Every year the Wayne Law Review publishes an Annual Survey of Michigan Law. The Survey period details published opinions of the Michigan Supreme Court and the Michigan Court of Appeals for the preceding judicial calendar year. Michigan practitioners, Michigan law school professors, and Michigan judicial clerks, each of which has substantial experience in a particular area of the law, craft the articles.

The Annual Survey of Michigan Law serves two functions. First, it categorizes all opinions published within the year into specific areas of the law. It also provides practitioners and scholars with an analysis of that area of law. The analysis provides attorneys with some prospective about how to law in developing and changing in the particular area. While publications like the Michigan Lawyer’s Weekly and the Michigan Bar Journal provide synopses of Michigan cases as courts decide, the Annual Survey of Michigan Law edition aims to provide a unique compilation of all the significant cases decided during the previous year in particular area, coupled with an analysis of how that area of law is evolving

The Annual Survey of Michigan Law includes articles on the following twenty-three areas of law:

 

Administrative Law	Alternative Dispute Resolution	Business Associations
Civil Procedure	Commercial Transactions	Conflict of Laws
Constitutional Law	Criminal Law	Criminal Procedure
Employment and Labor Law	Environmental Law	Evidence
Family Law	Government Law	Health Law
Insurance Law	Professional Responsibility	Real Property
Taxation	Torts	Trusts and Estates
	Worker’s Disability	Compensation

 

The Survey also includes a Lead Article, which analyzes Michigan decision-making policies or discusses a significant development in a very focused area of Michigan Case Law.

The Annual Survey is the summer publication of the Wayne Law Review. For more information, please contact survey_editor@wayne.edu.