School of Law

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List of Professors

Name	Years at Michigan	Position
Joseph Hardcastle Vance	1854 - 1900	Assistant Librarian - Law School Superintendent of Grounds & Buildings
Alpheus Felch	1857 - 1883	Tappan Professor of Law
James Valentine Campbell	1859 - 1885	Marshall Professor of Law Dean of Law
Thomas McIntyre Cooley	1859 - 1884	Professor of Law
Charles Irish Walker	1859 - 1887	Kent Professor of Law
Ashley Pond	1865 - 1866	Fletcher Professor of Law
Charles Artemas Kent	1868 - 1886	Fletcher Professor of Law
James Burrill Angell	1871 - 1909	Professor of Law President of University of Michigan
William Palmer Wells	1874 - 1891	Kent Professor of Law
Henry Wade Rogers	1882 - 1890	Tappan Professor of Law Professor of Roman Law Dean of the Department of Law
Harry Burns Hutchins	1884 - 1920	Professor of Law Dean of Law President of the University of Michigan
Otto Kirchner	1885 - 1906	Professor of Law
Jerome Cyril Knowlton	1885 - 1917	Marshall Professor of Law Dean of Law
Levi Thomas Griffin	1886 - 1897	Fletcher Professor of Law
Bradley Martin Thompson	1887 - 1911	Jay Professor of Law
Marshall Davis Ewell	1890 - 1892	Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence
Elias Finley Johnson	1890 - 1899	Professor of Law
Nathan Abbott	1891 - 1893	Professor of Law Tappan Professor of Law
Melville Madison Bigelow	1891 - 1907	Lecturer on Insurance
Henry Billings Brown	1891 - 1893	Lecturer of Admiralty of Law
John Wayne Champlin	1891 - 1896	Professor of Law
John Bertrand Clayberg	1891 - 1902	Lecturer in Mining Law
Edwin Forrest Conely	1891 - 1892	Professor of Law
William Gardiner D. Hammon	1892 - 1894	Lecturer of Common Law
Floyd R. Mechem	1892 - 1903	Professor of Law Tappan Professor of Law
Alexis Caswell Angell	1893 - 1898	Professor of Oriental Languages Professor of Semitic Languages & Literatures & Hellenistic Greek Professor of Law
John William Dwyer	1893	Instructor in Law Quizmaster in Law Department Assistant Law Librarian
Thomas Ashford Bogle	1894 - 1917	Professor of Law
Horace Lafayette Wilgus	1895 - 1897	Professor of Law
Henry Harrison Swan	1896 - 1909	Non-Resident Lecturer in Admiralty Law
James Henry Brewster	1897 - 1912	Professor of Conveyancing Chair of Law Conveyancing
Aaron Vance McAlvay	1897 - 1903	Professor of Law
Victor Hugo Lane	1897 - 1928	Fletcher Professor of Law
John Romain Rood	1898 - 1918	Professor of Law
Dallas Boudeman	1899 - 1900	Lecturer on Insurance
Edwin C. Goddard	1900 - 1935	Professor of Law Instructor in Mathematics
Robert Emmet Bunker	1901 - 1931	Professor of Law
Harlow Palmer Davock	1901 - 1902	Lecturer on Bankruptcy
Edson Read Sunderland	1901 - 1944	Professor of Law
Frank Lincoln Sage	1902 - 1907	Professor of Law
Henry Moore Bates	1903 - 1939	Professor of Law Dean of the Law School
Gustav Stein	1903 - 1911	Assistant Professor of Law
Evans Holbrook	1905 - 1932	Professor of Law
Joseph H. Drake	1906 - 1930	Professor of Latin, Roman Law, and Jusisprudence
John Archibald Fairlie	1906 - 1909	Junior Professor of Administrative Law
Willis Gordon Stoner	1907 - 1919	Professor of Law
Ralph W. Aigier	1908 - 1955	Professor of Law
George Lewis Canfield	1909 - 1915	Non-resident Lecturer in Admiralty Law
George Luther Clark	1909 - 1912	Professor of Law
Victor Roy McLucas	1910 - 1912	Assistant Professor of Law
Edgar Noble Durfee	1911 - 1952	Professor of Law
Willard Titus Barbour	1912 - 1919	Professor of Law
John Barker Waite	1912 - 1952	Professor of Law
Grover Cleveland Grismore	1914 - 1951	Professor of Law
Edwin Dewitt Dickinson	1917 - 1933	Professor of Law
Hessel Edward Yntema	1917 - 1920 1933 - 1961	Instructor in Political Science Professor of Comparative Law
Edwin Blythe Stason	1919 - 1960	Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Professor of Law Dean of Law School
Burke Woods Shartel	1920 - 1968	Professor of Law
Herbert F. Goodrich	1922 - 1929	Professor of Law
Hobart Raphael Coffey	1926 - 1966	Professor of Law Director of the Law Library
Paul A. Leidy	1926 - 1952	Professor of Law Secretary of Law Faculty
William Wirt Blume	1927 - 1963	Professor of Law
John Philip Dawson	1927 - 1957	Professor of Law
Marvin Lemmon Niehuss	1928 - 1973	Professor of Law Vice President for University Relations Vice President and Dean of Faculties
Laylin K. James	1929 - 1963	Professor of Law
Homer F. Carey	1930 - 1932	Associate Professor of Law
John E. Tracy	1930 - 1950	Professor of Law
Lewis Mallaliu Simes	1932 - 1959	Professor of Law Floyd Russell Mechem University Professor of Law Director of Legal Research
Paul Gerhardt Kauper	1933 - 1974	Professor of Law
Russell Andrew Smith	1937 - 1972	Professor of Law Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law
Allan F. Smith	1946 - 1982	Professor of Law Dean of Law School Vice President for Academic Affairs
Albert Francis Neumann	1946 - 1951	Associate Professor of Law
George Ellis Palmer	1946 - 1978	Professor of Law
Marcus Leo Plant	1946 - 1982	Professor of Law
Kenneth A. Cox	1946 - 1948	Lecturer in Law
L. Hart Wright	1946 - 1983	Professor of Law Paul G. Kauper Professor of Law
Frank Edward Cooper	1947 - 1968	Professor of Law
Edmond F. Devine	1947 - 1976	Adjunct Professor of Law
Charles W. Joiner	1947 - 1968	Professor of Law
William W. Bishop Jr.	1948 - 1976	Professor of Law
Samuel DeMars Estep	1948 - 1989	Professor of Law
John W. Reed	1949 - 1988	Thomas M. Cooley Professor of Law
Vera Bolgar	1949 - 1987	Research Associate in Law
Roy Lee Steinheimer	1950 - 1968	Professor of Law
William B. Harvey	1951 - 1966	Professor of Law
William J. Pierce	1951 - 1989	Professor of Law
Luke K. Cooperrider	1952 - 1983	Professor of Law
Beauford James George	1952 - 1968	Professor of Law
Saul Chesterfield Oppenheim	1952 - 1966	Professor of Law
Olin L Browder Jr.	1953 - 1984	James V. Campbell Professor of Law
Alfred F. Conrad	1953 - 1982	Professor of Law
Alfred F. Conard	1954 - 1984	Professor of Law Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law
Richard V. Wellman	1954 - 1974	Professor of Law
Jack R. Pearce	1955 - 1983	Professor of Law
Roy F. Proffitt	1956 - 1986	Professor of Law Associate Dean of the Law School
Rinaldo L. Bianchi	1956 - 1957	Assistant Professor of Law
Elizabeth G. Brown	1957 - 1964	Research Associate Professor of Law
Carl S. Hawkins	1957 - 1973	Professor of Law
Spencer L. Kimball	1957 - 1968	Professor of Law
Robert L. Knauss	1957 - 1972	Professor of Law Vice-President for Student Services
Alan N. Polasky	1957 - 1976	Professor of Law
Roger A. Cunningham	1959 - 1991	James V. Campbell Professor of Law
Robert J. Harris	1959 - 1974	Professor of Law
Joseph R. Julin	1959 - 1970	Professor of Law
Andrew S. Watson	1959 - 1990	Professor of Law Professor of Psychiatry
Whitmore Gray	1960 - 1993	Professor of Law
Robert A. Choate	1960 - 1979 1996 - 1998	Lecturer in Patent Law
Jerold Israel	1961 - 1996	Alene and Allan F. Smith Professor of Law
Frank R. Kennedy	1961 - 1984	Thomas M. Cooley Professor of Law
Sanford H. Kadish	1961 - 1964	Professor of Law
Beverley J. Pooley	1962 - 1998	Professor of Law
Roger C. Cramton	1962 - 1973	Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Thomas E. Kauper	1964 - 2008	Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law
James J. White	1964 - 2014	Professor of Law
Douglas A. Kahn	1964 - 2016	Professor of Law
Richard M. Buxbaum	1965 - 1966	Visiting Professor of Law
Paul D. Carrington	1965 - 1978	Professor of Law
Yale Kamisar	1965 - 2004	Clarence Darrow Distinguished University Professor Law
Theodore J. St. Antoine	1965 - 1998	Professor of Law James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law Dean of Law School
Joseph L Sax	1965 - 1986	Professor of Law Phillip A. Hart Distinguished University Professor of Law
Francis A. Allen	1966 - 1986	Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law
Layman E. Allen	1966 - 2006	Professor of Law
John H. Jackson	1966 - 1997	Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law
Terrance Sandalow	1966 - 2000	Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law Dean of the Law School
Stanley Siegel	1966 - 1974	Professor of Law
Arthur R. Miller	1966 - 1972	Professor of Law
Richard O. Lempert	1968 - 2008	Eric Stein Distinguished University Professor of Law and Sociology
Peter Steiner	1968 - 1991	Professor of Economics, Law Dean of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Charles Donahue	1968 - 1979	Professor of Law
Robben Wright Fleming	1968 - 1979 1994 - 1998	Professor of Law President of the University of Michigan Interm President of the University of Michigan
John G. Kester	1968 - 1969	Assistant Professor of Law
Matthew P. T. McCauley	1968 - 1969	Assistant Dean Law School
Richard B. Sobol	1968 - 1969	Associate Professor of Law
Donald H. Regan	1968 - 2023	Professor of Law & Philosophy
Vincent A. Blasi	1969 - 1982	Professor of Law
David L. Chambers III	1969 - 2003	Wade H. McCree, Jr, Collegiate Professor of Law
Bruce W. Frier	1969 - 2022	Professor of Classical Studies and Law
Harry T. Edwards	1970 - 1990	Professor of Law
James A. Martin	1970 - 1986	Professor of Law
Craig W. Christensen	1970 - 1971	Lecturer in Law
Daniel L. Rubinfeld	1972 - 1984	Professor of Economics Professor of Law
Edward H. Cooper	1972 - 2017	Professor of Law
Lee C. Bollinger	1973 - 1994 1996 - 2001	Professor of Law Dean of the Law School President of the University of Michigan
Robert A. Burt	1973 - 1976	Professor of Law, Psychiatry
E. Philip Soper	1973 - 2008	James V. Campbell Professor of Law
Peter K. Westen	1973 - 2008	Professor of Law Millard Professor of Law
Steven D. Pepe	1974 - 1983	Clinical Professor of Law
Gerald M. Rosberg	1974 - 1982	Professor of Law
Lawrence W Waggoner	1974 - 2011	Professor of Law
Dominique G. Carreau	1975 - 1976	Visiting Professor of Law
Thomas A. Green	1975 - 2009	John Philip Dawson Collegiate Professor of Law Professor of History
Sallyann Payton	1976 - 2012	William W. Cook Professor of Law Professor of Art & Design
Christina B. Whitman	1976 - 2020	Professor of Law & Women's Studies
William Burnham	1977 - 1980	Assistant Professor of Law
Edward A. Kirtley	1979	Assistant Professor of Law
Ellen M. Tickner	1980 - 1983	Adjunct Instructor in Law
Michael H. Bradley	1981 - 1995	Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration Professor of Finance, Law
T. Alexander Aleinikoff	1981 - 1997	Professor of Law
Wade H. McCree	1981 - 1987	Professor of Law Lewis M. Simes Professor of Law
Dennis E. Ross	1982 - 1988	Assistant Professor of Law
James Boyd White	1983 - 2008	Professor of English Language and Literature L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law
Ellen Gesmer	1983 - 1984	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Eric Stein	1983	Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law
Frederick F. Schauer	1983 - 1990	Professor of Law
Mark C. Van Putten	1983 - 1996	Assistant Professor of Law
James E. Krier	1983 - 2019	Professor of Law and Psychology
Paul D. Reingold	1983 - 2019	Clinical Professor of Law
Scott G. Bassett	1984 - 1987	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Paul E. Bennett	1985 - 1994	Clinical Professor of Law
Leon E. Irish	1985 - 1988	Professor of Law
Martin A. Geer	1985 - 1990	Adjunct Lecturer
Joseph H. H. Weiler	1985 - 1992	Professor of Law
William I. Miller	1985 - 2021	Professor of Law
Avery Katz	1986 - 1994	Professor of Law, Economics
Joel Seligman	1986 - 1995	Professor of Law
Bruno Simma	1986 - 1993	Professor of Law
Lisa E. D'Aunno	1986 - 1990	Clinical Assistant Professor Child Advocacy Clinic
Clark D. Cunningham	1987 - 1989	Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law
David J. Herring	1987 - 1988	Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law
Leo Katz	1987 - 1991	Assistant Professor of Law
Marie R. Deveney	1987 - 1993	Assistant Professor of Law
Jeffrey Sean Lehman	1987 - 2003	Professor of Law Professor of Public Policy Dean of Law School
Richard H. Pildes	1987 - 2001	Professor of Law Roy F. & Jean Humphrey Proffitt Research Professor of Law
A. W. Brian Simpson	1987 - 2011	Professor of Law Charles F. & Edith J. Clyne Professor of Law
Kent D. Syverud	1987 - 1997	Professor of Law
Samuel R. Gross	1987 - 2018	Professor of Law
Phoebe C. Ellsworth	1987 - 2018	Professor of Law and Psychology
Merritt B. Fox	1988 - 2003
Barbara H. Garavaglia	1988 - 2020	Librarian and Director Law Library Librarian Emerita
Julius L Chambers	1989 - 1992	Professor of Law
Nicholas J. Rine	1989 - 2018	Clinical Professor of Law
Theodore M. Shaw	1990 - 1997	Assistant Professor of Law
Heidi L. Feldman	1991 - 1998	Assistant Professor of Law
Larry B. Kramer	1991 - 1994	Professor of Law
Yvonne E. Mena Mayer	1991 - 1994	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Rochelle E. Lento	1992 - 2005	Clinical Professor of Law
Debra A. Livingston	1992 - 1994	Assistant Professor of Law
Deborah C. Malamud	1992 - 2003	Professor of Law James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law
Jose E. Alvarez	1993 - 1999	Professor of Law
Steven P. Croley	1993 - 2015	Professor of Law
Michael A. Heller	1994 - 2002	Professor of Law
Roderick M. Hills	1994 - 2006	Professor of Law
Julie Kunce Field	1995	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Peter Hammer	1995 - 2003	Assistant Professor of Law
Lance R. Jones	1995 - 1998	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Grace C. Tonner	1995 - 2008	Clinical Professor of Law
Eric A. Bilsky	1996 - 1999	Clinical Assistant Professor II of Law
Renee Birnbaum	1996 - 1999	Clinical Assistant Professor II of Law
Howard J. Bromberg	1996 - 2000	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Lorray S.C. Brown	1996 - 2000	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Larry J. Cohen	1996 - 1997	Clinical Assistant Professor II of Law
Thomas H. Seymour	1996 - 2012	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law Clinical Assistant Professor Emeritus
Philip M. Frost	1996 - 2015	Clinical Professor of Law
Ronald J. Mann	1997 - 2003	Professor of Law
Anne N. Schroth	1997 - 2013	Clinical Professor of Law
Juliet M. Brodie	1998 - 2003	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
James L. High	1998	Lecturer on Special Topics in Law
Jane S. Schacter	1998 - 2000	Professor of Law
James C. Hathaway	1998 - 2022	Professor of Law
Omri Ben-Shahar	1999 - 2008	Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law Professor of Economics
Melissa Breger	1999 - 2002	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Christine M. Chinkin	1999 - 2000	Bates Lea Visiting Professor of Law
Julie P. Close	1999 - 2001	Clinical Professor of Law
William Lewis Cooper	1999 - 2002	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Robert L. Howse	1999 - 2008	Professor of Law Alene & Allan F. Smith Professor of Law
Susanna L. Blumenthal	2000 - 2007	Assistant Professor of Law
Margaret A. Cernak	2000 - 2002	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Kenneth D. Chestek	2000 - 2003	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Teresa N. Gueyser	2000 - 2003	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Paul Holland	2001 - 2004	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Hanoch Dagan	2001 - 2004	Visiting Professor of Law
Laurence S. Connor	2002 - 2004	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Sacha Marie Coupet	2002 - 2004	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
David M. Hasen	2002 - 2005	Assistant Professor of Law
Molly S. Van Houweling	2002 - 2005	Assistant Professor of Law
Rachel E. Croskery-Roberts	2002 - 2011	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Diane Elizabeth Eisenberg	2003 - 2005	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Jill R. Horwitz	2003 - 2012	Louis & Mrytle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business & Law Professor of Law Professor of Natural Resources & Environment
Edward A Parson	2003 - 2012	Professor of Law Joseph L. Sax Collegiate Professor of Law Professor of Natural Resources & Environment
Thomas G. Rozinski	2003 - 2005	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Roshunda Kavette Price	2004 - 2008	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Scott J. Shapiro	2005 - 2008	Professor of Philosophy Professor of Law
Emily Bruce	2005 - 2007	Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Madeline Sara Kochen	2005 - 2013	Assistant Professor of Law Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies
Douglas Laycock	2006 - 2010	Professor of Law Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law
Margaret Jane Radin	2007 - 2015	Professor of Law
Susan P. Crawford	2008 - 2010	Professor of Law
Suellyn Scarnecchia	2008 - 2019	Clinical Professor of Law

School of Law

List of Professors

Joseph Hardcastle Vance

Alpheus Felch

James Valentine Campbell

Thomas McIntyre Cooley

Charles Irish Walker

Ashley Pond

Charles Artemas Kent

James Burrill Angell

William Palmer Wells

Henry Wade Rogers

Harry Burns Hutchins

Otto Kirchner

Jerome Cyril Knowlton

Levi Thomas Griffin

Bradley Martin Thompson

Marshall Davis Ewell

Elias Finley Johnson

Nathan Abbott

Melville Madison Bigelow

Henry Billings Brown

John Wayne Champlin

John Bertrand Clayberg

Edwin Forrest Conely

William Gardiner D. Hammon

Floyd R. Mechem

Alexis Caswell Angell

John William Dwyer

Thomas Ashford Bogle

Horace Lafayette Wilgus

Henry Harrison Swan

James Henry Brewster

Aaron Vance McAlvay

Victor Hugo Lane

John Romain Rood

Dallas Boudeman

Edwin C. Goddard

Robert Emmet Bunker

Harlow Palmer Davock

Edson Read Sunderland

Frank Lincoln Sage

Henry Moore Bates

Gustav Stein

Evans Holbrook

Joseph H. Drake

John Archibald Fairlie

Willis Gordon Stoner

Ralph W. Aigier

George Lewis Canfield

George Luther Clark

Victor Roy McLucas

Edgar Noble Durfee

Willard Titus Barbour

John Barker Waite

Grover Cleveland Grismore

Edwin Dewitt Dickinson

Hessel Edward Yntema

Edwin Blythe Stason

Burke Woods Shartel

Herbert F. Goodrich

Hobart Raphael Coffey

Paul A. Leidy

William Wirt Blume

John Philip Dawson

Marvin Lemmon Niehuss

Laylin K. James

Homer F. Carey

John E. Tracy

Lewis Mallaliu Simes

Paul Gerhardt Kauper

Russell Andrew Smith

Allan F. Smith

Albert Francis Neumann

George Ellis Palmer

Marcus Leo Plant

Kenneth A. Cox

L. Hart Wright

Frank Edward Cooper

Edmond F. Devine