Stories indexed under: Law

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• J.J. Watt thanks law students for support April 9, 2013 Almost three years ago, J.J. Watt turned to the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School for help setting up a nonprofit to fund after-school sports programs.
• New program offers patient advocacy certificate online April 2, 2013 UW-Madison’s Center for Patient Partnerships (CPP) had offered classroom courses in patient advocacy before but last fall, for the first time, began an online option for its certificate program. Development of the online Consumer Health Advocacy Certificate was funded in part through a Morgridge Match Grant.
• Wills for Heroes project protects those who protect others Dec. 4, 2012 First responders, firefighters, police officers and other emergency personnel who protect citizens from natural disasters and violent crime are called on to put their communities' safety before their own. Yet more than 80 percent have not prepared even simple wills, according to the national Wills for Heroes project.
• Harvard scholar Lani Guinier to headline UW–Madison Diversity Forum Oct. 9, 2012 Harvard Law Professor Lani Guinier, the university's first tenured Jewish African-American law professor who is among the nation's top scholars in the areas of access to higher education, race conscious policy and civil rights law, will give the keynote address at this Friday's (Oct. 12) daylong annual UW-Madison Diversity Forum.
• New Center for Pre-Law Advising to host open house Sept. 20, 2012 The newly opened Center for Pre-Law Advising will host an open house to celebrate its debut and engage with students interested in studying law.
• Law Students Launch First Immigration Clinic in Wisconsin Sept. 19, 2012 After working as a bilingual case manager for Spanish-speaking immigrants at the Milwaukee County Courthouse, Kathryn Finley decided to study law so she could advocate on behalf of Wisconsin's immigrants.
• UW law professor offers look at FDA from the inside out March 8, 2012 UW Law Professor R. Alta Charo was senior policy adviser to the commissioner at the Food and Drug Administration from August 2009 until June 2011. Now back on campus, Charo spoke reflects on her time with the FDA.
• UW-Madison starts new dual-degree program in neuroscience and law June 15, 2011 The University of Wisconsin-Madison has established an integrated dual-degree program in neuroscience and law that offers students the opportunity to earn a Ph.D. in neuroscience and a J.D. in law.
• UW-Madison chancellor hosts ‘Meeting of the Minds’ Sept. 20, 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin will lead a dynamic conversation on Wednesday, Sept. 29, with four UW-Madison faculty at the top of their fields to cut through the chatter and tackle the issues at the core of what it means to live in a democracy in 2010.
• New businesses get a boost from entrepreneurial law clinic June 14, 2010 The UW Law School's Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic has served up advice and assistance to more than 40 clients since it was launched last fall.
• Law School, Letters & Science dean reviews under way Feb. 11, 2010 Chancellor Biddy Martin and Provost Paul DeLuca have initiated standard, five-year reviews for Law School Dean Kenneth Davis and College of Letters & Science Dean Gary Sandefur.
• Law students to help with foreclosure mediation Jan. 29, 2010 University of Wisconsin Law School students will help Dane County homeowners facing foreclosure take their cases through a mediation process with their lenders.
• TIP/Campaign finance experts Jan. 21, 2010
• Free clinic aids immigrants with answers to legal questions Jan. 5, 2010 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.
• After Supreme Court clerkship, Klingele back teaching at UW Law School Nov. 13, 2009 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.
• Wisconsin Innocence Project marks 10th anniversary Oct. 13, 2009 When Keith Findley and John Pray founded the Wisconsin Innocence Project, they weren't sure it would even go anywhere.
• UW-Madison medical ethicist heading to FDA July 31, 2009 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.
• Wisconsin Innocence Project announces charges dropped against man wrongfully incarcerated for 23 years July 27, 2009 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.
• Law School, Thompson to host health care summit April 1, 2009 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.
• Lawyer to share experiences representing Guantánamo detainees Feb. 24, 2009 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.