Alumni Magazine for the University of Wisconsin Law School
Free legal assistance for Dane County veterans became available last November, when the University of Wisconsin Law School launched its new Veterans Law Center. The center provides veterans with basic legal information, as well as guidance for civil cases. Since opening, it has served approximately forty veterans. According to Ann Zimmerman, the Law School’s pro …
From Pop Rock to Trademark Law, Student Paul Borovay Describes His Law School Journey I was setting up for a rock show in Italy when Scramble, an Italian punk band approached me and asked if I planned on using my band name, Smile Radio, in Europe. I told them I did plan on using it, …
Monica Mark won the Greenhalgh Student Writing Competition, awarded by the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section. Mark’s winning paper, “GPS Tracking, Smartphones and the Inadequacy of Jones and Katz,” suggests that Supreme Court jurisprudence has not kept up with GPS technology. “There’s obviously no physical trespass involved in planting a GPS unit in a …
New Collaboration between the Wisconsin Innocence Project and the State Public Defender On September 28, 2012, the 300th person was exonerated in the United States on the basis of new DNA testing. Damon Thibodeaux served 16 years on death row in Louisiana. In total, these 300 exonerees served approximately 4,013 years in prison—an average of …
“I wanted to have a stronger impact.” Ever since Rukmini Vasupuram chose women’s studies and history for her undergraduate majors, gender issues have guided her path. “Even though we live in a time when women are ostensibly equal to men,” she says, “women face ingrained beliefs and structures that reinforce unequal gender dynamics.” Vasupuram earned …
After working as a bilingual case manager for Spanish-speaking immigrants at the Milwaukee County Courthouse, Kathryn Finley decided to study law so she could advocate on behalf of Wisconsin’s immigrants. Now a third-year University of Wisconsin Law School student, Finley, along with the Latino Law Student Association (LLSA), has won a prestigious Ira and Ineva …