Clinical Professor of Law; Director
E-mail: mjross1@wisc.edu
Telephone: (608)262-3764
Office: Room 4353, Law School
Education:
M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1985
J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School
Recently Taught Courses
726 Intro to Substantive Criminal Law
862 Legal Assistance to Institutionalized Persons (LAIP)
945 Law & Correctional Institutions
Biography
Clinical Professor Meredith Ross has worked at the Law School's Frank J. Remington Center since 1990, and has served as the Center's director since 1996. In that capacity, she oversees all of the Remington Center's in-house clinical projects and externships. Prof. Ross also provides supervision to individual students in the clinics, in their work assisting inmates in state and federal prisons throughout Wisconsin, and representing defendants in criminal appeals. In addition to clinical teaching, Prof. Ross teaches courses in substantive criminal law and criminal justice administration at the law school, and has designed and taught a seminar on the history of punishment. Prof. Ross came to the Remington Center as a recent UW Law graduate (magna cum laude), having completed her final year of law school at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Prior to attending law school, Prof. Ross earned a Ph.D. in English and American literature at the University of Wisconsin, where she taught writing, literature, and women's studies. Prof. Ross's work at the Remington Center allows her to combine her interests in teaching and academic research with work on individual cases. She particularly enjoys the collaborative teaching setting which is possible in a clinical program. Prof. Ross lives with her husband and numerous animals on twenty acres of wooded land about a half hour's drive from Madison.
