Why is law taught differently at the University of Wisconsin Law School and how is legal realism intertwined with the “law in action” approach to legal education? Professor Emeritus William Clune explores these themes in his latest ...
Congratulations to Ion Meyn for achieving tenure and promotion to associate professor. Meyn, who joined the UW Law School in 2010, teaches civil procedure, civil rights, wrongful convictions, race and the law, and trial advocacy. His scholarsh ...
Twenty-seven recent UW Law School graduates have been elected to the Order of the Coif for 2021. Induction into the Order of the Coif, a national honor society, is considered one of the highest academic distinctions a law school graduate can r ...
UW Law clinical professor Renagh O'Leary 's scholarship on compassionate release and decarceration was recently honored by the Association of American Law Schools' Criminal Justice Section. O'Leary was named the runner-up for the annual Junior ...
About Iman Hometown Chesapeake, VA Year Class of 2023 Career Interests White collar crime Extracurricular Involvement Wisconsin International Law Journal Black Law Students Association (BLSA) Wisconsin ...
The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the armed Illinois teenager who killed two people and wounded another during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has captured the nation’s attention and garnered extensive media coverage. Experts from the Univers ...
The Law & Entrepreneurship (L&E) Clinic provides free legal services to nascent entrepreneurs and early-stage companies through the work of law students supervised by faculty and private sector attorneys. The Clinic assists approximately ...
The University of Wisconsin Law School has created a $1 million Faculty Recruitment and Retention Fund. The fund will help UW Law expand its tenure-track faculty from 29 to 35 people over the next five years, a planned increase of over 20%. ...
“If we want to preserve and improve state democracy, we have to first understand it,” said Associate Professor of Law Miriam Seifter in a recent podcast interview . The Law School’s newly launched State Democracy Research Init ...
The Best Brief Competition is an annual event that recognizes outstanding legal writing by first-year students. The competition, which is in its nineteenth year, was created to encourage the best writers to reach for their highest potential.&nbs ...
Third year student Walker Kahn received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Law and Science Dissertation Grant for his work on mortgage foreclosures which identifies mortgage foreclosure litigation as a nexus connecting the growing pow ...
As a University of Wisconsin Law School student years ago, Jo Deen B. Lowe felt a deep connection to the land where she studied every day. The campus — and the territory around it — is the ancestral home of the Ho-Chunk, her forebear ...
Explore the roles and responsibilities of journalism in covering the criminal justice system with "Just Narratives: Covering Criminal Justice," 6:30-8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29, in Play Circle, Memorial Union, and online. Panelists include: ...
The University of Wisconsin Law School is pleased to announce that Michael States will serve as the inaugural Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In this newly created role, Dean States will lead the Law School’s diversity, ...
In response to the rising need for eviction defense, the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Economic Justice Institute (EJI) was awarded funding to provide dedicated legal assistance for eviction services. EJI oversees five other civil, ...
The University of Wisconsin Law School has strengthened its law faculty with the hire of Stephanie Holmes Didwania, who joins in a long tradition of excellence in research and teaching. Learn more about Stephanie in the faculty profile below. ...
The University of Wisconsin Law School has strengthened its law faculty with the hire of Nate Atkinson, who joins in a long tradition of excellence in research and teaching. Learn more about Nate in the faculty profile below. Nate Atkinson: ...
The University of Wisconsin Law School has strengthened its law faculty with two new hires, who join in a long tradition of excellence in research and teaching. Nate Atkinson and Stephanie Holmes Didwania joined the faculty this summer. &ldquo ...
Tonya Brito , Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law, was awarded an Understanding and Reducing Inequalities Initiative Program Research Grant from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As the principal investigator, Brito will launch “Race, Cl ...
This information originally appeared in a June 29, 2021, article by UW-News. Each year, UW–Madison honors university staff members for their outstanding dedication and commitment to excellence. The following Law School employees rece ...
The UW Law School will launch a new center to support Wisconsin’s DREAMers, an all-encompassing term describing individuals who have lived in the United States without official lawful status since coming to the country as a minor. The Cent ...
Dear UW Law Community Members, On June 19, 1865, more than two months after the end of the Civil War and two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the U.S. Army in Galveston issued General Order 3, declaring that “all slaves are fre ...
The Wisconsin International Law Journal has named University of Wisconsin Law School student Andrew Campbell as editor-in-chief for 2020-21. The student-run journal, established in 1982, features articles by law students and p ...
Two teams from the University of Wisconsin Law School recently placed first in two different LawMeets moot competitions, with a third team garnering a third place overall. All students were participating in the LawMeets moot competitions on tran ...
U.S. News and World report has ranked UW Law School 29th among the nation’s law schools (tied with five other schools), the magazine announced today. The school was ranked 38th last year.“This ranking reflects the outstanding value ...
The Wisconsin Law Review has named University of Wisconsin Law School student Kyle Clark as Editor-in-Chief for 2021–22. He replaces outgoing Editor-in-Chief Anya Gersoff. The student-run journal publishes six times a year, whi ...
The East Asian Legal Studies Center is pleased to announce that Manjiao Chi has been appointed 2021 James B. MacDonald Visiting Professor. The professorship was established in 1995 in honor of UW Law Professor James B. MacDonald ...
Fifteen recent UW Law School graduates have been elected to the Order of the Coif for 2020. Induction into the Order of the Coif, a national honor society, is considered one of the highest academic distinctions a law school graduate can receiv ...
The University of Wisconsin Law School embraces equality and opposes discrimination in all its forms. That includes a commitment to providing equal opportunity to all people regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disabil ...
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