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 …
Summer 2016
Tonya Sloans ’01 Wins Forward Under 40 Award
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 …
Alumni in the News
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 …
In Appreciation of the Wisconsin Law Legacy Society
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 …
Professor Bill Whitford’s federal lawsuit against partisan gerrymandering
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 …
A Time of Protests and Principles
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 …
Solitary Man
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 …
Professor Steven Wright: Five must-read election law articles
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. …
Law in Action: A 1972 protest turns violent and brings UW Law students, faculty together
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 …
The Last Word: Marsha Mansfield ’84
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 …