Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. FIRST MASS MEETING @ 6:30 (September 6, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97557 97557-21794711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 6:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

The Michigan Pre-Law Society strives to provide a setting in which undergraduate students may come together and navigate the Pre-Law process. This mission is achieved through open discussions/socials, outside speaker presentations, and assignments to a personal mentor who is currently enrolled at the University of Michigan Law School. If you're interested in learning more about MPLS, please come to our first mass meeting on September 6th, 2022 at 6:30 pm in Room 1225 of Jeffries Hall. All are welcome! 

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Other Tue, 06 Sep 2022 18:00:50 -0400 2022-09-06T18:30:00-04:00 2022-09-06T19:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Maize Pages Student Organizations Other
American Democracy in Peril (September 22, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96650 96650-21793013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Featuring Hon. J. Michael Luttig with introduction by Professor Richard Friedman

Join in person in Jeffries Hall 1225 or via Zoom webinar at:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/93360607078

Hon. J. Michael Luttig served for nearly fifteen years as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Among other positions, he has also served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel and as General Counsel to The Boeing Company. The open letter circulated by Vice President Pence on January 6, 2021, quoted Judge Luttig’s assertion that “[t]he only responsibility and power of the Vice President under the Constitution is to faithfully count the Electoral College votes as they have been cast,” and not “to alter in any way the votes that have been cast, either by rejecting certain votes or otherwise.” On June 16, 2022, Judge Luttig testified before the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, to the effect that President Trump and his allies had “instigated” a war on democracy. He was also one of the authors of LOST NOT STOLEN: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election, issued in July 2022.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 08:21:24 -0400 2022-09-22T16:30:00-04:00 2022-09-22T17:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion
Environmental and Climate Justice Conference (September 30, 2022 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98083 98083-21795572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 8:45am
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

During previous Environmental Law and Policy Program (ELPP) conferences, we have featured panel discussions on climate change as part of broader conversations about environmental law and policy. With climate change accelerating and the window for climate change mitigation and adaptation narrowing, this year we will devote the program to how the legal system can promote meaningful action on climate change and environmental sustainability efforts.

See full details and the conference schedule at:
https://michigan.law.umich.edu/environmental-and-climate-justice-conference

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 06 Sep 2022 08:53:56 -0400 2022-09-30T08:45:00-04:00 2022-09-30T16:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Conference / Symposium
Reconsidering reparations: Building on existing models in college access and home ownership (October 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99420 99420-21798186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Center on Finance, Law, and Policy

Policymakers have struggled with how to reduce long-standing inequalities based on race. Recently there have been calls for reparations with many innovative ideas. While policymakers debate how to implement these suggestions, there are many promising approaches to college access and home ownership that already exist, which accomplish some of the same goals. Prof. Trina Shanks will discuss baby bonds, child savings accounts, promise scholarships, and various home ownership incentive programs in progress, and how they could make a real difference in the lives of low to moderate income families.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:12:16 -0400 2022-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Center on Finance, Law, and Policy Lecture / Discussion october blue bag lunch talk
Sexual Violence, Gendered Economies, Risky Subjects (November 3, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100497 100497-21800010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Center on Finance, Law, and Policy

Sexual violence, as a human rights and public policy issue, has emerged as a critical area of scholarly inquiry in local and global contexts. Studies by the World Health Organization, World Bank, and others point to the macroeconomic impact of gender-based violence on survivors’ health and well-being as well as on public budgets, through healthcare expenditures, legal services, and diminished educational outcomes. Does financial inclusion and equitable access to care change women’s experiences of sexual violence in private and public? How do we assess policies which empower women by eliminating lending bias, but which purportedly frame women as vulnerable rather than as risk-taking, ensuring sexual/financial safety through stereotypically female workspaces? Drawing from a mixed-methods study of rape victims’ public suicides in postcolonial India, this interdisciplinary blue bag lunch talk will explore the insights it can offer to our gendered understandings of violence, vulnerability and risk, and discuss innovative policy measures.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 21 Oct 2022 10:58:02 -0400 2022-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 2022-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Center on Finance, Law, and Policy Lecture / Discussion November Blue Bag Lunch Talk
Who Benefits from Corporate Tax Cuts? (December 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101700 101700-21802236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Center on Finance, Law, and Policy

The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 made large changes to the taxation of corporate and pass-through businesses in the U.S. Understanding the effects of those changes, however, means finding control firms whose taxation was not altered by the TCJA. Credit unions offer a novel control group for studying the effects of the TCJA on small and medium size banks because they compete with these banks for deposits and in making loans, and because they were not taxed both before and after. So who benefited? Prof. Fox will explain what he and his colleagues found when investigating what percentage of the tax cut went to depositors, whether employees or borrowers received a benefit, and other questions. Show up to find out the results!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Nov 2022 08:37:30 -0500 2022-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Center on Finance, Law, and Policy Lecture / Discussion Ed Fox Blue Bag Lunch Talk