Just a question if someone has a minute. (off topic)

[Douglas Laycock]

  The Am Jur award goes to the highest grade (or final exam score) in
each class at participating schools.  It is well known among law
students at those schools. 

  Quoting Susan Freiman <susan.freiman.law.65 at aya.yale.edu>:

> Yes, if the American Jurisprudence Awards are the corporate
recognition
> given by Lawyer's [not Lawyers'?] Coop Pub and the Bancroft-Whitney
Co..
>
> Susan
>
> James Manning wrote:
>> I'm off topic and I'll be brief. Any response is appreciated.
>>
>>   I am doing some research on a political candidate who touts
having
>> won several American Jurisprudence Awards. This doesn't google
very
>> well. I found the following at USC:
>>
>> "The Lawyer's Cooperative Publishing Company and the
Bancroft-Whitney
>> Company offer their corporate recognition to students who receive
the
>> highest grade in particular classes. Rather than participate in
this
>> commercial marketing enterprise, USC allows individual students
who
>> receive the highest grade in a particular course to indicate that
>> information on their resumes."
>>
>> MY QUESTION:
>>
>> Am I reading correctly that this award goes to the top student in
a
>> particular subject at his respective school? Is this something
like
>> Who's Who for undergraduates?
>>
>> Not knocking this if you have won it. I acknowledge that the top
grade
>> in any class at any law school is an achievement.
>>
>> Thanks
>> James Manning
>> dumb old undergraduate at Murray State University
>>
>>
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Douglas Laycock
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University of Michigan Law School
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