Marquette University Law School

Please join us virtually on Friday, May 8 (11:00-noon CT), for “Wastewater to Wealth,” an event held in conjunction with Chicago Water Week presented by Current. David Strifling, director of Marquette Law School’s Water Law and Policy Initiative and associate professor of law, will discuss two of the Initiative’s recent research projects with relevance in Chicago and around the world.

https://law.marquette.edu/2026-05-08/wastewater-wealth

Marquette University Law School is pleased to bring you the results of a new statewide poll on Tuesday, March 24, in an in-person event featuring Charles Franklin, professor of law and public policy and director of the Marquette Law School Poll, and Derek Mosley, director of the school’s Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education.

https://law.marquette.edu/2026-03-24/issues-marquette-law-school-poll

Marquette Law School invites you to the 2026 Nies Lecture in Intellectual Property. The Hidden Curriculum: Promoting Inclusion in Invention and Innovation presented by Colleen Chien, professor of law and co-director of the Center for Law and & Technology, University of California, Berkeley.
Read details here: https://law.marquette.edu/2026-04-16/2026-nies-lecture-intellectual-property?utm_campaign=Jumpword_2026&utm_medium=mail&utm_source=nies

Please join us on April 16 for "On the Issues: Sister Helen Prejean."
Marquette Law School’s Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education and Andrew Center for Restorative Justice are pleased to once again welcome Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, to Eckstein Hall for a program about her ministry, including counseling individual death-row prisoners and working with the family members of murder victims.

https://law.marquette.edu/2026-04-16/issues-sister-helen-prejean-0

Join us April 8 for “Data Centers and the Energy-Water Nexus.” This event—presented by the Law School’s Water Law and Policy Initiative in the Lubar Center—will focus on energy and water use by data centers.

https://law.marquette.edu/2026-04-08/data-centers-and-energy-water-nexus

Join us on March 4 for the next installment of our “Get To Know” series at Marquette Law School’s Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education. Derek Mosley, director of the Lubar Center, will host Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Jill Karofsky for an engaging conversation.

https://law.marquette.edu/2026-03-04/get-know-chief-justice-jill-karofsky

Please join us on February 17 as we continue our "Get To Know" series at Marquette Law School's Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education. Derek Mosley, the Lubar Center's director, will host the first of two programs featuring the Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates.

https://law.marquette.edu/2026-02-17/get-know-wisconsin-supreme-court-candidate-maria-lazar

Please join us on February 5 as we continue the series at Marquette Law School's Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education, Get to Know, with a new “Face of the Case” program. Derek Mosley, director of the Lubar Center, will welcome Grant House, the lead plaintiff in House v. NCAA, the landmark federal antitrust case reshaping college athletics.

https://law.marquette.edu/2026-02-05/get-know-grant-house

On the Issue: Data Centers: Pitfalls or Possibilities. Wisconsin’s number of data centers is on the rise. According to datacentermap.com, there are now 47 centers in the state. As communities navigate the impacts of this rapid growth, basic questions arise: What exactly are data centers, what purposes do they serve, and how do they affect Wisconsin’s economy and environment?

https://law.marquette.edu/2026-01-21/issue-data-centers-pitfalls-or-possibilities

Join Marquette Law School and the Marquette College of Education on December 2 as we continue to explore student achievement, with a focus on reading efforts, in a program led by Alan Borsuk, senior fellow in law and public policy.

We will examine the current state of reading and literacy education in Milwaukee and across Wisconsin. In light of Act 20 (a state law enacted in 2023), the new Milwaukee Public Schools reading plan, the nationwide surge of "science of reading" laws and initiatives, and the launch of the Milwaukee Reading Coalition, the topic is not just timely but urgent. Joining us for a conversation at the Law School are some of Wisconsin’s leading figures in this field, including:

The program will begin at 12:15 p.m. in Eckstein Hall. It is free and open to the public; however, registration is required.

https://law.marquette.edu/2025-12-02/power-reading-transforming-student-achievement-through-literacy

We hope you will join us on November 12 as we welcome Maya Payne Smart, author of Reading for Our Lives, to the Lubar Center. The book’s subtitle is A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six. The program will focus on what should go into a plan for parents and caregivers to get young children on the path to being good readers.

https://law.marquette.edu/2025-11-12/how-get-kids-reading-their-lives