Alumni Magazine for the University of Wisconsin Law School
This issue of the Gargoyle comes to you as we say goodbye to the Class of 2016. At their hooding ceremony, they got to hear remarks from former US Attorney General Eric Holder and former Governor Tommy Thompson ’66, who received an honorary degree from UW this spring. The ceremony, as it always is, was …
University of Wisconsin Law School Professor R. Alta Charo, an internationally known bioethicist, is the inaugural recipient of the Sheldon B. Lubar Distinguished Research Chair in Law. Lubar ’53, a Milwaukee business executive, and his wife, Marianne Lubar, both ardent UW-Madison supporters, provided the $3 million endowment to create the chair. Unlike other endowed chairs, …
When they retired in December 2015, Professors Larry Church and Ralph Cagle had each logged decades of combined service to UW Law School. Larry Church, the Volkman-Bascom Distinguished Professor of Teaching, joined the Law School faculty in 1968. Since then, he has focused his work on constitutional law and property, as well as on criminal …
The University of Wisconsin Law School received a $70,000 grant from the Access Group Center for Research & Policy Analysis in support of a new pre-law scholars initiative beginning in 2016. The Law School also received a second grant of up to $100,000 a year from DiscoverLaw.org to continue the program for an additional three …
1. As a health care advocate, she has skin in the game. I worked at the Center for Patient Partnerships (CPP) this past summer and continued into the fall. My supervisor there is a melanoma survivor, and Kyle, one of my first clients, also has advanced-stage melanoma. It’s because of Kyle that I scheduled a …
By Mark Sidel A harsh new NGO law has foreign organizations scrambling On April 28, China’s national legislature adopted the highly controversial Law on the Management of Domestic Activities of Overseas Nongovernmental Organizations, also known as its overseas NGO law. The passage of the law, which has been in the works for over a year, …
December, 2015 The television streaming service Netflix begins promoting a documentary series about a Wisconsin man wrongfully convicted of rape, released from prison, and then charged and convicted for the death of a young photographer. Keith Findley isn’t sure how long it took viewers of Making a Murderer to react — maybe a few days, …
By Nicole Sweeny Etter On election day, you duck into the poll booth with a ballot to record your voting preferences (that is, if you’re among the roughly half of eligible voters who bother to vote even during US presidential elections). Maybe you donate to a favorite candidate or political party. Perhaps you’re one of …
Elizabeth Mertz Recognized for Excellence in Mentoring Elizabeth Mertz, UW-Madison’s John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law, earned the 2015 Doris Slesinger Award for Excellence in Mentoring. One recipient is selected annually to receive the award, presented by the UW-Madison Women Faculty Mentoring Program, a campus initiative that seeks to support and retain women assistant …