Alumni Magazine for the University of Wisconsin Law School
The Neighborhood Law Clinic (NLC) received honorable mention from the Clinical Legal Education Association, a national group of clinical law teachers, for excellence in delivering public interest legal services. Marsha Mansfield, who directs the Law School’s Economic Justice Institute, nominated the NLC for the honor. She commends clinic students, along with clinic director Mitch, for …
A digital archive launched this fall at UW Law Library sheds light on the legal aspects of the world’s worst industrial disaster. According to Marc Galanter, UW professor emeritus of law and South Asian studies, more than 20,000 people died and hundreds of thousands more were injured as a result of the 1984 chemical leak …
Nearly 300 veterans have been offered free legal assistance since UW Law School started its Veterans Law Center (VLC) in November 2012. Volunteer attorneys, along with paralegals and law students, provide brief legal advice, information, and referrals on a variety of civil legal matters. Laura Smythe wants to help more. “There’s a huge unmet need,” …
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 …
Tonya Sloans is among the eight young graduates of UW–Madison being honored with the 2016 Forward under 40 Award, presented by the Wisconsin Alumni Association. When Sloans arrived on the UW–Madison campus as a Law School student in the fall of 1998, she felt lost. The campus and the people were not familiar to her. …
On Living up to His Name “With everyone calling me Sir, which is typically reserved for people deserving of respect, I think I’ve always felt a responsibility to be a Sir. To try and live up to that. I use ‘sir’ very generously when I’m addressing other men and young men. And it’s easy for …
We wish to express our sincere gratitude to 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 made any errors in this list, please accept our apology and contact Eric Salisbury ateric.salisbury@supportuw.org. …
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 …