Congratulations to the 2016 Jenkins Honors Moot Court Competitors

The Jenkins Honors Moot Court Competition is the appellate moot court competition for Marquette law students and is the capstone event of the intramural moot court program.  Students are invited to participate based on their top performance in the fall Appellate Writing and Advocacy course at the Law School. 

Congratulations to the participants in the 2016 Jenkins Honors Moot Court Competition:

Barry Braatz
David Conley
Robert Copley
Samuel Draver
Isabelle Faust
Alexis Guraz
Christopher Hayden
Ashley Heard
Amber Horak
Megan Kaldunski
Alexandra Klimko
Alicia Kort
Jessica Lothman
Alan Mazzulla
Kayla McCann
Sara McNamara
Andrew Mong
Brittany Running
Rexford Shield
Amardeep Singh
Emily Tercilla
Natalie Wisco
Samuel Woo
Kiel Zillmer

 

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Making a Murderer: Oh-So-Many Talking Points

635874987555624158-XXX-IMG-NETFLIX-MAKING-A-MUR-1-1-VGCTGMDU-78432434As the winter break winds down, it’s definitely worth your time to start binge-watching Making a Murderer, a recent Netflix documentary on a real-life criminal case. A very close-to-home criminal case, at that.

The documentary, filmed over 10 years, follows Steven Avery, who was convicted in 1985 of sexual assault. He maintained his innocence and, indeed, 18 years later DNA evidence exonerated him. After he was released, he sued Manitowoc County for his wrongful conviction. It looks as though that lawsuit starts digging up some very unsavory conduct among officials in Manitowoc County.

But then—Avery is arrested for the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach. Several months later, his nephew Brendan Dassey is also arrested.

I’ll stop there with plot. If you’ve been around Wisconsin, you’ve probably heard of the case. If you’ve been on the Internet in the last couple of weeks, you’ve almost surely heard of it. But you must watch it.

For law students, there’s so many teachable moments. For everyone, there’s so much to talk about.

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Welcome January Bloggers!

A new year and a new month have started.  That means it is time to welcome our guest bloggers for the month of January.

Steven Wah is our Student Blogger this month. He is currently a student in the part-time program.  Steven started at Marquette in the Fall of 2011 and hopes to graduate in the Spring of 2016. Steven is a Senior Tax Manager at General Electric and a graduate of their Financial Management Program and Corporate Audit Staff. His experiences with GE have included banking in Eastern Europe and the Nordic countries, internal audit investigation, establishing accounting and risk policies, and due diligence related to various acquisitions. Steven and his wife, Heather, have one daughter and live in Wauwatosa. Upon graduation, he plans to stay with GE as internal tax counsel and support child advocacy needs in Southeast WI.

Jason Roberts is our Alumni Blogger for January.  He is a Legal Analyst with Thomson Reuters in Portland, Oregon. Jason is a proud 2010 graduate of the Law School.  His area of expertise is global value added tax determination and compliance. He also is a part-time faculty instructor at Portland Community College, where, among other topics, he teaches tattoo artists about licensure and other legal issues relevant to the tattoo industry.

Welcome, and we look forward to your posts.

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