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• 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.
• Innocence Project helps reverse wrongful murder conviction Jan. 30, 2009 Robert Lee Stinson, a Milwaukee man convicted of homicide in 1985, is expected to be released from prison today (Jan. 30, 2009) based on new evidence of his innocence.
• Professor Jorge Avendaño receives Wisconsin Global Citizen Award Dec. 17, 2008 Professor Jorge Avendaño of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú was awarded the Wisconsin Global Citizen Award for 2008 at a ceremony Dec. 12 at the UW Law School. The UW-Madison Division of International Studies and Wisconsin Alumni Association jointly presented the new award to Avendaño, who traveled from Lima for the occasion.
• Law professor joins Obama’s transition team Nov. 18, 2008 University of Wisconsin Law School Professor R. Alta Charo, a nationally prominent bioethicist, has been named by President-elect Barack Obama to his Transition Team.
• Practical experience for law students garners national attention Nov. 6, 2008 Real-world work for students has brought honors to the Law School.
• Obey to address economic injustice in Kastenmeier Lecture Sept. 30, 2008 U.S. Rep. David Obey, chair of the powerful House Committee on Appropriations, will discuss economic injustice and the gap between rich and poor Americans in the annual Kastenmeier Lecture on Monday, Oct. 13, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.
• Former state Supreme Court justice to teach at UW Law School Sept. 24, 2008 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-Madison Law School.