Wayne Law is seeking alumni and community volunteers familiar with sports contract negotiation to serve as judges for the first-ever Sports and Entertainment Law Society Contract Competition on Saturday, Nov. 17 at the Law School. Volunteer judges are needed from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. To volunteer, email Rebecca Robichaud, rebecca.robichaud@wayne.edu.

Wayne Law students interested in transactional law will benefit from the new Jaffe Transactional Law Competition Fund, established by Michigan-based law firm Jaffe Raitt Heuer and Weiss. The endowment will support operations of the Law School’s Transactional Law Competition.

Professor Peter J. Hammer, director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne Law, has been named the Law School’s inaugural A. Alfred Taubman Endowed Chair. The $1.5 million endowed chair is part of a $3 million gift from the late A. Alfred Taubman in 2006 that led to the construction of the Keith Center building.

Spencer Overton, president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and a former clerk of Judge Keith, delivered the Seventh Damon J. Keith Biennial Lecture to a full house at Wayne Law on Friday, Oct. 5. His lecture was titled “Racial Equality and the Future of Work.”

Two renowned immigration attorneys spoke at Wayne Law in October. On Oct. 4, Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, presented the inaugural lecture of the Paul A. Rosen Constitutional Law Speaker Series. On Oct. 25, Stephen W. Manning, founding partner of Immigrant Law Group and founder and director of the Innovation Law Lab, delivered the two-part I. Goodman Cohen Lecture in Trial Advocacy.

Second-year student Emma Trivax, a classically trained singer, was featured in a report for the Detroit Legal News about her talent and how she’s following in her family’s path to a career in law. On Friday, Trivax also was named the winner of the Fall 2018 Moot Court In-House Competition. 

As board chair of Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois, Jill Chapman ’85, has pushed for expansion of the Regenerations program that serves youth, ages 12-20, in custody with Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and involved in the juvenile justice system.

Tamira Chapman ’07,  was named a 2018 Rising Star by Minority Corporate Counsel Association. She also was named one of Crain’s Detroit Business’ 40 Under Forty. Chapman is an attorney at Ford Motor Co.

E. Powell Miller ’86, was named Attorney of the Year by Crain’s Detroit Business. Miller is a founder and partner of The Miller Law Firm where he focuses his practice on litigation.

Assistant Professor Blanche Cook’s article, “Johnny Appleseed: Citizenship Transmission Laws and A White Heteropatriarchal Property Right In Philandering, Sexual Exploitation, And Rape (The ‘WHP’)” was accepted for publication in the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism.

Associate Professor Rachel Settlage was featured in a Wayne State University newsroom story about her involvement with the Grosse Pointe Theatre as an actress, dancer, choreographer and director.

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• Nov. 5 - Lecture by Chief Justice Stephen Markman

• Nov. 20 - Expert Perspective: In the Wake of the 2018 Midterms

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