University of Michigan Law School

first lesson is the importance of being Jewish. This lesson had to do with Joe Flom. He was known as the scholar who attended Harvard Law and was discriminated against for being Jewish when he applied for jobs. The limit in opportunity caused him to join the small new firm of Jewish lawyers, Skadden, Aprs. These men had been passed for partner at a major Wall Street law firm. In hopes of being successful, they had to be adaptable and talk anything that was given to them. During the 1950s to…

even though her test scores were higher than blacks and Hispanics that were accepted. (Nagel, 2001). Proposition 209: In 1996, an anti-affirmative action law was passed in California called Proposition 209. The law banned preferences based on skin color and sex in education, employment and contracting. Looking at the two major universities only, the graph shows that there was a big decline in minority admission. When the numbers are compared with the overall results and include other…

The problem with finding a solution to policy creation to combat the issue of global warming has been proven to be complicated and complex. Many ideas have been brought up within political spheres with regards to how best to go about this. Currently, the model of collective action is regarded as one of the more suitable ways to combat global warming. Collective action may help policy focused on global warming to an extent, however other ideas such as taking a polycentric approach to the issue…

Migration. Following multiple stints in juvenile correctional facilities and several gunshot wounds, Brown started night classes at a Manhattan high school and began piano lessons after the popularization of jazz in Harlem. After receiving his diploma, Brown matriculated at Howard University. He later studied law at both Stanford and Rutgers University before pursuing a career as a lecturer. His autobiography, Manchild in the Promised Land, was published in 1965. He published Children of Ham in…

Building where the On leong group used to be. The society also once resided in Mott Street in New York's Chinatown. The Chinese started coming to Chicago in smaller numbers after 1870, After the 20th century less than 1,200. Until the 1940s when federal laws only allowed men to enter with only a few exceptions, chinatowns over america were populated with chinese men. Groups called Tongs were formed and were extremely influential, many tongs fought for control over chinatown. The most powerful…

article, Bob Simon tells the unfortunate stories of many male athletes. A. He explains that “on college varsity teams, there are now five times as many women as there were in 1972” (Simon, Bob). 1. Why is this the case? A law was passed in 1972 called Title IX that stated that any school that receives federal funds cannot discriminate in any area based on gender. 2. This seems like a good thing, so what’s the problem? As 60 Minutes first reported a few months prior to this article, “some male…

to secretly undermine and control the world.” This is a big stereotype, why would Jews want to control the world? Jews don 't get enough credit for actually being great people. People are never disloyal to their country, people do break the rules or laws in their country, but they are never disloyal. Everybody cares about their country deeply because where would everybody go if their country wasn 't in the world today. “Jews exaggerate or exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust to invoke guilt and…

Imagine this scenario: a group of friend introduces an electronic cigarette to a teenage boy. At first, he uses it to fit in because it makes him feels cool. Then the adolescent continues to use them regularly because he slowly becomes addicted to the nicotine. When he finally turns 18, he switches from electronic cigarettes to traditional cigarettes. Would this have happened if he never tried the electronic cigarette in the first place? Unfortunately, this similar fate became a reality for…

affects a wide array of communities of color. More than 240 years of slavery and 90 years of legalized racial segregation have led to organized profiling of blacks in traffic and pedestrian stops. Racial profiling is not only wrong, it is an ineffective law enforcement strategy. Racial profiling is a longstanding and deeply troubling national problem despite…

April 19, 1912, in the town of Ishpeming, Michigan. His mother was an immigrant from Sweden and taught him the Swedish language before he learned English. When he was 10, he and his family moved to the suburbs of Los Angeles, where he was raised for the remainder of his childhood. As a child, he was so shy, his mother would have to arrange with his teachers to take trips to the bathroom since he was too shy to raise his hand. Also, during elementary school he was not the brightest student in the…