Alumni Magazine for the University of Wisconsin Law School
UW Law School family law expert selected for research chair. A University of Wisconsin Law School professor will use an innovative research chair to complete a project that examines the civil justice experiences of unrepresented parents in child support cases. Professor Tonya Brito, a nationally known family law expert, is the 2016 recipient of the …
“The work I’m doing affects so many people. That’s something I never forget. Someone wins … and someone loses. That burden feels very heavy to me” Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the 2016 Kastenmeier Lecture Center for Patient Partnerships, along with Other Health Organizations, Launched a Patient Insight Website, healthexperiencesusa.org, designed to help patients and doctors …
Former US Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. told an audience of UW Law School graduates in May, “As of today, you are no longer merely students of law. You are now stewards of our justice system.” Holder spoke at this year’s hooding ceremony at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison. In his …
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 …
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, …
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 …
1. As a health care advocate, she has skin in the game. I worked at the Center for Patient Partnerships (CPP) this past summer and continued into the fall. My supervisor there is a melanoma survivor, and Kyle, one of my first clients, also has advanced-stage melanoma. It’s because of Kyle that I scheduled a …
By Mark Sidel A harsh new NGO law has foreign organizations scrambling On April 28, China’s national legislature adopted the highly controversial Law on the Management of Domestic Activities of Overseas Nongovernmental Organizations, also known as its overseas NGO law. The passage of the law, which has been in the works for over a year, …