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Workplace Prof Blog

Covers arbitration, disability, employment discrimination, labor law, public employment law and workplace safety. By Professors Richard Bales, Jeffrey M. Hirsch and Marcia L. McCormick.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/

Jun 17
AALS Section on Employment Discrimination Law – Call for Papers for Panel on “Title VII at 50: Looking Forward, Looking Back"

AALS Section on Employment Discrimination Law – Call for Papers for Panel on “Title VII at 50: Looking Forward, Looking Back"

Deborah Widiss (Indiana-Bloomington) passes on a call for paper for the upcoming program of the AALS Section on Employment Discrimination Law – Title VII at 50: Looking Forward, Looking Back.” Here is the annoucement: The AALS Section on…
Jun 14
Fourth Circuit Strikes Down NLRB's Notice Posting Rule

Fourth Circuit Strikes Down NLRB's Notice Posting Rule

The Fourth Circuit has now joined the D.C. Circuit in striking down the NLRB's notice posting rule, in Chamber of Commerce v. NLRB (a 3-0 decision, with 2 Obama nominees). Unlike the D.C. Circuit's broad, quasiiconstitutional decision, the…
Jun 14
Shout Out to Richard Moberly's New Blog: Law of Secrecy Blog

Shout Out to Richard Moberly's New Blog: Law of Secrecy Blog

Richard Mobely (Nebraska) writes to tell us that he is finally dipping his toes in the blogging world (yes, he realizes it is 10 years too late!). In particular, and in response to the crazy last week of whistleblower and...

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ADR Prof Blog

By Professors Andrea Schneider, Nancy Welsh, Michael Moffitt and Sarah Rudolph Cole.

http://www.indisputably.org

Jun 16
Plea Bargaining Harmless Error

Plea Bargaining Harmless Error

Late last week the Supreme Court unanimously decided U.S. v. Davila, the full decision is here. This is not a ground-breaking case, and the holding is not a surprise. Yet it is the bigger question about how our criminal justice system…
Jun 13
Stipanowich on Delaware Chancery Arbitration

Stipanowich on Delaware Chancery Arbitration

In May, the Third Circuit heard oral arguments in Delaware Coalition for Open Government v. Stine, the case challenging the constitutionality of Delaware’s chancery arbitration scheme (see my previous commentary on the program here,…
Jun 11
AALS ADR Section Call for Paper

AALS ADR Section Call for Paper

CALL FOR PAPERS ADR and the Regulatory State Sponsored by the AALS Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution 2014 AALS Annual Meeting • January 2-5, 2014 • New York City Private dispute resolution and agency decision-making are now…

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Faculty Blog

The Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog

http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/

Jun 18
Milwaukee: The $5,000 house and other thought

Milwaukee: The $5,000 house and other thought

I was having lunch the other day with someone who works in city government, and we were talking about the serious foreclosure problem in Milwaukee. He was lamenting the fact that in some of the poorest sections of the city, the housing market…
Jun 18
The Value of Trial Experience to a Young Lawyer

The Value of Trial Experience to a Young Lawyer

As a new lawyer, I struggled to come up with blog topics. Being only two years out of law school, I don’t pretend to have near the amount of knowledge or experience as the frequent contributors and readers of this blog. I contemplated a…
Jun 18
So Long, Harris — Breyer’s on Board

So Long, Harris — Breyer’s on Board

Yesterday, in a long-anticipated move, the Supreme Court finally overturned its 2002 decision in Harris v. United States. The new decision in Alleyne v. United States extended jury-trial rights to mandatory minimum sentences. Justice…

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Ratio Juris

Offers perspectives on judicial decisionmaking and the legal process. By Professors Jim Chen, Alfred Brophy, Stefanie Lindquist, R.J. Lipkin, Chad M. Oldfather, Lori A. Ringhand, and Elizabeth Weeks.

http://ratiojuris.blogspot.com/

Jun 14
Open U.S. Intervention in Syrian War

Open U.S. Intervention in Syrian War

Most of us are waking up to the following news about the Syrian war: WASHINGTON — “The White House declared Thursday that Syria had crossed a ‘red line’ by using chemical weapons in that country’s civil war, and…
Jun 2
Psychoanalysis & Buddhism: A Basic Reading Guide

Psychoanalysis & Buddhism: A Basic Reading Guide

This is a subject I hope to post something on in the near future, but in the interim I thought I’d make available some of the titles I’ll be reading in preparation. Aronson, Harvey B. Buddhist Practice on Western Ground:…
May 30
Rutgers-Newark Law School: People’s Electric

Rutgers-Newark Law School: People’s Electric

Professor George W. Conk has published his much anticipated (well, at least in some quarters) article on Rutgers-Newark Law School—People’s Electric—in the 1960s and ‘70s. Loyal and attentive readers might recall the…

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Covers emerging empirical legal scholarship, conference updates and empirical claims. Edited by Professors Michael Heise, Theodore Eisenberg, William Ford, Sara Benesh, William Henderson, Frank Cross, Carolyn Shapiro, anbd Christopher Zorn

http://www.elsblog.org/the_empirical_legal_studi/

Jun 13
UCLA's Outstanding Stats Resource

UCLA's Outstanding Stats Resource

Those looking for either introductory or mid-level instructional on-line resources should visit UCLA's idre site. The site's resources are both deep and wide. Particularly helpful is an array of on-line classes and workshops (some with…
Jun 10
When Independent Variables Reverse Sign

When Independent Variables Reverse Sign

Andrew Gelman (Columbia--Statistics) has an interesting post about a nettlesome little topic -- How to make sense of an independent variable that "flips" signs (that is, goes from negative to positive or vice-versa) across model…
Jun 3
Helpful SPSS Resource

Helpful SPSS Resource

Though most of our stats software package-related posts skew towards Stata, we remain mindful that folks' tastes vary across the most popular packages (e.g., Stata, SPSS, R, SAS). With this in mind, we recently stumbled across a helpful and…

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Life Sentences Blog

A blawg by Marquette University Law School Professor Michael O'Hear to track new legal developments and research relating to long prison sentences.

http://www.lifesentencesblog.com/

Nov 15
Incarceration and Collateral Damage: Prof. Traci Burch to Speak at Marquette on Nov. 29

Incarceration and Collateral Damage: Prof. Traci Burch to Speak at Marquette on Nov. 29

We live in an era of unprecedented mass incarceration. Since the mid-1970?s, America’s imprisonment rate has quintupled, reaching heights otherwise unknown in the western world. We embarked on this incarceration binge with little…
Oct 22
Seventh Circuit Affirms Life Sentence Notwithstanding Supreme Court’s Recent Eighth Amendment Decision

Seventh Circuit Affirms Life Sentence Notwithstanding Supreme Court’s Recent Eighth Amendment Decision

From the time of its decision in Harmelin v. Michigan (1991), affirming a mandatory sentence of life without parole for a drug trafficking offense, through its decision in Ewing v. California (2003), affirming a de facto life sentence for…
Oct 8
What’s Next for the Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel?

What’s Next for the Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel?

I have a new article on SSRN that considers recent developments in the Supreme Court relating to effective assistance of counsel. Here’s the abstract:

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