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Structured Reflection and the Role of Our Institutions
Read Judge Rosenthal’s 2019 Hallows Lecture at Marquette University Law School Judge Lee Rosenthal’s appeal to live a life in the law tempered by aspiration rather than ambition invites us, as law students, lawyers, academics, and judges, to reflect on what sustains and fulfills us for a life in the law. This response comments on…
Against Docility
Read Judge Rosenthal’s 2019 Hallows Lecture at Marquette University Law School Judge Lee Rosenthal does us a great service by connecting the thought of Professor Agnes Callard with that of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. While the judge naturally focuses on the implications of this connection for the judicial role, she encourages students, lawyers, and…
Ambition and Aspiration—and Celebrity
Read Judge Rosenthal’s 2019 Hallows Lecture at Marquette University Law School Judge Lee Rosenthal has done a masterful job of explaining how we ought to live our lives in the law (and how we ought not to). Her warnings about the consequences of ambition without aspiration—especially for judges—are timely and troubling. While most district court…
Doing the Right Thing
Read Judge Rosenthal’s 2019 Hallows Lecture at Marquette University Law School It is quite daunting to discuss a thoughtful tome written by a respected judge, particularly one as senior and intellectually acute as Judge Lee Rosenthal. It is even more daunting to limit that discussion to approximately 600 words, a shorter amount than is usually…
Judicial Aspiration and Situational and Institutional Humility
Read Judge Rosenthal’s 2019 Hallows Lecture at Marquette University Law School It’s entirely fitting that Judge Lee Rosenthal delivered this thoughtful lecture at Marquette Law School. The idea that lawyers and judges should be aspirational—that they should search for “something more” than “the quotidian facts and problems of specific matters, disputes, or cases”—has a religious…
Ambition and Aspiration: Living Greatly in the Law
Lee H. Rosenthal is chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, based in Houston. She is a national figure in the judiciary, having served as chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, to which Chief Justice John Roberts appointed her, and chair of the…
Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute Names Directors For Marquette University And University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE — The Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute has announced its university directors, Dr. Edward Blumenthal of Marquette University and Dr. Purush Papatla of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The directors play an integral role in providing strategic direction for the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute and are responsible for setting research priorities, enhancing the data…
Marquette Graduate School Dean Recognized For Significant Research Contributions In Psychology
MILWAUKEE — Dr. Douglas Woods, vice provost for graduate and professional studies and dean of the Marquette Graduate School, received an award for “Significant Contributions to the Practice of Behavior Analysis” from the Wisconsin Association for Behavior Analysis. The honor recognizes his work supporting behavior analysis program development and using behavioral treatments for children with…
Marquette Professors Win Award For Best Accounting Paper
MILWAUKEE — Marquette University professors Dr. Qianhua “Q” Ling and Dr. Joseph Wall have been honored by the American Accounting Association. Ling, associate professor of accounting, and Wall, assistant professor of accounting, received an AAA Best Paper award for their study, “Lowering Standards: Unintended Consequences of 990-N and Value Congruence on Cost Shifting.” The pair…
Marquette Dean Of Libraries Elected American Library Association Endowment Trustee
MILWAUKEE — Janice Welburn, dean of Raynor Memorial Libraries at Marquette University, has been elected as trustee for the American Library Association endowment fund. As an ALA endowment trustee, she will play a key role in ensuring a healthy financial outlook for the association. With the ALA, Welburn will have a hand in holding, investing, reinvesting and…