Dozens of scholars, legal experts, party leaders and civic practitioners and over 100 attendees from across the country attended the “Parties, Power, and Possibility: Revisiting Fusion Voting in Wisconsin” daylong event Nov. 14. It w ...
UW Law NewsAriel A. Leykin is the winner of the 23rd Best Brief Competition. Her brief was selected as the best trial brief written for the Spring 2025 Legal Analysis, Advocacy, and Writing course. In addition to Leykin, the finalists included Mikayla Bir ...
UW Law NewsSarah Davis Professor Sarah Davis received the 2025 Marygold Melli Achievement Award during a reception Sept. 25. Davis is distinguished clinical professor of law and director of the interdisciplinary Center for Patient Partnerships , ...
UW Law NewsA book co-edited by University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Emeritus David Trubek and including chapters written by UW Law Professors Heinz Klug , Kathryn Hendley , Trubek himself and former William H. Hastie Fellow Leigha Crout , expl ...
UW Law NewsUniversity of Wisconsin Law School first-year student Marin Ellington has been named the newest Stearns-Shaw Scholar. Ellington is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago, where she double-majored in economics and English. Her passion fo ...
UW Law NewsErin Barbato , director of the Immigrant Justice Center at University of Wisconsin Law School , has been tapped for an extensive three-year global initiative to address the critical challenges faced by migrants and refugees. Erin Barbato ...
UW Law NewsThis November, the Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center (GLILC) will host the inaugural Native November Law Symposium, an exploration of Native Voices & the Environment. “The goal of the Native November Law Symposium is to amplify Indi ...
UW Law NewsKate Girvin Kate Girvin 2L is already making a name for herself as a legal philosophy scholar. In her first year at University of Wisconsin Law School, the El Paso, Texas, native was one of two law students invited to participate ...
UW Law NewsMarina Ottaway Marina Ottaway is a Middle East Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a long-time analyst of political transformations in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. On Oct. 13, she will give the 2025 J. Jobe and Margue ...
UW Law NewsMadison, Wis. – “Parties, Power, and Possibility: Revisiting Fusion Voting in Wisconsin” will feature nearly 20 scholars, legal experts, party leaders and civic practitioners from across the country at the University of ...
UW Law NewsEmma Shakeshaft (UW Law ’12), formerly a senior staff attorney and researcher at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Wisconsin, has been selected as the 2025 William H. Hastie Fellow. Emma Shakeshaft Shakeshaft ...
UW Law NewsCareer Closet Helps Build Strong Foundation for Success Becoming the legal scholars and leaders of tomorrow requires many things: Ambition. Drive. Persistence. Resilience. And, although we might not always think of it, a professional wardrobe. ...
UW Law School NewsZoe 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 ...
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