Alumni Magazine for the University of Wisconsin Law School
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 …
Cecelia Klingele, on judges using software that measures criminal defendants’ risk of reoffending in their sentencing decisions: “We know that on average, these algorithmic tools tend to make better risk predictions than people do. People tend to overestimate risk. And so these can be a nice check against those natural intuitive biases that we have …
Six UW Law students spent spring break providing pro bono legal services for immigrants apprehended at the US–Mexico border. The immigrants are women and children who came to the United States seeking protection from violence in their home countries. By the time they arrived at the federal detention center in Dilley, Texas, where they are …
John Steuart Curry’s iconic mural, “The Freeing of the Slaves,” has provided quiet inspiration to generations of University of Wisconsin law students. The mural, which dominates the Law Library’s Quarles & Brady Reading Room, turns 75 this year. Completed in July 1942, the mural was commissioned to adorn the “new” Law Library reading room built …
The Supreme Court will decide whether Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled legislature violated the Constitution by redrawing voter district maps that were unfairly partisan. The outcome could shape elections throughout the country. Professor Bill Whitford is the named plaintiff in the US Supreme Court case Gill v. Whitford. Widely considered the most important gerrymandering case in decades, it …
Professor Keith Findley and Wisconsin Innocence Project exoneree Jarrett Adams were featured on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt for their work to free the wrongfully convicted. To watch the segment, visit NBC’s website. It’s Official: Members of UW Law’s graduating class of 2017 are admitted to practice the law during the June swearing-in …
See also “Mississippi Learning: The Education of Geraldine Hines ’71“ 1947 Born in the Mississippi Delta on October 29, 1947, Geraldine Hines knew early on she’d make a career of social justice lawyering. “Seeing what happened to my parents, what happened to people around me, the indignities we all faced — having to enter through …