UW Law School has named Bernadette Atuahene as the inaugural James E. Jones Chair. The endowed faculty chair honors the late Professor James E. Jones Jr. ’56, who was a trailblazing labor lawyer, civil rights activist, prolific scholar, …
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UW Law Publishes Long-Lost “Technology & the Law: The Automobile” Manuscript by J. Willard Hurst, the Father of Modern Legal History
Twenty-five years after his death, the Wisconsin Law Review has published a long-lost manuscript by Professor J. Willard Hurst, beloved UW Law School professor, renowned scholar, and one of the great originators of modern legal …
UW Law Library Closed Wednesday, May 18th
Due to a planned power outage, the UW Law Library will be closed all day on Wednesday, May 18th. We will reopen as usual on Thursday, May 19th. See the campus libraries website for a …
Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: The Legal Struggle for Rights of Nature in the United States; The Canon of Nature Rights; Progressivism in the Active Free Enterprise State: Fluidity, Fragmentation, and Stability: A Case Study in Law and Public Policy
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “The Legal Struggle for Rights of Nature in the United States” 2022 Wis. L. Rev. …
WI Law In Action Podcast: Mark Sidel on Governmental Restrictions of NGOs in China
On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, host Kris Turner interviews UW Law School’s Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, Mark Sidel on recent trends …
Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: The Analytical Failures of the U.S. Beef Supply Chain; Corporate Board Gatekeepers; Appendix on Countermajoritarian Legislatures; What We Can Learn from the Literature on Sanctions and Ukraine
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “Dr. Pangloss as an Agricultural Economist: The Analytic Failures of the U.S. Beef Supply Chain: …
Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Ending Manner-of-Death Testimony, a Reexamination of Madison’s Enumerationist Interpretation, Democratic Opportunities Offered by State Institutions, & Pro Se Successes with Distributive Precedents
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “Ending Manner-of-Death Testimony and Other Opinion Determinations of Crime” by KEITH A. FINDLEY (UW …
WI Law In Action Podcast: Anuj Desai on Why “Text is Not Enough” in Statutory Interpretation
On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, host Kris Turner interviews UW Law School’s William Voss-Bascom Professor Anuj Desai. Prof. Desai teaches courses in cyberlaw, the …
Recollection Wisconsin Documents State History through Thousands of Photos, Documents, Records, Etc.
Yesterday, the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin put on an excellent program about Recollection Wisconsin, a free web resource that brings together digital cultural heritage resources from Wisconsin libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies and …
Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: The Gravitational Force of Future Decisions, A Commentary on Treanor’s ‘Dishonest Scrivener,’ Gender Favoritism Among Criminal Prosecutors, Compassionate Release & Decarceration, & Innovative Law Courses at UW Law
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “The Gravitational Force of Future Decisions” Forthcoming in Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (Oxford UP) …