Jan

25

English-Only Rule Comes to a Yale-Area Bookstore

Posted by: | January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment

From the New York Times: A popular bookstore and cafe near Yale University wants its many Hispanic employees to speak only English around customers, sparking controversy in immigrant-friendly New Haven, where students fight for immigrant rights. Atticus Bookstore and Cafe recently issued a policy stating that English should be the only language spoken on the [...]

Jan

25

New Law Review Website Debuts

Posted by: | January 25, 2010 | 3 Comments

The Marquette Law Review today launches its cutting-edge new website: http://law.marquette.edu/lawreview. Among other new features, the website includes the entire archive of the Law Review stretching back to 1916. With full-text searchability, the new archive represents a leap forward in the accessibility of scholarship published in the Law Review. (For those interested in the preoccupations [...]

Jan

24

A Snapshot of the Marquette Law School in 1967

Posted by: | January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Barron’s Educational Series, a leading publisher of college guides, published its first “Guide to Law Schools” in 1967.  Its profile of Marquette, one of the then 133 ABA accredited law schools, provides a picture of a law school that differs from its modern counterpart in a number of ways.  The information below was provided to [...]

Jan

24

Obama and the Just War Doctrine

Posted by: | January 24, 2010 | 2 Comments

When President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last October, many conservatives feared that the Nobel Committee had set a trap for the young President.  At the time, Obama was debating whether to increase troop levels in Afghanistan.  The thinking was that no leader could accept an award on the basis of bringing [...]

Jan

23

Civil Procedure Fun for the Weekend

Posted by: | January 23, 2010 | 4 Comments

I like to begin the first day of Civil Procedure with a review of a civil action and I like to start each class with a brief recap of the last one. This year – for my review of my review - I found a musical recap – apparently made by students at that law school [...]

Jan

23

Early Wisconsin Account of Spread of “Our National Game” Westward

Posted by: | January 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment

The exchange below occurred on the listserv of the Nineteenth Century Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research. Inspired by sources from Milwaukee, it explores the reasons for the dramatic interest in baseball in the post Civil War era which quickly led to the creation of the modern professional team sport industry. 

Jan

22

Seventh Circuit Clarifies Application of Fourth Amendment to Searches of Computer Hard Drives

Posted by: | January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment

While working as a life guard instructor, Matthew Mann covertly installed a video camera in a locker room in order to take footage of women changing their clothes.  After the camera was discovered and turned over to the authorities, police executed a search warrant at Mann’s home for “video tapes, CD’s or other digital media, [...]

Jan

22

Giant of the Law Received His Legal Training at Marquette

Posted by: | January 22, 2010 | 2 Comments

By the time he enrolled in Marquette Law School in 1942, Clifford Thompson had already lived a remarkable life. Reputedly 8 feet, 7 inches tall, Thompson had become internationally famous as a circus performer and Hollywood actor, but he had also spent much of his life as a dairy farmer and a travelling spokesman for [...]

Jan

22

The Puzzling Case of Summer Abroad Programs

Posted by: | January 22, 2010 | 1 Comment

Once every decade or so, the ABA’s annual meeting is set in London. It appears to be a popular decision, and why not? It allows a lawyer to fly to Europe and deduct the cost as a business expense, making the vacation that surrounds the meeting just a little bit cheaper (and in a weak [...]

Jan

21

Has The Supreme Court Declared Victory for the Moles?

Posted by: | January 21, 2010 | 4 Comments

In a recent piece in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, I say – as has at least one other commentator -  that  campaign finance reform is like a never ending game of Whack-A-Mole. Hit one and another one pops up. Stop money here and it flows over there. On the day that the United States Supreme [...]

Jan

21

Campaign Finance Revolution

Posted by: | January 21, 2010 | 1 Comment

Yesterday, I told my students in Election Law that longstanding assumptions about campaign finance regulation might be turned upside down today. That appears to have happened. In a special session, the United States Supreme Court just issued its decision in Citizens United v. FEC, and it has apparently overruled prior cases upholding the use of [...]

Jan

20

Marriage Economics

Posted by: | January 20, 2010 | 5 Comments

Yesterday’s New York Times reports that there has been something of a reversal of marriage fortunes between men and women.  According to a recent analysis of census data by the Pew Research Center, “Men are increasingly likely to marry wives with more education and income than they have, and the reverse is true for women.”  [...]

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