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Marquette Law School Wins 2014 Diversity Matters Award

Post author:Melissa Love Koenig
Post published:June 25, 2014
Post category:Legal Profession Marquette Law School Public

The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) honored Marquette Law School at its spring conference with the 2014 Diversity Matters Award. The LSAC Diversity Initiatives Office and Discover Law sponsor the award. The award recognizes Marquette’s commitment to diversity and its programming for high school students and college students from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in law school and the legal profession. Marquette received the third place award two years ago.

Forward Looking: New Marquette Lawyer Magazine Looks at Present and Future of Key Issues

Post author:Alan J. Borsuk
Post published:May 23, 2014
Post category:Marquette Law School Public Speakers at Marquette

Marquette Lawyer - Summer 2014 Past, present, future—the Summer 2014 Marquette Lawyer focuses its attention on important and interesting facets of all three. But let us draw your attention to it foremost for its thoughts on the future, including:

The future of campaign spending. In the cover story, Heather K. Gerken, the J. Skelly Wright Professor at Yale Law School, examines the impact of the Citizens United decision of 2010, in The Real Problem with Citizens United: Campaign Finance, Dark Money, and Shadow Parties. Based on her Boden Lecture last fall at Marquette Law School, Gerken suggests that the case’s most important result could be a gulf between the elites involved in national political campaigns and the rank and file party members who have historically been the backbone of the parties. The article may be found by clicking here.

Mitten Elected President-Elect of Sports Lawyers Association

Post author:Matthew J. Parlow
Post published:May 22, 2014
Post category:Marquette Law School Public Sports & Law

mitten Last week, the Sports Lawyers Association held its 40th annual conference in Chicago. Unsurprisingly, the Law School had a strong presence at the conference, which boasted more than 800 attendees. Current students, alumni, National Sports Law Institute Board Members, and several faculty members (Professors Anderson, Braza, Cervenka, Mitten, and yours truly) all attended the conference. Professors Anderson and Mitten both spoke on panels during the conference.

In addition, Professor Mitten was elected as the president-elect of the Sports Lawyers Association, which is a national and international group of more than 1,700 members consisting of sports industry professionals, sports lawyers, and sports law professors. Professor Mitten will become the organization’s president in May 2015 and serve a two-year term. Congratulations, Professor Mitten!