Law School

  1. February 6, 2023

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  2. January 31, 2023

    Medical School withdraws from U.S. News annual rankings

    The Medical School has announced it will no longer participate in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of medical schools. The magazine’s criteria to rank medical schools has long been a concern at U-M.

  3. November 16, 2022

    Advisory committee named for Law School dean search

    Provost Laurie K. McCauley has named a 15-member advisory committee in the search for the Law School’s next dean to succeed Mark West.

  4. November 14, 2022

    Heritage Project — When heads rolled

    When William W. Cook gave his alma mater an extraordinary financial gift to transform the U-M Law School, he imagined a setting so beautiful it would lure the nation’s brightest students to study law in Ann Arbor.

  5. August 8, 2022

    Roe v. Wade Teach-Out to address questions about abortion access

    U-M has created an online “Roe v. Wade Teach-Out” to help people understand the history of abortion rights, legal challenges and what comes after the Supreme Court’s ruling that there is no constitutional right to abortion.

  6. April 28, 2022

    Anyone can be a cyberbully, new U-M study shows

    People who have high premeditated or impulsive aggressive tendencies online are likely to cyberbully others, according to a new study by researchers from the School of Information and the Law School.

  7. April 15, 2022

    Ford School’s Barr to be nominated as Fed’s top banking regulator

    Michael Barr, dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, is President Joe Biden’s intended nominee for vice chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve, the White House has announced.

  8. November 15, 2021

    Heritage Project — The law school goes under

    The architectural crown of U-M’s campus was the Law Quadrangle, and the jewel in that crown was the Law Library. Architect Gunnar Birkerts figured the only way to add space and not interfere with the building’s beauty was to go down.

  9. August 30, 2021

    Schools and colleges preparing for more traditional fall semester

    The Record asked schools and colleges to share some aspect of the coming year they’d like to highlight, within the context of moving on after the pandemic’s restrictions.

  10. August 9, 2021

    Law professor relaxes by baring all for art’s sake

    Clinical law professor Dave Moran has modeled nude an estimated 150 times at two dozen different places, from art centers and clubs to community colleges.