Michigan Law and Law & Order (TV)
Flipping through TV channels, I saw a University of Michigan Law degree. It's on the office wall of the lead prosecutor of the new Law & Order.
Someone on the show—producer, writer, set designer—might be a Michigan fan.
OR because the character mentions his father was a cop, they want to reinforce a less than elite background* by showing a high quality degree but not a fancy one.
* Sez this ex-MP whose dad was a highway patrolman.
If my kid got a Michigan law degree, I'd call it fancy every day.
Oops, I fretted that my comments might offend cops, but maybe I had it backwards, inadvertently offending UM Law grads—who of course earned a fancy and elite and impressive degree.
I know how impressive it is personally. My UM roommate attended UM Law, and I might have done the same except for my impulse not to repeat myself. (And maybe for the getting-accepted part.)
What I meant to suggest is that the Law & Order folks intended to suggest the prosecutor Jack McCoy was an up-by-his-bootstraps kind of guy with a fancy degree, and not someone who looked down on us ordinary folks.
Oh, great. Now I've offended anyone with an Ivy League degree.
Carry on. We’re good with it.
I'm slightly biased but a Michigan law degree is pretty goddamned fancy.
Yes, because the Michigan Law School is pretty much the University of Phoenix of law schools.
Sensitive guy, eh? Get your knickers in a knot pretty often, I suspect. Your pearls worn down, probably re-threaded, from all the clutching? Poor guy... Must be hell going through life with no sense of humor.
Sez this ex-MP
Member of Parliament?
He was Dr. Funkenstein but he had to go back to the Mothership
Nope.
(NSFW)
FTR, I do not condone this track. This was a rapper that I loved giving a rapper that I hated a solid minute smack-dab in the middle of his album to just . . . ramble! WHY, CUBE???
Blue Canadian Vet?
Jes' call me Yer Lordship.
Jack McCoy is a UM Law grad.
Meanwhile, Sam Waterston is not but I wish to be as cool as he is when I am his age... or even now!
Kristen Bell (Michigan native) wore this shirt on the show The Good Place
I would rather she take it off! 😎
/I'll show myself out now
There are a lot of Michigan references throughout The Good Place. Michael Schur (also wrote The Office, Parks & Rec, etc) was born in Ann Arbor and his father went to Michigan as well as Kristen Bell being from there.
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-good-place-nerdy-season-1-details-you-might-have-missed/
There's maize and blue on all kinds of clothing throughout the show as well. Like the multi-use chevron-striped suits that are supposed to symbolize the Good Place itself.
Judging by the ornate gothic typeface on both my Michigan and fancy school degrees, I assure you they are equally fancy
Amen, Brother Buddha.
Law diploma is smaller than my undergrad one. Smaller + more expensive = fancy.
I would agree not “fancy”, but elite and public. I like that combo!
Maybe fancy from a professional credential standpoint but not from a snobby-blue-blazer-country-club-I-have-three-houses standpoint.
THAT is what I meant. Thank you, Old 78 & 81.
We know exactly what you meant. However, the opportunity to give you a hard time is simply too irresistible.
Now have yourself a fancy Father's Day.
Ty Law
It was always elite, and it's a lot fancier now than when I was attending. By fancier, I mean expensive. If I recall correctly, tuition was around $1,200/year, and room and board (3 meals/day, 7 days/week) at the Lawyers Club was $1,200 for a triple, $1,400 for a double and $1,600 for a single. The single I had 3L was ground floor, inside the Law Quad, with a bay window and wood burning fireplace. I'm pretty sure that unless I had a full-ride scholarship like I did back then, I would not have been able to afford law school today. Law school is not nearly as good of an investment today as it was back before electricity.
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