Western Michigan University Cooley Law School Blog

KISS: Simple Ways to Increase Your Article’s Impact

I have previously blogged about ways to boost an article’s readership. Since then I have learned of...

What Should Be Done About Michigan's No-Good, Very Bad Way of Selecting Supreme Court Justices?

THE PAST The "Looking Back: 1930s" article in the January 2022 Michigan Bar Journal concludes by...

Shining Star: WMU-Cooley Student Graduated With A Perfect 4.0 GPA

Mina Woodard’s original career goal was to become a math teacher, but she switched to criminal...

WMU-Cooley Graduate Janelle Benjamin is Helping Employers “Make it Easy to be Equitable”

WMU-Cooley Law School 2005 graduate Janelle Benjamin is the founder and CEO of the company All...

Katie Stanley: When you help a client, you aren’t just helping them, you're helping others.

You might say that Katie Stanley started law school at age 13. She was, of course, too young to...

Robin Sutara: Unassuming Trailblazer

Robin Sutara (Witherell Class, 2010) has always been a trailblazer. Perhaps an unassuming...

Yveline Dalmacy: Charting Her Own Path of Service

What does being a lawyer mean to Yveline Dalmacy? Well, it doesn’t mean driving the fanciest car or...

Hon. Kwamé Rowe: Don’t let others tell you that you can’t do something

On Thursday, July 22, 2021, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the appointment of Kwamé L. Rowe to...

The American Bar Association Wants You To Know More About Multicultural Lawyering

If you are an American lawyer in the 21st century, you need to understand how to work with clients,...

Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement: A Pregnant Teen, Two Gay Men, and a Gender-nonconforming Woman

Many people helped make the modern Civil Rights Movement, which aimed to get equal treatment of all...