Alumni Magazine for the University of Wisconsin Law School
Op-Ed by Professor Yaron Nili A year ago, State Street Advisors, one of the largest institutional investors in the country, commissioned the “Fearless Girl” statue as a symbol of increased attention by investors and the public to the lack of gender diversity in corporate boardrooms. In the year since “Fearless Girl” appeared on Wall Street, …
Wisconsin attorneys Peter Fox ’01 and Rebecca Salawdeh ’96 have spent their careers representing plaintiffs in workplace disputes. In a presentation to law students, they shared a few lessons on litigating sexual harassment cases. Harassment is hard to prove. Like most states, Wisconsin is an ‘at-will’ employment state. That gives workers the right to quit …
In the weeks following the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the hashtag #MeToo exploded on social media channels, as millions of women used it to share their stories of sexual harassment. Considered a watershed national reckoning, the movement exposed just how prevalent sexual harassment is in the workplace. Long before the #MeToo hashtag was trending, alumna Debra …
2017 marks the 50th birthday of two UW Law School icons. Launched in 1967, the Legal Education Opportunities Program has logged 50 years as a national model for recruiting and retaining students of color. Commonly known as LEO, the trailblazing program has graduated more than 1,500 attorneys, who actively serve their legal communities in a …
While scanning the National Registry of Exonerations, Wisconsin Innocence Project attorney Cristina Bordé noticed some striking statistics. The number of Caucasian and African American inmates exonerated for wrongful convictions matched or exceeded the percentage of those groups in prison, while Latino or Hispanic exonerees were vastly underrepresented: they accounted for only 12 percent of exonerees …
Dan Cornelius ’09 is familiar with the challenges and opportunities of launching a business on tribal land: he founded the Mobile Farmers Market to help Native farmers, ranchers, food producers, and other entrepreneurs get their products from remote reservations to bigger markets. “Our tribes have entrepreneurs, but we could have so many more,” says Cornelius, …
UW Law students and alumni help children succeed and stay in school UW Law School students and graduates are known for their strongly held commitment to community service. Starting during the first week of law school, new students learn that law is a service profession and spend time giving back to schools and community organizations …
By Nicole Etter Filled with excitement and nervous energy, third-year law student Sofia Ascorbe waited for one of the biggest moments of her life: a personal meeting with US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. “Meeting her was sort of overwhelming,” says Ascorbe, who is president of the Student Bar Association (SBA) and an executive board …
By Tammy Kempfert The day her family’s refrigerator got repossessed is the day Geraldine Hines realized her life’s calling. Hines recalls thinking, “This isn’t fair.” She was around 12 at the time, the oldest of ten kids growing up in Greenville, Mississippi. “I may not have thought ‘lawyer’ at that moment, but in a more …
In 1971, Geraldine Hines was one of four black students entering the Wisconsin Law School. She’s now a justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court — the first African American woman to serve there — and this past summer, she returned to meet with 18 students, speaking about the challenges and opportunities studying law provides. …