Priority Initiatives Impact Stories UW Law students learn how the law relates to social change and to society, then use their knowledge to create a more just world. Learn More Student Support Bookmark this Initiative Transforming Lives through Legal Education A transformative life experience – that is what students attending UW Law School can expect. By investing in UW Law, you have the opportunity to improve the quality of the school and the value of a UW Law degree. Learn More Faculty Excellence | Student Support Bookmark this Initiative Law School Annual Fund Tonya Brito wants to know: how much do lawyers matter? The UW Law School professor is particularly interested in how much of a difference lawyers make in resolving child-support cases. Brito is a family-law scholar, and she knows that many fathers — especially those with low incomes and men of color — rely on legal… Read more » Learn More Faculty Excellence Access to justice in family court UW fully funds student veterans during their first year of law school, and also creates opportunities for both veteran and non-veteran students to give back locally by working at the Veteran’s Law Center, a free walk-in legal clinic serving low-income veterans and their families. Learn More Educational Experience | Student Support For the Public Good: A Call to Serve Sophie Crispin could have gone to any of a number of law schools. The Ohio native looked at several in the Big Ten, but the UW offered her a scholarship. That clinched the deal. Now in her third year, Crispin has benefited from the Stearns-Shaw Scholarship, which was made possible by Denis Stearns JD’92 and… Read more » Learn More Student Support Making the dream of law school a reality Exonerating the innocent and making right where the justice system has failed: that is what students and faculty in the Wisconsin Innocence Project fight for every day. Learn More Educational Experience | Research & Innovation Seeking to Correct Injustice Law school confirmed Cory Brewer’s desire to serve others. It may also have saved her life. As a law student, Brewer JDx’17 enrolled in the Center for Patient Partnerships (CPP), where she not only became a health-care advocate for her clients, but for herself as well. CPP is a national resource for building more effective… Read more » Learn More Student Support Serving Others, Saving Lives
UW Law students learn how the law relates to social change and to society, then use their knowledge to create a more just world. Learn More Student Support Bookmark this Initiative Transforming Lives through Legal Education
A transformative life experience – that is what students attending UW Law School can expect. By investing in UW Law, you have the opportunity to improve the quality of the school and the value of a UW Law degree. Learn More Faculty Excellence | Student Support Bookmark this Initiative Law School Annual Fund
Tonya Brito wants to know: how much do lawyers matter? The UW Law School professor is particularly interested in how much of a difference lawyers make in resolving child-support cases. Brito is a family-law scholar, and she knows that many fathers — especially those with low incomes and men of color — rely on legal… Read more » Learn More Faculty Excellence Access to justice in family court
UW fully funds student veterans during their first year of law school, and also creates opportunities for both veteran and non-veteran students to give back locally by working at the Veteran’s Law Center, a free walk-in legal clinic serving low-income veterans and their families. Learn More Educational Experience | Student Support For the Public Good: A Call to Serve
Sophie Crispin could have gone to any of a number of law schools. The Ohio native looked at several in the Big Ten, but the UW offered her a scholarship. That clinched the deal. Now in her third year, Crispin has benefited from the Stearns-Shaw Scholarship, which was made possible by Denis Stearns JD’92 and… Read more » Learn More Student Support Making the dream of law school a reality
Exonerating the innocent and making right where the justice system has failed: that is what students and faculty in the Wisconsin Innocence Project fight for every day. Learn More Educational Experience | Research & Innovation Seeking to Correct Injustice
Law school confirmed Cory Brewer’s desire to serve others. It may also have saved her life. As a law student, Brewer JDx’17 enrolled in the Center for Patient Partnerships (CPP), where she not only became a health-care advocate for her clients, but for herself as well. CPP is a national resource for building more effective… Read more » Learn More Student Support Serving Others, Saving Lives
