Mitch discusses UW South Madison Partnership's expansion
Now in second year, UW Law's Restraining Order Clinic serves legal needs of domestic violence survivors
One year after opening its doors to clients, the UW Law School’s VOCA Restraining Order Clinic has helped 62 survivors navigate legal issues in four Wisconsin counties. Under director Ryan Poe-Gavlinski ’s supervision, law students ...
New faculty focus: Nina Varsava
David Schwartz's book looks at 200-year history of McCulloch v. Maryland
In a new book, David Schwartz chronicles 200 years in the life of McCulloch v. Maryland, a case widely regarded as one of the most important in U.S. Supreme Court history. Schwartz’s “The Spirit of the Constitution: John Marshall ...
UW Law graduates, faculty receive Order of the Coif honors
Sixteen recent UW Law School graduates, along with three faculty members, have been elected to the Order of the Coif for 2019. Induction into the Order of the Coif, a national honor society, is considered one of the highest academic distinctio ...
Olivia Schwartz wins 2019 Best Brief Competition
Prof. Andrew Turner & Dean Raymond present the awardto Olivia Schwartz (center). Olivia Schwartz, a second-year student at UW Law School, was named the winner of the 2019 Best Brief Competition. Finalists were Michael Doering, Cam ...
UW Law School mourns the loss of Jane Ford Bennett
UW Law student Olivia Radics receives top writing honors
Olivia Radics Olivia Radics, a third year UW Law student, won two recent honors for her article, “Renting out Sovereignty: The Use of Sovereign Immunity as a Sword and Shield in Patent Infringement Suits after St. Regis Mohawk Trib ...
Jennifer Binkley is UW Law's new Family Court Clinic director
The University of Wisconsin Law School welcomed Jennifer Binkley to its faculty this fall. Binkley is the new director of the Law School’s Family Court Clinic , which offers basic legal services in divorce, paternity, child placement an ...
Richard Monette and Menominee Nation win $1 million award to reclaim tribally driven food system
Law student Bella Sobah featured in UW Homecoming video stressing need for campus inclusion
UW Law speaker series to feature Erin Barbato, Scott Colom and former Gov. Tommy Thompson
The University of Wisconsin Law School will host its 2019 UWLAWTalks series , three short, inspiring presentations by thought leaders from the Law School community. The event, scheduled for Friday, Oct. 11, is part of the Law School’s All- ...
Law School Dean Raymond to step down in July
Fox, Stites join UW Law's Legal Research and Writing faculty
The University of Wisconsin Law School welcomed Ashby Fox and Alison Stites to its Legal Research & Writing faculty last month. Both began their teaching duties this fall. Ashby Fox Prior to joining UW Law, Ashby Fox was a comm ...
Law in Action: Faculty discuss UW Law's foundation and its future
Distinguished Lecturerer attracts 1,000 to speech on Ho-Chunk Nation's heritage; student Lorenzo Gudino comments
Renagh O'Leary named to 'Up and Coming Lawyers' list
Renagh O'Leary Renagh O’Leary has been named to Wisconsin Law Journal's Up and Coming Lawyers list for 2019. O’Leary is a clinical assistant professor in UW Law School’s Legal Assistance to Institutionalized Persons ...
Law student Nina Neff named a 2019 Ms. JD Fellow
Neff posed in the ABA's "tiny courtroom" this summer,during the association's annual meeting. Nina Neff, a third-year University of Wisconsin Law student, was named a Ms. JD Fellow for 2019. She is one of ten law students nationally ...
Asifa Quraishi-Landes opens Constitutional Law class to public as part of UW Law's Constitution Day events
Neighborhood Law Clinic to participate in 2nd annual UW Madison South Partnership celebration
Professor Nina Varsava joins UW Law School faculty
University of Wisconsin Law School welcomed Nina Varsava to its faculty in August. She will be teaching courses on professional responsibility and civil procedure, among other subjects. Professor Nina Varsava Professor Varsava’s ...
Jim Martin '77 made his mark in sports and law as player, coach, judge
Alexandra Huneeus wins writing prize for human rights scholarship
Professor Alexandra Huneeus won “Best Paper 2019 ” honors for her article, "Between universalism and regional law and politics: A comparative history of the American, European, and African human rights systems,” co-authored wi ...
Justice Shirley Abrahamson (S.J.D. '62) honored at state capitol event
Justice Shirley Abrahamson (S.J.D. '62), the longest serving state Supreme Court justice in the country, was honored at the Wisconsin State Capitol Tuesday at a ceremony that included tributes from Gov. Tony Evers, former Gov. Jim Doyle, and for ...
John Ohnesorge partners with Nanjing University faculty to bring IP workshop to China
Building on two decades of collaboration, teams from the law schools at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Nanjing University held a joint workshop on intellectual property May 23 in Nanjing, the capital of China’s Jiangsu Province. ...
David Schultz receives the 2019 Gordon Sinykin Award for Excellence
Professor David Schultz The Wisconsin Bar Foundation has named David Schultz the recipient of the 2019 Gordon Sinykin Award of Excellence. The Sinykin Award honors lawyers or law firms for work on an individual law-related educat ...
UW Law professors honored at annual Law and Society meeting
Three emeritus professors from University of Wisconsin Law School were honored for lifetime achievement at the Law and Society Association’s annual meeting, held in Washington, D.C. May 30 through June 2. Professors Galanter, Maca ...
Margaret Raymond pays tribute to Vel Phillips '51 and others in 'UW Women at 150'
Conference honoring Heinz Klug's scholarship held June 4
Heinz Klug Faculty at New York Law School organized and hosted “The Conference to Honor South African Legal Scholar Heinz Klug ” to highlight Klug’s important research contributions in comparative, constitutional and human ...
UW Law School's Restorative Justice Project featured on '60 Minutes' and CNN's 'The Redemption Project with Van Jones'
Jonathan Scharrer , director of the Restorative Justice Project (RJP) at the University of Wisconsin Law School's Frank J. Remington Center, appeared on “60 Minutes ” May 12 as part of a story about restorative justice. "We're loo ...
Miriam Seifter and Robert Yablon honored with Vilas professorships and awards
Kathryn Hendley and Tonya Brito receive faculty fellowships for 2019-20
UW Law School to launch UW-Madison's first fully funded chair honoring an African American professor
The University of Wisconsin Law School has announced the creation of an endowed faculty chair in honor of the late Professor James E. Jones Jr . This is UW-Madison’s first fully funded chair named for an African American faculty member. ...
Miriam Seifter appointed to governor's Judicial Selection Advisory Committee
Miriam Seifter , a University of Wisconsin Law School professor, has been appointed to a statewide Judicial Selection Advisory Committee by Gov. Tony Evers. The committee is responsible for interviewing and recommending candidates for considerat ...
Everett Mitchell '10 to keynote at UW Law School's 2019 hooding ceremony
Judge Mitchell speaking at UW Law in 2018 The University of Wisconsin Law School’s graduating class has selected the Honorable Everett Mitchell to present the keynote address at its 2019 Hooding Ceremony. Mitchell serves as a circuit c ...
Anne Smith discusses Innovate Network, a new campus collaboration to support aspiring Badger entrepreneurs
Law School volunteers receive award for innovative Partners in Giving campaign
Turner, Mitch and Edwards named UW Law School Teachers of the Year
Each spring, University of Wisconsin Law School celebrates excellence in teaching through its Teacher of the Year awards. The honorees for outstanding classroom, clinical and adjunct instruction in 2018 were recognized at the Law School's Boar ...
Distinguished Teaching Award winner Rob Yablon sets law students up for success
There’s a running joke among first-year law students in Rob Yablon ’s classroom: ask him a question, they say, and odds are he’ll respond, “It depends.” But Yablon, who recently won teaching honors at UW-Madison, ...
Heinz Klug wins Lubar research chair to study constitution-making in post-colonial Africa
Constitutional law is more than just an academic topic for Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law Heinz Klug . Growing up in South Africa, he fought against apartheid, escaped an assassination attempt and lived in exile for 11 years before returning home ...
Heinz Klug to present on the human right to health on Feb. 26
In False Positive, Keith Findley tells the story of a Wisconsin man's wrongful conviction
False Positive, a documentary focusing on the wrongful conviction and eventual exoneration of a Wisconsin man, is available for online viewing through Vox Media. The video follows the case of Robert Lee Stinson, who in 1985 was convicted of rape ...
Law School team advances in multi-state competition aimed at boosting middle class
Three members of the UW Law School faculty advanced to the finals in the Alliance for the American Dream competition for their proposal to help eliminate legal barriers to employment. Professors Sarah Davis , Marsha Mansfield and Mitch teame ...
Michele LaVigne receives 'Leaders in the Law' award
Michele LaVigne, a University of Wisconsin Law School professor, has won Wisconsin Law Journal’s 2019 Leaders in the Law award. The award honors top judges, attorneys and legal professionals who have made a difference in Wisconsin’ ...
Robert Yablon wins UW-Madison's Distinguished Teaching Award
Tonya Brito elected to American Law Institute
Tonya Brito Tonya Brito has been elected a member of the American Law Institute . ALI is the leading independent organization in the United States that produces scholarly work to clarify, modernize and improve th ...
UW Law faculty advance to DreamUp Wisconsin finals
The LIFT Dane team Three UW Law School faculty members have advanced to the finals in DreamUp Wisconsin, a UW-Madison competition seeking creative ideas for increasing the net income of 10,000 Dane County families by 10 ...
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