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Marquette Quarterfinalists in Criminal Procedure Moot Court

Post author:Melissa Love Koenig
Post published:November 10, 2015
Post category:Criminal Law & Process Legal Practice Legal Writing Marquette Law School Public

Congratulations to 3Ls Mary Ellis and Natalie Schiferl for placing in the quarterfinals and being awarded the third place for their Petitioner’s brief in the National Criminal Procedure Tournament this past weekend in San Diego. The team’s advisors are Professors Susan Bay and Thomas Hammer, and the team coaches are Attys. Brittany Kachingwe, Sarah McNutt, and Jennifer Severino. Special thanks to alum Jennifer Severino, who has been a tremendous volunteer with the Marquette moot court program as a coach and competition judge. Atty. Severino is moving to Las Vegas and will be missed at Marquette.

Ashley Heard Wins Legal Writing Society Writing Contest

Post author:Lisa A. Mazzie
Post published:November 8, 2015
Post category:Legal Writing Marquette Law School Public

At the end of October, Marquette University Law School’s Legal Writing Society sponsored a fun writing contest, looking for poetry submissions that combined law and Halloween themes. Ashley Heard’s poem does precisely that:

There once was a law school demon

summoned by a 1L heathen.

It gave students hell

until in love it fell

with the writings of Justice Stevens.

Heard, a 2L, won a $10 gift card to the Tory Hill Café. To find out more about the Marquette Legal Writing Society, contact Lauren Maddente at lauren.maddente@marquette.edu. For other fun law-related poetry, click here. Also, check out law-related book spine poetry here and here.

The Best Punctuation Day Ever. Period.

Post author:Melissa Love Koenig
Post published:September 24, 2015
Post category:Legal Practice Legal Writing Public

Happy National Punctuation Day—the 11^th annual of this festive event. Get out your red pens and Strunk and White and get ready to have some fun today.

This Time article claims that punctuation is changing: some would say not for the better. Among other things, says this post, the apostrophe appears to be phasing out in some circles. I think that’s a shame. One problem is that some technology autocorrects apostrophes improperly, adding them where they are not supposed to be, or removing them. Perhaps tech programmers should work with editors to catch those programming errors.