{"id":31140,"date":"2025-03-27T11:11:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T16:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=31140"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:18:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T16:18:51","slug":"looking-forward-to-the-2025-jenkins-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2025\/03\/looking-forward-to-the-2025-jenkins-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Forward to the 2025 Jenkins Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bust of Judge James G. Jenkins in Eckstein Hall\u2019s Zilber Forum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Jenkins Honors Moot Court Competition is a spring-semester invitational program for upper-level Marquette law students who have qualified based on their performance in the fall-semester Appellate Writing and Advocacy course. Proceeding in teams of two, students began writing their appellate briefs in January and have now submitted them.<\/p>\n

Next up is the Jenkins Competition\u2019s oral arguments. Students argue in multiple preliminary rounds, with the competition going from the original 12 teams to quarterfinal (8 teams), semifinal (4), and final (2) rounds.<\/p>\n

We may pause to note that the primary \u201ctechnical\u201d result may be a single winning team, but along the way all participants will have learned a good deal about appellate advocacy and the law. And that\u2019s the whole point: We denominate it an honors competition partly because of the way one qualifies and partly because there is no academic credit awarded in connection with the competition.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get back to the oral arguments: The preliminary rounds of this year\u2019s Jenkins Competition are this coming weekend. In addition to joining Professor Love Koenig in wishing the 24 participating students good luck (see her blog post last month noting and naming them<\/a>), we may peek ahead to next month.<\/p>\n

The finals<\/em> will occur at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15, in the Law School\u2019s Lubar Center. Anyone in the Law School community (very broadly defined) is welcome to register and attend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It will be a privilege at this year\u2019s Jenkins Finals for Marquette Law School to welcome\u2014and for the two remaining teams to argue before\u2014three distinguished members of the bench:<\/p>\n