The Frank J. Remington Center is a law-in-action program of the UW Law School made up of several clinical projects dedicated to teaching, service, and research. The Center was founded forty years ago by the late Professor Frank J. Remington in order to provide students with a "learning center" in the area of criminal justice. Today the Center includes civil as well as criminal projects. The Center provides law students with the opportunity to develop the substantive knowledge, professional skills, and judgment necessary to excel as attorneys; provides high-quality service in individual cases; and engages in empirical research necessary to bring about systemic improvements. Students receive course credit for their clinical work
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| At the October 16-17, 2008 Summit that discusses responses that could reduce racial disparities in the criminal justice system, Ken Streit provided closing remarks... Read more... | In May of 2008, Kathryn (Katie) Holtz joined the Remington Center for a one-year appointment as a clinical instructor in the Center's LAIP project... Read more... |
| The Wisconsin Innocence Project, led by Professor Byron Lichstein, has brought new DNA evidence to challenge a 1985 murder conviction... Read more... | Clinical Associate Professor Ken Streit was fortunate to be invited to teach for a week on the subject of legal ethics to a day long Sunday seminar and four different evening classes at Soochow University... Read more... |
Education Objectives
The Frank J. Remington Center provides a tremendous array of clinical experiences to students at the University of Wisconsin Law School. But regardless of their variety, all of the Center's clinical projects are motivated by core educational values. Grounded in these values, we have developed a consistent philosophy of clinical education at the Remington Center. Read more.
Research Objectives
As a "learning center," the Remington Center has long fostered an environment in which students and clinical faculty can gather information on legal issues and empirical problems, reflect on them in a collaborative setting, and share their findings with the legal and scholarly communities. The Center's faculty and students have a long and impressive list of publications and appellate litigation. Read More.
Service Objectives
The Frank J. Remington Center has always had a strong commitment to service, broadly defined--to low-income citizens, incarcerated individuals, correctional agencies, the public defender system, prosecutors’ offices, victims, policy makers, and the larger community. Read more.