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11 unusual facts about University of Michigan Law School


Darleen Ortega

Ortega then married, becoming Darleen Darnall, and enrolled at the University of Michigan Law School.

David Westin

He received a BA degree with honors and distinction from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and a JD degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 1977.

Ellen D. Katz

Ellen D. Katz is an American law professor at the University of Michigan Law School.

Grutter

Grutter v. Bollinger (Barbara Grutter) - 2003 United States Supreme Court case upholding the constitutionality of the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action program.

Grutter v. Bollinger

Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), was a landmark case in which the United States Supreme Court upheld the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Michigan Law School.

James D. Zirin

Zirin graduated from Princeton University with honors and received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School where he was an editor of the Michigan Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.

Jeffrey P. Minear

In 1982, he earned both a master's degree in resource policy and management from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

John Ching Hsiung Wu

A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he was the principal author of the constitution of the Republic of China.

Lea Brilmayer

In addition to teaching at Yale, Chicago, and NYU, Brilmayer has taught at University of Texas School of Law, the University of Michigan Law School, Columbia Law School, and Harvard Law School.

National Registry of Exonerations

The National Registry of Exonerations is a joint project of the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law to provide detailed information about known exonerations in the United States since 1989.

Thomas Benton Cooley

While Cooley was a boy, his father served variously as a professor and dean of the University of Michigan Law School, an Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, and as the first chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission.


Alexis Caswell Angell

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Angell received an A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1878 and read law in 1879, also receiving an LL.B. from the University of Michigan Law Department in 1880.

Arthur A. Koscinski

Born in Poznań, Poland, Koscinski emigrated to the United States and received an LL.B. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1910.

Burton Awards for Legal Achievement

The awards are selected, generally, by professors from Harvard Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the University of Michigan Law School, and a judge, among others.

Charles W. Waterman

He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School at Ann Arbor in 1889, and was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Denver.

George E. Cryer

After his military service, Cryer enrolled at the University of Michigan Law School where he was the assistant editor of the Michigan Law Review.

James E. Krier

James E. Krier is the Earl Warren DeLano Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and the father of performer Andrew W.K. His teaching and research interests are primarily in the fields of property, contracts, and law and economics, and he teaches or has taught courses on contracts, property, trusts and estates, behavioral law and economics, and pollution policy.

Jeffrey S. Lehman

Known as an advocate for the role of universities in globalization, he previously served as chancellor and founding dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen, China, president of Cornell University, dean of the University of Michigan Law School, and Chair of the Board of Internet2.

Paul Sprenger

Sprenger earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan School of Business Administration in 1962 and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1965.

Steven P. Croley

Croley is married to Bridget Mary McCormack, a professor of law and associate dean of clinical affairs at the University of Michigan Law School who was elected to the Michigan Supreme Court in 2012.

T. Alexander Aleinikoff

He served as a law clerk to Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and from 1981 to 1987 was on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School.