Professor Jane Schacter has been named the 2005 Teacher of the Year by the Wisconsin Law Alumni Association (WLAA).  The award recognizes and encourages excellence in the classroom. 

This is not the first time Schacter has been honored for her outstanding teaching and academic contributions.  In 1998, she received the University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, and in 2000 she was named Charles F. Luce Research Fellow.  Professor Schacter won the WLAA Teacher of the Year award in 1996 as well.

The WLAA Teacher of the Year Award, which has been given each fall for almost 20 years, makes a significant statement about the importance of classroom teaching at the Law School. WLAA polls the three most recent classes (excluding the graduating class) for their advice in conferring the award.  To be eligible, a law professor must have completed three years of teaching at UW Law School, be a tenure-track faculty member, and may not have received the award in the past four years. 

Schacter graduated in 1984 from Harvard Law School where she was Articles Editor of the Harvard Women’s Law Journal.  After graduating, she clerked for the honorable Judge Raymond J. Pettine at the United States District Court in Providence, Rhode Island.  She was also a litigation associate at Hill & Barlow in Boston and served as an assistant attorney general in Massachusetts. 

Schacter began teaching at the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1991.  From 1998 to 2000, she taught at the University of Michigan Law School. She is currently a visiting professor at Stanford Law School. Schacter teaches Constitutional Law, Legislation, Sexual Orientation and the Law, and Civil Procedure.  Her articles have appeared in the Harvard, Yale, Stanford, New York University and Michigan Law Reviews, among others.

Submitted by on October 24, 2005

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