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Robert W. Kastenmeier

This lecture is supported by the fund established to honor Robert W. Kastenmeier, an outstanding graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, who served with great distinction in the United States Congress from 1958-1990. During his tenure, Congressman Kastenmeier made special contributions to the improvement of the judiciary and to the field of intellectual property law. He drafted the rules for the House Committee on the Judiciary that were used for the impeachment against Richard M. Nixon and drafted the articles of impeachment against Judge Harry Claiborne. In 1985, Kastenmeier received the Warren E. Burger Award, presented by the institute for Court Management, and the Service Award of the National Center for State Courts. In 1988, he was honored by the American Judicature Society with its Justice Award for his contributions to improving the administration of justice.

The Kastenmeier Fund was created to recognize these contributions by fostering important legal scholarship in the fields of intellectual property, corrections, administration of justice, and civil liberties. It is a fitting tribute to the leadership of Robert W. Kastenmeier in these areas.

Planning Committee: Peter Carstensen, Emeritus Member Bill Kaplan, Robert Kastenmeier, Michael Remington

2011 Kastenmeier Lecture

Subject: Bridging the Divide between Congress and the Courts

The Honorable Barbara Crabb

4:00 p.m. on Friday, September 16, 2011

Godfrey & Kahn Hall, Room 2260
University of Wisconsin Law School
975 Bascom Mall, Madison, Wisconsin

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2011 Speaker Biography

Judge Crabb first served the federal judiciary as a magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. She was appointed as a district judge in November 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, serving as the court’s chief from 1980 to 1996, then again from 2001 to May 2010.

Judge Crabb was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and received both her undergraduate and J.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, both with honors. There, she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, Phi Beta Kappa, Mortar Board, and Order of the Coif. Since graduation, she has received from the university an honorary degree and its Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Before her service on the bench, Judge Crabb was in private law practice with the Madison, Wisconsin, law firm of Roberts, Boardman, Suhr & Curry. She also worked as a research assistant on the American Bar Association’s project on Minimum Standards for Criminal Justice: the Police Function, and for the University of Wisconsin Law School, her alma mater.

Judge Crabb has been involved in a multitude of professional activities, including co-chairing the American Bar Association Joint Committee on Judicial Discipline Procedures and the Seventh Circuit Judicial Council Committee on Gender Bias. She has served on the three-judge international team teaching Principles of Judicial Independence to judges in Shanghai, served as president of the James E. Doyle Inn of Court, served on the Chief Justice’s Committee to Study the Judicial Conference, and chaired the Seventh Circuit Council Automation Committee.

Judge Crabb resides in Madison with her husband, Ted. They have two children, Julia and Philip.

Previous Kastenmeier Events

2010	Lecture: Afghanistan: What Are We Fighting For? Mr. Bob Herbert
2009	Lecture: Re-Imagining Criminal Justice: Implications for Practice, Research and Teaching Professor Walter Dickey Professor Cecelia Klingele Professor Michael Scott
2008	Lecture: Economic Injustice The Honorable David Obey
2007	Lecture: The National Security Constitution in a Time of Terror Dean Harold Hongju Koh
2006	Lecture: The Law in Action: What the Bayh-Dole Act Means to the University of Wisconsin and the State of Wisconsin and an Effective National Science Policy [Audio/Video] Dr. Carl Gulbrandsen
2005	Lecture: The Iraq War: Lessons from the Past The Honorable George McGovern
2004	Lectures: Civil Rights Act of 1964: Hopes and Promises Professor Frank Tuerkheimer Bob Kastenmeier and 1960s Civil Rights Legislation: Leadership Through Commitment and Foresight Professor Roger Wilkins
2003	Lecture: The Forgotten Balance of Robert Kastenmeier Professor Lawrence Lessig
2002	Lecture: Civil Liberties in a Time of Terror Mr. Anthony Lewis
2001	Colloquium: Sentencing Criminals: After a Quarter Century of Reform, Where Are We?
2000	Colloquium: From the Bill of Rights to the Internet: Protecting Privacy Rights and Interests in the New Millennium
1999	Colloquium: From Watergate to the Present: Impeachment, Presidential Accountability, and the Separation of Powers
1997	Lecture: The Transformation of American Copyright Law Professor Paul Goldstein
1996	Lecture: Political Extremism: Is It New, Is It Worse, Is It Curable? The Honorable Abner J. Mikva
1995	Symposium: Is Effective Crime Policy Possible?
1994	Symposium: Computer Software Protection: Reinventing Intellectual Property
1992	Lecture: Seen in a Glass Darkly: The Future of the Federal Courts Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist

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