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Congratulations to the 2011 Jenkins Competition Participants

Posted by: | December 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Congratulations to the participants in the 2011 Jenkins Honors Moot Court Competition: Grant Anderson Susan Barranco Jaclyn Bielefeld Stephane Fabus Matthew Hall Kyle Mayo Alexandria McCool Garrett Nix Robert Olmr Dana Pierson Anthony Prekop Meghan Refinski Samantha Rueden Sabrina Stephenson David Streese Nicholas Zepnick The Jenkins Honors Moot Court Competition is a merit based invitation-only [...]

Dec

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Does the Constitution Protect the OWI Suspect?

Posted by: | December 30, 2010 | 2 Comments

No. I am willing to argue that no other crime has caused lawmakers and courts of this land to bend the Constitution more than drunk driving. The traditional ideals we have in criminal law of a defendant’s Constitutional protections, such as your right to be free from illegal stop, search, or seizure; your right to [...]

Dec

29

Not Invited Back

Posted by: | December 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment

If you ventured into Barnes & Noble this holiday season, you may have been asked to buy a book to be donated to foster children.   The available options are displayed on shelves behind the cashiers: mostly an array of classic picture books for small children, with a smattering of selections for older grade-schoolers.  I think [...]

Dec

28

Encouraging the Working Poor to Save for Retirement

Posted by: | December 28, 2010 | 1 Comment

Are you saving enough for retirement?  It can be a struggle even for those of us who do not live paycheck to paycheck.  For the working poor, the challenge must seem truly daunting.  Yet, Social Security payouts average only a little more than the poverty line, and benefits seem far more likely to decline than to increase in the [...]

Dec

27

Did Rock Legend Bob Dylan Steal His Name From Packer’s Legend Bob Dillon?

Posted by: | December 27, 2010 | 6 Comments

It is commonly known that Bob Dylan was originally Robert Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minnesota.  The legendary singer left Hibbing in 1959 to enroll at the University of Minnesota, and then less than a year later moved to New York where he achieved fame and fortune as a folk and later rock and roll performer.  Sometime [...]

Dec

23

Do We Believe in No-Fault Divorce?

Posted by: | December 23, 2010 | 3 Comments

The Style section of the Sunday New York Times usually has two pages of thumbnail wedding announcements (complete with tiny, charming photos), and one larger box entitled “Vows,” in which one lucky couple’s union is featured.  This past Sunday, the Vows column created a firestorm.   The featured couple – Carol Anne Riddell and John [...]

Dec

23

Best of the Blogs: The Ernst & Young Case

Posted by: | December 23, 2010 | 1 Comment

It’s not really my area, but I’ve been especially interested this week in reading about the new civil fraud case brought by the State of New York against Ernst & Young.  The case arises from E&Y’s auditing work for Lehman Brothers, an early and important casualty of the financial crisis.  In this post, Matt Taibbi [...]

Dec

22

Neighborhood Councils as Antidote to Minority Political Marginalization?

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

In many of America’s major cities, a sense of hopelessness and cynicism discourages political participation, especially by members of minority groups.  Disengagement, in turn, undermines accountability and facilitates corruption, which exacerbates public cynicism.  How can the vicious circle be broken?  In a new paper on SSRN, Matt Parlow argues that neighborhood councils — “new substructures of local government that [...]

Dec

22

On Opportunity

Posted by: | December 22, 2010 | 1 Comment

A good friend of mine once told me that hitting the ball into the sand trap on the golf course should be looked at in one way, and one way only: an opportunity — an opportunity to get better at something that you may not excel at, but nonetheless must be able to master to [...]

Dec

21

How Women Lawyers Avoid the Likeability v. Competence Trap

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

In a series of recent papers, Andrea Schneider has explored the “likeabilty v. competence” trap that seems to confront many women in leadership and professional positions.  In her view, the trap is typefied by media coverage of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin in the 2008 election.  Clinton was commonly portrayed as competent, but unlikeable, and Palin the [...]

Dec

20

New Law Review Comments Cover Social Networking, Wind Farms, Deceptive Trade Practices Act, Open Records Law, and Purchase Money Security Interests

Posted by: | December 20, 2010 | 1 Comment

Now available online, the recently published student comments in the Marquette Law Review cover a wide range of topics.  They include Nathan Petrashek’s comment on the impact of online social networking on Fourth Amendment privacy.  Since social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace attract both criminals (e.g., sexual predators, identity thieves) and the police who investigate [...]

Dec

20

Milwaukee’s Residential Segregation – It’s Not Simply Black and White

Posted by: | December 20, 2010 | 3 Comments

The Milwaukee metropolitan area is taking what seems to be its annual beating in the media because of its racially segregated housing patterns.  According to a new report from the Brookings Institution based on 2005-09 census data, the City of Milwaukee and the surrounding area including Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha Counties is virtually tied [...]

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