The Wayne State University Law School Alumni Association hosted a Happy Hour event Thursday, Feb. 2, at Mr. B’s Pub in Royal Oak. A
ll alumni and current students were invited to catch up with old friends and meet some new ones in addition to hearing about upcoming events from the Alumni Association’s Board of Directors.
Additionally, Wayne State Univesity Law School presented its Order of the Coif Distinguished Visitor lecture with guest speaker Saul Levmore, former dean of the University of Chicago Law School, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, in the Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium.
Levmore presented “Precedent and Convergence: Why Are Different Jurisdictions So Similar Even Though Legislatures Are Not Bound by Precedent.” “For example, you go to Switzerland and you go to Michigan and a lot of the laws are the same, but the music is different, the food is different,” Levmore said. “Why is law more alike and the food, music and film more different? It seems a little puzzling because we tell judges they should follow what other judges do — follow precedent — even though Michigan is supposed to do what Michigan did 100 years ago. In fact Michigan moves with the times and is becoming more and more like Switzerland and vice versa. I’m trying to explore that puzzle and I think I have some interesting ideas about how legislatures go about doing what they do.”
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