The Wisconsin Law Review Symposium on New Legal Realism will focus on issues of Law, Poverty, and Land on Friday, February 18, 2005 from 1:15 to 5 p.m. in Room 2260 (Godfrey & Kahn Hall) of the UW Law School. The event is open to all faculty, staff, and students.

The Symposium is co-sponsored by the Latino/a Law Students Association and the Black Law Students Association, and funded by the Gwynette E. Smalley Law Review Fund and the Ralph M. Hoyt Memorial Lectureship in Real Estate.

UW law professors Stewart Macaulay, Arthur McEvoy, Elizabeth Mertz, and Victoria Nourse will introduce UW Law students to general concepts of New Legal Realism, a scholarly approach that rethinks the relationship between law, social science and policy using empirical data.

Addressing the symposium focus of Law, Poverty, and Land, the presenters will share their empirical research and legal analysis of traditional anti-poverty "reforms" and offer alternative strategies.

Joining the UW professors will be Northern Illinois University Professor Guadalupe Luna, who has studied the continuing struggles of Chicano property and poverty, and DePaul University Professor Thomas Mitchell (LL.M. ?99), who will analyze New Deal resettlement communities in the South.

For more information, contact Rebecca Mason, rkhoelter@wisc.edu.

Submitted by on February 9, 2005

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