Alumni Magazine for the University of Wisconsin Law School
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 …
The aching anxiety that followed Stewart Macaulay for years became sorrowfully real as he switched on a short-wave radio just before dinner at his rented home in Santiago, Chile. A newsreader for the BBC was describing how, hours before, a van packed with fertilizer and fuel oil had blown up, ripping through UW-Madison’s Sterling Hall …
Rick Raemisch’s Mission to Reform Solitary Confinement by Tammy Kempfert On January 23, 2014, Rick Raemisch ’88 was led, handcuffed and shackled, to a solitary confinement cell in the Colorado State Penitentiary. Inmates can wind up in solitary for a variety of reasons — anything from getting caught with contraband to fighting with another inmate …
Professor Steven Wright is a clinical instructor at the Wisconsin Innocence Project, where he specializes in DNA exonerations. He is a former trial attorney in the Voting Section of the United States Department of Justice. During his five years in the section, Wright ligated cases to enforce the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Acts, …
By Tammy Kempfert In Madison, antiwar activism runs deep, with a tradition dating back to Law School graduate Robert La Follette and his strong opposition to entering World War I. But as protests go, no era was more turbulent than the 1960s, when UW-Madison students got national attention for their resistance to U.S. involvement in …
Director of the Economic Justice Institute, UW Law School Describe your current job. I am a clinical professor at UW Law School and the director of the Economic Justice Institute (EJI), home to the school’s civil legal assistance clinical programs. I am responsible for the overall administrative operations for all of the EJI clinics and …