Sep

22

What I Wish I Had Known When I Started Law School, Part VI

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

Classes were cancelled on my first day of law school at Tulane due to the feared imminent arrival of Hurricane Andrew.  I had fled New Orleans the previous day in response to a plea from the city’s mayor, having seen the destruction that Andrew left behind in South Florida.  Since I hail from Wisconsin, land [...]

Sep

21

Optimism Amid the Challenges: Gregory Thornton’s Message to Aldermen

Posted by: | September 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment

“Milwaukee stands at the threshold of doing something very great,” Gregory Thornton, the new superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools, told the Milwaukee Common Council on Tuesday. It’s nice to hear that kind of optimism when it comes to educational success for Milwaukee’s children. But everyone knows how much needs to change for that to become [...]

Sep

21

Another Little-Known Fact: Ralph Metcalfe Was a Marquette Law Student (at Least for a While)

Posted by: | September 21, 2010 | 4 Comments

Ralph Metcalfe (1910-1978) is one of the best-known of all of Marquette University’s African-American alumni.  A member of the undergraduate class of 1936, Metcalfe achieved great prominence as an athlete at Marquette and as an educator and a public servant in his subsequent life.  In the 1930’s, Metcalfe and Jesse Owens computed neck and neck [...]

Sep

21

What I Wish I Had Known When I Started Law School, Part V

Posted by: | September 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment

I arrived late to law school. Not late in the figurative sense, as in “late in life,” but literally late. I had skipped orientation in favor of squeezing out the very last vestiges of swelter that passed for summer in Washington, D.C. I was overconfident — and I was late. These two particular traits plagued [...]

Sep

20

Boden Visitor A Reminder of Marquette’s Connection to Charles Evans Hughes

Posted by: | September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment

This year’s Boden Lecturer, Prof. Thomas Merrill, is the Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law at the Columbia University Law School.   In addition to providing insight in the fascinating Wisconsin case of Melms v. Pabst, his presence also reminds us of an important connection between the Marquette Law Review and Charles Evans Hughes.

Sep

19

Will Financial Regulation Make Us Safe? (Part III)

Posted by: | September 19, 2010 | 1 Comment

This is the third post on the topic.  As promised, I will attempt to address whether the currently proposed regulatory overhaul can help mitigate against the risk of excessive risk-taking and speculative behavior.  That is, can the prevention of “too big to fail,” increased capital ratios among large banks, and the 2,315-pages of financial regulatory [...]

Sep

19

How Did This Milwaukee House Change Property Law?

Posted by: | September 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Come to the Boden Lecture and find out. Indeed, I encourage the Law School and the broader legal community to turn out in force for the lecture this coming Thursday, Sept. 23, at 4:30 p.m. in the Appellate Courtroom of Eckstein Hall. It will be delivered by Thomas W. Merrill, an especially distinguished legal academic [...]

Sep

18

Best of the Blogs: Trivial Pursuits Edition

Posted by: | September 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment

This week’s review of blog postings and news stories of note focuses on subjects that might seem trivial, but that interest me nonetheless. 1. Comic Books My brother and I had an extensive collection of comic books when we were growing up.  We even owned two (two!) mint editions of Conan the Barbarian number 1.  [...]

Sep

17

Special Committee on Judicial Discipline and Recusal

Posted by: | September 17, 2010 | 1 Comment

One important, but perhaps underreported, development in our legal world is the work of the Legislature’s Special Committee on Judicial Discipline and Recusal. The committee grew out of a request from Justice Patrick Crooks for the legislature to consider amendments to statutes governing judicial discipline and disqualification. Both issues have been hot button items in the Wisconsin [...]

Sep

15

What I Wish I Had Known When I Started Law School, Part IV

Posted by: | September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment

I remember the first moments of law school as if they happened yesterday. Gerry Frug walked into Contracts, looked out us, and said nine words “Mister Golden, state the case in Hawkins v. McGee.” One hundred thirty nine 1Ls went weak with relief. Poor Mr. Golden began to read from the case. “Defendant’s motions for a [...]

Sep

15

Marquette Law Review Symposium – Promoting Employee Voice in the New American Economy

Posted by: | September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment

The Marquette Law Review Symposium this year will be on a labor and employment law topic.  I had the pleasure of organizing the symposium as part of Marquette’s Labor and Employment Law Program.   The event will be on Friday, October 1, 2010 from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the beautiful new Eckstein Hall Law [...]

Sep

14

More on Practice and Preaching, Part I

Posted by: | September 14, 2010 | 2 Comments

In my earlier post on the long running debate about the proper emphasis of legal education, I wanted to suggest that there is more of a symbiotic relationship between practice and preaching. Focusing on one part of the issue, Bruce Boyden wonders what relevant experiences an eight year practitioner might have not yet hand. Bruce [...]

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