Complex sentence: The law school is named in honor of Thomas McIntyre Cooley, a prominent nineteenth-century jurist, justice, and later chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, former dean of the University of Michigan Law School, and visiting faculty at the Johns Hopkins University.
Split into simpler sentences: The law school is named in honor of Thomas McIntyre Cooley, who was a prominent nineteenth-century jurist, justice, and later the Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Cooley was also a former dean of the University of Michigan Law School and visiting faculty at Johns Hopkins University.