Law
Get to Know: Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Maria Lazar, Feb. 17
Maria Lazar has served in a number of roles in the legal system, including as a judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals since 2022.
Hallows Lecture: How Three Implicit Legal Ideas Have Sidelined Congress and Empowered the President and the Courts, March 2
Marquette University Law School will host the 2026 Hallows Lecture, “Unstated: How Three Implicit Legal Ideas Have Sidelined Congress and Empowered the President and the Courts.”
Marquette well-represented at U.S. Olympic Speed Skating Trials
With the U.S. Olympic Trials at the Pettit from Jan. 2-5, Marquette was well represented both on and off the ice.
Law School adjunct faculty represented on BizTimes Milwaukee’s Notable Litigators and Trial Attorneys
Notable Litigators and Trial Attorneys is part of BizTimes Milwaukee’s Notable series.
Ripple Effect
With law students actively participating, the Water Law and Policy Initiative is building a strong record of shedding light on major issues.
Poll Results Illuminate American Civic Life
This article is a complementary piece to “Courts or Community Conversations?“ Let us begin by recalling a famous dictum from 1840: “The political associations which exist in the United States are only a single feature in the midst of the immense assemblage of associations in that country. Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all…
Courts or Community Conversations?
Hon. Michael Y. Scudder is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. This is a lightly edited version of the E. Harold Hallows Lecture, delivered at Marquette University Law School on March 3, 2025, and titled “Article III Standing as the Guardian of Free Speech and Democratic Self-Governance.” The lecture…
Connectivity (We Don’t Mean Wi-Fi)
This article is a complementary piece to “Courts or Community Conversations?“ Judge Michael Scudder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Professor Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette Law School Poll, are both observers of the dynamics of American civic life. Put them together for a dialogue conducted both in person…
Faculty and staff honored at annual Employee Anniversary Luncheon
Faculty and staff members from across the university were honored at the annual Employee Anniversary Luncheon on Tuesday, Oct. 28.
What If…
Illustrations by Robert Neubecker Taylor Thompson was concerned how things would go in her first year as a first-grade teacher in a public elementary school in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. And, in fact, she found teaching during that 2024–2025 school year to be hard work. “Each day is not rainbows and singing and dancing,” she said. But…