Apr

13

Israel Reflections–Negotiation Aikido Israeli-Style

Posted by: | April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment

On our very last day in Israel, with the sun shining and after spending an hour on the beach, we forced the students back on the bus to Tel Aviv University to have a joint class with Moty Cristal’s class from the International Master’s in Dispute Resolution program.  If ever I was worried that the [...]

Apr

13

Please Stop

Posted by: | April 13, 2011 | 8 Comments

I recently jested that I would spend some blog time on fashion. Then, on Thursday, the fates decided to jest with me a tad. My hospital has a large summer program for local high school students. The students will basically be assigned a mentor and spend the summer learning from the mentor and going to [...]

Apr

13

Restorative Justice Conference: Keeping the Victims Foremost

Posted by: | April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The eight-year-old who wasn’t there: That was one of the most important people involved in last week’s impressive two-day conference at Eckstein Hall on dealing with clergy sex abuse scandals. The Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland, the Most Reverend Diarmuid Martin, brought the eight-year-old into the conference. Of course, no children were literally present. But Archbishop [...]

Apr

11

SCOTUS to Consider Scope of Ministerial Exception

Posted by: | April 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment

When the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided Coulee Catholic Schools v. LIRC, 2009 WI 88 , Professor Esenberg and I both took to this blog to praise Justice Gableman’s majority decision. The decision is undoubtedly the most important religious liberty case in Wisconsin since Jackson v. Benson (1998) and State v. Miller (1996). It concerned the [...]

Apr

11

That’s the Same Combination I Have on My Luggage!

Posted by: | April 11, 2011 | 2 Comments

Quick, which service do you think has the most strict password requirements I’ve ever encountered? My bank? Mutual funds? My law firm network login? Credit cards? Paypal? Email providers? Configuring my home server for remote access? Electronics sites like newegg.com and amazon.com? Westlaw and Lexis? No. Not any of those. There is a service that, [...]

Apr

11

Hospital as a Melting Pot

Posted by: | April 11, 2011 | 1 Comment

One of the things I love about working in a hospital is the unavoidability of cultural mingling. Watching the news, feeling that there is a “culture war” just simmering and waiting to boil over is something I frequently experience. Looking at bumper stickers sometimes makes me feel that way too. I find solace in the [...]

Apr

10

Law Gone Wrong: Wisconsin’s Spousal Maintenance Statute

Posted by: | April 10, 2011 | 2 Comments

This is the fourth post in an occasional series entitled “Law Gone Wrong.”  The editors of the Faculty Blog invited Law School faculty to share their thoughts on misguided statutes, disastrous judicial decisions, and other examples where the law has gone wrong (and needs to be nudged back on course).  Today’s contribution is from Professor Judith [...]

Apr

9

Israel Reflections–Use of Force & Civilian Targets

Posted by: | April 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment

In light of the events in Israel earlier this week – Hamas launched a missile attack on an Israeli schoolbus and the Israelis responded with missile attacks into Gaza – one of the speakers from our trip to Israel is particularly on point today.  How do you determine an “appropriate” response to the Hamas attack?  Here are [...]

Apr

8

Another Law Gone Wrong

Posted by: | April 8, 2011 | 2 Comments

I’m not sure if this meets the precise definition of a “law gone wrong,” but in my home state of Virginia it is illegal “to hunt or kill any wild bird or wild animal, including any nuisance species, with a gun, firearm or other weapon on Sunday, which is hereby declared a rest day for [...]

Apr

7

Nathan Fishbach Honored—and the Law School, Too

Posted by: | April 7, 2011 | 1 Comment

Nathan Fishbach, shareholder at Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek, received the Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association’s Judge Myron L. Gordon Lifetime Achievement Award today. That itself might be worth recording in these annals (cf. Prof. Jessica Slavin’s blog post from two years ago concerning awards by the EDWBA to Michael O’Hear and Tom Shriner). For Nathan [...]

Apr

6

Jenkins Competitors Win Finals

Posted by: | April 6, 2011 | 1 Comment

Please congratulate the winners of the 2011 Jenkins Honors Moot Court Competition:  Susan Barranco and Kyle Mayo.  Congratulations also go to finalists Matthew Hall and Nicholas Zepnick. Sue and Kyle received the Franz C. Eschweiler Prize for Best Brief. Sue received the Ramon A. Klitzke Prize for Best Oral Advocate. Special thanks to the judges [...]

Apr

6

Say It Ain’t So

Posted by: | April 6, 2011 | 1 Comment

We like to think that child abusers and child killers are monsters who are easily identifiable and, even more importantly, different from the rest of us “normal” people.  A recent news story in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reminds us that the reality is more complicated.  The alleged crime is sadly familiar: a young man was arrested [...]

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