Jay Tucker (center) and Erin McBride (right) receiving the award. Erin McBride and Jay Tucker were among the award recipients for the 2026 Partners in Giving Recognition Ceremony, which took place on March 18. McBride and Tucker bo ...
UW Law School NewsEmma Hanson The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender and Society has named 2L Emma Hanson as Editor-in-Chief for the 2026-2027 academic year. Hanson will succeed outgoing Editor-in-Chief Brandon Pope. The 2026-2027 Senior Editoria ...
UW Law School NewsThe Wisconsin Law Review has named second-year law student Julia Stephenson as Editor-in-Chief for the 2026–27 academic year. Stephenson will succeed outgoing Editor-in-Chief Beeta Siwik. Julia Stephenson The 202 ...
UW Law School NewsA new traveling exhibit marking the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence is on display at the University of Wisconsin Law School Library until March 17. Exhibition on display at the Law School Library. Pr ...
UW Law School NewsMADISON – The Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy (CSLD) is pleased to welcome new Assistant Director Donald Hempson . Donald Hempson Hempson brings decades of higher education leadership, at both Virginia T ...
UW Law School NewsMaryland has become the first state to publish its regulations online with cryptographically secure technology that protects against cyberattacks and ensures long-term digital preservation. This implementation marks a major milestone in a Natio ...
UW Law NewsDozens of scholars, legal experts, party leaders and civic practitioners and over 100 attendees from across the country attended the “Parties, Power, and Possibility: Revisiting Fusion Voting in Wisconsin” daylong event Nov. 14. It w ...
UW Law NewsAriel A. Leykin is the winner of the 23rd Best Brief Competition. Her brief was selected as the best trial brief written for the Spring 2025 Legal Analysis, Advocacy, and Writing course. In addition to Leykin, the finalists included Mikayla Bir ...
UW Law NewsSarah Davis Professor Sarah Davis received the 2025 Marygold Melli Achievement Award during a reception Sept. 25. Davis is distinguished clinical professor of law and director of the interdisciplinary Center for Patient Partnerships , ...
UW Law NewsA book co-edited by University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Emeritus David Trubek and including chapters written by UW Law Professors Heinz Klug , Kathryn Hendley , Trubek himself and former William H. Hastie Fellow Leigha Crout , expl ...
UW Law NewsUniversity of Wisconsin Law School first-year student Marin Ellington has been named the newest Stearns-Shaw Scholar. Ellington is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago, where she double-majored in economics and English. Her passion fo ...
UW Law NewsErin Barbato , director of the Immigrant Justice Center at University of Wisconsin Law School , has been tapped for an extensive three-year global initiative to address the critical challenges faced by migrants and refugees. Erin Barbato ...
UW Law NewsThis November, the Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center (GLILC) will host the inaugural Native November Law Symposium, an exploration of Native Voices & the Environment. “The goal of the Native November Law Symposium is to amplify Indi ...
UW Law NewsKate Girvin Kate Girvin 2L is already making a name for herself as a legal philosophy scholar. In her first year at University of Wisconsin Law School, the El Paso, Texas, native was one of two law students invited to participate ...
UW Law NewsMarina Ottaway Marina Ottaway is a Middle East Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a long-time analyst of political transformations in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. On Oct. 13, she will give the 2025 J. Jobe and Margue ...
UW Law NewsMadison, Wis. – “Parties, Power, and Possibility: Revisiting Fusion Voting in Wisconsin” will feature nearly 20 scholars, legal experts, party leaders and civic practitioners from across the country at the University of ...
UW Law NewsEmma Shakeshaft (UW Law ’12), formerly a senior staff attorney and researcher at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Wisconsin, has been selected as the 2025 William H. Hastie Fellow. Emma Shakeshaft Shakeshaft ...
UW Law NewsCareer Closet Helps Build Strong Foundation for Success Becoming the legal scholars and leaders of tomorrow requires many things: Ambition. Drive. Persistence. Resilience. And, although we might not always think of it, a professional wardrobe. ...
UW Law School NewsZoe Engberg, Rachel Burg, and Elizabeth Cole presenting "The Pegagogy of Uncomfortable Collaborations" Nine University of Wisconsin Law School clinical professors, instructors and fellows presented at the 2025 Association of American Law ...
UW Law School NewsUniversity of Wisconsin Law School Legal Advocacy, Analysis, and Writing professors chose 20 students’ trial briefs for the Spring 2025 Best Brief Competition. The semi-finalists are Yasmeen Asfoor, Justin Barham, Mikayla Bird, Ellie Dell ...
UW Law SchoolBenjamin Sevart 3L is one of 14 fellows selected for this year’s Law Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE). The 2025 fellowship will take place in Germany and Poland over the course of two w ...
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet C. Protasiewicz will be the keynote speaker at the 2025 University of Wisconsin Law School Hooding Ceremony . Justice Janet Protasiewicz The ceremony, open to UW Law School students and their f ...
UW Law School NewsErin McBride Professor Erin McBride , J.D. candidates Clarence “Kamau” Allen and Duranya Freeman, and Master of Laws candidate Mohammed Bataineh have been named speakers for University of Wisconsin Law School’s 2025 ...
UW Law NewsB.J. Ramsay and Sabine Arndt Two people working at University of Wisconsin Law School were recognized this spring at the UW–Madison 2024-25 Student Employee of the Year Banquet . Sabine Arndt, who is graduating in May as a po ...
UW Law NewsUniversity of Wisconsin Law School 1L students Brent Brunner and Wonkyo Jeong, coached by Jonathan Blanchard of Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, placed third nationally at the 2025 USPTO National Patent Application Drafting Competition . The ...
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