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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…
Founder Of Marquette University’s Center For Peacemaking Honored By The Foley Foundation
MILWAUKEE — Dr. Terrence Rynne, founder of the Center for Peacemaking and instructor of theology at Marquette University was honored by the James W. Foley Foundation with the 2019 Humanitarian of the Year award for his work in conflict resolution and peacemaking at its Foley Foundation Freedom Awards gala last night in Washington, D.C. Rynne…
Marquette Student-Written Play Honored By The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
MILWAUKEE – The play “White Privilege,” written by Marquette University student Malaina Moore, was awarded the prestigious Citizen Artist Award by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival national selection team. The Citizen Artist award recognizes that theatrical production is central to urgent community, national and international conversations on campuses of higher education. “This award reflects and reinforces the mission of Marquette Theatre,…
New York Times Columnist David Brooks To Serve As Marquette’s Commencement Speaker
MILWAUKEE — David Brooks, the New York Times best-selling author and political commentator, will serve as Marquette University’s Commencement speaker on Sunday, May 19. As part of the university’s Commencement ceremony, he will receive an honorary doctor of letters degree. Sister Ann M. Durst, SHCJ, founder of Casa Cornelia Law Center in San Diego, will receive an honorary doctor…
Marquette Professor Awarded $1.9 Million Grant For Spinal Cord Regeneration Project
Dr. Murray Blackmore, associate professor of biomedical sciences in the College of Health Sciences at Marquette University, has received a $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a five-year project that targets regenerating injured nerve cells in spinal cord injuries. The grant is his third NIH grant of more than $1 million…