Alumni Magazine for the University of Wisconsin Law School
It is always our intention to express our sincere gratitude by properly thanking those who make our work of transforming lives through legal education possible. The following list recognizes friends and alumni who have included UW Law School in their estate plans. If we have erred in any way in creating or displaying this list, please accept …
Student Spotlight: Five Things We Love about Leslie Freehill Through UW Law’s dual-degree program, Leslie Freehill is earning her JD and a master’s in science all at once, and combining her passion for law and agriculture.
The Lubars’ $3 million gift will allow University of Wisconsin Law School to support top legal scholars in a new and creative way. Two ardent UW–Madison supporters, Milwaukee business executive Sheldon B. Lubar ‘53 and Marianne S. Lubar, have provided the funding to endow a faculty post at the Law School that will diversify research …
On what’s missing from the national conversation on freezing eggs “Women are now using technology to try to make themselves seem as much like man as possible, so that they can have their children later after they have laid the groundwork for their career. It is absolutely true this is giving women options, and it’s making it economically feasible. And it’s …
On the use of experimental Ebola serum “No one can say that the optics here are not troubling. That is, you have a very small amount of a drug that might work, and the only people who get it are the Americans. But you need to also remember that if we had given it to …
University of Wisconsin Law School welcomed three new faculty members in July: Gwendolyn Leachman, Miriam Seifter, and Robert Yablon. All three began their teaching duties this fall. Gwendolyn Leachman teaches labor and employment law. Her research, which investigates questions related to law, inequality, and social change, has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the …
University of Wisconsin Law School was named one of the nation’s best law schools for practical training, ranking third in a recent report by the National Jurist magazine. James Peterson ‘98 filled the long-vacant federal judge position after the US Senate confirmed him for the job last spring. The Senate voted 70-24 to make Peterson …
University of Wisconsin Law School students scored two wins for their clients in criminal appeals courts in July. Meredith Stier and Elizabeth Bradley, students in the Federal Appeals Project, took their client’s case to the Seventh US Circuit Court of Appeals to seek a reduction in his 188-month prison sentence on a drug conviction. Working …
Our new series celebrates the dynamic individuals who make up our remarkable student body. This summer, we interviewed second-year student Aissa Olivarez, weeks before she and her husband welcomed their first child, a daughter. 1. Watching Law and Order inspired her to pursue Law in Action. “I’ve wanted to be a lawyer since third grade, …
Last fall, the Law School opened its doors to welcome back more than two hundred alumni from the classes of 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003, and 2008. Alumni joined Dean Raymond and the faculty for a weekend of socializing, networking, tailgating, and more. On Friday, alumni met with current students over …