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 …
Volume 39.1
Law School Bioethicist Selected for Innovative Research Chair
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 …
Professors Church and Cagle Retire from UW Law School
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 …
UW Law Receives Grants to Launch Pre-Law Scholars Program
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 …
Student Spotlight: 5 Things We Love About Cory Brewer
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 …
It Just Got Harder to Make a Difference in China
A harsh new NGO law has foreign organizations scrambling By Mark Sidel On April 28, China’s national legislature adopted the highly controversial Law on the Management of Domestic Activities of Overseas Nongovernmental Organizations, also known …
The Making of Making a Murderer
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. …
The Law of Politics: Supreme Court rulings shape voter participation and equity
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 …
In Brief
“Oftentimes what happens when you get in law school is you get so pushed into managing the stress of the curriculum. The world gets complicated; the barriers to justice are more multifaceted than we thought; …