University of Wisconsin Law School assistant professor Thomas Mitchell has been named to the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and the Social Sciences.

Mitchell will serve a one-year term on the board of this section devoted to promoting communication among individuals interested in using the empirical techniques of the social sciences to study legal problems and institutions. The section has been active since its founding in 1982.

Mitchell joined the UW Law School in the Fall of 2000. His specialties are real estate law, remedies, and rural land tenure issues. Professor Mitchell earned his B.A. in English at Amherst College and his J.D. at Howard University School of Law. He received an LL.M. from the University of Wisconsin Law School upon completion of his Hastie Fellowship in 1999.

Submitted by on January 20, 2006

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