Case likely headed to Supreme Court Twelve Wisconsin voters are challenging the constitutionality of the state’s Republican-drawn legislative maps. Bill Whitford, a UW Law professor emeritus, is lead plaintiff in Whitford v. Gill, formerly Whitford …
Month: July 2016
A Time of Protests and Principles
The aching anxiety that followed Stewart Macaulay for years became sorrowfully real as he switched on a short-wave radio just before dinner at his rented home in Santiago, Chile. A newsreader for the BBC was …
Solitary Man
RICK RAEMISCH’S MISSION TO REFORM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT by Tammy Kempfert On January 23, 2014, Rick Raemisch ’88 was led, handcuffed and shackled, to a solitary confinement cell in the Colorado State Penitentiary. Inmates can wind …
Professor Steven Wright: Five must-read election law articles
Professor Steven Wright is a clinical instructor at the Wisconsin Innocence Project, where he specializes in DNA exonerations. He is a former trial attorney in the Voting Section of the United States Department of Justice. …
Law in Action: A 1972 protest turns violent and brings UW Law students, faculty together
By Tammy Kempfert In Madison, antiwar activism runs deep, with a tradition dating back to Law School graduate Robert La Follette and his strong opposition to entering World War I. But as protests go, no …
The Last Word: Marsha Mansfield ’84
DIRECTOR OF THE ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE, UW LAW SCHOOL Describe your current job. I am a clinical professor at UW Law School and the director of the Economic Justice Institute (EJI), home to the school’s …
On the Cutting Edge
This issue of the Gargoyle comes to you as we say goodbye to the Class of 2016. At their hooding ceremony, they got to hear remarks from former US Attorney General Eric Holder and former …
Law School Bioethicist Selected for Innovative Research Chair
University of Wisconsin Law School Professor R. Alta Charo, an internationally known bioethicist, is the inaugural recipient of the Sheldon B. Lubar Distinguished Research Chair in Law. Lubar ’53, a Milwaukee business executive, and his …
Professors Church and Cagle Retire from UW Law School
When they retired in December 2015, Professors Larry Church and Ralph Cagle had each logged decades of combined service to UW Law School. Larry Church, the Volkman-Bascom Distinguished Professor of Teaching, joined the Law School …
UW Law Receives Grants to Launch Pre-Law Scholars Program
The University of Wisconsin Law School received a $70,000 grant from the Access Group Center for Research & Policy Analysis in support of a new pre-law scholars initiative beginning in 2016. The Law School also …