Alumni Magazine for the University of Wisconsin Law School
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 …
2017 marks the 50th birthday of two UW Law School icons. Launched in 1967, the Legal Education Opportunities Program has logged 50 years as a national model for recruiting and retaining students of color. Commonly known as LEO, the trailblazing program has graduated more than 1,500 attorneys, who actively serve their legal communities in a …
While scanning the National Registry of Exonerations, Wisconsin Innocence Project attorney Cristina Bordé noticed some striking statistics. The number of Caucasian and African American inmates exonerated for wrongful convictions matched or exceeded the percentage of those groups in prison, while Latino or Hispanic exonerees were vastly underrepresented: they accounted for only 12 percent of exonerees …
Dan Cornelius ’09 is familiar with the challenges and opportunities of launching a business on tribal land: he founded the Mobile Farmers Market to help Native farmers, ranchers, food producers, and other entrepreneurs get their products from remote reservations to bigger markets. “Our tribes have entrepreneurs, but we could have so many more,” says Cornelius, …
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 …