Alumni Magazine for the University of Wisconsin Law School
Chancellor, Vanderbilt University Describe your current job. I have often said the definition of a great chancellor is a dilettante masquerading as a polymath. Like most academic research universities, Vanderbilt is a multilayered, complex organization. I work with a strong team of senior leaders to ensure the daily operations of our 10 schools and colleges, and …
After completing his bachelor’s degree at Morehouse College, the all-male, historically black liberal arts school in Atlanta, Everett Mitchell considered staying in the South. Then he read a speech by the late Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. describing a vision for a “beloved community.” As King saw it, the beloved community is not only a …
Add Obergefell v. Hodges to the roster of historic US Supreme Court cases that current and future University of Wisconsin Law School students will dissect as they study the SupremeCourt and civil rights. The 5–4 decision legalizing same-sex marriage across the United States made headlines around the world and continues to ignite debate about what …
Aissa Olivarez first absorbed the Tony Robinson news after she had settled her baby girl back down after her regular 4 a.m. feeding. In the dim, morning hours of March 6, 2015, as she was scrolling tiredly through the predawn news, there it was: another unarmed, 19-year-old African- American man — somebody’s baby — shot …