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Built between 1924 and 1933 the four original buildings comprising the Cook Law Quadrangle at the University of Michigan were constructed using funds donated by William Cook, an alumnus of the school.The National Jurist magazine has ranked the University of Michigan Law Library fourth out of a total of 183 law school libraries in the nation.
The University of Michigan Law School (branded as Michigan Law) is the law school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.Founded in 1859, the school offers Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Comparative Law (MCL), Juris Doctor (JD), and Doctor of the Science of Law (SJD) degree programs.
The Michigan Legislature created the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1838, and that year allocated funding for a library. [7] The next year (three years before classes began), the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan acquired the University Library's first volume, John James Audubon's Birds of America, purchased at a cost of $970. [8]
Cook was born in Hillsdale, Michigan, to John Potter Cook, a founder of Hillsdale, and his wife Martha. [4] [5] Cook attended the University of Michigan from 1876 to 1882, earning his undergraduate (1880) and law (1882) degrees from that institution.
According to Washington and Lee University School of Law's Law Library, the Michigan Law Review is the seventh most cited law journal in academic works, being cited in journals 3888 times between 2009 and 2016, and the sixth most cited law journal by courts, being cited in 128 cases between 2009 and 2016. [5]
Mitchell Berman, Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Mary Frances Berry (J.D. 1970), former chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights; current professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania; Lester Bird (LL.B. 1959), Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Michigan is one of the earliest American research universities and is a founding member of the Association of American ...
The journal was established in 2012 after "years of advocacy [by] environmental law students" at the University of Michigan School of Law. [2] The journal's founding editors had the goal of "prompt[ing] new scholarship and the development of sound public policy approaches in both environmental law and administrative law."