Detroit Mercy Law Review Celebrates 100 Years: Centennial Symposium
In celebration of the Detroit Mercy Law Review’s 100th year, this Symposium will showcase and discuss the past, present, and future legal issues facing the City of Detroit.
Detroit’s Deputy Mayor, Isaiah “Ike” McKinnon, will give the keynote address.
The Honorable Gerald E. Rosen, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, will discuss his service as the chief mediator in negotiations between the City of Detroit and its creditors, and how the grand bargain they reached helped resolve Detroit’s recent bankruptcy. Detroit Mercy Law alumnus Eugene A. Gargaro, Jr. (’67) will join Judge Rosen in this discussion.
Additional speakers and topics include: Roy Finkenbine (1863 Riot), Tom Stanton (The Black Legion), and Greg Sumner (Race Relations and WWII) of University of Detroit MercyUniversity of Kentucky College of Law (DIA and Bankruptcy); Shaakirrah Sanders of University of Idaho College of Law (Impact of “Ag-Gag” Legislation on the Urban Farmer); Timothy Dugdale of Atomic Quill Media in Windsor, Ontario (Pioneer Visas); and Andrea Boyack of Washburn University School of Law (The New American Dream in Detroit).
Dugdae, an occasional contributor to the ImmigrationProf blog, I will a paper, Snyder’s Pioneer Visas. The paper discusses Michigan Governor Rick Snyder‘s proposal to secure work visas for foreign “pioneers” anxious to live in Detroit and launch a business.
KJ