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14 National Attraction Vibrant and mature, Marquette’s pioneering sports law institute draws students from coast to coast
20 Get Smart? Milwaukee County Community Justice Council takes on making better criminal-justice decisions 38
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Restorative Justice Initiative Conference Dublin’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin addresses the clergy sex-abuse scandal
31 Barrock Lecture Cal-Berkeley’s Jonathan Simon discusses how we should punish murder
34 Nies Lecture Stanford’s Mark Lemley considers whether the patent office can be fixed
38 Till Death Do Us Part
Marquette’s Chad Oldfather and Roanoke’s Todd Peppers on ailing chief justices of the United States
42 Investiture of Hon. James A. Wynn, Jr. 57
Editor: Alan J. Borsuk Production: Jane Eddy Casper, Christine Wilczynski-Vogel Design: Douglas Frohmader, Andy Haas Schneider Please send address changes to: Marquette University Law School Office of Alumni Relations Eckstein Hall P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
Dean Joseph D. Kearney reflects on Marquette’s—and the Fourth Circuit’s—Judge Wynn
2 Message from Marquette University’s New President, Rev. Scott R. Pilarz, S.J. 4 Marquette Law School News One-year report on Eckstein Hall, 4 Milwaukee Bar Lawyer of the Year, 6 Teaching law to high school students, 8 Huiras scholarship recipient, 10 Faculty accomplishments, 11 New website launched, 12 Remembering Terry Evans, 13 Idea traffic inside Eckstein Hall, 13
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Jane Appleby, 44 James A. Odlum, 47 Onnie Leach Smith, 48 Antoinette Robbins, 50 On the cover: A group of faculty, students, alumni, and supporters of Marquette’s sports law program, photographed at Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers (listed in alphabetical order): Ryan P. Albregts, Paul M. Anderson, Timothy J. Bucher, Teresa M. Covington, Carolina M. Dutriz, Ashley E. Fale, Martin J. Greenberg, Elise M. Harris, Jeremy D. Heacox, Charles I. Henderson, Matt Kleine, Lauren A. Malizia, Jaime L. McGaver, James T. McKeown, William S. Miller, Matthew J. Mitten, Sarah A. Padove, Matthew J. Parlow, Sarah A. Ponath, Michael J. Redding, Erica N. Reib, Richard A. Reider, Lindsay A. Ruch, Richard S. Schlesinger, Jenni E. Spies, Mary Alice Tierney, Joseph P. Trevino, Ante Z. Udovicic, Rebecca V. Watson, Edward Werner, and Marti L. Wronski. Photo by Tim Evans. Marquette Lawyer
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