Jun

30

Procedural Justice and International Dispute Resolution

Posted by: | June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment

As alternative dispute resolution continues to supplant trials within the United States, there has been a marked movement internationally towards greater reliance on formal adjudication to resolve disputes, especially in the areas of human rights violations and trade disputes.   Although the domestic and international trends seem in opposition to one another, Andrea Kupfer Schneider argues in a [...]

Jun

30

Five Students Weigh in on the Daunting Challenge That Is 1L

Posted by: | June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment

If my Academic Support Program (ASP) orientation meeting was any indicator, new law students have a lot of questions, especially for rising second and third year law students, about what the first year will be like and what they can do to make it successful. This summer, I have had the opportunity to work alongside [...]

Jun

30

Memories of Sensenbrenner Hall (Part 4)

Posted by: | June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment

In 1973 and at the age of 24, I walked into Sensenbrenner Hall for the first time, hoping I could transfer from Chicago Kent to Marquette. My husband had been offered a teaching position at Menomonee Falls East High School and I was happy to return to my home state. I met with Dean Bob [...]

Jun

30

Marriage Amendment Was Validly Enacted

Posted by: | June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has held that the amendment to Wisconsin’s constitution defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting the recognition of any substantially similar status (Art XIII, sec. 13) was properly enacted. Justice Michael Gableman wrote for a unanimous Court. The question before the Court was whether the [...]

Jun

28

Trans-formation

Posted by: | June 28, 2010 | 1 Comment

A year ago, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation naming June “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Pride Month.”  The proclamation effectively incorporated the transgendered community into President Bill Clinton’s 2000 proclamation, which named June “Gay & Lesbian Pride Month.”  In honor of the transgendered community, their legal rights, and the month of June, it seems [...]

Jun

27

Memories of Sensenbrenner Hall (Part 3)

Posted by: | June 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment

As the Law School community prepares to leave our current home and move into a new facility, it seems appropriate to pause and recall some of the memorable events that have taken place in Sensenbrenner Hall over the years.  Professor Michael McChrystal shares the third of what we hope will be many recollections of classroom surprises, distinguished [...]

Jun

27

Learning from Sports Law

Posted by: | June 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Some problems that seem to demand coordinated international solutions, like global warming and biopiracy, languish for years without effective responses by the international community.  Yet, when the international community set out to address the problem of doping in sports in the late 1990′s, a robust international regulatory system was set up in relatively short order.  Does [...]

Jun

27

Marquette Takes a Different Path on Grades

Posted by: | June 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment

At the beginning of the 2009-2010 academic year, the Marquette University Law School adopted a new grading system. A more conventional set of “plus” and “minus” grades replaced the previous A, AB, B, BC, C, D, F system that appears to be unique to Marquette University. Also, for larger classes, the Law School adopted a [...]

Jun

25

Super Mujer: Justice Sonia Sotomayor as a Role Model

Posted by: | June 25, 2010 | 23 Comments

When President Barack Obama nominated Justice Sonia Sotomayor a year ago, the debate surrounding her confirmation included a wide array of scrutiny.  Some of the items of discussion were more relevant and more substantive than others. As the US Supreme Court’s first Latina, third female, and first Type 1 Diabetic to serve on the bench, [...]

Jun

25

Remembering Marquette Law School’s First Female Students

Posted by: | June 25, 2010 | 2 Comments

During the past academic year Marquette University staged a year-long celebration marking the 100th anniversary of president James J. McCabe’s 1909 decision to open the doors of the university to women.  In doing so, Marquette became the first Roman Catholic university in the world to admit women to its regular undergraduate program. However, when the [...]

Jun

24

Memories of Sensenbrenner Hall (Part 2)

Posted by: | June 24, 2010 | 1 Comment

I first walked into Sensenbrenner Hall on August 1st, 1966.  I was a newly appointed Associate Professor and the Director of the MU Law School Institute on Poverty and the Law.  The federal Office of Economic Opportunity had smiled on the MU Law School with a grant to the tune of about $250,000.  Alas, even [...]

Jun

23

Judges Take the Stand

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

Chad Oldfather has a new paper on SSRN reviewing William Domnarski’s book Federal Judges Revealed.  Not exactly the lurid exposé suggested by the title, Domnarski’s book synthesizes the insights he gained from reviewing more than 100 oral histories given by federal judges to different interviewers over a period of many years.  As Chad notes, oral histories have [...]

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