Professor David Schwartz has been voted recipient of the 2004 Teacher of the Year Award from the Wisconsin Law Alumni Association (WLAA). The award, which has been given each fall for almost 20 years, makes a significant statement about the value and importance of classroom teaching at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

David Schwartz (B.A., M.A., J.D. Yale University) practiced law for 12 years, specializing in employment discrimination and civil rights litigation. For the three years just prior to joining the UW Law School faculty in the Fall of 1999, Professor Schwartz was Senior Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, in Los Angeles. Previously, Professor Schwartz was in private practice in San Francisco, representing plaintiffs in employment cases. After graduating law school, he clerked for the Honorable Betty B. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Professor Schwartz teaches Equal Employment Law, Evidence, Constitutional Law, and other courses relating to his practice background. His scholarly interests currently focus on workers' rights and the law of the workplace, civil rights and constitutional law.

Each year, the WLAA polls the three most recent classes (not the graduating class) for their advice in conferring the Wisconsin Law Alumni Association's Teacher of the Year Award. To be eligible, a law professor must have completed three years of teaching at the Law School, must not have received the award in the past four years, and must be a UW Law School tenure-track faculty member.

Roster of winners:

1986 Charles Irish

1987 Kenneth Davis

1988 Larry Church

1989 Howard Erlanger

1990 Bill Whitford

1991 Carin Clauss

1992 Vicki Schultz

1993 Larry Church (second award)

1994 Beverly Moran

1995 Howard Erlanger (second award)

1996 Jane Schacter

1997 John Kidwell

1998 Larry Church (third award)

1999 Frank Tuerkheimer

2000 Howard Erlanger (third award)

2001 Gordon Baldwin

2002 Ann Althouse

2003 Larry Church (fourth award)

2004 David Schwartz

Submitted by on November 11, 2004

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