University of Michigan Law School - Quad Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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CASE ClUBS The Case Clubs of the Law School are moot courts before which student members argue cases as though before an appellate tribunal. Students are paired and given hypothetical fact situations that have been prepared by members of the faculty. Legal issues are raised by alleging that the trial court has committed certain errors. The participants then prepare written briefs in an approved appellate form urging their position on the issues of law that have been raised, and thereafter orally presenting their appeal to a three-judge court. In preparing the briefs club members are expected to utilize the entire library resources, thus obe taining valuable experience in looking up the law. The cases are submitted and de- cided as cases of hrst impression and hence carry the students into a study of the entire body of relevant English and American Law. tcontinued on page 219 FIRST ROW Heft t0 righO: Mack, G. tDa'xQ; Belin, D. tChristiaan; Miller, D. tCllicf judgey Haggart, V. tCarpenIeo; Grosjczm, XV. UVoodwawO :. I SECOND ROW: Vobnch, W. tCInrlQ; Coerper, M. Wlelclzco; Harness, H. tCooIew; Gates, B. tFletchew; Van't Hof, W. Wontgamer'xj; Parmcnter, W. Uialvsh Campbell, R tKnap- 12670; Hall, J. tHulrlIz'ng . THIRD ROW: Long, F. tRong; Wood, D. ah'sz; Voss D. tCampbeID; Conner, R. tChamplim; Tromhadore, R. tCraveQ . twenly-two

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Fii' iziw I 7 ' 4 ilileHlGAN X L A' W R E V 1 EW 1 AZOUEWNOJ? Vi if U i , t .i Left: Miss Ruth Gray. iMannging Editor Miss Eleonora Eckert, Business Manager i i Aloft on the fourth Hoor of Hutchins Hall are the offices of one of the schoolis most representative activities, the Michigan Law Review. Now in its 53md year, the Review serves a variety of functions. For the practitioner, its eight issues a year provide a scholarly survey of legal developments, giving pattern to the laws continual flux and assessing judicial and legislative pronouncements of sound public policy. For the judiciary, the Review represents a higher court of y appeal. For our own faculty, and for distinguished professors and practitioners i across the nation, it affords a respected medium for communicating the products of their study and thought. And for the students involved in its publication the Review adds another dimension to the legal apprenticeship of its student writers and editors. The normal curriculum requires, pretty largely, an exercise of logic and imagination upon materials gathered and put in orderly sequence within the covers of a casebook. Writing for the Review teaches the student the techniques of digging for his own materials, of sorting and analzy- ing them, and of creating a pattern if none ex15ts. Our examinations give opportunity for no more than a hurried reaction to a legal situ- t ation; the writing of notes and comments presents the challenge and responsibility of a reflective and documented statement of what the law is and what it should be in areas of current interest. One thing more may be said. It is an extremely valuable experience to achieve a t considerable knowledge of some area, no i matter how narrow that area may be. So i much of our formal education is, perforce, directed toward breadth that one is apt to miss the lessons learned from digging deep- the necessity of gathering all, or nearly all, the facts, the difficulties of digestion when the facts are gathered, and the inconvenience of knowing a great deal when one is at- tempting a complete and valid statement. All these functions add up to the estimate that the Review occupies an integral posi- , . F tion in the study and practice of law. THEODORE J- ST' ANTOINE, EDI FOR-IN'CHIE twenty-one

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Although the clubs are student managed, the faculty provides helpful advisory supervision and the program of the clubs is officially endorsed by the law school. The schedule of arguments is competitive with the top contestants in the junior year competing in an elimination contest. The Henry M. Campbell LEFT TO RIGHT: Donn Miller; Theodore St. Antoine; Supreme Court of Michigan; Hon. George E. Bushnell, Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio; Hon. Harrison Tweed, President, American Law Institute; Hugh Harness; David Belin. Prize is divided among the finalists in this seeond-year competition. Many other prizes are given as incentives to clubs and counsel on the basis of their work at other stages in the competition, and credit is given in the senior year to all those who have successfully completed three cases in their club work. There are sixteen Clubs, named for distinguished Michigan jurists. Each club is headed by a Senior, who has been chosen on the basis of his competitive work within his club during his Freshman and Junior years. As an assistant he has a Junior Clerk who has compiled the highest individual score during his Freshman year. Other Senior members act as advisors for the lower elassmen, and, together with faculty members, sit as judges on the cases. Junior members also act as advisers to Freshan and sit as judges. One of the high points of the Law School year is the annual Case Club Day when the final competition before a distinguished array of judges tsee picture preceding pagel is held. In the evening the annual Case Club banquet is held in the Michigan Union and the Campbell Award and numerous other prizes . t . e FINAL ARGUMENT: . I Henry M. Campbell Competition Hon. E. Blythe Stason; Hon. WilliamL. Hart, Justice, are awarded. twenty-tlzree