This paper is a commentary on the writing in this field by Americans in particular, and by other non-Soviets in general. In view of the volume of writing in this field, it has been necessary to limit discussion in the text to a few representative articles illustrating a few of the subject matters treated and various typical approaches employed. The topic is a particularly timely one, for new, comprehensive Principles of …

Tigar: Selective Service Law Reporter, Edward A. Tomlinson

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Selective Service Law Reporter editor-in-chief, Michael E. Tigar

Better Organization Of Legal Knowledge, Layman E. Allen, Tomoyuki Ohta

Articles

The increasing need of legislatures to draft complicated statutes, e.g., the Internal Revenue Code, requires the development of new techniques for defining and communicating complicated policies both accurately and understandably. At present, these complicated statutes are expressed in long, convoluted sentences with frequent uses of exceptions and limitations. Current drafting technique, with its inadequacies, often hinders a comprehensive understanding of the policy being communicated and often fails to communicate the policy accurately. Moreover, with the voluminous increase of legal literature in recent times, legal researchers experience increasing difficulty in attempting to retrieve relevant judicial and administrative interpretations. The authors propose …

A Prospectus For Reform, Francis A. Allen

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The interests of this journal are not focused narrowly on any particular areas of law reform. It will be concerned with issues relating to the improvement of both private law and public law, judicial administration, law enforcement, administrative regulation, and much more. In short, it seeks to promote the improvement of law and its administration in all areas in which needs are disclosed and in which useful proposals can be advanced. No doubt, many of the problems to be discussed will be those with an important local impact. One of the interesting developments of our times is the degree to …

A Language-Normalization Approach To Information Retrieval In Law, Layman E. Allen

Articles

An information retrieval system (as distinguished from a document retrieval system) is described for handling statute-oriented legal literature. The Normalized Sentence-Index Matrix (N-SIM) system suggested differs from more traditional retrieval systems for legal literature in three respects: (1) the categories used for classification are normalized versions of sentences from statutes, regulations, treaties, constitutions, case opinions, legal treatises, law review articles, and other documents in legal literature, (2) the classification system is hierarchial and open-ended to evolve with the literature through time, and (3) the organization of the file facilitates some analysis of the literature by computer. A sentence is expressed …

Review Of Handbook Of Appellate Advocacy, By M. Josephson., Douglas A. Kahn

Reviews

The practice of appellate advocacy may well be the most abused skill in the legal profession. The successful conduct of an appeal can preserve a client's favorable verdict or reverse his losses; and an appellate determination is often dispositive of the case. Yet, while most members of the bar recognize that trial litigation requires specialized training, too many attorneys regard appellate advocacy as commonplace and devote little or no effort to the study of the techniques of brief writing and oral argument. I have personally observed a sizeable number of cases which were lost on appeal, not because counsel failed …

Cataldo, Gillam, Kempin, Jr., Stockton, & Weber: Introduction To Law And The Legal Process, Joseph Lazar

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Introduction to Law and the Legal Process By Bernard F. Cataldo, Cornelius W. Gillam, Frederick G. Kempin, Jr., John M. Stockton, and Charles M. Weber.

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A List of Books Received by Michigan Law Review

Harvey: Law And Social Change In Ghana, Max Rheinstein

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Law and Social Change in Ghana By William Burnett Harvey

The Uniform Commercial Code Comes Of Age, Roy L. Steinheimer Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Once upon a time back in the elegant and well-ordered Victorian age, a new organization known as the National Conference of State Boards of Commissioners for Promoting Uniformity of Legislation in the United States undertook the task of drafting a Negotiable Instruments Law (NIL) for adoption by the legislatures of the various states. The law was finally prepared and recommended by the Commissioners for adoption in 1896, and, by December of 1900, fifteen states had adopted it. In that month, Dean Ames, of the Harvard Law School, loosed a blast at this new law in an article in the Harvard …

Frey, Morris, Jr. & Choper: Cases And Materials On Corporations, Stanley Siegel

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Cases and Materials on Corporations By Alexander H. Frey, C. Robert Morris, Jr., and Jesse H. Choper

Wainhouse: International Peace Observation-A History And Forecast, D. V. Sandifer

Michigan Law Review

A Review of International Peace Observation-a History and Forecast By David W. Wainhouse in association with Bernhard G. Bechhoefer, John C. Dreier, Benjamin Gerig and Harry R. Turkel.

Hay: Federalsim And Supranational Organizations. Patterns For New Legal Structures., Thomas Buergenthal

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Federalsim and Supranational Organizations. Patterns for New Legal Structures. By Peter Hay