3Ls: Planning to Take a Bar Exam?

If you plan to take a bar exam this July, please fill out this form. This form will allow you to sign up for resources available to students preparing for a bar exam, including extended access to Eckstein Hall, summer parking, lockers, and access to the July 2025 Bar Prep Teams page. 

If you have questions about taking a bar exam this July, Professor Pagel is available to meet with you to discuss your bar prep plans. If you’d like to make an appointment with Professor Pagel, please send her an email.

Registration and Waitlist Update

As a reminder, the Law School is utilizing a new waitlist process. As a result, you may see classes that look like space is available, but do not allow you to register. If you receive a message that indicates "Department Consent Required," please fill out a waitlist request.

Full waitlist instructions are posted on the Registration Materials webpage. Below is a reminder of key points. 

Accessing the waitlist form.

• At your assigned registration appointment time, if a desired course is full, you can add your name to the Law School’s registration waitlist by visiting the Registration Materials webpage of the Law School’s website and clicking on the appropriate semester’s yellow waitlist form button.
• You may only fill out this form after your registration time has started. Submissions made prior to your appointment time will be deleted.

Editing your waitlist form after submission.

• To later edit your waitlist request after submission, you must click the “Save my response to edit” button that appears on your browser screen immediately following submission. We STRONGLY recommend that every student select this option each time you submit a waitlist form to preserve the ability to edit your form in the future.
• Clicking this button will allow you to update your selections as seats become available and your schedule or interests shift.

Waitlists will be processed weekly.

• It is important that, as needed, you view and edit all your waitlist forms to ensure that they are accurate and up-to-date. The information you provide will be used to move your classes should a seat in a waitlisted course open up for you. You will be notified once you have been added to a course.
• If you receive an email indicating that there is an issue with your request, you must respond to the email within 48 business hours to resolve the enrollment issue. If you do not respond, the class seat will be offered to the next student on the waitlist, but you will not lose your spot on the waitlist.
• Do not reach out to faculty to be added to a course prior to the start of the semester. Faculty will have discretion to add students to their classes once the semester begins and waitlists are cleared. Prior to that, students MUST be added in order of the waitlist.

Viewing your waitlist position. After registration, you will receive regular emails that indicate where you are on each waitlist and what, if any, movement has occurred on the waitlist.

Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review Write-on Competition

Are you passionate about civil rights and social justice? Then the Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review wants you! MBSWLR is a student-run journal, publishing articles devoted to public interest, international and domestic civil rights and social justice perspectives on employee benefits, disability, elder, health, poverty, and social insurance law. 

Membership on the Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review ​is open to all to rising second-year (2L) and third-year (3L) law students, based on their individual performance in our annual write-on competition, which consists of a Decision Analysis and Bluebook exercise.  

This year, our annual write-on competition for Volume 27 will begin on Monday, June 16, and end on Monday, June 30. Membership decisions will be extended to students the week of July 3, 2025.   

Membership on MBSWLR provides the unique occasion for students to advance their writing, editing, researching, and analytical skills. Experience serving on such a Law Review increases employment opportunities and provides members with the valuable opportunity to work with fellow students, law school faculty, and legal scholars. And most of all – we have fun! 

If you are interested in participating in the write-on competition, please fill out this form by noon on Friday, June 13. This does not require you to participate, but rather ensures that you’ll receive information about the competition.

Fall 2025 Schedule Update - Trial Advocacy Added

Please take note of the following updates to the fall schedule: 

• Workshop: Trial Advocacy I (LAW 7851-101) with Professor Johnson has been added and will meet on Friday from 8:40 - 11:10 a.m. 

Students can add themselves in CheckMarq while space is still available. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Law School Registrar Nicole Toerpe Mason.