Wisconsin 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 prov ...
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 . ...
Four 2024 University of Wisconsin Law School graduates are among over 130 Immigrant Justice Corps (IJC) Fellows joining the fight for immigrant justice in more than 30 states. Fellows serve for two years as staff attorneys at immigrant legal ...
UW Law Assistant Professor Renagh O'Leary 's scholarship on community supervision's sentencing role in state courts was recently honored by the Association of American Law Schools' Criminal Justice Section. O'Leary received an honorab ...
Six University of Wisconsin Law School students have been awarded 2024 Peggy Browning Fund fellowships in workplace justice advocacy. Securing a national Peggy Browning Fellowship is a challenging process, with over 3,950 applications and ...
Two recent University of Wisconsin Law School graduates have been named to national fellowships. Rita Hirami '24 is one of this year's 84 fellows at Equal Justice Works , the nation’s largest facilitator of opportunities in publ ...
University of Wisconsin Law School's mock trial program has finished another successful Spring competition season. UW Law sent two teams to the annual TYLA regional competition Feb. 15-18, 2024, in Minnesota. The regional hosts 20 teams ...
Parker Fiedrich presents his oral argument Feb. 22, 2024. Parker Fiedrich is the winner of the Second Annual Oral Argument Competition at University of Wisconsin Law School. Parker Fiedrich In the spring semester of each ye ...
University of Wisconsin Law School Emeritus Professor Peter Carstensen has earned the 2024 Alfred E. Kahn Award for Antitrust Achievement from American Antitrust Institute for his significant contributions to antitrust enforcement. ...
Professor Miriam Seifter , J.D. candidates Alex Kaplan and Karen Pérez-Wilson, and LL.M. candidate Tanvi Kanitkar have been named speakers for University of Wisconsin Law School’s 2024 Hooding Ceremony . From left: Professo ...
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Pamela Pepper will be the keynote speaker at the 2024 University of Wisconsin Law School Hooding Ceremony . The ceremony, open to UW Law School students and their family and friends, will take place at 1 p.m. Frid ...
(Pictured, from left) Rachel Burg, Megan McDermott and Judge Phillip Koss were named 2023 Teachers of the Year. Each spring, University of Wisconsin Law School celebrates excellence in teaching through its Teacher of the Year awards . ...
The Wisconsin Law Review has named second-year law student Juliet Jacques as Editor-in-Chief for the 2024–25 academic year. Jacques will succeed outgoing Editor-in-Chief T. J. Clark. Juliet Jacques The 2024–25 Senior Edito ...
You could say Mary Hoynacki '14 is feeling pretty jazzed about her latest accomplishment – fulfilling her goal of writing a children's book. "The Groovy Blube" is about Gerry, a blueberry saxophonist who sets out to play sweet, smoo ...
Wisconsin residents who are enrolled members of federally recognized Wisconsin Indian tribes may have their University of Wisconsin Law School in-state tuition and fees covered as part of a new five-year pilot program. This is just one elem ...