September 17, 2010

Cooley Law School Law Review Presents Article V Symposium

The Thomas M. Cooley Law School held its annual law review symposium on Thursday, September 16, 2010 at its Lansing campus. The symposium featured a panel of elite legal minds discussing Article V of the United States Constitution, a provision that grants states such as Michigan the right to request a Convention for proposing amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

From left to right: Hon. Roman H. Gribbs, retired Michigan Court of Appeals Judge; Bill Walker, founder and president of the Friends of Article V Convention; Robert G. Natelson, senior fellow at the Independence Institute and the Goldwater Institute; Christopher R. Trudeau, associate professor at Cooley Law School; Hon. James L. Ryan, senior circuit judge for the U.S. Sixth Court of Appeals; Hon. Thomas E. Brennan, former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and founder of Cooley Law School; Paul D. Carrington, law professor at Duke University School of Law and the author of Reforming the Court: Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices; Joel S. Hirschhorn, author of Delusional Democracy and chair of the Independent Party in Maryland; Michael Hekman, symposium editor of Cooley’s Law Review; Philip J. Prygoski, professor at Cooley Law School; William H. Fruth, author of Ten Amendments for Freedom and President of POLICOM Corporation.

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Thomas E. Brennan, founder of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School and former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, addresses the audience at Cooley’s annual law review symposium on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010 at the school’s Lansing campus.  Brennan served as the event’s keynote speaker, addressing law students, faculty and the general public on the importance of Article V of the United States Constitution.

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Cooley Law School is the largest law school in the nation. Founded in 1972, the private, non-profit law school operates J.D. programs across Michigan in Lansing, Auburn Hills, Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor.Today, Cooley Law School has nearly 14,000 graduates across the nation and worldwide and also offers joint degree and master of laws programs. Cooley offers enrollment three times a year; in January, May and September.