scholarly journals Introduction

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-139
Author(s):  
Bruce H. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Ab Initio ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Law School ◽  
Early America ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Early American ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

The articles in this issue are drawn from the papers delivered at the conference “Ab Initio: Law in Early America,” held in Philadelphia on June 16–17, 2010—the first conference in nearly fifteen years to focus on law in early America. It was sponsored by the Penn Legal History Consortium, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the American Society for Legal History, the University of Michigan Law School, and the University of Minnesota Law School, under the direction of Sarah Barringer Gordon, Martha S. Jones, William J. Novak, Daniel K. Richter, Richard J. Ross, and Barbara Y. Welke. For two days, fifteen mostly younger scholars presented their research to a packed house, with formal comments by senior scholars and vigorous discussion with the audience. That earlier conference, “The Many Legalities of Early America,” which convened in Williamsburg in 1996, had illustrated the shift from what was once trumpeted as the “new” legal history to something that never acquired a name, perhaps because it was less self-conscious in its methodology. “Ab Initio” offered the opportunity to ask how the field has changed in the years since.

Rollin'On the River: Race, Elite Schools, and the Equality Paradox

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (02) ◽  
pp. 527-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Law School ◽  
Professional School ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The People ◽  
Majority Students ◽  
Value Diversity ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Lempert, Chambers, and Adams's superb new study of the careers of minority and white graduates of the University of Michigan Law School will come as welcome news to those who value diversity on this nation's college and professional school campuses. Alongside the Bowen-Box study (1998), to which the authors link their work, the Michigan data provide powerful evidence of the many benefits of affirmative action for both minority and majority students, as well as for a constituency that is often overlooked in the debate over affirmative action—namely, the people these aspiring professionals are intended to serve. More important, the authors' careful analysis reveals what many have long suspected. LSAT scores and undergraduate GPAs “seem to have no relationship to success after law school, whether success is measured by earned income, career satisfaction, or service contributions” (Lempert, Chambers, and Adams 2000, 401).

Julius Chambers Emerges

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Rosen ◽  
Joseph Mosnier
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Federal Court ◽  
Law School ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Court Order ◽  
North Carolina School ◽  
The Law ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University

This chapter recounts Julius Chambers's achievements during college, graduate school, and law school. After graduating summa cum laude from North Carolina College for Negroes and obtaining his masters degree in history at the University of Michigan, Chambers was admitted to the University of North Carolina School of Law, desegregated the prior decade by federal court order over the forceful objections of University and North Carolina officials. Chambers, despite being ranked 112th among the 114 students admitted to the Class of 1962 and notwithstanding a generally unwelcoming, often hostile atmosphere at the Law School and on campus, became editor-in-chief of the Law Review and graduated first in his class. This chapter also details Chambers's marriage to Vivian Giles and the couple's decision to move to New York City when, after no North Carolina law firm would grant Chambers a job interview, Columbia Law School quickly stepped forward with the offer of a one-year fellowship.

“Where do I find that?”: creating a central shared documentation system for publishing staff using Google tools at the University of Michigan Library

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (10) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
Alix Norton
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Central Area ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Documentation System ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Robust Solution ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Library System ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Purpose – This aim of this report is to summarize how Google Sites can be used as an open-source, intuitive, and robust solution for designing an intranet system for a unique library department. Michigan Publishing is a department within the University of Michigan (U-M) campus library system that also includes a revenue-based operation as the U-M Press. The need for a central documentation system has become apparent to organize and streamline policies and procedures in this unique library department. Google Sites was chosen as a solution to compile departmental documentation and serve as a collaborative space for the many units within Michigan Publishing. Design/methodology/approach – One librarian and one graduate student intern worked on this project for 5-10 hours a week over the course of three months. Michigan Publishing managers created an inventory showing all existing informational resources in the department, and were then interviewed about these resources. An initial “landing page” was created for this Google-based site, and more comprehensive content has since been migrated from existing informational resources to this central site. Findings – A specific Google Sites Staff Intranet for Michigan Publishing has been an integral solution for providing a one-stop, central area for current internal resources. It also fosters a sense of departmental identity and community, since there are many separate units within the department, each with a different focus and place within the larger library system. This site provides an online forum for collaboration, communication and policy codification. Originality/value – This report summarizes how Google Sites can be used as an open-source, intuitive, and robust solution for designing an intranet system for a unique library department.

scholarly journals Accommodation and Satisfaction: Women and Men Lawyers and the Balance of Work and Family

1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (02) ◽  
pp. 251-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Work And Family ◽  
Law School ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Principal Responsibilities ◽  
The University

This study of graduates of the University of Michigan Law School from the late 1970s reports on the differing ways that women and men have responded to the conflicting claims of work and family. It finds that women with children who have entered the profession have indeed continued to bear the principal responsibilities for the care of children, but it also finds that these women, with all their burdens, are more satisfied with their careers and with the balance of their family and professional lives than other women and than men.

scholarly journals Poems

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Kuppers
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Disability Culture ◽  
Contemporary Performance ◽  
Community Performance ◽  
The University ◽  
Poetry Collection

Title(s): Crip Time, disabled lilacs Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist, community artist, and associate professor of English at the University of Michigan. A poetry collection co-written with Neil Marcus, Cripple Poetics: A Lovestory, with photos by Lisa Steichmann, is forthcoming from Homofactus Press in summer 2008. Kuppers is the author of Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge (Routledge, 2003), The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) and Community Performance: An Introduction (Routledge, 2007).

Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 730-733
Keyword(s):  
Law School ◽  
Care Plan ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Trade Reform ◽  
Dead End ◽  
Health Care Plan ◽  
The University ◽  
American Economy

Michael S. Barr of University of Michigan Law School reviews “Seeds of Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs through Washington, and How to Reclaim American Prosperity” by Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Presents a bipartisan blueprint for reversing America's economic decline through sustained growth. Discusses when America's four growth drivers stall and our economy stagnates; how to lift the American economy with the ten levers of growth; whether an easy-money street is a dead end; whether you can stimulate your way to prosperity; whether raising taxes lowers America's growth rate; whether the best “jobs program” may be trade reform; whether America's foreign oil addiction stunts our growth; cutting the Gordian knot of entitlements; whether Obama's health care plan makes our economy sick; how to prevent another financial crisis--and housing bubble; and how to implement the Seeds of Prosperity policy blueprint. Hubbard is Dean of Columbia Business School. Navarro is a business professor at the University of California, Irvine. Index.”

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