UDM Law's Project SALUTE hosted its first annual Veterans' Legal Assistance Conference on Thursday, October 25. This half-day conference provided information to volunteer attorneys assisting veterans through Project SALUTE as well as any attorney interested in learning more about issues facing our veterans. For pictures of the event, please click here.
A week designed for incoming 1Ls. Must register via the admitted student webpage.
The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, with its partners in international dual degree programs, the University of Windsor Faculty of Law (Windsor, Ontartio, Canada) and the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico), is hosting an international law conference.
The conference will explore three distinct paths: social justice, professionalism & pedagogy, and commercial law, which are tailored to reflect the emphasis of the dual-degree programs and the institutions themselves.
Conference website - www.lita2013.com
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The Michigan Lawyers Chapter of the American Constitution Society presented a powerful program on wrongful convictions to UDM Law students.
Thomas Highers, who with his brother, Raymond, spent 25 years in prison for a murder they did not commit, appeared with his attorney, Valerie Newman, to tell the story of their case. The brothers were released last summer when a Wayne County Circuit Court judge granted them a new trial due to overwhelming evidence of their innocence and mistaken witness identifications.
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Relevant, timely, unique, insightful, visionary. This is some of the reaction to UDM's recent Law Review symposium entitled, Global Michigan: Immigration and Economic Growth, which featured Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R-MI) as the keynote speaker. U.S. Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI) also provided his singular perspective as the son of an immigrant, and leading policymakers and distinguished academics drawn from across the U.S. and Canada discussed how Detroit and Michigan could best use immigration as a tool of economic development.
