Alumni Magazine for the University of Wisconsin Law School
In 1971, Geraldine Hines was one of four black students entering the Wisconsin Law School. She’s now a justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court — the first African American woman to serve there — and this past summer, she returned to meet with 18 students, speaking about the challenges and opportunities studying law provides. …
On the Reasons Why People Falsely Confess “The most prominent is simply that people are subjected to psychologically coercive, very intensive interrogation tactics. To make it stop or secure the best outcome that they possibly can, they’re led to believe that they should just confess, even though they didn’t do it.” KEITH FINDLEY, WISCONSIN PUBLIC …
The Neighborhood Law Clinic (NLC) received honorable mention from the Clinical Legal Education Association, a national group of clinical law teachers, for excellence in delivering public interest legal services. Marsha Mansfield, who directs the Law School’s Economic Justice Institute, nominated the NLC for the honor. She commends clinic students, along with clinic director Mitch, for …
A digital archive launched this fall at UW Law Library sheds light on the legal aspects of the world’s worst industrial disaster. According to Marc Galanter, UW professor emeritus of law and South Asian studies, more than 20,000 people died and hundreds of thousands more were injured as a result of the 1984 chemical leak …
Nearly 300 veterans have been offered free legal assistance since UW Law School started its Veterans Law Center (VLC) in November 2012. Volunteer attorneys, along with paralegals and law students, provide brief legal advice, information, and referrals on a variety of civil legal matters. Laura Smythe wants to help more. “There’s a huge unmet need,” …
UW Law School family law expert selected for research chair. A University of Wisconsin Law School professor will use an innovative research chair to complete a project that examines the civil justice experiences of unrepresented parents in child support cases. Professor Tonya Brito, a nationally known family law expert, is the 2016 recipient of the …
“The work I’m doing affects so many people. That’s something I never forget. Someone wins … and someone loses. That burden feels very heavy to me” Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the 2016 Kastenmeier Lecture Center for Patient Partnerships, along with Other Health Organizations, Launched a Patient Insight Website, healthexperiencesusa.org, designed to help patients and doctors …