Jan

11

Why the Law Degree Is Called a J.D. and Not an LL.B.

Posted by: | January 11, 2012 | 1 Comment

Professor Greipp’s fascinating post on Lois Kuenzli Collins, an early female graduate of Marquette Law School, made reference to Ms. Collins’ law degree being upgraded to a J.D. in the late 1960s. That was actually a fairly common occurrence at that time, as thousands of American lawyers in the 1960s found themselves the possessors of [...]

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Oct

25

The Marquette Law Professor Who Was President of the American Bar Association

Posted by: | October 25, 2011 | 1 Comment

Carl Barnett Rix was never a full-time professor at the Marquette Law School, but he was a part-time instructor for almost 40 years (1908-1946).  During that time he taught hundreds of Marquette law students while carrying on an active law practice and a professional life that led him to the presidencies of the Milwaukee Bar [...]

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Oct

17

Marquette Law School’s Enduring Connection to the Sports Law Industry

Posted by: | October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment

As noted in an earlier post, the current issue of Marquette Lawyer magazine contains a profile of the current Marquette Sports Law program and the National Sports Law Institute. What the article fails to note, however, it that the law school’s involvement with the sports industry long pre-dates the founding of the National Sports Law [...]

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Oct

11

Remembering Year 2 in Sensenbrenner Hall

Posted by: | October 11, 2011 | 1 Comment

As we settle into the second year of Eckstein Hall, it is interesting to look back and try to imagine what it would have been like to have been a student in Sensenbrenner Hall in its second year, 1925-1926. First of all, the Sensenbrenner Hall of 1925 was quite different from the building that the [...]

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Sep

27

The Unfortunately Forgotten Vernon X. Miller

Posted by: | September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Who was the first Marquette University law professor to have clerked for a justice on the United States Supreme Court?  (Hint: the answer is not current dean Joseph Kearney.)  Who was the first, and only, Marquette law professor ever elected president of the Association of American Law Schools?  Who was the only Marquette Law Professor [...]

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Sep

19

Diversity in Legal Education

Posted by: | September 19, 2011 | 2 Comments

[Editor's Note: This month, we asked a few veteran faculty members to share their reflections on what has changed the most in legal education since they became law professors. The first two posts in the series are here (Kossow) and here (Bradford).] In the early 1970’s, the American Bar Association and the American Association of Law Schools [...]

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Sep

14

Reminiscing About Legal Education – How Technology Changed Examinations, Course Materials, and Instruction

Posted by: | September 14, 2011 | 1 Comment

[Editor's Note: This month, we asked a few veteran faculty members to share their reflections on what has changed the most in legal education since they became law professors. This post is the second in the series.] In 1983 when I became a law professor, no one had a personal computer.  Dictaphones were a common [...]

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Sep

11

The 100th Anniversary of the Law School’s First Real Graduation

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

Although the fact went largely unnoticed, the May 2011 Law School Commencement marked the centennial anniversary of the first real law degrees awarded by Marquette University.  In June of 1911, nine students who had entered the initial full-time law program offered by Marquette University in the fall of 1908 received their bachelor of laws diplomas [...]

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Aug

23

Baseball Hall of Fame Dedicates Selig Center for Archives of MLB Commissioners

Posted by: | August 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment

On August 17th, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, dedicated the Allan H. “Bud” Selig Center for the Archives of Major League Baseball Commissioners. Commissioner Selig is a member of the Law School’s adjunct faculty, holding the title of Distinguished Lecturer in Sports Law and Policy; he and I [...]

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Aug

16

Mabel Watson Raimey

Posted by: | August 16, 2011 | 2 Comments

Recently a friend lent me a wonderful book, More than Petticoats: Remarkable Wisconsin Women, by Greta Anderson.* The book biographies a number of notable Wisconsin women, but the biography that stood out the most to me was of Mabel Watson Raimey. Mabel Watson Raimey was the first African-American woman to attend Marquette University Law School. [...]

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Aug

16

Dean Howard Eisenberg in His Own Voice

Posted by: | August 16, 2011 | 4 Comments

One of the activities that many of us faculty members undertake during the summer months is to clean out some drawers and shelves. While recently tackling that chore, I was thrilled to find an old tape from a 1999 conference we put on at the law school on “Spirituality and Work.” I had forgotten that Dean Howard Eisenberg [...]

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Jul

7

Eckstein Hall Opened One Year Ago

Posted by: | July 7, 2011 | 2 Comments

Yesterday (July 6) marked the one-year anniversary of the opening of Eckstein Hall. The very first class in the new building was American Legal History which first met in Room 257 at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 6, 2010. To reach the classroom in the not-quite-finished building, the 17 students and their instructor had to [...]

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