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Clark Neily, vice president of criminal justice of the Cato Institute, and Daniel Lemisch, the acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, discussed the constitutionality of civil forfeiture on Friday, Sept. 15. The event was hosted by the WMU-Cooley Law School Auburn Hills chapter of the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy in honor of Constitution Day.

On Friday, Sept. 15, the mock courtroom at WMU Cooley Law School's Grand Rapids campus became, for the second time in a week, a real courtroom.

WMU-Cooley Law School’s Auburn Hills campus presented a check in the amount of $5,301 to Detroit Public School’s Osborn Preparatory High School graduate Robert Nettles.

In honor of Constitution Day, on Thursday, Sept. 14, the Hauenstein Center, the Koeze Business Ethics Initiative, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum hosted "Debating the Constitution."

WMU-Cooley's Grand Rapids campus mock courtroom was transformed into a real courtroom on Sept. 12, as U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Maloney heard dispositive motions in two substantial federal civil lawsuits, before a full gallery of law students.

WMU-Cooley Law School Director of Academic Services and Associate Professor Emily Horvath, along with WMU-Cooley graduates Susan Cook, Laura Genovich, Mary Pigorsh, Sarah Ostahowski and Cinnamon Rice, were recently honored by Michigan Lawyers Weekly as members of the Class of 2017 Women in the Law.

Incoming students at Western Michigan University Cooley Law School’s Auburn Hills campus took the law school’s honor code oath and participated in the Professionalism in Action (PIA) program during orientation, Aug. 30–31.

“Lawyer Storytelling: A Sacred Craft,” a collection of 27 short stories created during a summer workshop series at the Grand Rapids campus of WMU-Cooley Law School, has now been published.