Articles tagged: University of Michigan Law School
U-M Law School joins the entrepreneurship game with free legal clinic for student startups
Posted: Jan 06, 2013The University of Michigan has spent years developing an environment that supports both faculty and students who want to commercialize the fruits of their labor by starting their own companies. Bryce Pilz is a co-instructor ... Read more »
Normally calm University of Michigan Law Quad abuzz with activity as renovation project begins
Posted: May 23, 2012Ann Arbor's usually serene and quiet Law Quadrangle is abuzz with activity this week as work begins toward the $39 million renovation of one of University of Michigan's most historically valuable buildings. Movers are in ... Read more »
U-M law clinic sues when Detroit Police Department can't afford to access old reports
Posted: May 22, 2012Records of murders and other crimes that took place in Detroit before 2004 were lost in the vaults due to non-payment, according to a recent lawsuit. The Michigan Innocence Clinic, a center within U-M Law School that investigates cases that may have resulted in a wrongful conviction, is in the process of settling a suit that alleges the Detroit Police Department violated the Freedom of Information Act nine times in the past year. Read more »
Q&A: University of Michigan Law School's Jason Burns to give talk in Saline on human trafficking
Posted: Jan 09, 2011Jason Burns, a clinical fellow at the University of Michigan Law School Human Trafficking Clinic, says raising community awareness is key in the fight against human trafficking. He'll be educating the public about the issue ... Read more »
University of Michigan Law School signs agreement with India law school
Posted: Nov 09, 2010The University of Michigan Law School has signed a memorandum of understanding with India’s Jindal Global Law School of O.P. Jindal Global University to establish a Joint Centre for Global Corporate and Financial Law & ... Read more »
University of Michigan Law School professor to take on ethics role for President Barack Obama
Posted: Aug 11, 2010The University of Michigan Law School will have another friend in the White House. Steven Croley, who specializes in administrative law, civil procedure and regulation, will take a break from teaching duties to work for ... Read more »
Body of missing University of Michigan Law School student found
Posted: Dec 03, 2009A University of Michigan Law School student reported missing last month hanged himself, Washtenaw County sheriff's deputies said. The body of 35-year-old Casey Neil McGinnis was found Wednesday afternoon in a wooded area behind the ... Read more »
University of Michigan Innocence Clinic case back in court today
Posted: Nov 24, 2009A Detroit man who spent nearly a decade behind bars is returning to court today to learn if he'll face a second murder trial. It's the latest case for the Michigan Innocence Clinic at the ... Read more »
University of Michigan Law School student reported missing
Posted: Nov 19, 2009Ann Arbor police are looking for a University of Michigan Law School student who was reported missing Nov. 12. Casey Neil McGinnis, 35, of Prospect Street, hasn't contacted family members since Nov. 11. They're concerned ... Read more »
For University of Michigan Innocence Clinic students, experience is the best teacher
Posted: Nov 10, 2009Brett DeGroff joined the University of Michigan Law School's Innocence Clinic for one main reason. "I wanted to be able to look my child in the eye and say that I helped free an innocent ... Read more »
Associated Press: Developer Robert Aikens gives $10 million to U-M Law School expansion
Posted: Nov 05, 2009The University of Michigan has received a $10 million gift from a suburban Detroit developer and his wife toward the $102 million expansion of its law school. The money comes from Robert and Ann Aikens ... Read more »
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts helps University of Michigan Law School mark 150-year milestone
Posted: Sep 11, 2009U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts kept the crowd at Hill Auditorium engaged and often laughing this morning as he fielded a range of questions - from how Justice Sonia Sotomayor is fitting in ... Read more »
University of Michigan Law School trying to keep Detroit children out of foster care
Posted: Jul 27, 2009University of Michigan Law School students will have a new chance to advocate for children. The Detroit Center for Family Advocacy opened this month as a partnership between the U-M Law School and the Wayne ... Read more »
Get the Ann Arbor RSS Feed
AnnArbor.com