Faculty & Student Programs
Founded in 1982, The Thomas M. Cooley Law Review is committed to the highest legal standards of legal publication.
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
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 News & Events
 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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