Tiffany Mitchell comes from a long line of veterans. “My dad, uncle and grandfather all served,” said the Milwaukee native. “And in 2003, I enlisted in the Army. At about the same time, my sister also joined the Marines.& ...
David Westrate ‘23 always wanted to make a career out of real estate development and transactions. “From the time I was a kid, I loved going to big cities and looking at the huge buildings, marveling over how people could const ...
Eric Taylor University of Wisconsin Law School staff member Eric Taylor and law student Julia Hoff were named to the 2023 Association of American Law Schools' Pro Bono Honor Roll . Taylor, evening reference librarian a ...
Ryan Poe-Gavlinski has been named the inaugural deputy director of University of Wisconsin Law School’s Economic Justice Institute (EJI). “Being named deputy director of EJI means a lot to me as it shows that our administration a ...
The finalists in this year's Best Brief Competition are Mary Berg, Christopher Hovel, Amber Renee Quinlan, Benjamin Sevart and Frederick Yates. The Best Brief Competition is an annual event that recognizes outstanding legal writing by first-ye ...
University of Wisconsin Law School is helping lead the way to develop new technologies that secure the “digital legal supply chain” — the processes by which laws and legal information are recorded, stored, updated and distribut ...
New research shows more than an 8:1 return on investment for civil legal aid in Wisconsin, reflecting the impact of work done at University of Wisconsin Law School. A study commissioned by the Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation Inc. (WisTAF) a ...
The semi-finalists in the Spring 2023 Best Brief Competition are: Mary Berg, Anna Colvin, Noah Dregne, Madeline Ehlinger, Ryan Gooding, Christopher Hovel, Evan W. Lane, Erin M. McBride, Sumner Pitt, Amber Renee Quinlan, Nicole G. Reed, Augie Ric ...
Two University of Wisconsin Law School efforts have won University of Wisconsin–Madison Research Forward awards that support groundbreaking research. The initiative is supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and wi ...
Tristin Ott, rising 2L at UW Law School, has earned a prestigiuous Peggy Browning Fellowship for Summer 2023. Ott is working in his 10-week fellowship at the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) in Washington, D.C. Tristin Ott ...
Deans' Statement We are deans of Big Ten law schools, joining together to affirm our commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion through legally permissible means, regardless of the outcome of the cases pending before the U.S. S ...
Eric Taylor , evening reference librarian and acquisitions assistant in the UW Law Library , has been honored with a 2023 University Staff Recognition Award .The awards are presented annually to employees for their outstanding achievements. Area ...
Torey Dolan , an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation whose research focuses on political equality for Native American people, has been selected as the 2023 William H. Hastie Fellow. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Hastie Fellowsh ...
Kenechukwu Onyemaechi Okocha '07 has been nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as judge for the District of Columbia Superior Court. Kenechukwu Onyemaechi Okocha Okocha has served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorne ...
The University of Wisconsin Law Library has won the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) 2023 Public Access to Government Information Award for the "Digital Publication of Tribal Laws Pilot Project ," in ...
Professor Yaron Nili has co-authored two articles selected as the Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles of 2022. "The Corporate Governance Gap," co-authored with Kobi Kastiel of Tel Aviv University ...
Justice Louis B. Butler Jr. '77 will be the keynote speaker at the 2023 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. Friday, May ...
Each 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 and inspire ...
The Wisconsin Law Review has named second-year law student T. J. Clark as editor-in-chief for the 2023–24 academic year. Clark will replace outgoing Editor-in-Chief Kimberly Gutierrez. T.J. Clark Senior Editorial Board me ...
University of Wisconsin Law School has raised $1 million for the Faculty Recruitment and Retention Fund, thanks to a generous matching gift from Laureen Seeger ’86. Seeger, chief legal officer for American Express and a member of the Wisco ...
Nina Varsava Nina Varsava , assistant professor of law at University of Wisconsin Law School, was awarded the Association of American Law Schools' (AALS) Jurisprudence Future Promise Award at the AALS Annual Meeting last month. The award ...
Nicholas Surprise, a second-year University of Wisconsin Law School student, is the winner of the 2022 Best Brief Competition . His brief was selected as the best appellate brief written for the Spring 2022 Legal Research and Writing course. I ...
University of Wisconsin Law School has a long tradition of making a world-class legal education accessible and affordable to everyone. The values underlying the U.S News & World Report law school ranking do not align with our mission an ...
Statement of Dean Dan Tokaji University of Wisconsin Law School has a long tradition of making a world-class legal education accessible and affordable to everyone. The values underlying the U.S News & World Report law school ranking do no ...
Twenty-two recent University of Wisconsin Law School graduates have been elected to the Order of the Coif for 2022. Induction into the Order of the Coif, a national honor society, is considered one of the highest academic distinctions a law sc ...
University of Wisconsin Law School first-year student August Rice has been named the newest Stearns-Shaw Scholar. Rice is a graduate of Bowdoin College in Maine, where he majored in government and religion; he was involved with the Que ...