Alumni Magazine for the University of Wisconsin Law School
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 …
When crime strikes, Peter Tempelis fights back with Wisconsin superpowers: a lawyer’s mind and a Badger’s heart. In his decade of public service, Tempelis has prosecuted some of Wisconsin’s toughest cases. He seeks justice through what he calls a “dual focus on both law and policy”—and it’s paid off. In 2015, Tempelis’s peers named him …
A champion for freedom and liberation, Carl Williams serves as a staff attorney for the ACLU in Boston where he made history for his successful efforts leading to the largest dismissal of criminal cases at once. As a result of the advocacy of Williams and a team of attorneys, more than 20,000 Massachusetts drug cases …
Perched on the banks of the mighty Mississippi, La Crosse boasts dramatic bluffs and valleys and holds all the charm of a historic river town. Brent Smith ’78 is one of La Crosse’s biggest fans, something that would have surprised his younger self. When he took a job in La Crosse straight after law school, …
Troy Vosseller ’10 honored by UW– Madison for Entrepreneurial Achievement UW Law School graduate Troy Vosseller was recognized for his entrepreneurial success and commitment to encouraging the next generation of entrepreneurs. Vosseller is the co-founder and managing director of gener8tor Madison and Milwaukee, an accelerator for high-growth startups. Gener8tor has helped launch more than 30 …