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Summer Job Series: Blythe Kennedy, Policy Analyst Intern, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
From clerkships to clinical assistantships to working as summer associates at firms, summer legal work helps students gain practical skills and experiences that benefit them during law school and beyond. This is the final profile in a seri ...
Meg Gaines Appointed Associate Dean in the University of Wisconsin Law School
Meg Gaines , director of the Center for Patient Partnerships (CPP), was recently appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Experiential Learning at the University of Wisconsin Law School. The first clinician appointed to this role, Gai ...
Summer Job Series: Samuel Bennett, Judicial Intern, Dane County Circuit Court
From clerkships to clinical assistantships to working as summer associates at firms, summer legal work helps students gain practical skills and experiences that benefit them during law school and beyond. This is the fourth pr ...
3L Scott Zehr Awarded Mettner Foundation Scholarship
The Joseph P. Mettner Foundation awarded their second annual scholarship to University of Wisconsin Law School student Scott Zehr. The foundation was established to honor Joe Mettner '92, a career public servant and former Chairman of the ...
Summer Job Series: Henry Weiner, Clinical Law Student, Neighborhood Law Clinic
From clerkships to clinical assistantships to working as summer associates at firms, summer legal work helps students gain practical skills and experiences that benefit them during law school and beyond. This is the third profile in a series fea ...
East Asian Legal Studies Center Partnership Leads to UW-Shanghai Collaboration
A decade ago, educational and training exchanges between American universities and Chinese institutions were almost unheard of. But the UW Law School’s East Asian Legal Studies Center (EALSC) was at the forefront of international collaboratio ...
Summer Job Series: Jason Sanders, Summer Associate, Godfrey & Kahn, S.C.
From clerkships to clinical assistantships to working as summer associates at firms, summer legal work helps students gain practical skills and experiences that benefit them during law school and beyond. This is the second profile in a ser ...
Wisconsin Innocence Project Exoneree Wins Law Scholarship
Wisconsin Innocence Project exoneree Jarrett Adams has just received the Chicago Bar Foundation's Marovitz Public Interest Scholarship. For Adams, the law school scholarship is particularly noteworthy because, between 2000 and 2007, he was se ...
New Book on Dane County's Rich Legal History Includes Law School, Alums
Lawyers Who Shaped Dane County , a new book published by the University of Wisconsin Press, celebrates more than a century of contributions by local lawyers to their communities, the state and the nation. The book follows the story of the legal ...
Summer Job Series: Lauren Powell, Sidley Austin Summer Associate
From clerkships to clinical assistantships to working as summer associates at firms, summer legal work helps students gain practical skills and experiences that benefit them during law school and beyond. This is the first profile in a series fea ...
Science and Law Connect in Campus Collaboration
Have you ever wondered how scientists decide which problems to work on or what inventions to develop? In addition to curiosity and inspiration, intellectual property can be a key factor, especially if researchers ...
Wisconsin Law Review Welcomes New Members
The Wisconsin Law Review is honored to welcome its new members: Robert Warren Beck Kelsey Berns Kelliann Blazek John Blimling Cary Bloodworth Anita Boor Trevor Brown Kelley Burd-Huss Margaret Carnahan Stephen Cirillo Ben ...
New Book on Epic Bank Failure Praises Former CEO Louis Pepper '51
In the opening chapter of a new book by Kristen Grind, UW Law alumnus Louis Pepper '51 gets extensive recognition for his management of a failing bank in the 1980s. Grind's Book, The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest Bank Fai ...
Summer in Prison: Students Get Real World Experience with Family Law Project
For many students, summers are spent traveling and taking a break from school, but not for six University of Wisconsin Law School students participating in the Family Law Project . Their summer is being spent traveling to prisons and repre ...
Lawyering Skills Summer Clerkship Program Places Students in Small and Mid-sized Wisconsin Communities
An article originally appearing in the Medford Star News describes third year law student Sarah Markham's 2012 summer clerkship experience. The program places University of Wisconsin Law School students between their second and third years ...
Robyn Blader '95 is Wisconsin Law Journal's 2012 Woman of the Year
An alumna of the University of Wisconsin Law School has been named Wisconsin Law Journal's 2012 Woman of the Year. Lt. Col. Robyn Blader '95 accepted the honor June 21 at the annual Women in Law awards ceremony, which recognizes women who have m ...
D.C. Superior Court Appoints Kenia Seoane Lopez '02 Magistrate Judge
Kenia Seoane López '02 has been appointed magistrate judge on the District of Columbia Superior Court in Washington, D.C., where she will preside over paternity and child support cases. Prior to the magistrate appointment, Seoane López ...
Brent Smith '78 Elected President to Board of Regents
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has elected a new president, UW Law School alumnus Brent Smith '78. The Board of Regents oversees all 26 two- and four-year UW System campuses, approves budgets and sets tuition and admission standard ...
Tonya Brito Named Outstanding Woman of Color in Education
Tonya Brito , Professor of Law, is one of two honorees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to receive the 17th Annual UW System Outstanding Women of Color in Education Award . The award recognizes outstanding service to campus and comm ...
Everett Mitchell '10 Named Young Professional of the Year
Everett Mitchell '10 has a simple - and compelling - reason for why he gives so much of his time doing community service work."Because somebody gave it to me," he says.Growing up in inner-city Fort Worth, Texas, Mitchell, now the University of ...
UW Law Alumni Magazine 'Gargoyle' Now Available
The UW Law School is pleased to announce the publication of its summer 2012 alumni magazine, Gargoyle. The summer issue profiles new programs and reports on alumni accomplishments. Additionally, the issue includes the following feat ...
McGill University Awards Boaventura de Sousa Santos Honorary Doctorate
Boaventura de Sousa Santos , Distinguished Scholar of the Institute for Legal Studies , was awarded an honorary doctor of law degree from McGill University on June 8, 2012. The honorary degree is formal recognition his outstanding contr ...
New Dual-Degree Programs Incorporate Public Health and Neuroscience
Two new dual-degree programs, JD-Master of Public Health (JD-MPH) and Neuroscience and Law, address the growing importance of public health and neuroscience as legal and public policy issues. Both programs plan to enroll their first class in fa ...
UW-Madison Inaugurates First Overseas Office in Shanghai, Builds upon Partnership Founded by East Asian Legal Studies Center
UW Law Professors Heinz Klug, Charles Irish, and John Ohnesorge with Chancellor David Ward at the launch of the UW-Madison Shanghai Innovation Office in Shanghai, China. The UW–Madison Shanghai Innovati ...
Global Governance: Critical Legal Perspectives Events Honor David Trubek
Professor David Trubek, a central figure in critical legal scholarship, will be honored in a series of events hosted by the European University Institute . Entitled “Global Governance: Critical Legal Perspectives Liber Amicorum David M. Tr ...
UW Law Professors Make Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time List
A recently compiled list of The Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time includes three articles written by UW Law School professors. The article updates two well-known earlier studies dated 1985 and 1996. Using databases such as He ...
Three Law School Programs Honored with Public Service Grants from the Morgridge Center
The Morgridge Center for Public Service awarded a combined $126,451 to support academically based service-learning courses and community-based research work at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Three programs – the Center for Patient Pa ...
UW-Madison Starts New Dual-Degree Program in Law and Public Health
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will offer a dual degree, a combined Juris Doctor and Master of Public Health starting this fall. The dual degree, a cooperative effort between the Law School and the School of Medicine and Public Health, wil ...
Law Librarian Bonnie Shucha Named Hirsh Award Winner
Asifa Quraishi-Landes Named Guggenheim Fellow
Asifa Quraishi-Landes , Assistant Professor of Law, has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . Quraishi-Landes received one of just 181 fellowships awarded to scholars, artists and scientists chosen from thou ...
Del Laverdure '99 Named Interim Head of U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
SBA Election and Graduation Speaker Results Announced
Congratulations to the following individuals who were elected today to the 2012-2013 Student Bar Council: President Brittany NanzigVice President of Academic Affairs Sean McNultyVice President of Public Service Henry WeinerVice President of Com ...
Students Excel in Moot Court Competitions Across the Country
Congratulations to the following Moot Court teams for earning honors at competitions across the country: Ryan Reszel (3L) and Chelsey Dahm (2L), coached by Jane Howard (3L), finished second overall at the BMI/Cardozo Entertainment and Com ...
Mark Sidel Receives Outstanding Academic Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Nonprofit Sector
The Nonprofit Organizations Committee of the American Bar Association, Business Law Section, named Mark Sidel the Outstanding Academic Award Recipient in the annual Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Awards for 2012. Sidel is Doyle-Bascom Professor ...
Anuj Desai Confirmed by Senate as a Commissioner on the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
Five UW Law Students Selected to be Presidential Management Fellows
Five UW Law students have been selected to be Presidential Management Fellows. Presidential Management Fellows work throughout the executive branch, in departments as diverse as Veterans Affairs and Health & Human Services. This year the ...
26th Annual Coming Together of the Peoples Conference
The Indigenous Law Students Association (ILSA) will host its 26th annual Coming Together of the Peoples Conference March 23-24 in Union South at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. ILSA exists to provide an organization and forum for Unive ...
International Law Symposium to Examine Renewable Energies
The opportunities and challenges encountered in the development of renewable energies will be discussed at the Wisconsin International Law Journal 2012 Symposium from 8:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Friday, March 23, at the University of Wisconsin Law ...
University of Wisconsin Law School Mourns the Loss of Professor John Kidwell
John Kidwell 1945-2012 The University of Wisconsin Law School is deeply saddened by the loss of Professor Emeritus John Kidwell, who passed away in Madison last week. Professor Kidwell was born in Denver, C ...
Wisconsin Law Review Elects Senior Board for 2012-13
The Wisconsin Law Review has elected next year’s Senior Board: Editor-in-Chief: Brian J. BohlSenior Note & Comment Editor: Monica MarkSenior Articles Editor: Alisha McKaySenior Managing Editors: Alex Brousseau, Kelley Daugherty, & Sp ...
Melissa Holds the Enemy '10 Honored with Forward Under 40 Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association
State Bar Awards Grants to new Veteran's Legal Clinic and Pro Bono Society
The State Bar Legal Assistance Committee has awarded Pro Bono Initiative grants to Dane County Veterans Legal Clinic to start a free legal clinic and to the UW Law School to recruit law students to work on pro bono matters.The Dane County Veter ...
Dean Raymond Comments on the Nature of Law School Rankings
On Rankings Spring may be the season when daffodils bloom, or when baby animals are born, but for those of us in law schools, spring is the season when the U.S. News annual law school rankings come out. You may have noticed a telltale patt ...
Law School Establishes $2.5 Million Fund in Honor of Alumnus
Exelon Corporation is marking the upcoming retirement of CEO and University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate John Rowe with a $500,000 gift to the Law School. Exelon made a separate, $2 million gift in late 2011 that created the Exelon Co ...
Consumer Law Clinic Obtains Settlement on behalf of Wisconsin Consumers in Class Action Lawsuit against Payday Lender
Professor Mitch and Group of Alumni Provide Testimony, Resources for Proposed Changes to Rental Housing Law
Clinical Assistant Professor Mitch , with UW Law School alumni Robert Andersen ’69, David Sparer ’79, Brenda Konkel ’93 and Tony Gibart ’09, presented testimony on February 15, 2012, regarding proposed changes to rental housing law that ...
Professor Shubha Ghosh Elected Member of the American Law Institute
Professor Shubha Ghosh has been elected to the American Law Institute (ALI), an independent U.S. organization that produces scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. ALI (made up of 4000 lawyers, judges and law pr ...
Keith Findley to Change Roles on the Law School Faculty, becoming Assistant Professor of Law
Keith Findley , co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project , will move from the clinical faculty at the UW Law School in July to join the tenure -track faculty this summer. He is currently Clinical Professor of Law in the Law School's ...
Student Bar Association sponsors voter registration drive Jan. 26
As the state readies for another election season, the Law School’s Student Bar Association will hold a non-partisan voter registration drive on Thursday, Jan. 26. The drive will be held from 9 a.m ...
University of Wisconsin Law School Mourns the Loss of Professor Jane Larson
Jane Larson 1958-2011 The University of Wisconsin Law School is deeply saddened by the loss of Professor Jane Larson, Voss-Bascom Professor of Law, who passed away unexpectedly from natural causes at her home in Madison last w ...
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