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Garry Wills
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Constitution Day
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Public Understanding and Opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court
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On October 21, the Marquette Law School Poll will release the results of a nationwide survey of public opinion about the Supreme Court. How much do citizens know about the Court? How informed are they about the Constitution? What, if anything, do they think of the justices? With respect to recent decisions of the Court, how much of the public supports or opposes the Court’s rulings? How much is opinion of the Court and its decisions based in partisan or ideological affiliation of voters? Do opinions of the Court influence presidential-vote choices? Does the public see the Court as legitimate?
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Milwaukee 2025: Water, Jobs, and the Way Forward
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Ten years ago, Marquette University Law School convened a conference titled “Milwaukee 2015: Water, Jobs, and the Way Forward.” Participants mapped a pathway for Milwaukee to emerge as a worldwide water hub. As one local leader put it: “My dream is that by 2015, when people think water, they think Milwaukee.” A decade later, we reconvene to examine how far the region has come toward achieving that goal. The conference will also look forward to the next decade and consider the next stage of the region’s development in the face of competition from other parts of the country that have the same objective.
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Taking on the Early Childhood Disadvantage
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The gaps in long-term school success between low-income children and higher-income children are, in large part, present the day kids start kindergarten. What could be effective in reducing the disadvantages that arise in early childhood? A half-day conference at Marquette University will provide insight from national experts and from people trying to improve the situation in Milwaukee. Speakers will include Dana Suskind, M.D., Co-director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago and Katherine Magnuson, Ph.D., director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty and an expert on the impact of poverty on children.