Sep

30

Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson Greets Chilean Delegation

Posted by: Lisa J. Laplante | September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Yesterday was another full day for the Chilean students visiting from Hurtado University Law School.  In the morning, alumn Reyna Morales gave a talk in Spanish on criminal procedure and law.  Afterwards,  MULS Professors Tom Hammer, Michael O’Hear, Chad Oldfather, Dan Blinka, and Greg O’Meara, S.J., participated in a Q&A panel.  The Chilean students came [...]

Sep

29

Brown v. Board of Education as a Disputing Process Lesson

Posted by: Andrea K. Schneider | September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Last week, we were privileged to hear Professor Michael Klarman speak on “Why Brown v. Board of Education Was a Hard Case.”  This was one of the most enjoyable and interesting talks I have heard in a long time.  I highly recommend it, and you can click here to get the webcast.  My guess is that [...]

Sep

29

!Escuchan bien! Is that Spanish you hear in MULS hallways?

Posted by: Lisa J. Laplante | September 29, 2009 | 3 Comments

This week MULS is hosting a delegation of students and faculty from Alberto Hurtado University School of Law, Chile’s only Jesuit law school located in the capital of Santiago (Five students will participate in a week-long program, conducted in Spanish, to gain a first-hand look at the U.S. legal system as their country implements significant [...]

Sep

27

Seventh Circuit Criminal Case of the Week: The Limits of Constructive Possession

Posted by: Michael M. O'Hear | September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The Seventh Circuit had only one new opinion in a criminal case last week, but, fortunately, it was an interesting one.  Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), it is a federal crime for felons to possess a firearm.  Proof of the crime is easy enough when a felon is found actually carrying a gun.  But what if the gun [...]

Sep

24

Go to Prison

Posted by: Andrea K. Schneider | September 24, 2009 | 2 Comments

Last week I had the honor of joining my colleague Janine Geske on her regular journey to Green Bay Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison reminiscent of the prison in Shawshank Redemption.  The prisoners at Green Bay run the gamut of serious crimes from sexual assault to drug distribution to armed robbery to homicide.  Janine runs [...]

Sep

24

Article Compares Research Results Using Westlaw and Lexis

Posted by: Jessica E. Slavin | September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment

This morning the Law Librarian Blog reports on a study that makes concrete the different research results achieved through the Westlaw and Lexis research systems.  The author of the paper, Susan Nevelow Mart, a reference librarian at UC-Hastings, provides this abstract on SSRN:

Sep

24

The Starbucks at the Milwaukee Hilton: Unit Clarification Story

Posted by: Paul M. Secunda | September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment

It is so rare that I actually get to write a post about traditional labor law that I usually jump at the chance.   Especially when the labor law concerns a local Milwaukee institution that most of us are aware of.
What you might not have know is that Hilton food and beverage employees are represented by [...]

Sep

24

It’s National Punctuation Day

Posted by: Lisa Mazzie | September 24, 2009 | 13 Comments

Today is National Punctuation Day.  Yes, there really is such a day (it’s the sixth annual one, actually), and grammar geeks like me are celebrating.  There’s even a national baking contest where contestants are supposed to bake something in the shape of a punctuation mark.
Lynne Truss, the author of the best-selling book Eats, Shoots & Leaves:  [...]

Sep

24

Should Wisconsin Stop Subsidizing Law School Tuition?

Posted by: J. Gordon Hylton | September 24, 2009 | 3 Comments

In a comment on an earlier post, Daniel Suhr suggested that in this time of economic downturn the state of Wisconsin should consider eliminating the tuition subsidy that it provides for students at the University of Wisconsin Law School. As he points out, virtually of all the graduates of the law school begin their careers [...]

Sep

23

SAT Scores and Affirmative Action

Posted by: J. Gordon Hylton | September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment

In her majority opinion in the landmark civil rights case Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306, 342-44 (2003), Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote:
Enshrining a permanent justification for racial preferences would offend this fundamental equal protection principle. We see no reason to exempt race-conscious admissions programs from the requirement that all governmental use of race must [...]

Sep

23

CST and Health Care

Posted by: Richard M. Esenberg | September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I’ve been guesting at PrawfsBlawg this month and, inspired by a paper that I am in the process of completing about subsidiarity and the response to the economic crisis, have posted about the importance of encouraging decentralization in decision making, including in health care reform.
Writing at Mirror of Justice, Rob Vischer responds, arguing that health care [...]

Sep

21

A Misleading Chart

Posted by: J. Gordon Hylton | September 21, 2009 | 3 Comments

   
A September 14 article in the Wisconsin Law Journal (noted elsewhere on this website) included the chart to the left.  Although the story was innocuous enough, reporting that applications to law school in Wisconsin went up last year in spite of the economic downturn, the accompanying chart gives the impression that applications to the University [...]

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