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Getting Ready for UM Law: Summer Book and Movie Club
Dear Admitted Students,
This summer we plan to use our orientation blog to begin to explore some ideas about the law through books and films. You are welcome to join us for one week or for all of the weeks. Each week we will have by Monday some discussion questions posted on the blog, and we will see where the conversations take us.
We look forward to getting to know you online and welcoming you in person on August 11.
Week of June 1-5 Law and Power
Facilitator: Professor Ricardo Bascuas
Week of June 8-12 Law’s Order: What Economics Has to do with Law
and Why it Matters by David D. Friedman
Facilitator: Professor Ben Depoorter
Week of June 15-19 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Book or Movie)
Facilitator: Joanne Harvest Koren, Director, Academic Achievement Program
Week of June 22-26 The Courage of Their Convictions by Peter Irons (Chapters 2, 5, 10, 13, and 16)
Facilitator: Professor Rosario Lozada Schrier
Week of June 29-July 3 Damages by Barry Werth
Facilitator: Professor Mary Coombs
Week of July 6-10 Star Trek (2009 Version Movie)
Facilitator: Professor Markus Wagner
Week of July 13-17 A Question of Choice by Sarah Weddington
Facilitator: Professor Sally Wise
Week of July 20-24 My Guantanamo Diary by Mahvish Khan
Facilitator: Jessica Carvalho Morris, Director, International Graduate Programs
Week of July 27-31 The Supreme Court Confirmation Debate
Recommended Reading: The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin, New York Times
Facilitator: Janet Stearns, Dean of Students
August 3-7 My Cousin Vinny (Movie)
Facilitator: Robin Schard, Director of Public Service, UM Law Library
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