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.

They will join keynote speaker U.S. District Court Chief Judge Pamela Pepper in addressing Law School graduates, family and friends at the event, which will take place at 1 p.m. Friday, May 10, at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center Exhibition Hall, 1 John Nolen Drive, Madison.

At the ceremony­ — a special recognition for students receiving law degrees ­— faculty members place the hood over the head of the graduate to signify their success in completing their law degree. The hooding event is in addition to, and does not replace, the university-wide commencement. 

Seifter is co-director of the State Democracy Research Initiative and Rowe Faculty Fellow in Regulatory Law at UW Law School. Her research addresses questions of state and federal public law, with a focus on challenges affecting democracy at the state level. 

She teaches courses in administrative law, property law, and state and local government law. In 2017 and 2022, UW Law students honored Seifter with the Classroom Teacher of the Year Award, and in 2018, she received one of 12 Distinguished Teaching Awards from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. 

Seifter's recent publications have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review and the New York University Law Review, among others. She recently received the American Constitution Society’s 2024 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Scholar Award. 

Seifter earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was the Environmental Fellow and an articles editor on the Harvard Law Review. After law school, she served as a law clerk for Chief Judge Merrick Garland on the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to joining the UW Law faculty in 2014, she was a visiting researcher and adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and worked in private practice at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in San Francisco. 

Submitted by Law School News on April 23, 2024

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