Faculty Activities & Scholarship
Cecelia Klingele has been elected to the UW-Madison Teaching Academy in her first year of eligibility. Teaching Academy Fellows are faculty, academic staff and outreach instructors who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and a commitment to improving the quality of teaching and learning at UW-Madison and beyond.
Melissa Scanlan was invited to the University of Wisconsin Center for Limnology Seminar to present "Implementing the Public Trust Doctrine: A Lakeside View into the Trustees' World," based on her recent article published in Ecology Law Quarterly.
R. Alta Charo's latest article, "The Complexity of Integrating Speed and Safety in Drug Development and Approval," appears in the current issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.
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The UW Law School's nationally recognized faculty and staff work together to provide an outstanding learning environment for our students. Our faculty and staff come from a wide range of backgrounds and bring varying experiences, views, and approaches to the Law School. They are inspired by the UW’s distinctive law-in-action approach, and they are committed to helping students develop into confident, successful lawyers.
Our faculty members are leading scholars, but they are also actively involved in the law. They advise on stem cell issues, represent clients on death row, work with congressional staffers to draft legislation, provide legal advice to poor farmers in the South, and work with the European Union on monetary policy. They are often quoted in the news, they travel around the world, and they are part of what is new and exciting in the legal community. But first and foremost, they are excellent teachers.
The low student-faculty ratio at the UW Law School allows students to work closely with professors. Our research faculty members teach at all levels in the curriculum and work with students to provide a strong foundation in law and legal reasoning. A prestigious clinical faculty of more than twenty-five full-time teachers provides additional opportunities for students to receive rigorous training and personal attention through hands-on experiential learning.
The UW Law School also has both a legal research and writing faculty and an experienced adjunct faculty as part of its teaching community. Our adjunct faculty members are highly successful practicing lawyers and judges who bring their specialized knowledge and experience to the classroom, bridging the theoretical and the practical aspects of legal training and making the law come to life.
