Mitra Sharafi selected for summer research support from the National Endowment for the Humanities
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UW Law makes Top 10 for placing grads in government, public interest jobs
UW Law School is ranked fourth in the nation for graduates in government and public interest jobs. Using 2017 graduation employment data from the American Bar Association, a new Law.com report shows which schools had the highest percentage of g ...
Law School hosts discussion with Sen. Ron Johnson
Neighborhood Law Clinic honored for success in unpaid wages case
This month, the Neighborhood Law Clinic received honorable mention for 'Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project' from the Clinical Legal Education Association. The honor recognizes the clinic's successful representation of a client who ...
Jason Yackee honored with Vilas professorship
Law student Will Kramer receives Whistleblower of the Year award
Will Kramer receiving his Opee Award Will Kramer received a 2018 Openness in Government award , presented by the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council at a ceremony on April 19. The awards, also known as the Opees, recogn ...
Cristina Bordé's client, Vicente Benavides, is released from San Quentin's death row
Bordé worked for 19 years to prove his innocence Vicente Figueroa Benavides, a California man who served nearly 25 years on death row, was released from San Quentin prison in April after all charges against him were dismissed. Cristin ...
Two UW Law students receive Peggy Browning Fellowships in labor law
The Peggy Browning Fund has awarded 10-week summer fellowships to Naman Siad and Corey Triggs, both of whom are second-year students at University of Wisconsin Law School. Naman Siad will be a Peggy Browning Fellow at the Chicago News Guild ...
Law Library wins national award for its READ poster book
Prof. Asifa Quraishi-Landes posed for a 2006 READ poster UW Law Library received a ‘Best Print Publication’ award from the American Association of Law Libraries for its book, “A Decade of University of Wisconsin ...
Yablon, Viney and Cohen named UW Law School Teachers of the Year
Each spring, UW Law School celebrates excellence in teaching through its Teacher of the Year awards. The 2017 honorees for outstanding classroom, clinical and adjunct instruction were formally announced at the Law School's Board of Visitors meet ...
Student bar elects 2018-19 executive board
Vince Falcone Vince Falcone, a second-year UW Law School student, has been elected president of the Student Bar Association for 2018-19. Falcone, who served as vice president for community affairs this year, replaces graduatin ...
Mary Prosser and Ben Kempinen joined forces to reform state law on teen consensual sex
Governor Scott Walker signed Assembly Bill 414 into law last month, marking the successful end to a ten-year effort by UW Law School Professors Mary Prosser and Ben Kempinen.The new law reduces the penalty for some teens charged with engaging in ...
Remembering civil rights leader Vel Phillips '51
Tonya Brito named Visiting Scholar at Russell Sage Foundation
UW Law School Professor Tonya Brito is one of 15 researchers appointed to the Russell Sage Foundation’s Visiting Scholars program for the 2018-19 academic year. Tonya Brito Working from the foundation headquarters in New ...
Louis Butler '77 to keynote at UW Law School's 2018 Hooding Ceremony
The University of Wisconsin Law School’s graduating class has selected the Honorable Louis B. Butler Jr. to present the keynote address at its 2018 Hooding Ceremony . Louis Butler Between 2004 and 2008, Butler served on t ...
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