COVER STORY

Role Reversal

The changing field of health law

Sidebar: Happenstance leads to rewarding careers

Features

At Long Last, Justice

Innocence Project opens at UM

Village People

Recalling life as married students

Good Samaritans

Professor’s legacy continues

Straight from the Heart

Judge’s book on rural childhood

From ‘Receiver’ to ‘Quarterback’

Former Truman Scholar now heads foundation

In the News

Overheard at Lamar Law Center

• Trials of the Century

• Helping prosecutors expose spyware

• Outer space is ‘in’ for future lawyers

 

 

Faculty News

• Faculty Activities

• Worker’s compensation book garners rave reviews from colleagues

• Professors join law school faculty

• Professor travels to China to discuss
remote sensing

• Book provides insight into illegal
immigration issues

• ABA committee on cybercrime taps
professor for membership

• Former professor recalls turbulent,
charming 1960s

Campaign Update

• The $60 million campaign

Class Action

• Class Notes
• Former Supreme Court justice, professor honored as Champions of Justice

• Alum’s varied career path leads to
Consulting Services

• ’73 grad joins arbitration forum

• Alum named in Best Lawyers
Bet-the-Company category
• Jackson attorney joins American Inns of Court

• Class reunions

Chancellor

Robert C. Khayat

Dean, School of Law

Samuel M. Davis

Executive Director, Alumni Affairs

Warner Alford

Associate Dean for Development

Timothy L. Walsh

Assistant to the Dean for Development

Jamie White

President, Law Alumni Chapter

Robert T. Jackson Sr.

Editor

Jennifer Farish

Designer

John McCustion

Contributing Editor

Sabrina Brown

Photographers

Robert Jordan, Kevin Bain, Harry Briscoe, Nathan Latil

Contributors

Edwin Smith, Jeannie Waller, Rebecca Lauck Cleary, Samuel M. Davis

Cover photo by

Robert Jordan

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