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When the University of Michigan Law School denied admission to Barbara Grutter, a Michigan resident with a 3.8 GPA and 161 LSAT score, [2] she filed this suit, alleging that respondents had discriminated against her on the basis of race in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as 42 U.S.C. § 1981; that she was rejected because the Law School ...
While serving as President of the University of Michigan, he was at the center of two notable United States Supreme Court cases regarding the use of affirmative action in admissions processes. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He also served as chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York board of directors in 2011, and was a member of the board from 2006 to 2012.
The University of Michigan Law School (Bollinger) disagreed and stated that there was a compelling state interest to use racial affirmative action to build a "critical mass" of minority students. In Justice Powell's diversity rationale, the Supreme Court stated "the student body diversity is a compelling state interest that can justify the use ...
The West publication is Michigan Compiled Laws Annotated (MCLA); the LexisNexis version is the Michigan Compiled Laws Service (MCLS). Until the year 2000, an alternate codification known as the Michigan Statutes Annotated (MSA), which differed from the MCL in both its organization and numbering system, was also in use. Until the discontinuation ...
"Abuse of Rights in France, Germany, and Switzerland: A Survey of a Recent Chapter in Legal Doctrine". Louisiana Law Review. 35 (5): 1016– 36. Michael Byers. “Abuse of Rights: An Old Principle, A New Age”, McGill Law Journal 47 (2002): 389–431. David Johnson. “Owners and Neighbours: From Rome to Scotland”, in The Civil Law Tradition ...
Following her clerkships, she began teaching at the University of Michigan School of Law, and was the first female faculty member. [3] From 2009 to 2014, she was the vice provost for academic affairs at the University of Michigan. [4] [5] In 2012, she commented on the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court over the Affordable Care Act. [6]
Additional courses she taught at Michigan included Women and the Law Clinic, Civil Clinic, Child Abuse and Neglect Interdisciplinary Seminar, Negotiation, Access to Justice and Family Law. [2] At Michigan, Scarnecchia suggested a position be created to oversee all of the clinics at that law school. The school's administrators agreed, and she ...
Margo Jane Schlanger (born 1967) is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and the founder and director of the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse. [1] Previously, she was at Washington University School of Law . [ 2 ]