Alumni Magazine for the University of Wisconsin Law School
By Tammy Kempfert You can’t throw Marti Wronski any curveballs. The Neenah, Wisconsin, native has been hitting career home runs ever since graduating from UW Law School with high honors in 1997. She spent nearly six years as an associate with Milwaukee’s Foley & Lardner and had taken a faculty spot at Marquette Law School …
“Never in a thousand years would I have ever dreamed I’d be watching my mailbox for the next letter from Ryan Beckler.” — Noreen Deiss To understand why Noreen Deiss would say this, one need only look back to the evening of December 4, 1994. That was when a sixteen-year-old Beckler, his fifteen-year-old girlfriend, and …
by Denise Thompson and Illustrations by Katie Borud Current food law is a bewildering mix of disconnected and outdated regulations. Three UW Law School professors are proposing new policies and frameworks to ensure food safety, safeguard the environment, and protect farmers and other food workers. Their goal is to prepare and serve a safe and …
On the use of experimental Ebola serum “No one can say that the optics here are not troubling. That is, you have a very small amount of a drug that might work, and the only people who get it are the Americans. But you need to also remember that if we had given it to …
University of Wisconsin Law School welcomed three new faculty members in July: Gwendolyn Leachman, Miriam Seifter, and Robert Yablon. All three began their teaching duties this fall. Gwendolyn Leachman teaches labor and employment law. Her research, which investigates questions related to law, inequality, and social change, has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the …
Another school year has commenced in Madison. The Terrace is open, and trees and flowers in beautiful bloom. First-year students are finding their way around the Law School and trying out their new language; faculty members are preparing for class. While the rhythm of the academic year has begun here, it has probably been a …
University of Wisconsin Law School was named one of the nation’s best law schools for practical training, ranking third in a recent report by the National Jurist magazine. James Peterson ‘98 filled the long-vacant federal judge position after the US Senate confirmed him for the job last spring. The Senate voted 70-24 to make Peterson …
Professor Emeritus James E. Jones has been inducted into the Lincoln University Alumni Hall of Fame. Jones graduated magna cum laude from the university in 1950, when he earned his bachelor’s degree in government. He went on to receive a master’s degree in industrial relations from the University of Illinois in 1951 and a juris …
University of Wisconsin Law School students scored two wins for their clients in criminal appeals courts in July. Meredith Stier and Elizabeth Bradley, students in the Federal Appeals Project, took their client’s case to the Seventh US Circuit Court of Appeals to seek a reduction in his 188-month prison sentence on a drug conviction. Working …
Our new series celebrates the dynamic individuals who make up our remarkable student body. This summer, we interviewed second-year student Aissa Olivarez, weeks before she and her husband welcomed their first child, a daughter. 1. Watching Law and Order inspired her to pursue Law in Action. “I’ve wanted to be a lawyer since third grade, …