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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 ...
Class of 2013 arrives, begins with community outreach
The UW Law School has welcomed the Class of 2013 - some 260 students from across the United States and around the world. And almost as soon as they arrived, those students began the process of reaching out to the Madison community. On their seco ...
Innocence Project wins new trial for Green Bay man
After 14 years in prison, a Green Bay man will get a new trial, thanks to the Wisconsin Innocence Project . Cody Vandenberg was convicted of armed robbery and attempted murder in 1986. The charges stemmed from an incident in which a Bellevue man ...
New leaders for Academic Enhancement, Legal Research & Writing
The University of Wisconsin Law School is proud to introduce two new members of the Law School community: Ursula Weigold joins the UW Law School as Director of Legal Research and Writing and a Clinical Professor of Law, and Moji Olaniyan r ...
UW Law School introduces 3 new clinical faculty, 1 new clinic
The University of Wisconsin Law School is proud to announce the addition of three new clinical faculty, and the creation of a new legislative clinic. Kathleen Noonan, Kimberly Alderman, and Adam Stevenson join the UW Law School clinical faculty ...
Lipson, Camic join UW Law School faculty
The University of Wisconsin Law School is pleased to announce the addition of its newest faculty members: Professor Jonathan Lipson, and Assistant Professor Susannah Camic . Professor Lipson will teach courses on contracts, commercial law, a ...
Lichstein Honored as Up and Coming Lawyer
UW Law School's Byron Lichstein has been recognized by the Wisconsin Law Journal as one of 2010's "Up and Coming Lawyers." Lichstein is a 2003 graduate of the UW Law School, where he is a Clinical Associate Professor. He is Deputy Directo ...
Larry Roberts '95 named General Counsel of National Indian Gaming Commission
Larry Roberts, a 1995 graduate of the UW Law School and citizen of the Oneida Nation, has been named General Counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission , the independent agency created by Congress to oversee Indian gaming. Roberts has spe ...
Mitchell is Reporter as NCCUSL Approves Partition of Heirs Property Act
The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Law has given final approval to the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act , with UW Law Professor Thomas Mitchell serving as Reporter. Over the past 118 years, the NCCUSL has complete ...
Nourse Nominated to 7th Circuit Seat
President Barack Obama has nominated UW Law Professor Victoria F. Nourse to a seat on the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit . Nourse, the Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law, joined the UW faculty in 1993 after having w ...
Two UW Law Grads Honored as 'Badgers of the Year'
UW Law School graduates Mark Bradley '77 and Brad Schimel '90 have been recognized by their local chapters of the Wisconsin Alumni Association as Badgers of the Year. Bradley , of Wausau, recently was elected president of Ruder Ware, the lar ...
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