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Kate Frigo 3L Recognized by State Bar for Public Interest Service
The State Bar of Wisconsin will recognize Kate Frigo 3L as one of two law school students who have made exceptional contributions to serving the legal needs of the state's immigrant communities. Frigo will receive a 2011 Outstanding Publi ...
Reunion Renews Commitment to William H. Hastie Fellowship Legacy
Established in 1973, the William H. Hastie Fellowship Program provides an opportunity for nontraditional lawyers to prepare for a career in law teaching. On April 15-16, past and present Hastie Fellows gathered at UW Law School for a ...
New Program Designed For Student Tenants Bridges University and Community
A new collaborative program designed for student tenants is an example of the kinds of hands-on legal learning that UW Law provides.For college students, housing is just one priority among many, which makes it easy to take the first apartment ...
UW Law School Hosts Delegation of Judges from Sri Lanka
From April 18-21, the Global Legal Studies Center (GLS) will host a delegation of Supreme Court and Court of Appeal judges from Sri Lanka, including Chief Justice Asoka de Silva.The program centers on "Enhancing Access to Justice and Strengthen ...
Gregory Ainsley 2L Awarded Peggy Browning Fellowship
The Peggy Browning Fund has selected Gregory Ainsley 2L as a 2011 recipient of the Peggy Browning Fellowship.Ainsley, a second-year student at the UW Law School, will spend 10 weeks this summer working at the law firm Levy Ratner, P.C. in New Yo ...
Contracts Casebook Now in its 3rd Edition Brings Law in Action to the Classroom
Contracts: Law in Action is a contracts casebook that originated at Wisconsin Law School. The third edition was just published. The casebook is used in over 10 law schools, and is used by all Wisconsin law students in their introductory Contr ...
William H. Hastie Fellowship Reunion April 15
The Hastie Committee and the University of Wisconsin Law School are sponsoring a reunion of William H. Hastie Fellows currently in various professional legal positions across the country. All former and current Hastie Fellows are invited to part ...
Anuj Desai Nominated to Key Administration Post
President Obama has announced his intent to nominate UW Associate Professor of Law Anuj Chang Desai to be a member of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission.Professor Desai, who teaches in both the UW law school and the School of Library and ...
Events Bring Criminal Justice Experts to UW Law School
UW Law School will host two events in April on criminal justice policy. All interested students and faculty are invited to attend. Wednesday, April 13, 9-10 a.m.UW Law, Lubar Commons The Law School will host a continental breakfast with Marc Mau ...
SBA Election and Graduation Speaker Results Announced
Congratulations to the 2011 Graduation Speakers: This year's student graduation speakers will be Manish Jain and Sir Williams. The faculty graduation speaker will be Professor Alta Charo. Congratulations to the 2011-2012 Student Bar Council: ...
17th Annual Evans Moot Court Benefits from Distinguished Panel of Judges
The Evan A. Evans Constitutional Law Competition was established at UW Law School Law School as a tribute to Judge Evan A. Evans, a UW Law School graduate who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit fro ...
2011 LEO Banquet and Peoples Conference Highlight Alumni Accomplishments
Panelists D. Michael McBride, Dawn Baum, Kevin Wadzinski Spanning a single weekend, the Coming Together of the Peoples Conference and the LEO Banquet brought together UW Law School students, faculty and alums from around the count ...
Students Earn Honors in Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition
Congratulations to Anne Readel and Wes Anderson (both 2Ls), coached by Cora Holt (3L), for winning Best Oralist Team in the nationals of the Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition (for trademark law) held in Washington, D.C at the Federal Circuit ...
Hurst Fellows Selected to Attend 2011 Summer Institute in Legal History
Thirteen outstanding early-career scholars have been selected to participate in the 2011 Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History , June 12-25, 2011, at the University of Wisconsin, organized by the Law School’s Institute for Legal Studies in c ...
5th Annual Outreach Workshops on Global Legal Issues Announced
We are pleased to announce the 5th annual outreach workshop series on the theme Global Legal Issues and Wisconsin, sponsored by Global Legal Studies Center (GLS) and Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) and co-sponsored by th ...
Wisconsin Law Review Elects Senior Board for 2011-12
The Wisconsin Law Review has elected next year’s Senior Board: Editor in Chief: Zach PfeifferSenior Articles Editor: Anne ReadelSenior Note & Comment Editor: Brandie MorgenrothSenior Managing Editors: Jenna Pritsos and Jayme DurkeeSympos ...
UW Law School Hosts 3/30 Forum on The Role of Organized Labor in a Democracy
On Wednesday, March 30, the UW Law School will host a forum exploring the role of organized labor in a democracy. The event is open to students, the legal and academic community, and the public. Please join us. Wednesday, March 30, 6-8 pmGodfrey ...
Gretchen Viney Receives Marygold Melli Achievement Award
University of Wisconsin Law School Clinical Professor Gretchen Viney has been named the recipient of the 2011 Marygold Melli Achievement Award, which is conferred by the Legal Association for Women (LAW) to recognize significant contributions t ...
Samantha Leonard '12 Awarded Haywood Burns Memorial Fellowship for Social and Economic Justice
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) has selected Samantha Leonard '12 as a 2011 Haywood Burns Fellow.Leonard, a second year student at the UW Law School, will work over the summer providing free legal representation in family law and restraining or ...
Boaventura de Sousa Santos Receives Mexico Science and Technology Award
Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos , a Distinguished Scholar of the Institute for Legal Studies at UW Law School, was awarded the 2010 Mexico Science and Technology Prize at the 40th Anniversary of the National Council of Science and Tech ...
UW Law School Earns "A" for Diversity in National Jurist
UW Law School has earned an “A” in The National Jurist ’s recent article on the country’s most diverse law schools. The grade, based on the percent of students and faculty who are minorities, modified by how a school compares with its s ...
UW Law Alumna Fran Ulmer '72 Tapped to Chair Arctic Research Commission
UW Law alumna Fran Ulmer has been nominated by President Obama to chair the Arctic Research Commission. Ulmer, who also earned her B.A. in Economics from the UW-Madison, is Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska's largest publi ...
Foundation, Scholarship Honor Life of UW Alum Joseph P. Mettner JD '92
The Joseph P. Mettner Foundation has announced its first annual Joseph P. Mettner Scholarship, a $10,000 award open to students at the University of Wisconsin Law School who are pursuing a career in public service. Joseph P. Mettner received hi ...
UW Law School Hosts 17th Annual Evans Moot Court Competition
Evans Moot Court The Evan A. Evans Constitutional Law Competition was established at the University of Wisconsin Law School as a tribute to Judge Evan A. Evans, an 1899 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School who served o ...
ILSA Hosts 25th Annual Coming Together of Peoples Conference
The Indigenous Law Students Association (ILSA) will host its 25th Annual Coming Together of Peoples Conference at the University of Wisconsin Law School March 25-26. A detailed conference program can be found here . Conference Overview Thurs ...
Thomas Mitchell Plays Key Role in ABA Adoption of New Model for Family Property
ABA Adopts Act Recently, the American Bar Association approved a model law called the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act. After decades of stories about families forced to sell long-held property at lower-than-market prices as a result of t ...
Leticia Smith-Evans '03 Honored in UW Alumni Association Forward Under 40
Adapted from the Forward under Forty website. To view the entire article, click here . Leticia Smith-Evans ‘03 is a 2011 recipient of the UW “Forward Under 40” award. This award celebrates UW graduates under the age of 40 wh ...
UW Law School Hosts Forum on Governor's Budget Repair Bill
On February 23, the UW Law School hosted an academic forum, or "teach-in," to provide insight into the developments that have followed the introduction of Governor Walker's Budget Repair Bill. A video of the event is available here . The ...
Stewart Macaulay Honored at 6th Annual International Conference on Contracts
Stewart Macaulay was honored at the 6th Annual International Conference on Contracts, held on February 18-19 at the Stetson Law School in Gulfport, Florida. The opening roundtable focused on “The Work and Influence of Stewart Macaulay.” ...
2011 LEO Banquet Highlights Diversity with Keynote Donald "Del" Laverdure
A Commitment to Diversity Each year, current UW Law School students, faculty and alums from around the country gather for the Legal Educational Opportunities (LEO) Banquet to celebrate our successes and reaffirm our commitment to maintaining ...
Fairchild Lecture Series Welcomes Hon. William K. Sessions III
The Fairchild Lecture The Thomas E. Fairchild Lectureship was established at the University of Wisconsin Law School as a tribute to Judge Fairchild, a 1937 law graduate, former Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, later Chief Judge and Senio ...
Linda Greene Accepts Post As American Association of Law Schools' Representative to the American Council of Learned Societies
Professor Linda Greene , Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law, will serve as the representative of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) on the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that advances the ...
Nilesh Patel Speaks to Changing Legal Diversity Landscape
Nilesh Patel ’s National Law Journal article , “Maintaining diversity efforts in this economy,” addresses the recent National Association for Law Placement (NALP) report that found for the first time in 17 years, there was a decrease in t ...
Macaulay, UW Law at center of Law and Society series
The UW Law School figures prominently in an effort to document the Law and Society movement. The Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California-Berkeley Law School is creating a video archive of interviews with some of ...
Global Legal Studies Center receives $75,000 grant to support "Law and Development in Brazil in Global Context" Project
The Global Legal Studies Center (GLS) received a $75,000 grant from the Tinker Foundation to support a conference and create a global network of scholars on law and development. GLS, together with FGV Law School, Brazil, and Brazili ...
Moot Court brings home awards
Two of the UW Law School's Moot Court teams brought home awards during the Fall 2010 term. Trevor Leverson x'11 and Zach Ramirez x'11 won 3rd Place out of 26 teams at the Wechsler First Amendment Moot Court Competition , hosted by the American ...
Davonn Robinson freed through work of Wisconsin Innocence Project (video)
Davonn Robinson of Milwaukee spent more than four years in prison on false charges that he sexually abused two children. Now, thanks to the work of the Wisconsin Innocence Project , Robinson is a free man . "Davonn's exoneration was a moment of ...
Mitra Sharafi develops go-to website for South Asian legal history
Mitra Sharafi , a legal historian at the UW Law School, has created a website that will make it easier for historians and legal scholars to find and use South Asian legal sources. The South Asian Legal History Resources site went live in Octob ...
Law Review symposium addresses intergenerational equity in intellectual property
Scholars from UW and across the nation gathered at the UW Law School on Nov. 12-13 to examine intellectual property from the standpoint of intergenerational equity for the Wisconsin Law Review 's 2010 Symposium. The Symposium was hosted by UW La ...
Nicholas Flanagan '11 wins Leonard Loeb Family Law Scholarship
A committee of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers has selected Nicholas Flanagan '11 as the 2010 recipient of the Leonard Loeb Family Law Scholarship. Flanagan, who receives $5,000 as the scholarship recipient, is a senior board me ...
UW Law joins with East China University for Executive Master's in Law program
The UW Law School and the East China University of Political Science and Law will work together to offer an Executive Master's in Law degree. Beginning in September 2011, students will be able to earn their advanced legal degree with one semest ...
Center for Patient Partnerships and its director both win awards
The Center for Patient Partnerships was given the Community Service Award by the Wisconsin Cancer Council at the Council's annual awards program. The Wisconsin Cancer Council's Community Service Award recognizes organizations that serve ...
David Staple wins Best Brief Award
David Staple (Class of 2012) won the 2010 Best Brief Award for the best trial-level brief written in the Spring 2010 Legal Research and Writing course. In honor of his achievement, Mr. Staple will receive a plaque from Dean Ken Davis and his L ...
UW Law School community raises more than $4,600 for student's recovery
Students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the UW Law School have raised more than $4,600 to help one of their own recover from a tragic car accident. Jimmy Anderson (Class of 2011) was seriously injured on Aug. 24 when the vehicle he and his famil ...
Institute for Legal Studies Hosts Midwest Law and Society Retreat
On October 8-9, 2010 the Institute for Legal Studies hosted the fifth biennial session of the Midwest Law and Society Retreat, bringing together more than seventy faculty and graduate students from the Midwest's diverse law and s ...
UW Law School to Host Conference on Reforming Legal Education
The University of Wisconsin Law School will bring leading scholars to campus October 22-23, 2010 to discuss reforming legal education. Keynote guest speakers include Professor David Wilkins (Harvard), Dean Bryant Garth and Vice Dean Austen ...
Wisconsin Law Review welcomes new members
The Wisconsin Law Review has announced its new 2L members. The new members are: Wesley Anderson Roya Bahrami Nina Beck Daniel Bong Felice Borisy-Rudin Jami Crespo James DeBriyn Erik Didrikson Jayme Durkee Elizabeth Engel Kerry Gabrielson Leah ...
Law Review Symposium Brings IP Scholars to Campus
The University of Wisconsin Law School and the Wisconsin Law Review will bring leading scholars in international property law to UW-Madison for an interdisciplinary symposium on Intergenerational Equity and Intellectual Property i ...
Innocence Project frees man who was convicted based on false testimony
After spending four years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Davonn Robinson, of Milwaukee, has been released because of the work of the Wisconsin Innocence Project . On September 23, the Milwaukee County Circuit Court vacated Robinson's ...
Kenneth B. Davis to step down as dean, return to faculty
After more than a dozen years as Dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School, Kenneth B. Davis has announced that he will step down next year and return to the faculty. Davis joined the Law School faculty in 1978, and became dean in Decembe ...
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