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Amid all the global disruptions that started in March, Marquette Law School moved forward effectively in teaching students to be lawyers and in offering, as best we could, the public engagement we are known for. One important aspect of the latter is the release of the new issue of the Marquette Lawyer<\/em>\u00a0magazine, produced with a few internal procedural adjustments, but no change in schedule or in our commitment to provide high-quality reading to Marquette lawyers, all lawyers in Wisconsin, and many interested others.<\/p>\n Washington, D.C., is the focus of the new issue. The Washington that\u2019s in the news every day, full of political contentiousness and heat, makes some appearance, but our interest is the bigger picture: Washington as a center for shaping the law, practicing the law, and\u00a0dealing with\u00a0major issues.<\/p>\n The Washington emphasis is\u00a0built on\u00a0three major pieces.<\/p>\n The Marquette Law School Poll conducted its first nationwide assessment of public opinion with a wide-ranging survey of what people think of the United States Supreme Court. At a conference at Eckstein Hall about the poll results, Professor Lawrence Baum of The Ohio State University, a political scientist and prominent scholar of the Cout, called the poll \u201cthe deepest and broadest analysis of public opinion on the Supreme Court that anyone has done.\u201d The results of the poll and insightful commentary from experts such as Baum\u00a0are featured in\u00a0the first of the three Washington pieces. It can be read by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n A second part of the Washington package\u00a0describes\u00a0what practicing law is like\u00a0on\u00a0an everyday basis in a city that is\u00a0a\u00a0magnet for\u00a0lawyers. We offer profiles and interviews with 16 Marquette\u00a0lawyers\u00a0in a wide variety of successful careers, ranging from the centers of political power to the\u00a0less\u00a0spotlighted but interesting fields of patent and trademark law. Marquette lawyers can be found in the military, as advisors to major businesses, as researchers, teachers,\u00a0and\u00a0activists on policy issues\u2014and in other places as well.\u00a0Annie Owens, L\u201905, says that being a lawyer in Washington means \u201ca career dedicated to public service and bettering the country.\u201d In many ways, these Marquette lawyers illustrate that.\u00a0The profiles may be read by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n The third Washington piece:\u00a0Professor Ryan Scoville teaches\u00a0courses on U.S. foreign relations law and international law, among other areas, at Marquette Law School. He has a deep interest in researching issues related to those fields. A\u00a0federal Freedom of Information Act request by Scoville led to release of data on the qualifications of 1,900\u00a0people who were appointed to be American ambassadors, starting with the administration of President Ronald Reagan and continuing to the current administration of President Donald Trump. Scoville analyzed the differences between ambassadors who came from backgrounds in politics or private business\u00a0and\u00a0those who were career diplomats. The result was an article published in the\u00a0Duke Law Journal<\/a><\/em>, which is excerpted in the new magazine.\u00a0 The excerpt may be read by clicking here<\/a> and a profile of Scoville may be read by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n Turning the focus to Milwaukee, the magazine offers\u00a0important findings about the changing\u00a0dynamics of Milwaukee neighborhoods, based on research and analysis by Mike Gousha, the Law School\u2019s distinguished fellow in law and public policy, and John D. Johnson, a research fellow at the school\u2019s\u00a0Lubar\u00a0Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education.\u00a0They\u00a0reach two conclusions: The\u00a0Wisconsin legislature\u2019s end of the\u00a0requirement\u00a0that city of Milwaukee employees live in the city has meant thousands of middle-class individuals and families, supported by the city, have moved\u00a0to the suburbs.\u00a0And, whether substantially connected or not, there has been a sharp increase in the number of Milwaukee homes owned by people who live outside the city and, in particularly striking numbers, outside of Wisconsin. Their piece, \u201cIt\u2019s an Unsettling Day in the Neighborhoods,\u201d details their findings. It can be read by clocking here.<\/a><\/p>\n Our \u201cFrom the Journals\u201d section includes two excerpts from law journal articles. Mark\u00a0P. McKenna, the John P. Murphy Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, delivered the\u00a02019\u00a0Nies\u00a0Lecture on Intellectual Property at Marquette Law School. That\u00a0became an article in the Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review<\/em>.\u00a0In the magazine excerpt from that article, \u201cPutting the Brakes on Shifting Definitions of\u00a0Trademarks,\u201d\u00a0McKenna describes\u00a0the broadening definition of what is covered by trademark law and\u00a0advocates for \u201climited rollbacks\u201d of some of the changes.\u00a0The excerpt may be read by clocking here.<\/a><\/p>\n Andrea Kupfer Schneider\u00a0has been\u00a0a member of the Marquette Law School faculty since 1996 and is director of the Law School\u2019s dispute resolution program.\u00a0In an article for the Nevada Law Journal, she describes\u00a0issues in research on gender and negotiation. She says\u00a0research often focuses on use of \u201cthe hammer\u201d in negotiation, while women are frequently strong in negotiation skills\u00a0that include other \u201ctools.\u201d\u00a0She calls for more research that focuses on these matters. Click here to read the Professor Schneider excerpt.<\/a><\/p>\n Marquette University launched its Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) 50 years ago. There have been many individual success stories of students, almost all minority, low-income,\u00a0and the first in their families to go to college. But the overall statistics, both nationwide and at Marquette, for minority students reaching college and succeeding in graduating have not changed much over the decades. Our article focuses on Joe Donald and Brittany Grayson, two EOP alums who went on to graduate from Marquette Law School and become judges in Milwaukee.\u00a0They offer both compelling success stories and calls for more to be done. The piece on the EOP may be read by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n The Class Notes section features a profile of Reyna Morales, L\u201997, who was born and raised in Guatemala before her family fled a civil war and came to the United States while she was\u00a0a\u00a0teen. She went on to graduate from\u00a0Marquette Law School and has been\u00a0a\u00a0long-time public defender in Milwaukee and Racine. She is confident that she is\u00a0helping people. \u201cNo matter what\u00a0horrible thing you have done, you\u2019re still a human being and one\u00a0person\u00a0should have your back,\u201d she says. The Class Notes pages also offer information on\u00a0the current accomplishments of more than 50 Law School graduates. Click here to read\u00a0this section.<\/a><\/p>\n Of course, this issue of the magazine appears in the context of the most unusual semester in Marquette Law School history. The overall success of the Law School in pivoting to distance and online learning, starting in mid-March, required enormous effort, determination, and teamwork, not only for the faculty and administration but for the students as well. It wasn\u2019t easy or anyone\u2019s first choice, but education moved forward. In a story, \u201cChanging Course\u201d we describe what\u00a0happened. Click here to read the story.<\/a><\/p>\n Dean Joseph D. Kearney\u00a0gives perspective on the tumultuous semester in his\u00a0\u201cFrom the Dean\u201d\u00a0column, which may be\u00a0read by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n In these blog pieces accompanying the release of each magazine, we don\u2019t normally mention the content of the back cover of the magazine. This is an exception. The back cover addresses succinctly what it took to keep the Law School moving forward in recent months and, importantly, offers a commitment to keep moving forward, whatever may lie ahead. \u201cWe all hope no one will ever have a semester like this one again,\u201d the text says \u201cBut we know, with even stronger evidence than before, that the efforts of everyone at Marquette Law School will always be built on the same qualities and commitments that we showed in these difficult times.\u201d<\/p>\n