Eleven Wayne Law alumni were admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in October.
Dean Richard A. Bierschbach appeared in court to move for the admission of the group.

Eleven Wayne Law alumni were admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in October.
Dean Richard A. Bierschbach appeared in court to move for the admission of the group.

Wayne Law ranks No. 22 nationally for law schools with the lowest debt-to-starting-income ratio according to Spivey Consulting’s analysis of data compiled by Law School Transparency. The National Jurist and preLaw magazines ranked Wayne Law a Best Value Law School for the last six years.

The U.S. News & World Report rankings for law schools are based on a weighted average of 12 measures of quality, with peer assessment and placement success receiving the most weight. Other areas of analysis include median LSAT scores and incoming 1L undergraduate cumulative GPAs, acceptance rate, and reputational assessments by practicing lawyers and judges. Specialty rankings are determined based on peer assessments by law school faculty who teach in each area.

The Levin Center at Wayne Law commissioned a study of each state legislature’s capacity to conduct oversight of its executive branch and the extent to which each state uses that capacity. The study was conducted by the Center for Urban Studies at Wayne State University.

The analysis focuses on six dimensions of legislative oversight: analytic bureaucracies, the appropriations process, committees, the administrative rules process, advice and consent, and monitoring of state contracts.

Using these dimensions, an overall rating was created of the capacity for and the use of oversight in each state. Below is a snapshot of the findings.

This is the first comprehensive study of all 50 states’ oversight authority and how they use that authority.

Dana Nessel ’94 is reflecting on human rights — which, under her leadership, is at the very heart of the Michigan attorney general’s office.

“Irrespective of your race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, income, geography, we are all deserving of the same rights and protections,” she continues. “It’s particularly important that the Michigan attorney general be an advocate for all people.”

“I hope that it was something that was inspiring to people who believed that they would never be considered equal in the eyes of their peers or by society as a whole,” she says of the election. “But more than anything, I think it shows that people care more about what your message is and what things you commit to doing in the office for which you’re running than the gender of the person you’re married to.”

With a bachelor of arts in political science he earned from Wayne State in 2004, Binno naturally found himself preparing for the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). But he grew increasingly frustrated with his results.

“No matter how long I studied,” says Binno, “I couldn’t pass the logic games section.”

That section — also referred to as the analytical reasoning portion of the LSAT, which is one of four sections used in computing the test score — is comprised of word problems that, in most cases, are solved only after the test taker creates a picture.

• Marie Carp – Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Sen. Gary Peters, D-MI)
• Nicholas Jakymowych – House Energy and Commerce Committee/Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee (Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-KY)
• Katelyn Maddock – House Committee on Oversight and Reform/Environment Subcommittee (Rep. Harley Rouda, D-CA)
• Steven Nelson – Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (Sen. Tom Carper, D-DE)
• Jacob Stropes – Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Sen. Gary Peters, D-MI)

But that didn’t stop the two Wayne Law students from teaming up to compete in the sixth annual Professional Football Negotiation Competition, held Jan. 23-25 at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. The competition is a simulated contract negotiation using real-life scenarios and actual upcoming NFL free agents to sharpen participants’ negotiation skills, as well as their knowledge of actual NFL contracts.

A total of 48 teams representing 39 schools from across the United States and Canada took part in the 2020 competition. After pulling an all-nighter to prepare, Eubanks and Piner advanced to the semifinals, ultimately finishing among the top four teams.

“Although we did not win, we were provided great feedback and ways to improve from A.J. Stevens [coordinator of football administration] of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,” Piner said. “The competition was also a great bonding experience for us. We became a team, in every sense of the word.”

Paul, who studies antitrust and labor regulation, joins six other law professors and researchers well-known for their work in antitrust, communications law, labor and employment law, and intellectual property law; three prominent economists from Spain, the United States and the United Kingdom; and two leading public advocates.

According to its website, Open Markets Institute uses research and journalism to expose the dangers of monopolization; identifies changes in policy and law to address them; and educates policymakers, academics, movement groups and other influential stakeholders to establish open, competitive markets that support a strong, just and inclusive democracy.

Last fall, Paul testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on the subject of Antitrust and Economic Opportunity: Competition in Labor Markets.