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Two faculty receive summer humanities research support from the NEH
Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. The stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences or both.
Research to relieve stress of police officers expands
The new work by the Center for Healthy Minds will expand on a pilot study that suggests a positive relationship between mindfulness training and measures such as sleep quality, officers’ perceived stress and symptoms of burnout.
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.
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.
Wisconsin Innocence Project client freed after serving 24 years for wrongful conviction
UW-Madison law Professor Keith Findley and a team of law students from the Wisconsin Innocence Project worked on the case of Daryl Dwayne Holloway.
Statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin ruling
The 4-3 decision upholds UT Austin’s race-conscious admissions policy and reaffirms the court’s prior rulings regarding the use of race in admissions.
Holder to give keynote at Wisconsin Law School Hooding Ceremony
Holder served as the 82nd U.S. attorney general from 2009 to 2015 — the third-longest serving attorney general and the first African-American to hold the office.
UW Law School accepting applications to new Pre-Law Scholars Program
The James E. Jones Pre-Law Scholars Program is designed to improve access for students from historically underrepresented groups and socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds.
UW-Madison alumna and women’s financial equality advocate dies
Lorna Jorgenson Wendt gained national fame in 1996 as a pioneer in the quest for equality before, during and after marriage.
Law School bioethicist selected for innovative research chair
R. Alta Charo will use the opportunity to focus on her research and write a book offering unconventional takes on several areas of bioethics.
Free legal advice yields valuable benefits to startups, state
As Abraham Lincoln said: "A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade."
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.
Go Big Read selects ‘Just Mercy’ for 2015-16
Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls Bryan Stevenson “America’s Mandela.” Stevenson has spent his career fighting for racial justice and wants his fellow Americans to realize that something is inherently wrong with the land of the free and the home of the brave having the highest incarceration rate in the world.
UW-Madison professor and Nixon historian Stanley Kutler dies
Stanley Kutler, the University of Wisconsin–Madison historian who fought for the release of hours of tape recordings related to the Watergate scandal, died Tuesday at the age of 80 after a brief stay in hospice.
Lubar gift innovates to diversify Law School research
A $3 million gift will allow the University of Wisconsin Law School to support top legal scholars in a new and creative way, Dean Margaret Raymond announced today.
Immigrant Justice Clinic gets creative to meet the needs of children facing deportation
Since last October, the U.S. Border Patrol has apprehended more than 60,000 Central American children who crossed the nation’s southern border on their own.
How do lawyers matter? Study explores the question for low-income litigants
For every 6,415 people in the United States who qualify for legal aid (income at or below 125 percent of the poverty line), there is one legal aid attorney, leaving about three-quarters of low-income civil litigants in the United States unrepresented and creating an increasingly prevalent situation that some call a "justice gap."
Local justice for international crime: Law professor to study Latin American model
When a Guatemalan court indicted Efrain Rios Montt for his role in the torture and deaths of at least 1,771 indigenous Mayan-Ixils, it marked the first time a former head of state would go to trial for genocide in his home country.
Study to compare Wisconsin and Illinois legal access for poor
Does a parent who faces jail time for falling behind on child support payments have the right to a court-appointed attorney?