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

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.

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.

Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois Chicago and a socio-legal historian of child migration. She is currently working on a book project, which is based on her quadruple prize-winning doctoral dissertation, that historicizes child-centered mechanisms and consequences of US immigration exclusion, including the multiple forms of educational deprivation faced by migrant children.

James Anaya is a professor of international law at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has taught and written extensively on international human rights and issues concerning indigenous peoples. Among his publications are Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Oxford Univ. Press (1996); 2d ed. (2004)), and International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy and Process (Wolters/Kluwer, 6th ed. 2011). He served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples from May 2008 to June 2014.

Sara Mayeux is a legal historian of the twentieth-century United States, focusing on criminal law and procedure, constitutional law and legal culture. Her book, Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America (UNC Press, 2020), was praised as “a definitive history of this important yet conflicted institution,” and received the 2020 Langum Prize in American Legal History.

Penelope Andrews joined New York Law School in January 2019 and teaches constitutional law, torts, professional responsibility, and race and the law. She is also Director of NYLS’s Racial Justice Project. She has held visiting appointments at law schools across the US and internationally and senior leadership posts, including serving as the first Black Dean at the University of Cape Town Faculty of Law (2016–2018) and the first female Dean and President of Albany Law School (2012–2015).

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.