Courses Announced for 2016 Summer Session in Giessen, Germany

LD7_9975Courses have been announced for the 8th Annual Summer Session in International and Comparative Law, to take place in Giessen, Germany from July 15 through August 13, 2016.

Participants will have the choice of two, 2 credit courses from the following:

  1. Comparative Law
  2. International Economic Law and Business Transactions
  3. Comparative Corporate Governance
  4. Business Ethics and Human Rights

All classes take place at the Justus Liebig University School of Law in Giessen, Germany, and are taught by an international faculty.  Students from Marquette University Law School, the University of Wisconsin Law School, and other U.S. law schools attend classes alongside international law students from across the globe.

More details, and an application, will be available soon on the Law School website.  In the meantime, information sessions for interested students have been scheduled for Thursday September 24 at 12 pm (Room 263) and 5 pm (Room 357).  The information sessions will also discuss the Law School’s Semester Exchange Programs for Copenhagen, Madrid and Poitiers, France.

Giessen 2015

Photos: (top) students attend the 2014 Summer Session in Giessen; (below) students attend the 2015 Summer Session

 

 

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Legal Community Mourns Justice Patrick Crooks

crooks-1170x781The Wisconsin legal community is mourning the sudden death of Justice N. Patrick Crooks.   A native of Green Bay, Wisconsin, Justice Crooks was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1996 and won a second term in 2006.  He recently announced that he would not stand for re-election in 2016.

Before joining the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Justice Crooks served as a Judge on the Brown County Circuit Court.  He was named Trial Judge of the Year in 1994 by the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He was widely respected as an independent and conscientious jurist.  He will be missed.

Photo Credit: Jake Harper/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism

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Welcome to Our September Guest Bloggers

daumier_footnotes__jpg_600x713_q85Welcome to our September guest bloggers!  Every month, the Faculty Blog welcomes one student and one alumnus as guest bloggers who provide our readers with additional perspectives on law, policy and legal education.

In September we are joined by current Marquette University Law student Christopher Guthrie.  Christopher teaches Special Education in the Glendale-River Hills School District and holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He is obtaining his law degree part-time, and expects to graduate in 2017.

We are also joined this month by Marquette University Law School alumnus Michelle Velasquez, class of 2010.  Michelle has worked as a staff attorney for Centro Legal por los Derechos Humanos, Inc. and since 2012 she has been an Assistant State Public Defender, in the Appellate Division.

Look for their blog posts this month.

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