Cooley Law School Blog

It's All About IRAC

As beginning law students soon learn, what we call “legal reasoning” can be expressed by the...

A Tale of Two Toms: How Cooley Law School Acquired Two Bronze Likenesses of its Namesake

Cooley Law School alum John Nocita (Turner Class, 1991) is profiled in the Winter 2020 issue of the...

Origin of Michigan State Bar Foundation’s Fellows Program

Earlier this year the Michigan State Bar Foundation announced the names of inductees into the 2020...

Booyah! Michigan has committed to go UBE!

To say that Cooley Law School Distinguished Professor Emeritus Otto Stockmeyer was a little excited...

Judge Brennan's Ten Commandments For Law School

Starting a new law school from scratch is not a simple matter.Cooley Law School’s founder, Justice...

Justice Cardozo's Supreme Court Confirmation

My Contracts students know how much I revere Justice Benjamin Cardozo (1870-1938). Teaching his...

State's High Court Justices DO Indeed Make Law

It has happened again. A candidate for the Michigan Supreme Court has declared, “It is incumbent...

The Importance of the First Year of Law School

Blog author Cooley Law School Distinguished Professor Emeritus Otto Stockmeyer devoted 35 years to...

The Importance of Definitions in Law School

Here at Cooley fall classes are beginning. New students will quickly learn that first-term courses...

The Great Cardozo Bar-Exam Canard

Justice Benjamin Cardozo (1870-1938) served with great distinction as Chief Judge of the New York...