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 decision today (Jan. 21), the U.S. Supreme Court peeled away limits on corporate spending in federal campaigns, allowing corporations and labor unions to openly support candidates in presidential and congressional elections. The …
Immigrants with legal questions about their immigration status can receive help through a free clinic staffed by Madison-area attorneys and students from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
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.
When Keith Findley and John Pray founded the Wisconsin Innocence Project, they weren’t sure it would even go anywhere.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Professor Jorge Avendaño of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú was awarded the Wisconsin Global Citizen Award for 2008 at a ceremony Dec. 12 at the UW Law School. The UW-Madison Division of International Studies and Wisconsin Alumni Association jointly presented the new award to Avendaño, who traveled from Lima for the occasion.
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.
Real-world work for students has brought honors to the Law School.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Chancellor John D. Wiley announced today (Dec. 20, 2007) that five finalists have been selected for director of Administrative Legal Services (ALS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.