Law School Events

Patrice Simms is the Vice President for Healthy Communities. He is based in Washington, DC. A leading environmental attorney and legal scholar, Patrice began his career as an attorney in the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of General Counsel, and later served as a counsel to EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board and as a Senior Attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. 

At the Clinics Information Fair, students can speak directly to clinical faculty and current and former clinic students to learn more about available experiential opportunities in the clinics and Externship program. Snacks are provided. 

Jennifer A. Hillman is a professor of practice at the Georgetown University Law Center, teaching the lead courses in international business and international trade, while serving as a fellow of Georgetown’s Institute of International Economic Law. She is also co-director of the Center for Inclusive Trade and Development and served as a panelist for the second dispute under the USMCA

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal is Professor of History, French and Italian and Law at USC Dornsife and an historian of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world. He focuses on the political and cultural history of Europe and the Americas in the age of revolution, with particular attention to the transnational influences that shaped modern national politics. 

The Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition has been an annual event at the Law School for 100 years. Winning it is one of the highest honors a Michigan law student can achieve. The top two competitors will compete in this final round before a panel of judges.

Sarah Nouwen is a professor of public international law at the European University Institute. She is on leave from the University of Cambridge, where she is a professor in public international law and a fellow of Pembroke College and was for many years a co-deputy director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. She is also an editor-in-chief of the European Journal of International Law.

Megan Ming Francis is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. Francis specializes in the study of American politics, race, and the development of constitutional law. Francis received her MA and PhD in politics from Princeton University. She is particularly interested in the construction of rights and citizenship, black political activism, and the post-civil war South. She is the author of the award winning book, Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State (2014).

Dr. Fernando Lusa Bordin is a college associate professor and John Thornely Fellow in Law at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge and a fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. His research and publications focus on topics of international legal theory, international lawmaking, the law of international organizations, international dispute settlement and international investment law. 

Justene Hill Edwards is an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia. She is an expert in African American history, with a particular focus on the history of slavery and the evolution of Black economic life in America. She is the author of Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank (W.W. Norton, 2024) and Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina (Columbia University Press, 2021).

Desirée LeClercq is an assistant professor at the University of Georgia School of Law. She teaches international trade and workers rights, international labor law, international law and US labor law. She also serves as a faculty co-director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center and as the faculty adviser for the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law.

Alyssa Johl is the Vice President and General Counsel at the Center for Climate Integrity, where she supports efforts to hold fossil fuel companies and other climate polluters accountable for the damages they have caused.

This conference will focus on the shifting modes of international governance in international economic law, and will ask: are we seeing a change from traditional, often enforceable rules, to new, often less formal tools in international economic law?

This conference will focus on the shifting modes of international governance in international economic law, and will ask: are we seeing a change from traditional, often enforceable rules, to new, often less formal tools in international economic law?

The University of Michigan Law School is very pleased to host the Tenth Annual Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable on May 19-20, 2025. For the past nine years, the roundtable has offered administrative law scholars an excellent opportunity to get feedback on their work from distinguished scholars in a collaborative setting.

The University of Michigan Law School is very pleased to host the Tenth Annual Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable on May 19-20, 2025. For the past nine years, the roundtable has offered administrative law scholars an excellent opportunity to get feedback on their work from distinguished scholars in a collaborative setting.