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Marquette Students Win IP Writing Competition

Post author:Michael M. O'Hear
Post published:October 5, 2011
Post category:Legal Scholarship Marquette Law School Public

Congratulations to Mitchell Stock and Francisco Quiroz, winners of the State Bar’s 2011 IP Writing Competition. Stock won first place for his paper entitled “Hypothetical, Actual, or Footstar: How the Courts Should Handle Patent and Copyright Licenses in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.” Quiroz took second for “The Decline of Fair Use: How the DMCA Marginalized Fair Use and What To Do About It.” This adds to a recent tradition of strong showings by Marquette law students in the competition.

Mandatory Foreclosure Mediation: A Good Idea?

Post author:Michael D. Rust
Post published:September 29, 2011
Post category:Marquette Law School Mediation Negotiation Public

The Florida Supreme Court has ordered a review of its 18-month-old mandatory foreclosure mediation program. Should a similar process come to Wisconsin?

In July 2011, Wisconsin had the 10th highest foreclosure rate in the United States, only four spots behind the State of Florida. Several initiatives in Wisconsin have attempted to inject mediation into the foreclosure process, with varying amounts of success. Purely voluntary processes are flailing – with lenders refusing across the board to even attend the voluntary mediations. More suggestive processes are seeing varying amounts of success.

Doing Better Than “Nailing and Jailing” in the Fight Against Violence

Post author:Alan J. Borsuk
Post published:September 27, 2011
Post category:Criminal Law & Process Marquette Law School Milwaukee Popular Culture & Law Poverty & Law Public Speakers at Marquette

As Milwaukee County Children’s Court Judge Joe Donald put it, “We do a very good job of trailing, nailing, and jailing.” But can Milwaukee do more when it comes to dealing with crime so that it can be prevented and the lives of those on the path to committing crimes turn out better?

The good news, participants in an “On the Issues” discussion Monday at Eckstein Hall generally agreed, is that the large majority of young people in the community are not involved in crime, that there are existing constructive programs involving thousands of youths , and those who went on highly-publicized sprees in the Riverwest neighborhood on July 3 and in and around the State Fair grounds on Aug. 4 are not typical.

The bad news is that it doesn’t take very many crimes to cause great harm, not only to the victims but to neighborhoods and the city as a whole, panel members agreed. Furthermore, criminals are getting younger and more violent, and the poverty which is so often the environment for criminals is getting broader and deeper in the city.

The panel discussion, hosted by Mike Gousha, the Law School’s distinguished fellow in law and public policy, before an audience of about 200, followed the showing Sunday night at the Milwaukee Film Festival of a documentary, “The Interrupters,” about efforts to reduce youth violence in Chicago.