Alumni Magazine for the University of Wisconsin Law School
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 v. Nichol. His group accuses state GOP leaders of using a political tactic known as gerrymandering when they redrew district …
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 describing how, hours before, a van packed with fertilizer and fuel oil had blown up, ripping through UW-Madison’s Sterling Hall …
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 up in solitary for a variety of reasons — anything from getting caught with contraband to fighting with another inmate …
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. During his five years in the section, Wright ligated cases to enforce the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Acts, …
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 era was more turbulent than the 1960s, when UW-Madison students got national attention for their resistance to U.S. involvement in …
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 civil legal assistance clinical programs. I am responsible for the overall administrative operations for all of the EJI clinics and …
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 Governor Tommy Thompson ’66, who received an honorary degree from UW this spring. The ceremony, as it always is, was …
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 wife, Marianne Lubar, both ardent UW-Madison supporters, provided the $3 million endowment to create the chair. Unlike other endowed chairs, …
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 faculty in 1968. Since then, he has focused his work on constitutional law and property, as well as on criminal …
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 received a second grant of up to $100,000 a year from DiscoverLaw.org to continue the program for an additional three …