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History. The law school was founded in 1859. By 1870, it was the largest law school in the country. In 1870, Gabriel Franklin Hargo graduated from Michigan Law as the second African American to graduate from law school in the United States. In 1871 Sarah Killgore, a Michigan Law graduate, became the first woman to both graduate from law school ...
The University of Michigan Library is the academic library system of the University of Michigan. The university's 38 constituent and affiliated libraries together make it the second largest research library by number of volumes in the United States. As of 2019–20, the University Library contained more than 14,543,814 volumes, while all campus ...
University of Michigan. / 42.27694°N 83.73806°W / 42.27694; -83.73806. The University of Michigan ( U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state.
William Wilson Cook (1858–1930) was an American attorney and legal scholar. He wrote extensively on matters of corporate law, including the seminal text, Cook on Corporations. [1] [2] [3] Cook was also an early, major benefactor of the University of Michigan, particularly the University of Michigan Law School .
The Michigan Law Review was established in 1902, after Gustavus Ohlinger, a student in the Law Department (now the Law School) of the University of Michigan, approached the dean with a proposal for a law journal. [1] The Michigan Law Review was originally intended as a forum in which the faculty of the Law Department could publish its legal ...
University of Michigan Law Library Interior. 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.
Clarence Darrow (LAW 1878), Leopold and Loeb lawyer, defense attorney for John T. Scopes. Terry Davis (BUS: MBA 1962), member of the UK Parliament for 28 years, now Secretary General of the Council of Europe and human rights activist. Geoffrey Fieger (BA 1974; MA 1976), attorney; defense attorney for Jack Kevorkian.
University of Michigan, 1906. Physicists George Uhlenbeck, Hendrik Kramers, and Samuel Goudsmit circa 1928 in Ann Arbor. Uhlenbeck and Goudsmit proposed the idea of a spin magnetic moment three years earlier when they were studying in Leiden with Paul Ehrenfest.