Tag Law School
UW-Madison to offer dual law and public health degree
April 26, 2012The University of Wisconsin–Madison will offer a dual degree, a combined juris doctor and master of public health, starting this fall. Read More
Veteran’s Legal Clinic and Pro Bono Society receive grants
April 24, 2012Two new grants will help University of Wisconsin law students gain valuable experience while helping veterans who need legal assistance. Read More
Guggenheim Foundation names two UW–Madison faculty as fellows
April 17, 2012A mathematician and a legal scholar at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have received 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship Awards, recognizing artists, scholars and scientists based on distinguished past achievement and exceptional future promise. Read More
Association hosts 26th annual Coming Together of the Peoples Conference
March 16, 2012The Indigenous Law Students Association (ILSA) will host its 26th annual Coming Together of the Peoples Conference March 23-24 in Union South at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More
International Law Symposium to examine renewable energies
March 15, 2012The opportunities and challenges encountered in the development of renewable energies will be discussed at the Wisconsin International Law Journal 2012 Symposium from 8:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Friday, March 23, at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Read More
UW-Madison graduate programs ranked among best by U.S. News and World Report
March 12, 2012Several UW–Madison graduate programs are ranked among the nation’s best in the 2013 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.” Read More
UW law professor offers look at FDA from the inside out
March 8, 2012UW Law Professor R. Alta Charo was senior policy adviser to the commissioner at the Food and Drug Administration from August 2009 until June 2011. Now back on campus, Charo spoke reflects on her time with the FDA. Read More
Law School establishes $2.5 million fund in honor of alumnus
March 1, 2012Exelon’s gifts will be used to establish up to four new faculty fellowship funds, which will support retaining mid-level faculty members. Read More
Law students find inspiration in the Big Easy
February 1, 2012Students from the UW Law School headed to New Orleans during winter break to help provide legal assistance to victims of hurricanes. Here are some of their stories, told by student volunteers. Read More
Student Bar Association sponsors voter registration drive Jan. 26
January 19, 2012As the state readies for another election season, the Law School’s Student Bar Association will hold a non-partisan voter registration drive on Thursday, Jan. 26. Read More
Law professor Jane Larson dies
December 28, 2011The University of Wisconsin Law School is deeply saddened by the loss of Professor Jane Larson, Voss-Bascom Professor of Law, who passed away unexpectedly from natural causes at her home in Madison last week. Read More
Wisconsin Innocence Project screens cases with an open mind
December 13, 2011The first innocence case Tricia Bushnell, a staff attorney for the Wisconsin Innocence Project, ever worked on involved an inmate who had been convicted of murder after being found driving the victim’s car with her blood on his socks. Read More
Book examines implications of newborn screening
December 1, 2011A new book from Rachel Grob, a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, is the first to explore the sociological implications of a program that tests newborns for genetic diseases. Read More
Law School launches Wisconsin Business Law Initiative
November 15, 2011The University of Wisconsin Law School is launching the Wisconsin Business Law Initiative to better connect faculty and students with business lawyers in Wisconsin and beyond. Read More
HBO’s “The Wire” plays leading role in ILS course
November 10, 2011Drug war series described as “Charles Dickens on the small screen” is the focus of Integrated Liberal Studies 275: Narratives of Justice and Equality in Multicultural America. Read More
Historian’s work gives a glimpse of Nixon “unplugged”
November 8, 2011The National Archives and the Richard Nixon Presidential Library will release new recordings and documents, including a transcript of Nixon’s grand jury testimony related to the Watergate investigation, thanks to a UW–Madison professor emeritus who has fought for years to get the secret records of the former president made public. Read More
Core competency: Law student leads apple business while finishing degree
November 3, 2011Andy Ferguson is not your common student. Ferguson, a third-year student in the University of Wisconsin Law School, works full-time with his family business in addition to completing his law degree. Read More
UW–Madison law student helps resident escape fire
November 2, 2011A University of Wisconsin–Madison student came to the aid of a stranger Sunday night when a stove fire broke out in an apartment complex. Read More
Conference discusses constitutional law, labor and employment law
October 14, 2011The intersection of constitutional law and labor and employment law will be examined in a conference at the University of Wisconsin Law School on Oct. 28-29. Read More
Nobel Prize winner to speak at UW–Madison
September 29, 2011Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom will visit the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus to deliver a Hilldale Lecture on ecological and social diversity. Read More