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US Att'y General, Sec'y of Agriculture to Discuss Dairy Markets at UW
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will visit the UW-Madison campus for a workshop on competition and regulation in the dairy industry. The UW Law School assisted in arranging the event, which will ...
UW Professor Howard Erlanger Recipient of Law & Society Association's 2010 Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award
Erlanger was given the prestigious award at the annual meeting of the LSA in Chicago, May 27-30.Professor Howard Erlanger's mentorship is well recognized both within the extensive University of Wisconsin system and the larger law and society co ...
Elizabeth Mertz named 2010-2011 Fellow at Princeton University
Elizabeth Mertz, John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, was announced as a 2010-2011 fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) at Princeton University this Spring. Mertz's work focuses on ...
Nina Emerson receives Professional Service Award
Director of the Resource Center on Impaired Driving Nina Emerson recently was awarded the Professional Service Award by the Addiction Resource Council in recognition of her outstanding career and contributions in the field of addictions. Nina h ...
Meg Gaines awarded Health Law Attorney of the Year Award
Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Patient Partnerships Martha (Meg) Gaines was recently selected by the Wisconsin State Bar's Health Law Section to receive the first annual Health Law Lawyer of the Year Award. She is bein ...
Chiann Bao appointed secretary-general of Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
UW-Law alum Chiann Bao was recently appointed Secretary-General of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC) on April 12, 2010. Bao is a graduate of Cornell University and was a Fulbright Scholar in China. She received her law degre ...
University of Wisconsin Law School moves up to 28th in U.S. News & World Report Rankings
The University of Wisconsin Law School climbed to 28th in the annual US News ranking of law schools, released April 15. (Last year, the Law School had ranked 35th.) This places the UW 10th among the nation’s public law schools. Com ...
Student Bar announces 2010-2011 council
On Wednesday, April 7th the Student Bar held it's elections and the following individuals were elected to the 2010-2011 Student Bar Council:President Purnita Howlander Vice President of Academic Affairs Jason Foster Vice President of ...
UW-Law wins National Telecommunications Moot Court Court Competition
UW-Law students Tim Hogan '11 and Eric Hatchell '11 won the 16th Annual National Telecommunications Moot Court Competition hosted by the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law in Washington D.C. on March 27th. The competition had ...
UW-Law mock trial team wins national championship
The UW-Law School mock trial team won the national championship of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) mock trial competition. The AAJ competition is among the largest mock trial competitions in the country with 224 teams participating. S ...
UW-LLSA Team Advances to the Quarterfinals at the 15th Annual HNBA Moot Court Competition
Andres Cerritos (3L) and Amanda Riek (2L) advanced to the quarterfinal round, beating out 24 other teams, at the 15th Annual Uvaldo Herrera National Moot Court Competition sponsored by the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) in San Diego, C ...
Quraishi named U.S. Delegate to UN Commission on the Status of Women
Assistant Professor of Law Asifa Quraishi was named U.S. delegate to the 54th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in February. Quraishi attended the session between March 1 and March 12, 2010 where she was one of five Public Del ...
UW-Law sends mock trial team to national finals
The University of Wisconsin Law School sent two mock trial teams to compete in the prestigious American Association for Justice Mock Trial Competition in February. The event involves 224 teams from law schools across the country, including Duke, ...
12 UW-Law students jump in lake for money
On a balmy 35 degree February afternoon, 12 UW-Madison law students jumped into the frigid waters of Lake Monona for the Special Olympics Polar Plunge. They joined 2,526 other plungers to raise $1,914 of the more than $430,00 total by diving in ...
Congratulations to the winners of the NNALSA Moot Court Competition
University of Wisconsin Law School students Dan Lewerenz and Will Dalsen won the 18th Annual National Native American Law Students Association Moot Court Competition held February 19-20 in Vermillion, South Dakota. Lewerenz and Dalsen won ...
University of Wisconsin Law School to Co-Sponsor Civil Gideon Symposium
Along with the Dane Country Bar Association, Legal Action of Wisconsin, the Right to Counsel Task Force, the Milwaukee Lawyers, and the Marquette Student Chapters of the American Constitution Society, the University of Wisconsin Law School ...
Consumer Law Clinic class action suit against payday lender is settled
Settlement was reached on February 12, 2010, in a class action lawsuit brought by the UW Law School's Consumer Law Clinic against the payday lender Arrowhead Investments LLC. The case began in the fall of 2008 as a joint class action lawsuit in ...
UW law students to give “lifeline” through foreclosure mediation program
From the Wisconsin State Journal, posted Wednesday, January 27, 2010New foreclosure mediation program approved for Dane CountyBy Karen RivedalStarting Monday, Dane County residents facing foreclosure will have a new mediation option that could ...
Kathryn Hendley recognized for outstanding scholarship with UW's Kellett Mid-Career Award
University of Wisconsin Law School Professor and Associate Dean Kathryn Hendley has been selected to receive a Kellett Mid-Career Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in recognition of her prolific and significant scholarship. Hendle ...
Law School's Resource Center on Impaired Driving announces new Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project
The Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project (WAPP), a new complement to the UW Law School’s Resource Center on Impaired Driving , has been created to provide community leaders and law enforcement officers with Wisconsin-specific evidence-based tools ...
Elizabeth Mertz’s book on law school language earns enthusiastic reviews
The Language of Law School: Learning to Think Like a Lawyer, by University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Elizabeth Mertz , continues to earn strong reviews in diverse publications. The book, published by Oxford University Press in 20 ...
Law students and Madison attorneys aid immigrants with legal questions
Immigrants with legal questions about their immigration status can receive help through a free clinic staffed by Madison-area attorneys and students from the University of Wisconsin Law School.The Community Immigration Law Center, created by Mad ...
John Ohnesorge takes helm of EALSC, Charles Irish to be Senior Director
The East Asian Legal Studies Center (EALSC) at the University of Wisconsin Law School officially changed directorship on January 1, 2010, when Professor John Ohnesorge became Director and Professor Charles Irish became Senior Director.The Cent ...
Report totals 27 exonerations in U.S. through innocence projects in 2009
A year-end report issued on December 18, 2009, by the national Innocence Network, of which UW Law School Clinical Professor Keith Findley is president, details the cases of 27 wrongly-convicted individuals throughout the nation who were exonerat ...
Memorial Service for Dean Emeritus Orrin Helstad to be January 23
The University of Wisconsin Law School is saddened by the death of Emeritus Dean Orrin L. Helstad, who died at age 87 at HospiceCare in Madison on December 11, 2009.A native of the Norwegian community of Blair, Wisconsin, Helstad graduated in th ...
Michele LaVigne honored with 2009 David Niblack Award from WACDL
Professor Michele LaVigne of the UW Law School clinical faculty has been selected to receive the 2009 David Niblack Award from the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (WACDL). LaVigne, director of the Public Defender Project at t ...
Alumnus R. Thomas Howell Jr. named Interim Executive Director of ABA
University of Wisconsin Law School alumnus R. Thomas Howell Jr. of the Class of 1967 has been named Interim Executive Director of the American Bar Association, following the resignation of Henry F. White Jr.Before taking on his new duties, Howel ...
UW Law Mock Trial Team wins 2nd place in ABA labor law competition
The University of Wisconsin Mock Trial Team took Second Place honors at the Sixth Annual Regional ABA Labor and Employment Law Competition on November 23, 2009, at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago. The team included Joe Ahlers 2L, Ameli ...
Kyle Fry is winner of 2009 Best Brief Competition
Second-year law student Kyle Steven Fry has been named the winner of the 2009 Best Brief Award presented by the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Legal Research and Writing program after a selection process that included review of the submi ...
Symposium “New Governance and the Transformation of Law ” is Nov. 20-21
The 2009 Wisconsin Law Review Symposium “Transatlantic Conference on New Governance and the Transformation of Law” will be held November 20-21, 2009, at the Pyle Center on the UW-Madison campus. The event is a by-invitation conference organi ...
Law School announces hire of Eric Salisbury as Director of Development
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Professors Desai, Nourse among six finalists for federal judgeship
Professor Victoria Nourse and Associate Professor Anuj Desai of the University of Wisconsin Law School are two of the six finalists for a judgeship on the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.Desai and Nourse were selected from a field of 11 ap ...
Darin Achilles, Davin Widgerow win honors at Wechsler Moot Court
University of Wisconsin Law School students Darin Achilles and Davin Widgerow advanced to the Semi Final Round of the 16th Annual Burton D. Wechsler First Amendment Moot Court Competition in October 2009 at the American University Washington Col ...
Christians, Mansfield, Martin Named UW Law School Teachers of the Year
Three individuals have been honored by the Wisconsin Law Alumni Association (WLAA) with the 2009 “Teacher of the Year” awards in recognition of outstanding classroom instruction at the University of Wisconsin Law School.Allison Christians w ...
Kastenmeier Lecture “Re-Imagining Criminal Justice” to be November 13
“Re-Imagining Criminal Justice: Implications for Practice, Research and Teaching” is the focus of the University of Wisconsin Law School’s 2009 Kastenmeier Lecture, to be presented Friday, November 13, 2009, at 4 p.m. in Room 2260 (Godfrey ...
Findley testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee on Justice for All Act
As president of the national Innocence Network, Keith Findley testifed in Washington, D.C., on November 10, 2009, before the Senate Judiciary Committee as it considered reauthorization of the Justice for All Act. Included in the Act are ...
Judge Barbara Crabb ‘62 receives 2009 Distinguished Service Award
Chief Judge Barbara B. Crabb of the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin received the Wisconsin Law Alumni Association’s Distinguished Service Award at the annual dinner of the Benchers Society on Friday, November 6 ...
Megan Phillips 3L is recipient of 2009 Leonard Loeb Scholarship Award
Third-year University of Wisconsin Law School student Megan A. Phillips has been named the recipient of the 2009 Leonard Loeb Family Law Scholarship. The award recognizes a law student who has shown academic excellence and a strong commitment to ...
Celebration of Wisconsin Innocence Project’s “first ten years” brings joy, community
Approximately 200 people gathered at the UW Law School on Friday, October 23, 2009, for a celebration of the Wisconsin Innocence Project ’s first ten years. Guests of honor included several of the 12 innocent people who were exonerated through ...
Wisconsin Innocence Project to Celebrate Tenth Anniversary
The Wisconsin Innocence Project will celebrate its tenth anniversary with a program and reception at the UW Law School on Friday, October 23, 2009 at 4 p.m. in Godfrey and Kahn Hall (Room 2260).To date, the work of the students and supervising ...
Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner ‘68 speaks on Patriot Act at Law School
U.S. Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner of the Fifth Congressional District of Wisconsin presented a lecture to a full audience of faculty, students, and legal professionals at the UW Law School on October 12, 2009. ...
Lori Leonovicz Weinstein ‘02 receives Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service
University of Wisconsin Law School alumna Lori A. (Leonovicz) Weinstein ‘02 has received the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s office in recognition of her work as a Department of J ...
Race Judicata 2009 raises $3,500 to fund students in public interest law
The University of Wisconsin Law School’s Twentieth Annual Race Judicata on October 3, 2009, raised $3,500 to fund law students working in unpaid positions in public interest law. &n ...
Congressman Sensenbrenner ‘68 to speak at Law School October 12
U.S. Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner of the Fifth Congressional District of Wisconsin will present a lecture at the UW Law School on Monday, October 12, 2009, at 1 p.m. in Sheldon B. Lubar Faculty Commons.Sensenbrenner is a graduate of the UW ...
Justice-in-Residence Louis Butler ‘77 chosen as U.S. District Judge
Louis B. Butler, Jr. , the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Justice-in-Residence and an alumnus of the Class of 1977, has been nominated by President Barack Obama as U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin.Butler, a form ...
Irene Katele ‘99 named to Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award
Irene Katele, a graduate of the UW Law School Class of 1999 and Associate Director of the Legal Studies Program at UW-Madison, is one of four teaching faculty throughout the University of Wisconsin System to be selected for the Alliant Energy Un ...
UW Law School’s 20th annual 5K Race Judicata to be run October 3
The University of Wisconsin Law School’s 20th annual Race Judicata will take place Saturday, October 3, 2009, on Madison's Lake Shore Path, beginning at 11 a.m. The event will start at Parking Lot 60, off University Bay Drive, near UW Hospital ...
Wisconsin Innocence Project receives major NIJ grant for DNA testing
The Wisconsin Innocence Project (WIP) at the University of Wisconsin Law School, working with the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Office of Justice Assistance, Department of Corrections, and State Public Defender, has received a $647,000 grant ...
Fitzgerald Bramwell '05 is CLCCRUL Outstanding Young Lawyer of 2009
Fitzgerald T. (Jerry) Bramwell ‘05 has been selected as the Outstanding Young Lawyer of 2009 by the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law (CLCCRUL) in recognition of his work representing victims of employment discriminat ...
Jeremy Marshall named one of Native American 40 Under 40
Jeremy Marshall, a second-year law student at the University of Wisconsin Law School, has been named one of the Native American 40 Under 40 honorees for 2009 in connection with the 40th anniversary of the National Center for American Indian Ente ...
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