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Fletcher on Laughing Whitefish: A Tale of Justice and Anishinaabe Custom

1 Oct 2008, 7:20 am

Here's the abstract: Laughing Whitefish, a novel by Robert Traver, the pen name of former Michigan Supreme Court Justice John Voelker, is the fictionalized story of a case that reached the Michigan Supreme Court three times, culminating in Kobogum v [read post]

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"Final Judgment Will Be Based on the Finished Picture"

11 Apr 2014, 5:30 am by J. Michael Goodson Law Library

Voelker (who published his 1958 novel under the nom de plume Robert Traver) also served as legal adviser to the film, and drafted a two-page memorandum to the censorship board, arguing against the suggested terminology changes. [read post]

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ABA: “Anatomy of a Murder” Part of Top 25 Legal Novels of All Time

2 Aug 2013, 6:50 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Voelker, a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. [read post]

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A Look at Native American Law Through a Michigan Novelist's Eyes

7 Oct 2008, 10:23 pm

Download the paper from SSRN here.John Voelker (Robert Traver) is also the author of Anatomy of a Murder, filmed with Jimmy Stewart, Ben Gazzara, and Lee Remick. [read post]

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Call for Papers: Writing the Midwest

6 Dec 2007, 1:37 pm

Call for papers for panels on law and literature in the Midwest at "Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars, Creative Writers, and Filmmakers," the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, May 8-10, 2008 at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.Papers focusing on the novels of Robert Traver (John Voelker) and Scott Turow are especially welcome, but any studies of law and literature on Midwestern authors or works with… [read post]

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This Week in Civil Liberties (07/26/2013)

26 Jul 2013, 12:14 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU

Instead, Robert Voelker was astonished to hear them delivered by an elected official as part of the opening invocation at a meeting of his County Board of Commissioners in Rowan County, North Carolina. [read post]

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So long, and thanks for all the fish

30 Sep 2009, 4:58 pm

The second is Robert Traver (pen name of John D. [read post]

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A Federal Appeals Court Just Shot Down Government Prayer on Steroids in North Carolina

19 Jul 2017, 2:30 pm

The plaintiffs, Robert Voelker, Nancy Lund, and Liesa Montag-Siegel outside of the Lewis F. [read post]

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Literature and Law

24 Apr 2014, 5:31 am by Donna Sokol

Robert Traver. [read post]