Category: UW Law School

The Capital Times has a nice article on the UW Law School’s Mock Trial team. The team finished second-place at a tournament in Los Angeles last month.

University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Alta Charo has been selected for President Elect Obama’s HHS agency review team. How exciting! Professor Charo is the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she is on the faculty of the Law School and the Medical School’s Department …

The latest edition of the Wisconsin Law Journal has several articles about the challenges facing persons exonerated of crimes and released from prison. A number of the cases highlight students and faculty from the Wisconsin Innocence Project. After the Door Opens Exonerees Hope to Find Strength in Numbers Putting Broken Lives Back Together

“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 Law School as Justice in Residence beginning this fall.” Read more at the UW Law School News.

From the latest edition of the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series as published by SSRN. Who Says Shari’a Demands the Stoning of Women? A Description of Islamic Law and Constitutionalism by Asifa Quraishi, University of Wisconsin Law School A Sociolegal History of Public Housing Reform in Chicago by Lisa T. Alexander, University …

The Wisconsin Law Review has recently announced its 2008 Symposium: The Continuing Evolution of Securities Class Actions. It will be held on Friday, October 17, 2008 at the Edgewater Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin. The symposium is co-sponsored by the Institute for Law and Economic Policy. For more information, please contact the symposium editors.

I’m pleased to announced that the entire run of the University of Wisconsin Law School’s alumni newsletter, The Gargoyle, has been digitized and is freely available on our Web site. The collection spans from volume 1 (1969) to the present. The digitization project was organized by the UW Law Library in collaboration with Technology Services. …

The Winter/Spring 2008 edition of The Gargoyle is now available online. The Gargoyle is the alumni magazine of the University of Wisconsin Law School. Here is a list of featured articles: Studying the Police The Law School’s pioneering program of researching and teaching about the police is beginning a new chapter in the age of …

The Law Library is very pleased to report that two of our staff members have received UW Madison Library Service Awards. Michael Morgalla, our Faculty Liaison, received the award for classified staff. Mike works with our Law School faculty on current awareness, obtaining resources across the campus, verifying citations, charging out material from special collections, …

New faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series from the Legal Scholarship Network (SSRN). Do Bits Really Work? Revisiting the Empirical Link between Investment Treaties and Foreign Direct Investment Jason W. Yackee, University of Wisconsin Law School Wiretapping before the Wires: The Post Office and the Birth of Communications Privacy …