Links to New Law Review Articles

Articles from the latest issue of the Marquette Law Review are now available here.  Here is what you will find:

Nantiya Ruan, Accommodating Respectful Religious Expression in the Workplace.

Scott A. Schumacher, MacNiven v. Westmoreland and Tax Advice: Using Purposive Textualism to Deal with Tax Shelters and Promote Legitimate Tax Advice.

Michael W. Loudenslager, Giving Up the Ghost: A Proposal for Dealing With Attorney “Ghostwriting” of Pro Se Litigants’ Court Documents Through Explicit Rules Requiring Disclosure and Allowing Limited Appearances for Such Attorneys.

Barbara O’Brien & Daphna Oyserman, It’s Not Just What You Think, But How You Think About It: The Effect of Situationally Primed Mindsets on Legal Judgments and Decision Making.

Joan Shepard, Comment, The Family Medical Leave Act: Calculating the Hours of Service for the Reinstated Employee.

Charles Stone, Comment, What Plagiarism Was Not: Some Preliminary Observations on Classical Chinese Attitudes Towards What the West Calls Intellectual Property.

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New Blog Features for January

As we ring in the new year here at the Marquette Law School Faculty Blog, we also welcome several new features for January.  Dan Blinka replaces Matt Mitten as Faculty Blogger of the Month.  Dan teaches Evidence, Constitution and Criminal Investigations, Quantitative Methods, Trial Advocacy, and Legal History.  3L Nathan Petrashek replaces Tom Kamenick as Student Blogger of the Month.  And Mike Morse replaces Daniel Suhr as Alum Blogger of the Month.  Mike is Village Attorney for Menomonee Falls.

Many thanks to Matt, Tom, and Daniel for their thought-provoking posts in December!

The new Question of the Month is “What is your favorite movie or novel about legal practice?”

Best wishes to all for a happy and healthy 2009!

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Lessons for Law School Deans Regarding Catholics in Political Life

Let me again extend my appreciation to Deans Kearney and O’Hear for the opportunity to serve as December’s guest alumnus blogger of the month, and to all of you who joined the conversation in the comments section. I’ll be right there with you starting tomorrow. 🙂 Let me also take advantage of my month’s unique position on the calendar to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

My final post is, in fact, the abstract of a piece I have just posted to SSRN. Earlier this year, you may have seen that Fordham’s law school received some heat from Edward Cardinal Egan, Archbishop of New York, for its decision to confer an award on pro-abortion Justice Stephen Breyer.  The story led me to do some investigating, drawing in part on my own experiences as a Marquette student, and voila, an essay emerged. I hope to begin shopping it around to law reviews in the spring submission season.

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