Apr

3

Jenkins Competitors Win 2012 Finals

Posted by: | April 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Jenkins Honors Moot Court Competition, Kristina Gordon and Sarah McNutt. Congratulations also go to finalists Ariane Strombom and Megan Zabkowicz. Sarah McNutt won the Ramon A. Klitzke Prize for Best Oralist. Kristina Gordon and Sarah McNutt won the Franz C. Eschweiler Prize for Best Brief. The competitors argued [...]

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Mar

30

Marquette Moot Court Team Success at Evans Competition

Posted by: | March 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment

The Marquette team advanced to the octofinal round (top 16 teams) of the Evans A. Evans Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition hosted by the University of Wisconsin Law School. Please congratulate team members Elizabeth Bronson and Jay Fenton. Professor Idleman advised the team. The team practitioner coaches were Attorneys Alexandra Grimley, Megann Senfleben, Sheila Shadman, [...]

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Mar

28

Jenkins Competitors Advance to the Final Round

Posted by: | March 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment

The following participants in the 2012 Jenkins Honors Moot Court Competition will be advancing to the final round, which will take place on Tuesday, April 3: Kristina Gordon and Sarah McNutt v. Ariane Strombom and Megan Zabkowicz The participants are advancing from the semifinal rounds tonight. Thank you to following semifinal round judges: Hon. Brian [...]

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Mar

27

New Law School Poll Results: Romney Rebounds, Governor’s Race Is Tight

Posted by: | March 27, 2012 | 1 Comment

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has rebounded strongly from a month ago among people expecting to vote in Wisconsin’s Republican presidential primary April 3, according to new results for the Marquette Law School Poll. In February, Romney trailed former Sen. Rick Santorum by 16 points in Wisconsin, but he now leads Santorum by eight points, [...]

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Mar

25

Jenkins Competitors Advance to Semifinals

Posted by: | March 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment

The following participants in the 2012 Jenkins Honors Moot Court Competition will be advancing to the semifinals, which will take place on Wednesday, March 28: Kristina Gordon and Sarah McNutt v. Bailey Briggs and Nathan Imfeld Ariane Strombom and Megan Zabkowicz v. Patrick Ritter and Matthew Hanson The participants are advancing from three preliminary rounds [...]

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Mar

23

Professor Lindsey Honored for VITA Work

Posted by: | March 23, 2012 | 4 Comments

Professor Vada Waters Lindsey today was honored by the United States Postal Service as a one of fourteen “Women Putting Their Stamp on Metro Milwaukee.”  Professor Lindsey was honored in the Government Service or Law category for her tireless work on the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, which program has served more than 1,000 [...]

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Mar

22

Prof. O’Meara on Stand Your Ground

Posted by: | March 22, 2012 | 3 Comments

With the Trayvon Martin case drawing national attention to self-defense law, our own Professor O’Meara has a New York Times op-ed on Stand Your Ground laws.  He argues that the laws are unnecessary because traditional self-defense law provides ample protection for defenders who use lethal force appropriately.  He observes: In my home state of Wisconsin, a large [...]

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Mar

15

Don’t Be Afraid to Go to Law School, Minority Students Told

Posted by: | March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Lovell Johnson recalls a guy he looked up to in high school, a guy he thought could really succeed in life. Several years later, he ran into the guy. The guy was driving a cab. Nothing wrong with driving a cab, Johnson said as he counted the anecdote. But the guy said to him he [...]

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Mar

11

NAACP Leader: Photo ID Lawsuit Carries on 140 Years of Voting Rights Struggles

Posted by: | March 11, 2012 | 1 Comment

With its challenge to Wisconsin’s voter ID law, the NAACP is carrying on a struggle for voting rights that dates back to the post-Civil War era, James Hall, president of the Milwaukee branch of the NAACP, told the Law School’s Mike Gousha and an audience of more than 100 during an “On the Issues” session [...]

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Mar

6

Turkish Delegation Comes to Marquette Law School

Posted by: | March 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Sixteen dignitaries from Turkey, including members of the Turkish Parliament, representatives from the Ministry of Justice, and professors, spent March 1 at Marquette Law School (MULS) to learn about Wisconsin’s experiences with restorative justice and mediation. The law school’s Restorative Justice Initiative organized a meeting with them and Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, Wisconsin Supreme Court [...]

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Mar

5

Lawyers & Life: A Law School Course that Looks to the Future

Posted by: | March 5, 2012 | 2 Comments

I really didn’t know what I was getting into when I signed up for the class “Lawyers & Life.” I knew that in the course description, potential enrollees were warned that, if we were not up for a challenging semester, we should beware as this would not be a free ride. For the first day of class, [...]

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Feb

27

A Jewel in Our Midst

Posted by: | February 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Throughout the history of legal education, there has been a consistent call for greater levels of experiential learning and especially clinical education in the law school curriculum. This call has received renewed strength in the Carnegie Report released in 2007. It reminds us again of the importance of building skills for lawyering, for serving as [...]

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