Cooley Law School Blog

Specifics Make It Real

Strunk & White’s classic guide to good writing, The Elements of Style, urges writers to use...

Will the Uniform Bar Exam Come to Michigan?

Last October the Michigan Board of Law Examiners posted the names of 451 law graduates who passed...

Beloved Storytellers (Part Three): The Appeal of Storytelling

On their respective sides of the Atlantic, both England’s Lord Denning and our own Justice Cardozo...

Beloved Storytellers (Part Two): Cardozo's Opinion Style

In England, Lord Denning was hailed at his death as "the best-known and the best-loved judge in the...

Beloved Storytellers (Part One): Denning the Master Storyteller

Alfred Thompson Denning--England's Lord Denning to the legal world—died in the final year of the...

The Adventure of the One-Dollar Diamond

Blog contributor Otto Stockmeyer is a Cooley Law School Distinguished Professor Emeritus. This is...

Masterful Advice from Master Lawyers

The Master Lawyers Section of the State Bar of Michigan is composed of nearly 20,000 Michigan...

Contracts quintessential first-year course: Law school professor makes his case

Blog author Cooley Distinguished Professor Emeritus Otto Stockmeyer presented a paper at an annual...

Name Those Judges!

Blog author Otto Stockmeyer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, was a Commissioner and Research...

Corporate Annual Reports - Plain Language's Last Frontier?

Back in 1979, Rudolf Flesch brought the plain-language movement to the public’s attention with his...