Federal judge to deliver UW Law School’s Kastenmeier Lecture

U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb will deliver the University of Wisconsin Law School’s annual Robert W. Kastenmeier Lecture on Friday, Sept. 16.

Crabb will speak on the timely subject of “Bridging the Divide Between Congress and the Courts.”

Crabb’s lecture subject is not only important for the Law School and the legal profession, “it addresses the relationship of the legislative and judicial branches of government, a relationship of increasingly interest and concern to the public at large,” says UW law professor Peter Carstensen.

The lecture is scheduled for 4 p.m. in Godfrey & Kahn Hall, Room 2260, of the UW Madison Law School, 975 Bascom Mall.

Crabb was appointed to the federal judiciary in the Western District of Wisconsin by then-President Jimmy Carter in 1979. She served as the court’s chief from 1980-96 and again from 2001 to May 2010.

Crabb was born in Green Bay and received both her undergraduate and law degrees from UW–Madison.

The lecture is supported by a fund established to honor Kastenmeier, a graduate of UW Law School who represented Wisconsin in the U.S. Congress from 1958-90. During his tenure, Kastenmeier made special contributions to the improvement of the judiciary and to the field of intellectual property law.

The Kastenmeier Fund was created to recognize these contributions by fostering important legal scholarship in the fields of intellectual property, corrections, administration of justice and civil liberties.

For more information about the lecture, visit http://law.wisc.edu/alumni/kastenmeier.html.