On May 12, the Law School community gathered to honor the Class of 2025. Student speaker Brittney Dorton, ’25, addressed her classmates, including 340 JD students and 30 graduate students, at Hill Auditorium.
News and updates from the Law Quad.
Cyril Moscow, ’57, a leading practitioner and longtime adjunct professor of corporate law, died on April 8, 2025. He was 91.
Thomas E. Kauper, ’60, who served on the Michigan Law faculty for decades and was a prominent practitioner and scholar of domestic and international antitrust law, died on February 9, 2025. He was 89.
Samantha Shipp Warrick, ’07, has a creative bent that has served her well as an entertainment lawyer, entrepreneur, and branding strategist. Now she’s bringing blank-slate energy to LVMH Inc. as its first chief strategy and operations counsel.
Danielle Bass, ’15, a partner in the technology transactions and data, privacy, and cybersecurity practice groups at Honigman LLP in Detroit, was recently named Influential Woman of the Year by Michigan Lawyers Weekly.
Michigan Law’s Campbell Moot Court Competition has been a tentpole event in the Law Quad for a century and has shaped careers and provided generations of alumni with memories that endure. To commemorate the competition’s 100th year, Law Quadrangle reached out to previous winners and asked for their stories, excerpts of which are included here.
For 100 years, Michigan Law students have participated in the Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition, the annual student-run event that has given generations of participants insights into appellate advocacy.
Since its earliest years, the Campbell Moot Court Competition has welcomed a panel of notable judges to serve in the final round. Today’s competition relies on a large group—more than 70 this year—of legal practitioners, administrators, and faculty who grade the briefs and serve as judges in earlier rounds.
The 1928 Campbell Moot Court case involved a plaintiff who had fought in World War I and property he had conveyed to his fiance, who later died of tuberculosis. In the subsequent decades, hypothetical cases have involved a variety of topics, often reflecting current legal issues of the day.
