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New Marquette Law School national survey finds 55% say Department of Justice has filed unjustified cases against Trump’s political opponents
Also: Please note: Complete Poll results and methodology information can be found online at law.marquette.edu/poll MILWAUKEE – A new Marquette Law School Poll national survey finds 55% say the Department of Justice has filed unjustified criminal cases against President Donald Trump’s political opponents, while 45% think the cases are justified. Recent cases have been brought…
New Marquette Law School national survey finds more people favoring Democrats than Republicans in anticipated 2026 vote for Congress and also more Democrats saying they are certain to vote
Please note: Complete Poll results and methodology information can be found online at law.marquette.edu/poll MILWAUKEE —A new Marquette Law School Poll national survey, conducted following the Nov. 5 elections in New Jersey, Virginia, and elsewhere, finds that 49% of registered voters expect to vote for a Democrat and 44% expect to vote for a Republican in…
No Walking Away
How Paying Attention to Correctional Officers Will Help Us Understand the Harms American Incarceration Causes.
The Washington Post wins 2025 Dori J. Maynard Justice Award
Washington Post reporters Dana Hedgpeth, Sari Horwitz, and The Washington Post staff have won the 2025 Dori J. Maynard Justice Award for “Indian Boarding Schools,” a searing five-part series based on an 18-month investigation of the widespread sexual abuse of Native American children by Catholic priests, brothers and sisters. Judges called the entry “haunting,” “beautifully…
Associate vice president for public affairs honored as Community Champion by Near West Side Partners
Rana Altenburg, associate vice president for public affairs, was honored as the first Near West Side Partners’ Community Champion at the neighborhood organization’s 10-year anniversary celebration Wednesday, May 21. The award was presented by President Kimo Ah Yun. NWSP’s Community Champion Award recognizes a person or organization that has consistently advocated for the well-being of…
Good Neighbors
While Marquette University has been part of Milwaukee since 1881, throughout this time, change, too, has been continuous on and around campus. The Law School’s move from Sensenbrenner Hall to the brand-new Eckstein Hall in 2010 may stand out. Yet more recently, within the past year alone, the Law School has seen some changes in…
Can Tax Policy Help Us Control Artificial Intelligence?
Illustration by Robert Neubecker Reuven Avi-Yonah is the Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law and director of the International Tax LLM Program at the University of Michigan. Avi-Yonah received a B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in medieval history from Harvard University, where he thereafter earned his J.D. “There is no…
Roots of the Living Tree
Matching respect for the letter of the law with an understanding of changing times is central to constitutional interpretation in Canada
From Conversation to Dream to Idea to Reality
Above: Marquette Law School’s Mike Gousha (left) interviews MIT Professor Craig Steven Wilder at Marquette Law School in December 2013. Conversations. Dreams. Ideas. And more conversations. Who knows the exact moment when intellectual curiosity turns into something that will become a reality? But consider December 4, 2013, at Marquette University Law School: With final exams…
The Boundaries of Law and Politics
Wisconsin’s 2020 redistricting cycle was long, bitterly contested, and subject to dramatic reversals of fortune. Yet perhaps the most unusual feature of the whole process was how it ended in 2024: with a legislative redistricting plan passed by Republican legislators and signed by a Democratic governor. Redistricting of the state legislature by divided political branches…