UW Law School Professors Peter Carstensen and Asifa Quraishi have each received the 2008 Teacher of the Year Award from the Wisconsin Law Alumni Association (WLAA). The award recognizes excellence in classroom teaching by a tenure-track professor. Quraishi and Carstensen received the same number of votes in the annual poll of three classes of recent graduates, and a tie was declared.

Peter Carstensen, the George H. Young-Bascom Professor of Law, teaches in the area of antitrust law, energy law, torts, and insurance law. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, and received his law degree and a master's degree in economics from Yale University. From 1968 to 1973, he was an attorney at the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, where one of his primary areas of work was on questions of relating competition policy and law to regulated industries. He joined the Law School in 1973, and served as Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development from 1993 to 2002.

Asifa Quraishi joined the Law School faculty in 2004. Her teaching specialties include comparative law, constitutional law, and Islamic law and legal theory. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of California-Berkeley, her law degree at UC-Davis, an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her professional experience includes serving as a judicial law clerk with Judge Edward Dean Price on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California and as the death penalty law clerk for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Submitted by on November 12, 2008

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