Third-year University of Wisconsin Law School student Emily Long has received the State Bar of Wisconsin’s 2007 award for outstanding work by a student in public interest law. She was chosen from among other nominees by the State Bar’s Public Interest Law Section.

In law school Long has explored interests in civil rights litigation and other areas of social justice advocacy that she hopes to pursue in a career as a public interest attorney. She has been a summer intern with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C., and at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, a civil rights organization in New York City. She participates in the Law School’s new Restraining Order Clinic and has worked as a research assistant in community development law for Professor Lisa Alexander.

As an undergraduate at UW-Madison majoring in Women’s Studies and Sociology before she entered law school, Long worked extensively in student activism, including co-founding a group that was instrumental in passing Madison’s minimum wage referendum.

Long notes that her law school experience has been enhanced by the career advising and assistance she has received from Professor Alexander and from J.D. Advisor Kristin Davis of the Office of Career Services.

Long will receive the award officially at the State Bar’s Pro Bono Awards Ceremony on May 7, 2008.

Submitted by on February 11, 2008

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