What Do Offshore Wind Farms Have To Do With the Disintegration of Contract Law in Wisconsin?

Answer: They are the subjects of this year’s top student comments in the Marquette Law Review.  The winners of the Gold and Silver Quill Awards were announced at last week’s Law Review banquet.  Marvin Bynum won the Gold for “Testing the Waters: Assessing Wisconsin’s Regulatory Climate for Offshore Wind Projects,” while Donald Stroud won the Silver for “Beyond Deception: Finding Prudential Boundaries between Breach of Contract and Deceptive Trade Practice Act Violations in Wisconsin.”  Both papers are on SSRN; “Testing the Waters” is here, and “Beyond Deception” is here. The abstracts appear after the jump.  Congratulations to Marvin and Tripp for this well-deserved recognition!

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Welcome, April Bloggers

Thanks to our March guest bloggers, Louis Andrew ‘66 and 3L Nicholas Harken. Our April bloggers will be Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, and Keith Richards.  Okay, that was indeed a lame April’s Fools joke.  But we can no doubt expect an interesting month from Eric Pearson ’07 and 1L Joseph Schuster.  Richards will not actually be blogging here until next month, when he is in town to pick up his honorary degree at the Law School’s graduation ceremony.

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The First of April

Some April Fool’s Day reading:

Eric Goldman is not a fan.

Larry Solum is, and managed to fool me for the third year in a row! Lots of inside baseball, but these are pretty well done.

Google makes fun of its own trademark (see esp. the handy guide for how to use the name of their company at the end).

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