As one of the 50 states in the United States of America, Michigan hosts
6 law schools that have national reputation. Check
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and counties in the state of Michigan. By clicking on links to each
city, you can find high schools, colleges, and universities within
Michigan.
Joint degrees awarded: N/A
Student activities: The Law Review, a Catholic legal journal, is
published twice annually by second and third year law students.
Through Ave Maria's extensive Moot Court Program students can
participate in competitions at the state, regional, and national
levels. Student organizations offer students an opportunity to grow
academically, personally, professionally, and spiritually.
Address: 1025 Commons Circle, Naples, FL 34119
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.B.A. (Eli Broad C.O.B.); J.D./M.A.
English; J.D./M.A. Interdisciplinary Studies; J.D/M.A. Labor
Relations/Human Resources; J.D./M.A. Forestry; J.D./M.S. Fisheries
and Wildlife; J.D./M.URP.; J.D./LL.B. (University of Ottawa); J.D./M.S.T.
(Grand Valley State Univ.); J.D./M.A. Bioethics, Humanities & Societ
Student activities: Over 50 student organizations offer
opportunities for leadership and service. The MSU Law Review
publishes 4 issues annually and sponsors academic symposia on
current legal topics. Students also hone research & writing skills
in 4 other student journals. Winning Moot Court teams represent MSU
Law nationally and internationally and host the annual National
Trial Advocacy Competition at MSU Law.
Address: 648 N. Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.P.A.; J.D./ LL.M. Taxation; J.D./
LL.M. Intellectual Property; J.D./ M.B.A.
Student activities: The Student Bar Associations coordinate more
than 80 student organizations, for social, athletics, politics, and
careers. The Cooley Law Review and Journal of Practical and Clinical
Law provide scholarly writing opportunities. Each campus hosts intra
and interschool moot court, trial, client counseling, and
negotiation competitions.
Address: 300 S Capitol Ave, Lansing, MI 48901
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.B.A.; J.D./LL.B.
Student activities: Moot Court; Law Review; Student Bar
Association; Black Law Student Alliance; Phi Alpha Delta; St. Thomas
More Society; Women's Law Caucus; International Law Society; Sports
and Entertainment Law Society; Arab and Chaldean Law Student
Society; Federalist Society; Jewish Law Student Society; OUTlaws.
Address: 651 E Jefferson Ave, Detroit, MI 48226
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./Ph.D. Economics; J.D./M.S.
Information; J.D./M.S. Natural Resources; J.D./M.P.H.; J.D./M.P.P.;
J.D./M.S.W.; J.D./M.U.P.; J.D./M.B.A.; J.D./M.A. Kinesiology;
J.D./M.A. South Asian Studies; J.D./M.A. South East Asian Studies;
J.D./M.A. Japanese Studies; J.D./M.A. Russian/E. European Studies;
J.D./M.A. Political Science; J.D./M.A. Chinese Studies; J.D./M.A.
Modern Mid East/N African Stud; J.D./M.A. World Politics; J.D./M.H.S.A.
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Student activities: Students can choose among 50 organizations,
community service and volunteerism, pro bono work, governance, and
major moot court competitions. Over 450 serve on the editorial
staffs of our six scholarly journals. And student-organized
conferences and symposia, plus frequent workshops, regularly bring
prominent legal scholars and practitioners to Michigan Law. Details
at www.law.umich.edu.
Address: 625 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.A. History; J.D./M.A. Political
Science; J.D./M.B.A.; J.D./M.A. Dispute Resolution; J.D./M.A.
Economics
Student activities: We have the Wayne Law Review and the Journal
of Law in Society, an extremely active moot court program (nearly
100 participants in the internal competition, and teams that travel
to regional and national competitions--national champions in 2003).
Our students have formed approximately 20 recognized organizations
covering a range of interest areas.
Address: 471 W. Palmer Street, Detroit, MI 48202
Before you can study in any of the above 6 law programs in Michigan,
you will need to take the Law School Admissions Test. The exam dates throughout the year are
also provided on the site.
Michigan Overview
Michigan, a state of the Great Lakes in
the Midwest, USA; 151,000 km2, 9.88
million residents (2010), of which 14% are black. The
capital is Lansing (114,000 residents). Enlisted in the
Union in 1837 as the 26th State. Nickname: The Wolverine
State. Check searchforpublicschools for public primary and high schools in Michigan.
The state consists of two peninsula, the Upper and Lower
Peninsula, which since 1957 have been linked by a bridge over the
Mackinac Strait between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. The majority
of the population lives in the cities of the southeastern Peninsula
with the metropolitan Detroit - Ann Arbor - Flint (a total of 5.3
million homes). The cities form an unified industrial region,
starting in the 1800s. became especially important after the
founding of Ford Motor Co. (1903), General Motors (1908)
and Chrysler (1924). The three groups, The Big Three, along
with countless subcontractors, has had a major impact on the state's
economy, as have the ups and downs of the automotive industry
affecting employment and migration flows. The last major wave of
immigration, consisting mainly of blacks from the southern states,
arrived during and after World War II, while the car crisis of the
decade from the late 1970s created high unemployment and major
social problems. Regardless of factory closures, however, Michigan
remains the United States' largest automaker and among the leaders
in, among other things. machinery, textiles, furniture, plastics,
rubber, food and chemical products.
Forests cover almost half of the acreage, and the Upper Peninsula
in particular has a large forest, while most farms are found on the
former grasslands near the borders of Indiana and Ohio to the south.
Except for the western part of the Upper Peninsula with a. Mount
Arvon (604 m) is the landscape predominantly a small hillside
lowland with moraine deposits from the last ice age. The climate is
temperate and rainy, but due to the Great Lakes it is less
continental than neighboring states. Well-known tourist destinations
are the Isle Royale of Lake Superior and the coastal dunes of
Sleeping Bear Dunes at Lake Michigan.

History
Michigan was originally inhabited by various, preferably
Algonquin, Native American tribes. French fur traders and
missionaries penetrated in the 1600s. entered the area and brought
Sault Sainte Marie in 1668 and Detroit in 1701. In 1763 the area was
surrendered to Britain, and the British first escaped it in 1796,
though it fell to the United States at Paris Peace in 1783 and
formally joined the Northwest Territory from 1787. In 1805, Michigan
was separated as independent territory, but it was only after the
American-English War 1812-14 and especially after the opening of the
Erie Canal in 1825 that the American relocation took off. After the
separation of the territory of Wisconsin, Michigan with the
peninsula north of Lake Michigan in 1837 was admitted as a state of
the United States; The peninsula's deposits of iron and copper ore
laid the groundwork for industrial development in the second half of
the 1800s, when immigration took place from Poland and Italy in
particular, but also from the Netherlands, Germany and Ireland.
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