Tag: Fall 2017

Supreme Court takes on partisan gerrymandering in Professor Bill Whitford’s landmark case

The Supreme Court will decide whether Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled legislature violated the Constitution by redrawing voter district maps that were unfairly partisan. The outcome could shape elections throughout the country. Professor Bill Whitford is the named plaintiff in the US Supreme Court case Gill v. Whitford. Widely considered the most important gerrymandering case in decades, it …

In Brief

Professor Keith Findley and Wisconsin Innocence Project exoneree Jarrett Adams were featured on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt for their work to free the wrongfully convicted. To watch the segment, visit NBC’s website.   It’s Official: Members of UW Law’s graduating class of 2017 are admitted to practice the law during the June swearing-in …