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Quill Awards

Post author:Michael M. O'Hear
Post published:April 5, 2009
Post category:Legal Scholarship

I enjoyed the Marquette Law Review‘s annual banquet Friday night. United States District Court Judge William Griesbach delivered a thought-provoking talk on “The Joy of Law.” But the personal highlight for me may have been the opportunity, along with my fellow faculty advisor Dan Blinka, to announce the winners of this year’s Golden and Silver Quill Awards for top student comments in the Law Review. The Golden Quill went to Charles Stone for his comment on classical Chinese attitudes regarding what we might now call plagiarism, which was published at 92 Marq. L. Rev. 199. The Silver Quill went to Ben Crouse for his comment on worksite immigration raids, which will be published in the upcoming spring issue of the Law Review (Vol. 92, No. 3). Both of the award-winning comments should be regarded as exemplars of outstanding student scholarship by future generations of Law Review comment-writers. Congratulations to Ben and Charles! Congratulations also to Melissa McCord and her colleagues for presenting such a fine program Friday night.

Community Justice Conference Follow-Up

Post author:Michael M. O'Hear
Post published:April 4, 2009
Post category:Criminal Law & Process Milwaukee Speakers at Marquette

As discussed in an earlier post, the Law School recently hosted a very successful conference on community justice in Wisconsin. More than 200 government officials, lawyers, and citizens came together to discuss how the criminal justice system can be improved at the local level through enhanced interagency collaboration and grass-roots citizen engagement. The Conference website has now been updated to include audio and video of the Conference, reports, and links to blogs and commentary to keep the conversation moving forward. Still to come on the website are workgroup reports and conference evaluation results. Thanks to Assistant Dean Dan Idzikowski for his leadership of this important Law School initiative.

April Is the Cruelest Month

Post author:David R. Papke
Post published:April 4, 2009
Post category:Uncategorized

Spring is rumored to be in the air, but in the legal academy and in general it isn’t always the happiest and most optimistic of times. T. S. Eliot offered the following lines in the The Waste Land:

April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

Winter kept us warm, covering

Earth in forgetful snow, feeding

A little life with dried tubers.