Umich Legal Studies
* Selection and creation of a legal entity and structuring of ownership and capital While conflict of laws began as a highly theoretical discipline, the advent of modern technology has exponentially increased the number of events that have multi-jurisdictional facets. Discipline is therefore crucial to understanding the legal consequences of a large number of events. Students gain experience under faculty supervision in several of the following areas: working with affected communities to identify injustices; Research and development of successful legal theories; Survey of potential clients; Prepare requests for public documents and letters of formal notice; drafting complaints; Research and writing of briefing notes; argue motions; make statements and participate in other discoveries; settlement negotiations; hearing cases; call writing; and plead on appeal. Students are expected to work primarily in federal courts and learn how to avoid the many procedural minefields that civil litigants face when seeking injunction or damages under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983. This collection supports the entire campus community with an interest in law. It differs from the university`s law library, which caters to the needs of the University of Michigan School of Law. The Michigan SJD (Doctor of Juridical Science) is the gateway to an academic career or professional advancement. Admission is highly competitive and is only granted to individuals with a strong academic record, enthusiastic faculty support, and a thesis topic that offers a significant and original contribution to the legal literature. Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly ubiquitous in areas of legal importance, including lethal autonomous weapon systems («killer robots»), autonomous vehicles, medical diagnostic algorithms, criminal convictions, predictive policing, welfare distribution, consumer manipulation, and content moderation.
This seminar provides an introduction to how the law deals with AI. We will look at what AI is, how the law shapes its development and regulation in general, and what impact this has on specific areas. Please note that we do not focus on AI as a legal practice tool (e.g. e-discovery). Readings include law, scholarships from other fields and (to a lesser extent) cases, statutes, regulations and other documents. No technical training is required, but you need to be prepared to dive into the technology. Courses focus on in-depth discussions with occasional guests informed by student readings, document responses, and discussion questions. Students have the option to write a longer-term document instead of shorter response documents for an additional loan. Professor Chaney Section: This course will explore the practical, conceptual, and procedural mechanisms of civil rights practice through mock litigation from one or more mock case studies. Students will study the stages of litigation, including developing claims and defense, preparing and responding to briefs, written discovery, making effective statements, and presenting oral arguments, while examining nuanced issues that arise in civil rights practice, including client management, client treatment, personal trauma and triggers.
Identification of non-economic harms and collaborative practice. Courses and seminars within the framework of the European Legal Studies programme focus on European law, legal history and integration. Transnational Law, which introduces students to the international dimensions of law, is the foundational course on which other more specialised international courses such as the European legal order can build. The collections of information on political science and the state also contain documents relevant to legal studies. Michigan Law uses its equally strong programs in the study of Japanese law and legal institutions in India to approach Chinese law and legal institutions from a comparative perspective, focusing on other important national legal systems subject to the same historical-philosophical influences or similar development processes. In this seminar inquiry course, students will be introduced to key areas of poverty law as well as access to justice issues facing our legal system. With 18 established dual degree programs offered in partnership with 10 graduate schools and departments, Michigan Law is a great place for a concurrent degree to complement your legal education. Michigan Law is known nationally and internationally for being among a handful of law schools that produce the majority of jurists. As part of this commitment to jurisprudence, Michigan Law offers a number of programs and fellowships for lawyers. Public advocates – advocates for issues that affect the general public – often face significant and important problems with few resources compared to almost overwhelming opportunities.
We fight against big business, governments or entire industries to stop a polluting mine, restore a community`s access to clean water or restore the right to vote. But in many cases, we somehow find a way to win. How is that possible? This is the question we will explore in this course. We will examine a series of case studies of successful and unsuccessful public advocacy campaigns that used a variety of advocacy tools: media, organization, lobbying and litigation. The case studies are drawn from civil rights, workers` rights, democracy protection and environmental campaigns. Students also develop their own case studies and share them with the class. In doing so, we will look at certain public statutes; Each case will be based on statute and common law, and many involve significant litigation. As a class, we will examine why some advocacy campaigns worked, why others did not, who benefited from the victories and who suffered the losses. Over the course of the semester, we will develop rules and guidelines for good advocacy and a list of issues that good advocates should consider, culminating in a model for public advocacy.
The one-year LLM program is designed for individuals who have been trained in law anywhere in the world and wish to engage in comparative legal studies, gain a deeper understanding of the U.S. legal system, pursue an area of specialization, or engage in advanced legal research. Michigan Law uses the broad social science toolkit to influence law and legal behavior, including a wide range of theoretical, analytical, and empirical methods. The pedagogical component of the MCLP includes study advocacy simulations to introduce basic testing skills. Students must register for the 4-credit clinic and the 3-credit seminar at the same time. Each student will also participate in two intensive trial exercises: a mock adversarial hearing at half-time and a mock exam at the end of the semester. Other class sessions address topics such as the role of the lawyer, ethical issues in legal practice, client-centered advocacy, the adversarial process, other related issues affecting the clinic`s poor client population, and case visits. The seminar and fieldwork are noted. The MCLP meets the pro bono requirements of the New York Bar. For a more detailed description, see: www.law.umich.edu/clinical/generalclinic/Pages/default.aspx The Michigan Clinical Law Program (MCLP) is a 7-credit litigation clinic that gives students the opportunity to practice law in a variety of areas that affect low-income clients. Students must register for the 4-credit clinic and the 3-credit seminar at the same time. The clinic covers many areas of law.
The burden of civil cases varies from time to time, but may include landlord-tenants, consumers, family law, public benefits, workplace discrimination, asylum and refugees, contracts, torts and prisoners` civil rights cases.