University of Michigan Law School • 9th July 2026

Michigan Court of Appeals Agrees with Clinical Appellate Practice Clinic’s Arguments, Reverses Trial Court

The Michigan Court of Appeals recently reversed the trial court’s judgment in a felony murder case, agreeing with the defense on two issues that Criminal Appellate Practice Clinic student-attorneys had briefed. Now the defendant will get a new trial.

University of Michigan Law School • 29th June 2026

Two 2017 Alumni Complete the 200-Mile Traka Bike Race in Spain

More than a decade ago, Amanda Rauh-Bieri and Brett Frazer met in Professor Edward Cooper’s Civil Procedure class. This spring, they raced through 201.95 miles of Spanish countryside in a gravel bike race called the Traka.

University of Michigan Law School • 23rd June 2026

Quinton Jones-Whitaker, a Michigan Innocence Clinic Client, Exonerated after Serving 12 1/2 Year Prison Sentence

In 2014, when Quinton Jones-Whitaker was 20 years old, he was convicted of carjacking, armed robbery, and felony firearm possession and was sentenced to 12 1/2 to 22 years in prison. But he wasn’t involved in the crime, and no physical evidence linked him to it.

University of Michigan Law School • 17th June 2026

Plaintiff Lawyer Jackson Pahlke, ’17, Helps Injured People Put the Pieces of Their Lives Back Together

Trial lawyers run in Jackson Pahlke’s family. He and his dad, brother, and sister are personal injury lawyers—and Pahlke has even tried cases with all of them.

University of Michigan Law School • 17th June 2026

Christopher Wendt, ’98: At the Intersection of Immigration and Health Care Workers

Immigrant doctors are vital to the US health care system. Christopher Wendt points out that 23 percent of physicians in the United States were trained in other countries, according to the American Medical Association.

University of Michigan Law School • 17th June 2026

The Hon. J. Chris Larson, ’99: Boosting Inclusion

As a Colorado district court judge, the Hon. J. Chris Larson believes it’s important to meet people where they are and to acknowledge them as they see themselves.

University of Michigan Law School • 26th May 2026

2L Andrew Healey’s Lessons Learned from Running the Boston Marathon | University of Michigan Law School

At the Boston Marathon in April, more than 29,000 runners crossed the finish line. The 69th to finish was Michigan Law student Andrew Healey.

University of Michigan Law School • 19th May 2026

Michigan Law’s 2026 Excellence in Pro Bono Service Awards Recognize Outstanding Students

Through pro bono service, Michigan Law students help address communities’ unmet legal needs.

University of Michigan Law School • 5th May 2026

AI Clinic Students Present Tools That Expand Access to Justice

How can AI improve access to the legal system and to justice? 20 Michigan Law students partnered with courts, legal aid organizations, and other nonprofits to identify barriers and challenges—and then design AI-assisted tools to help.

University of Michigan Law School • 30th April 2026

SJD Student Debora Gunawan, LLM ’25, Attends UN Commission on the Status of Women

At the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, Debora Gunawan gained a deeper understanding of what meaningful progress on women’s rights requires.

University of Michigan Law School • 21st April 2026

Five Takeaways from Conference on the Oldest Constitutional Question

Judges and leading constitutional scholars shared their views on the Constitution’s enumeration of congressional powers at a recent conference at the Law School that centered on Professor Richard Primus’s book The Oldest Constitutional Question.

University of Michigan Law School • 21st April 2026

Claudio Visco, LLM ’83, Leads the International Bar Association

Claudio Visco steps into the role of IBA president for 2026 at a time when increasing threats to the rule of law, judicial independence, and the legal profession have challenged the international legal order.

University of Michigan Law School • 21st April 2026

Avery Coombe, 3L, Receives a Fellowship to Rejoin the Center for Reproductive Rights

The fellowship will be a return to the Center for Reproductive Rights for Coombe, who worked as a paralegal in its litigation department before law school. “Coming back to the center is my dream job,” she said.

University of Michigan Law School • 21st April 2026

3L David Weaver Selected for Institute for Policy Integrity Fellowship at NYU Law

Weaver’s path to law school included spending time in the Amazon rainforest, serving in the US Marine Corps, and working on a master’s project on parking regulations.

Prism • 13th May 2022

Abortion bans will harm people who miscarry, too

If the Supreme Court moves forward with its original opinion, access to abortion care will be curtailed in the U.S., but what many people may not realize is that people going through a miscarriage will also be affected.

American Museum of Tort Law • 13th April 2016

The 1998 Tobacco Settlement: A Turning of the Tide Against the Tobacco Industry

November 1998 marked a pivotal moment in the history of cigarettes in the United States. Forty-six states and the four largest tobacco companies reached a landmark settlement that brought sweeping changes to cigarette manufacturers’ practices—and to rates of smoking. Since the settlement, cigarette smoking rates in the United States have been cut nearly in half.

American Museum of Tort Law • 24th March 2016

Supreme Court Upholds Tyson Foods Class Action

At the beginning of the workday, some workers do not simply arrive and start working. Workers at the Tyson Foods, Inc., plant in Storm Lake, Iowa, first must put on protective and sanitation gear that is necessary for the tasks they are performing that day. The time they spent donning and doffing that gear is at the center of a case that the Supreme Court decided on March 22.

American Museum of Tort Law • 28th January 2016

History in the Making: In Flint Water Crisis, Lawsuits Seek Remedies and Accountability

Flint, Mich., is under national scrutiny because of its contaminated drinking water. Various mismanagement of the city’s drinking water supply has allowed dangerous levels of lead into people’s homes, workplaces, and schools.

American History • 29th September 2015

In Pursuit of Justice

In Pursuit of Justice: 10 Supreme Court Decisions That Defined Civil Rights

American Museum of Tort Law • 31st August 2015

Liebeck v. McDonald's

Stella Liebeck, the 79-year-old woman who was severely burned by McDonald’s coffee that she spilled in her lap in 1992, was unfairly held up as an example of frivolous litigation in the public eye. But the facts of the case tell a very different story. The coffee that burned Stella Liebeck was dangerously hot—hot enough to cause third-degree burns, even through clothes, in three seconds.