By Tammy Kempfert You can’t throw Marti Wronski any curveballs. The Neenah, Wisconsin, native has been hitting career home runs ever since graduating from UW Law School with high honors in 1997. She spent nearly …
Volume 37.2
Restoring Justice
“Never in a thousand years would I have ever dreamed I’d be watching my mailbox for the next letter from Ryan Beckler.” — Noreen Deiss To understand why Noreen Deiss would say this, one need …
Food, Glorious Food: Shaping the Food Law of the Future
by Denise Thompson Illustrations by Katie Borud Current food law is a bewildering mix of disconnected and outdated regulations. Three UW Law School professors are proposing new policies and frameworks to ensure food safety, safeguard …
Overheard: UW Law in the news
On the use of experimental Ebola serum “No one can say that the optics here are not troubling. That is, you have a very small amount of a drug that might work, and the only …
UW Law welcomes new faculty
University of Wisconsin Law School welcomed three new faculty members in July: Gwendolyn Leachman, Miriam Seifter, and Robert Yablon. All three began their teaching duties this fall. Gwendolyn Leachman teaches labor and employment law. Her …
Dean’s View
Another school year has commenced in Madison. The Terrace is open, and trees and flowers in beautiful bloom. First-year students are finding their way around the Law School and trying out their new language; faculty …
In Brief
University of Wisconsin Law School was named one of the nation’s best law schools for practical training, ranking third in a recent report by the National Jurist magazine. James Peterson ‘98 filled the long-vacant federal …
James E. Jones, Jr. inducted into Hall of Fame
Professor Emeritus James E. Jones has been inducted into the Lincoln University Alumni Hall of Fame. Jones graduated magna cum laude from the university in 1950, when he earned his bachelor’s degree in government. He …
UW Law students score victories in criminal appeals courts
University of Wisconsin Law School students scored two wins for their clients in criminal appeals courts in July. Meredith Stier and Elizabeth Bradley, students in the Federal Appeals Project, took their client’s case to the …
Student spotlight: Five things we love about Aissa Olivarez
Our new series celebrates the dynamic individuals who make up our remarkable student body. This summer, we interviewed second-year student Aissa Olivarez, weeks before she and her husband welcomed their first child, a daughter. 1. …