Alumni Magazine for the University of Wisconsin Law School
In honor of our 150th anniversary, UW Law School will introduce its very own ice cream flavor in 2018. We asked members of our Law School family to propose the flavors, the mix-ins, and even the name. While we can’t reveal the winner just yet, these sweet ideas were too good to keep to ourselves. …
Professor Alexandra Huneeus, a leading authority on human rights law in Latin America, will soon put her expertise into action through a peace court in Colombia. Huneeus was one of ten foreign expert jurists recently selected to serve on Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP). The new tribunal will review war-related crimes in the wake …
UW Law School Professor Tonya Brito is one of fifteen researchers appointed to the Russell Sage Foundation’s Visiting Scholars program for the 2018–19 academic year. Working from the foundation headquarters in New York City, Brito will use the opportunity to continue her pioneering study of low-income litigants in child support cases. The study focuses on …
UW Law School Professor Mitra Sharafi has won four separate awards to pursue her research on the legal history of South Asia. Sharafi will use the opportunities to work on her latest book project, “Fear of the False: Forensic Science in Colonial India,” a cross-disciplinary examination of Indian law and forensics under British rule. “I’m …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison community is mourning the loss of UW Law alumna and civil-rights leader Vel Phillips. She passed away in April at the age of 94. “Throughout her life Vel Phillips provided a remarkable, courageous, and inspiring example of leadership in virtually every community she touched, including our own campus community,” Chancellor Rebecca …
The debate over US federalism—how the national and state governments share power—is as old as the Constitution. These days, it’s a debate mired in redstate and blue-state politics, says constitutional law scholar David Schwartz, with red-state Republicans arguing for small government, lower taxes, and privatization of public goods, while blue-state Democrats look to a centralized …
Herman Goldstein, professor emeritus at University of Wisconsin Law School, received the 2018 Stockholm Prize in Criminology for his decades of scholarship on policing, Stockholm University announced. The international prize recognizes excellence in criminology research or in the application of research shown to significantly reduce crime or advance human rights. Spanning more than fifty years, …
Anne Smith, director of the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, has been chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Kinnie Smith Rowe Faculty Fellowship in Business Law. (Anne Smith is no relation to Kinnie Smith.) She hopes to use the fellowship to advance a new strategic initiative that would allow the …
Law professor Miriam Seifter says her teaching philosophy is twofold. “First, law school should be empowering, not deflating. I want my classes to be a place where students find their voices rather than only hearing mine.” “But second, I believe the way to empower students is to challenge them,” she adds. “When given the opportunity, …
1. What’s in a name? For Tomás Clasen, ancestry, pride, opportunity. “My parents are German and Irish, and my birth mother is Guatemalan. When I was 12, my school in suburban Milwaukee put together a cultural fair. I made the decision to learn more about my Guatemalan heritage and my birth mother. I learned she …