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Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic director selected for new business law fellowship
Anne Smith hopes to use the fellowship to advance a new strategic initiative that would allow the clinic to automate some of its processes so it can serve more clients.
Law school professor wins international Stockholm Prize in Criminology
Herman Goldstein, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School, won the international prize that recognizes excellence in criminology research or in the application of research shown to significantly reduce crime or advance human rights.
UW Law’s Immigrant Justice Clinic works to help DACA recipients meet Oct. 5 filing deadline
Immigrants whose DACA permits are set to expire soon can call on the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Immigrant Justice Clinic for help with their renewal applications.
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan speaks
Associate Justice Elena Kagan of the U.S. Supreme Court shares insights on her life in the law Friday at the Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall.
Justice Elena Kagan to speak at UW–Madison
Kagan, who was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in 2010, will appear on campus Sept. 8. Following her Senate confirmation, she became the fourth woman to sit on the nation’s high court.
WEDC awards $75,000 to Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic
A new grant allows the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic at University of Wisconsin Law School to expand its no-cost legal services for entrepreneurs, especially those in the food and beverage sector.
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.
UW Law School security breach may have exposed sensitive data
The incident has been reported to law enforcement and to national credit reporting agencies. The individuals affected will receive free credit monitoring to help protect them against identify theft.
UW Law School to host Q & A with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Two of Justice Sotomayor’s former law clerks will lead the question-and-answer session, which is part of the Law School’s Robert W. Kastenmeier Lecture Series.
Wisconsin Law School mobile center offers free legal aid to veterans
MADISON – Nearly 300 veterans have been offered free legal assistance since the University of Wisconsin Law School started its Veterans Law Center in November 2012. Laura Smythe wants to help more.
Pre-law scholars program highlights opportunities in law
A new program helps promising students from groups historically underrepresented in the legal profession or from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
Commencement spotlight: Class of 2016
Every one of the 6,517 students graduating this week has a unique story to tell about their UW–Madison experience — of challenges overcome, connections forged, contributions made.
Three deans reappointed after 5-year reviews
Every five years of their tenure, deans of the university’s schools and colleges undergo a comprehensive review to assess their academic and administrative leadership and performance.
Folklorist (and Grammy nominee) Jim Leary reflects on studying, sharing Midwest culture
With his bushy gray hair and sturdy boots, Jim Leary looks true to his origins in Wisconsin’s north woods.
UW-Madison welcomes ‘Go Big Read’ author Bryan Stevenson on Oct. 26
Stevenson's keynote speech is one of the highlights of a semester-long campus and community discussion of his book "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption."
Campus, law enforcement communities reading ‘Just Mercy’ as semester begins
Bryan Stevenson is one of the leading voices in America for reforming a justice system that produces strikingly different results depending on a defendant’s race and economic means. Readers across the UW–Madison campus and around the Madison community, including law enforcement, will join that discussion this fall as they confront the contradictions between that system and our nation’s founding principles of equality, freedom and justice.
CSI Discovery: 3-D scanning researchers partner with Wisconsin law enforcement
On a chilly February 2014 evening in Mazomanie, Wisconsin, deputies from the Dane County Sheriff's Office arrived at the scene of a homicide at an old, two-story house in a neighborhood blanketed with snow. Almost immediately, Deputy Sheriff Scott Lehman realized his team faced a monumental task in collecting and cataloging the evidence throughout the house.
Study finds private prisons keep inmates longer, without reducing future crime
A new study finds that inmates in private prisons are likely to serve as many as two to three more months behind bars than those assigned to public prisons and are equally likely to commit more crimes after release, despite industry claims to lower recidivism rates through high-quality and innovative rehabilitation programs.
Campus reacts to shooting, underlying issues
The fatal shooting by Madison police of a black teenager on the city’s East Side Friday is leading to calls for renewed action on social justice on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.
Grad program honored for closing science-society gap
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Neuroscience and Public Policy Program was honored by the Society for Neuroscience with the Neuroscience Graduate Program Achievement Award.