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TIP/Campaign finance experts

January 21, 2010

Jan. 21, 2010 TO: Editors, news directors FROM: Stacy Forster and Jenny Price, University Communications, 608-262-0930 RE: TIP/CAMPAIGN FINANCE EXPERTS In a major… Read More

After Supreme Court clerkship, Klingele back teaching at UW Law School

November 13, 2009

One of the most memorable moments of Cecelia Klingele's yearlong U.S. Supreme Court clerkship wasn't crafting an opinion on a particular case or listening to an oral argument. Read More

Wisconsin Innocence Project marks 10th anniversary

October 13, 2009

When Keith Findley and John Pray founded the Wisconsin Innocence Project, they weren't sure it would even go anywhere. Read More

UW-Madison medical ethicist heading to FDA

July 31, 2009

University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of law R. Alta Charo has accepted a position as senior adviser in the Office of the Commissioner at the Food and Drug Administration, effective Aug. 30. Read More

Wisconsin Innocence Project announces charges dropped against man wrongfully incarcerated for 23 years

July 27, 2009

More than 23 years after his 1985 homicide conviction, a Milwaukee man, Robert Lee Stinson, is scheduled to appear in a Milwaukee courtroom this morning (July 27) at a hearing in which prosecutors have indicated they will drop all charges. Read More

Law School, Thompson to host health care summit

April 1, 2009

On Tuesday, April 7, the Law School and one of its prominent alumni — former Wisconsin governor and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson — will host “Summit Conversations on American Health Care for the 21st Century” at the Edgewater Hotel. Read More

Lawyer to share experiences representing Guantánamo detainees

February 24, 2009

Jeff Colman, a 1970 history graduate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will visit campus Monday, March 9, and give a free public talk about his experience representing prisoners held at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Read More

Innocence Project helps reverse wrongful murder conviction

January 30, 2009

Robert Lee Stinson, a Milwaukee man convicted of homicide in 1985, is expected to be released from prison today (Jan. 30, 2009) based on new evidence of his innocence. Read More

Law professor joins Obama’s transition team

November 18, 2008

University of Wisconsin Law School Professor R. Alta Charo, a nationally prominent bioethicist, has been named by President-elect Barack Obama to his Transition Team. Read More

Obey to address economic injustice in Kastenmeier Lecture

September 30, 2008

U.S. Rep. David Obey, chair of the powerful House Committee on Appropriations, will discuss economic injustice and the gap between rich and poor Americans in the annual Kastenmeier Lecture on Monday, Oct. 13, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Law School. Read More

Former state Supreme Court justice to teach at UW Law School

September 24, 2008

Louis Butler Jr., a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice and the first African American to sit on the state's highest court, will teach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Law School. Read More

Law students win preliminary settlement approval in payday lender suit

August 7, 2008

Internet payday lender Tremont Financial LLC would pay $60,000 and refrain from making loans to any Wisconsin consumers under a preliminary settlement in a class-action case brought by University of Wisconsin–Madison Law School students and the school's Consumer Law Litigation Clinic. Read More

Notable graduates: Bill Bettenberg — After four decades, a new career in law

May 13, 2008

In August 2005 Bill Bettenberg retired from a 40-year career in the U.S. Department of the Interior and enrolled at the UW–Madison Law School with a clear vision of where he wanted his law degree to take him. Read More

WAGE awards three research collaborative grants related to globalization

April 10, 2008

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) announces the three winners of its research collaborative competition, each receiving $100,000 during a three-year period. Read More

Prosecutor addresses treatment of jurors in Fairchild Lecture

April 3, 2008

Patrick J. Fitzgerald, whose work as special prosecutor probing the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity drew national attention, will deliver the annual Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Law School on Friday, April 18. Read More

UW-Madison graduate programs fare well in annual U.S. News rankings

April 2, 2008

A number of graduate programs and specialties at UW–Madison scored high marks in the 2009 "Best Graduate Schools" edition of U.S. News and World Report. Read More