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Wisconsin Innocence Project Client Manuel Cucuta Released After 27 Years in PrisonWisconsin 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 ...
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 ...
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