Zoe Engberg, Rachel Burg, and Elizabeth Cole presenting "The Pegagogy of Uncomfortable Collaborations" Nine University of Wisconsin Law School clinical professors, instructors and fellows presented at the 2025 Association of American Law ...
UW Law School NewsUniversity of Wisconsin Law School Legal Advocacy, Analysis, and Writing professors chose 20 students’ trial briefs for the Spring 2025 Best Brief Competition. The semi-finalists are Yasmeen Asfoor, Justin Barham, Mikayla Bird, Ellie Dell ...
UW Law SchoolBenjamin Sevart 3L is one of 14 fellows selected for this year’s Law Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE). The 2025 fellowship will take place in Germany and Poland over the course of two w ...
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet C. Protasiewicz will be the keynote speaker at the 2025 University of Wisconsin Law School Hooding Ceremony . Justice Janet Protasiewicz The ceremony, open to UW Law School students and their f ...
UW Law School NewsErin McBride Professor Erin McBride , J.D. candidates Clarence “Kamau” Allen and Duranya Freeman, and Master of Laws candidate Mohammed Bataineh have been named speakers for University of Wisconsin Law School’s 2025 ...
UW Law NewsB.J. Ramsay and Sabine Arndt Two people working at University of Wisconsin Law School were recognized this spring at the UW–Madison 2024-25 Student Employee of the Year Banquet . Sabine Arndt, who is graduating in May as a po ...
UW Law NewsUniversity of Wisconsin Law School 1L students Brent Brunner and Wonkyo Jeong, coached by Jonathan Blanchard of Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, placed third nationally at the 2025 USPTO National Patent Application Drafting Competition . The ...
UW Law School NewsEach spring, University of Wisconsin Law School celebrates excellence in teaching through its Teacher of the Year awards . UW Law School’s annual teaching awards demonstrate the value placed on excellent teaching. Our faculty engage a ...
UW Law School NewsBrandon Pope The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society has named Brandon Pope 2L as editor-in-chief for the 2025-26 academic year. Pope will succeed outgoing Editor-in-Chief Claire Carey. The 2025-26 Senior Editorial Board ...
UW Law School NewsAnastasia Bruss The Wisconsin International Law Journal has named Anastasia Bruss 2L as editor-in-chief for the 2025-26 academic year. Bruss will succeed outgoing Editor-in-Chief Kasim Rana. The 2025–26 Senior Ed ...
UW Law School NewsAnnika Hurd is the winner of the third annual Oral Argument Advocacy Challenge at University of Wisconsin Law School. Annika Hurd and Harrison McBride competed Feb. 20, 2025. Every spring semester, students in UW Law’s Legal Analy ...
Beeta Siwik The Wisconsin Law Review has named second-year law student Beeta Siwik as Editor-in-Chief for the 2025-26 academic year. Siwik will succeed outgoing Editor-in-Chief Juliet Jacques. The 2025–26 Senior Edito ...
UW Law School NewsTiffany Mitchell, a third-year student at University of Wisconsin Law School, won the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Armed Forces Law 2025 writing contest with her paper "Unaccountable: Command Responsibility and Army Officers&r ...
UW Law School NewsRichard Bilder , who served for more than 50 years as a University of Wisconsin Law School professor and renowned international law scholar, died Jan. 18, 2025, in Madison; he was 97. Bilder was an expert in international and foreign rela ...
UW Law School NewsKathryn Hendley Lawyers and Democratic Decline (LADD), a collaborative research project directed by University of Wisconsin Law School’s Kathryn Hendley , is co-sponsoring a symposium, “Lawyers as Agents for Change in Countrie ...
UW Law School NewsThe Wisconsin Innocence Project (WIP) has received a $1.5 million federal grant to investigate cases that could benefit from recent advancements in DNA testing. The Wisconsin Innocence Project, a legal clinic at University of Wisconsin Law ...
UW Law School NewsWisconsin Innocence Project Co-Director Christopher Lau (left) and Manuel Cucuta on Nov. 26, 2024, upon Cucuta's release from prison. Photo by Alyssa Lentz. MILWAUKEE, Nov. 26, 2024 – The Wisconsin Innocence Project (WIP) is proud ...
UW Law NewsWilliam Lawrence "Larry" Church '63 , who was widely acknowledged as a highly effective and original teacher focused on developing his students’ capacity for analysis and logical thought, passed away Nov. 24; he was 86. Church was the ...
UW Law NewsMinwewe Valliere, 3L Minwewe Valliere 3L wants to do everything she can to help preserve Native traditional knowledge. Valliere, co-president of University of Wisconsin Law School’s Indigenous Law Students Association , is a membe ...
UW Law NewsFor the first time in the Best Brief Competition’s 22-year history, two pieces tied for first place. The winners for 2024 are Andrew Reed and Kaitlyn Spiegl. The other finalists -- Allyson Berri, Emma Dzwierzynski and Lindsey Govan - ...
UW Law NewsBrandon Loredo, 2L Brandon Loredo 2L comes from a long line of family who have served in the military. “I always had it in my mind that I would like to be a Soldier,” said the San Antonio, Texas, native. “But I wanted ...
UW Law NewsLisa Washington is the recipient of a 2024 Dukeminier Award for her essay “Weaponizing Fear,” published in The Yale Law Journal Forum . The Williams Institute’s Dukeminier Awards acknowledge the best law review articles conce ...
UW Law NewsKim Peterson As of the 2024-25 academic year, UW Law’s Legal Research and Writing Program is now known as the Legal Analysis, Advocacy, and Writing Program . This new name more accurately reflects the content of both first-year an ...
Andrew Turner '08, co-director of Legal Analysis, Advocacy, and Writing, has been named assistant dean for the Academic Enhancement Program (AEP). Andrew Turner Turner started Aug. 26, succeeding Assistant Dean Moji Olaniyan; she ...
The Wisconsin Innocence Project (WIP) is proud to announce that their client, David Bintz, and his brother, Robert Bintz, represented by the Great North Innocence Project , have been released from prison after 25 years of wrongful incarcer ...
June Miller Weisberger Blanchard , a prominent family and labor law scholar who taught at University Law School from 1974 to 1994, died Aug. 3, 2024, at her home in Skokie, Illinois; she was 93. June Miller Weisberger Blanch ...
The Best Brief Competition is an annual event that recognizes outstanding legal writing by first-year students. The faculty teaching the Legal Research and Writing II course selected the best trial briefs written by their spring semester student ...
Arti Walker-Peddakotla , a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow, former elected local official and U.S. Army veteran, has been selected as the 2024 William H. Hastie Fellow. The University of Wisconsin Law School ’s Hastie Fellowship has pro ...
Kelsey Gunvalson Three University of Wisconsin Law School students are among 50 chosen to work in the 2024 Rural Summer Legal Corps (RSLC) , a program that addresses the pressing legal issues facing rural communities. Each ...
Rebecca Scheller Rebecca Scheller ’07, Associate Dean for Admissions & Financial Aid for the past 16 years, has taken on the additional responsibility of Chief Administrative Officer at University of Wisconsin Law School . ...
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