Faculty & Student Programs
Cooley Law Review - website »
Founded in 1982, The Thomas M. Cooley Law Review is committed to the highest legal standards of legal publication.
Moot Court - website »
Cooley’s full-time and adjunct faculty plays an important role in Cooley’s moot court programs. Adjunct faculty, all of whom are practicing appellate lawyers, teach the Intra-School Moot Court Class. In addition, many faculty members have donated countless hours coaching national teams and judging national teams’ oral argument practices. Faculty judges help hone the students’ arguments by asking questions that test the legal and factual theories the students are arguing.
Mock Trial - website »
In five short years, the Cooley mock trial program has grown into one of largest and well respected on campus. With the support and assistance of the adjunct and full-time faculty, the Mock Trial Board is able to reach many students with extensive training in trial advocacy, providing them with opportunities to compete on the intra-school and national level. Many faculty members contribute their spare time to coach and guide the trial students, providing them with a look at the real world of practicing law.
Real World Knowledge
Faculty members come to Thomas Cooley with years of experience
in the practice of law. They combine "real world" knowledge
with exceptional academic backgrounds. The full-time faculty
make the Thomas M. Cooley Law School an outstanding legal
education program. They are professionals dedicated to the
ideals of practical legal scholarship and academic excellence.
The vast knowledge and diversity among full time faculty
members is complemented by a distinguished Adjunct Faculty
- a group of more than 100 legal professionals who blend
teaching with active careers on the bench and bar, providing
students with valuable insights into the demands and rewards
of the practice of specialized areas of the law. |
Faculty Publications
Faculty News & Events
 Thomas M. Cooley Law School Professor Norman Otto Stockmeyer has been named an Exemplary Legal Writing honoree by Green Bag for his article To Err Is Human, To Moo Bovine: The Rose of Aberlone Story. Green Bag is a quarterly journal dedicated to good writing about the law.
 The Thomas M. Cooley Law School announced today that Associate Professor Martha Moore has been promoted to assistant dean of Cooley’s newly expanded Auburn Hills campus. Moore replaces Joan Vestrand, who will lead Cooley’s new campus in Ann Arbor as its associate dean.
 The Thomas M. Cooley Law School announced today that Joan Vestrand, professor of law and assistant dean at the Auburn Hills campus, has been promoted to the position of associate dean and will lead the school’s efforts at its Ann Arbor campus.
 Cooley Law School Professor Norman Fell has been named a Leader in the Law by Michigan Lawyers Weekly. Professor Fell is the Executive Director of The Cooley Innocence Project and the former Chair of Cooley's Clinical Department. The award is given for an attorney who best exemplifies the noble tradition of the legal profession.
 The Thomas M. Cooley Law School announced that it will offer a master of laws (LL.M.) degree in corporate law and finance, and has tapped E. Christopher Johnson Jr., former General Motors (GM) North America vice president and general counsel, to join its faculty and lead the development of the advanced degree program.
 Alan Gershel, chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office-Eastern Michigan District Criminal Division, will join
the school’s faculty as a Visiting Professor in May. Gershel will teach Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at Cooley’s new Auburn Hills campus.
 The Thomas M. Cooley Law School announced today that Nelson Miller has been promoted from Assistant Dean to Associate
Dean of the Grand Rapids campus.
"Dean Miller has been instrumental in Cooley's integration
into the Grand Rapids community," said Don LeDuc, Cooley
president and dean.
 Professor Joseph Kimble, Chair of the Thomas M. Cooley Cooley Law School's Research & Writing Department, accepted the prestigious Burton Award June 4 for his work as a drafting consultant for the newly rewritten Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. [full story]
Read more about Professor Kimble and Cooley's Research & Writing department
 Professor Joan Vestrand received the Trinity Term 2007 Great Deeds Award for her work on the academic and personal success program in cooperation with Pontiac Northern High School in Oakland County. [full story]
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