Law School

  1. March 16, 2021

    Problem Solving Initiative offers array of challenging courses

    Seven women sit in Michigan prisons, serving life sentences for crimes committed over the last four decades. Two of them were present when significant others committed murder, three shot the men in their lives, one abandoned a newborn who died, and the seventh agreed to have her husband killed by an employee. The stories of…
  2. March 1, 2021

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  3. December 3, 2020

    $5M gift from Breach family endows Law School deanship

    The Breach Family Foundation and Law School alumnus David A. Breach have committed $5 million to the U-M Law School to permanently endow the David A. Breach Deanship.

  4. November 11, 2020

    Barr, Stevenson, McQuade to assist Biden-Harris transition

    President-elect Joe Biden has tapped U-M faculty members Michael Barr, Betsey Stevenson and Barbara McQuade to help review the operations of federal agencies as part of his transition team.

  5. October 1, 2020

    More than $260K awarded for research on confronting, combating racism

    More than $260,000 total will be awarded to six action-based research projects as part of the inaugural “Confronting and Combating Racism” grants.

  6. September 8, 2020

    Meet some of the new faculty and staff at U-M this year

    Recently hired faculty and staff members — and some longtime staffers who switched jobs — are settling into their new roles as the fall semester gets underway at U-M. 

  7. August 31, 2020

    Schools, colleges share goals and hopes for 2020-21 school year

    The University of Michigan is preparing to welcome back students for a fall semester unlike any other, creating never-before-seen challenges and opportunities for Ann Arbor’s 19 schools and colleges as well as at Dearborn and Flint.

  8. August 26, 2020

    Law professor J.J. Prescott named Distinguished University Innovator

    For developing technology to help to democratize the justice system while decreasing the spread of COVID-19, U-M law professor J.J. Prescott has earned this year’s Distinguished University Innovator Award.

  9. August 13, 2020

    Firms must share information for massive, rapid vaccine production

    U-M law professor Nicholson Price says companies should share information about manufacturing now so that the pending massive scale-up production can be as smooth as possible.

  10. April 18, 2020

    Scenes of a snowy spring day