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Read Judge Rosenthal’s 2019 Hallows Lecture at Marquette University Law School Upon hearing the subject of Chief Judge Lee Rosenthal’s Hallows Lecture, I was excited for the Marquette Law School community, particularly our students, to hear about a different facet of the legal profession, beyond the usual fare of theory, precedent, and policy. I did…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

T he debate over who is an American and what rights come along with citizenship is as old as the republic and as recent as today’s newspapers. Rarely, however, does the discussion achieve any kind of historical understanding. Such understanding requires familiarity with the era of Reconstruction that followed the American Civil War, when the United…