Congratulations to the 2011 Jenkins Competition Participants

Congratulations to the participants in the 2011 Jenkins Honors Moot Court Competition:

  • Grant Anderson
  • Susan Barranco
  • Jaclyn Bielefeld
  • Stephane Fabus
  • Matthew Hall
  • Kyle Mayo
  • Alexandria McCool
  • Garrett Nix
  • Robert Olmr
  • Dana Pierson
  • Anthony Prekop
  • Meghan Refinski
  • Samantha Rueden
  • Sabrina Stephenson
  • David Streese
  • Nicholas Zepnick

The Jenkins Honors Moot Court Competition is a merit based invitation-only appellate moot court competition for Marquette law students.  Students will begin writing their appellate briefs in January with the rounds of oral argument commencing later this spring.

Students are fortunate to have the opportunity to argue before distinguished members of the bench and bar from Wisconsin and beyond.  The final round judges of the 2010 competition were the Honorable Jeffrey S. Sutton, the Honorable Diane S. Sykes, and the Honorable Charles N. Clevert.

The competition is named after James G. Jenkins, the first Marquette Law School dean.  More can be read about Jenkins in this post by Professor Gordon Hylton.

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New Law Review Comments Cover Social Networking, Wind Farms, Deceptive Trade Practices Act, Open Records Law, and Purchase Money Security Interests

Now available online, the recently published student comments in the Marquette Law Review cover a wide range of topics.  They include Nathan Petrashek’s comment on the impact of online social networking on Fourth Amendment privacy.  Since social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace attract both criminals (e.g., sexual predators, identity thieves) and the police who investigate them, the question whether users have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their voluntary disclosures under the well-established Katz test is poised to become a significant issue in the near future.  Petrashek relies on Fourth Amendment doctrine, as well as the First Amendment right of association and good public policy, to argue that user content should be shielded from police scrutiny in the absence of a warrant.

Meanwhile, Marvin Bynum’s Golden Quill-winning comment addresses the feasibility of establishing offshore wind farms in Lakes Michigan and Superior. 

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New Issues of Marquette Law Review

Two recently published issues of the Marquette Law Review are now available at the Law Review’s website.  Issue 3 of Volume 93 features a lead article by Carol Necole Brown on racial discrimination in the home mortgage market.  Issue 4 features papers presented at the Law School’s Legacies of Lincoln Conference, as well as Joshua Dressler’s Barrock Lecture on feminist critiques of self-defense law.  The full tables of contents appear after the jump.  Congratulations to the editors! 

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