Brand named 2020 Honorary Fellow by the American Society for Legal History
L. Bates Lea Global Professor of Law Paul Brand has been elected a 2020 Honorary Fellow by the American Society for Legal History. The citation is the highest honor the Society confers and it recognizes distinguished historians whose scholarship has shaped the broad discipline of legal history and influenced the work of others.
The Society’s announcement notes, “Professor Brand has been one of the leading and most prolific historians of English law for many decades. In two monographs, eight volumes of edited original texts, and over eighty book chapters, articles, and essays, he has reshaped the field.”
Brand is a legal historian who specializes in Anglo-American common law during its first formative period, from the second half of the 12th century to the early 14th century. He has been an assistant keeper at the Public Record Office in London, a lecturer in law at University College, Dublin, and a research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research in London. He also is an emeritus fellow at All Souls College at the University of Oxford. In addition, he is a fellow of the British Academy, vice president of the Selden Society, and an honorary bencher of the Middle Temple, London.
Brand is the second member of the Michigan Law faculty to receive this honor, joining Professor Rebecca J. Scott, who was cited by the Society in 2019.
Michigan House adds drunken driving to expungement program
LANSING, Mich (AP) — People with drunken driving convictions would be added to an expungement program under a bill that was approved Wednesday in the Michigan House.
The legislation will go to the Senate.
First-time drunken driving offenses weren’t part of an expungement law that was signed earlier this year by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Supporters say hundreds of thousands of people could benefit.
In Michigan, an expungement clears the public record of a conviction so it does not appear in a background check. Police still keep a non-public record, but people would not have to disclose their criminal past on job applications or other forms.
Sen. Ed McBroom said one dumb mistake such as drunken driving shouldn’t impact a person for their rest of the life.
“Everyone knows someone who has struggled with alcohol dependency, and anyone who has supported a friend or family member who has step-by-step reclaimed their lives is keenly aware that they have done the hard work to earn a second chance,” Chief Justice Bridget McCormack said earlier this month.
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