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 — …
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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 …
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 Making of Making a Murderer
DECEMBER 2015 The television streaming service Netflix begins promoting a documentary series about a Wisconsin man wrongfully convicted of rape, released from prison, and then charged and convicted for the death of a young photographer. …
The Law of Politics: Supreme Court rulings shape voter participation and equity
By Nicole Sweeny Etter On election day, you duck into the poll booth with a ballot to record your voting preferences (that is, if you’re among the roughly half of eligible voters who bother to …
Everett Mitchell ’10: Building the Beloved Community
After completing his bachelor’s degree at Morehouse College, the all-male, historically black liberal arts school in Atlanta, Everett Mitchell considered staying in the South. Then he read a speech by the late Reverend Martin Luther …
Same-Sex Marriage and the Future of the LGBT Movement
Add Obergefell v. Hodges to the roster of historic US Supreme Court cases that current and future University of Wisconsin Law School students will dissect as they study the SupremeCourt and civil rights. The 5–4 …
After the Shooting: UW Law Students Help Community Heal
Aissa Olivarez first absorbed the Tony Robinson news after she had settled her baby girl back down after her regular 4 a.m. feeding. In the dim, morning hours of March 6, 2015, as she was …
Cody Splitt: In her Own Words
Interview compiled and edited by Tammy Kempfert Having a conversation with Cody Splitt, a 1949 UW Law School graduate, is the next best thing to scoring a front-row seat to some of 20th-century America’s most …