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In1962, when the existing Law Schoolwas demolished to make way for a newbuilding, Dean of the Law School George

Young found and rescued a sandstonegargoyle from the rubble. This figure andits departed twin had sat on the roof of the1893 building for almost seventy years.While one of the pair had perished in itsfall, the second one had landed unscathed.

That rescued gargoyle, which is nowpermanently installed in the Law School'sAtrium, gives its name to this magazine,representing the indomitable strength andspirit of our University of Wisconsin LawSchool and its many graduates.

For an illustrated history of theLaw School's gargoyle, seewww.law.wisc.edu/lore/gargoyle.htm .

Gargoyle is the alumni magazine of theUniversity of Wisconsin Law School,975 Bascom Mall, Madison WI 53706-1399,(608) 262-8554

Please stay in touch:Editor: Edward J. [email protected]/alumni/

Art Direction: Wisconsin Alumni Association

Cover photo by Bob Rashid: Four of the LawSchool's newest professors. From left: JulietBrodie, Anuj Desai, D. Gordon Smith, and PilarOssorio. (See "Why Wisconsin?", page 24.)

Back cover photo by Jeff Miller, UniversityCommunications, UW-Madison.

SPRING/SUMMER 2004Volume 30, NO.1

6 Announcing Strategic Plan 2004The Law School's Strategic Plan 2004 is nowcompleted and ready to serve as a guide for thenext five years. The Plan identifies seven majorpriorities that will help the school make criticalchoices and keep us in the top tier of thenation's public law schools.

24 Why Wisconsin?They arrive from Michigan and California,Paris and Johannesburg. Why have our newyoung professors chosen the UW Law School,and what surprised them when they arrivedin Madison?

30 A Conversation with Susan SteingassSusan Steingass, director of the Law School'snew Communication and Advocacy Program,has a big project on her hands: re-inventingLegal Writing as a reality-based and learning-by-doing program that draws its assignmentsfrom the work that lawyers really do.

2 Dean's Message

9 Student Life

14 Admissions

15 Career Services

16 Awards

18 News

33 Alumni Giving

37 Focus on the Faculty

41 In Memoriam

44 Class Notes

49 From the Editor

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A Dean's View

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One of the unexpectedresults of our recentstrategic planning process

was to capture in a few well-chosenwords the unique and special rolethat Wisconsin plays within legaleducation. Time and again, theconcept of Law in Action came upas we discussed who we are andwho we want to be. I rememberhearing this phrase often uponjoining the faculty in 1978. Itsignifies that in order to trulyunderstand the law, you need notonly to know the "law on thebooks," bur also to look beyond thestatures and cases and study howthe law plays our in practice.

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Law in Action also means thatin teaching and research, no matterhow interesting we find a legal the-ory, we always need to ask, "Howdoes this affect people's lives in thereal world?" It is an orientation thathas led to our national reputationfor innovative approaches to bothteaching and scholarship. Itembraces our preeminence over theyears in fields such as legal history,criminal justice, industrial relations,law and society, and comparativeinstitutional economics. And itchallenges us to combine ourexpertise and scholarly traditionswith the strengths of the greatuniversity of which we are a part,in order to assume national leader-ship in emerging areas such asglobalization, bioethics, and other

dimensions of law and technology.Law in Action is hardly a new

concept, nor did the term originateat Wisconsin. The first referenceI've found is in a 1910 article byRoscoe Pound, the Harvard LawSchool dean whose work was aforerunner to the legal realismmovement.

But at Wisconsin the conceptquickly took hold and developed adistinctive form. It was energizedboth by the school's appreciation ofthe value of other social sciences inunderstanding how law works andby the Wisconsin Idea-the com-mitment to service embodied in theslogan that "the boundaries of theuniversity are the boundaries of thestate." According to former DukeLaw School Dean Paul Carrington

and Professor Erika King, in their1997 history of the University ofWisconsin Law School's early years:

"One effect of the WisconsinIdea was to bring the university'snew, young law teachers into con-tact not only with public affairs,but also with academic colleaguesin other disciplines who possesseduseful expertise. The law schoolestablished a liaison with the politicalscience department in 1907, aliaison designed with the purposeof 'relating' legal instruction 'tomodern social and economic con-ditions.' Between 1904 and 1910,law faculty, Gilmore in particular,similarly collaborated witheconomics faculty such as JohnCommons and Richard Ely in alarge-scale endeavor to documentthe history of labor in America ....By 1915 law school bulletinsactively advocated a mixture oflaw classes with history, economics,political science, and philosophyclasses."

The Wisconsin professoris likely to ask, "Howmight the parties on thelosing end of the caserespond?" "Will the rulingchange their futurebehavior?" "Who willenforce the rule?"

Over the years, the conceptcontinued to develop and becamestrongly linked to the UW LawSchool's identity and fundamentalto the teaching methods andresearch of many faculty members.To appreciate how this Law inAction orientation shapes the workof our Law School today, let's beginin one of our large classrooms, witha basic course such as contracts,property, or constitutional law.

Here, as at law schools every-where, the focus is on appellateopinions, and students are asked toanalyze and evaluate the holding,apply it to other factual settings,

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and consider alternative approachesthe court might have taken. Yet theWisconsin professor is also likely toask questions such as, "How mightthe parties on the losing end of thecase respond?" "Will the rulechange their future behavior?""Who will enforce the rule?""What was the cause of the under-lying dispute?" "Was this lawsuitthe most effective way to addressit?" Questions like these-designedto ensure that students do not losesight of the larger context and thelawyer's role within it-are notunique to the Wisconsin classroom.But based on conversations withcolleagues at other schools, I amconvinced they playa morecentral and systematic role in theclassroom experience at Wisconsinthan elsewhere.

Move on to one of our manyclinical programs. Wisconsin haslong been a national leader inclinical and other types of educa-rion rhar rake the student outside

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the traditional classroom setting.With more than twenty-five full-time clinical instructors on ourfaculty, students have the opportu-nity to supplement their classroomeducation with in-depth experiencein a wide range of areas, includingcriminal, consumer, health, andelder law. They can also takeadvantage of simulation courses,such as the highly regardedLawyering Skills Course (formerlyknown as General Practice), alongwith more specialized classes focusingon topics such as negotiations,writing for practice, and clientcounseling.

To be sure, all these offeringsprovide students with valuableopportunities to hone the practicalskills they will need to succeed inthe practice of law. That is only thebeginning, however. Consistentwith our Law in Action philosophy,we see these clinical and skillscourses as important settings forstudents to integrate their first-handexperiences with their classroomcoursework to build a much richerappreciation of how the legal systemworks in practice. This sharedcommitment to Law in Actionmeans that there is not the gulfbetween our classroom and clinicalofferings that exists at some otherlaw schools. Indeed, many of ourclinical professors teach classroomcourses as well. My hope is thatour students see these two modesof teaching as points along a singlecontinuum rather than distinctphilosophies of legal education.

Law in Action has another


important educational advantage.I regularly hear from employersthat our new graduates seem betterprepared to "hit the ground running"than their counterparts. Perhaps itis because our students are routinelyasked to consider the broaderimplications of the law and toshare and reflect upon their practicalexperiences. Whatever the reason,we firmly believe that our approachequips them with not only thetechnical skills to succeed, but alsoa broader sense of perspective andmore confidence in thinking forthemselves.

Law in Action remindsus that no matter howinteresting or elegantthe theory or idea, wealways need to ask, "Whyshould this matter topeople in the real world?"

Of course, Law in Action isevident in our research as well as inour teaching. I think it fair to saythat the kinds of legal scholarshipbeing done today by the nation'sleading law schools look muchmore like what was being done atWisconsin fifty years ago than whatwas being done elsewhere. We'vealready mentioned the school's longhistory of interdisciplinary work,for example.

Here, though, Wisconsin facesa unique challenge: How do wemaintain our edge? It is perhapsWisconsin's greatest strength that,year after year, our faculty has

continued to produce scholarshipthat shapes the national discourseamong lawyers and legal scholars,and Law in Action deserves nosmall share of the credit.

Law in Action is a wonderfulstimulus for taking emerging ideasfrom various disciplines and think-ing hard about how they mightbetter explain the workings of legalinstitutions. The great advantagewe enjoy, as part of one of theworld's great research universities,is being "where it's happening": inthe center of activity as those ideasoriginate and develop. Our facultyhas always maintained close ties toother departments around thecampus, and continues to buildmore all the time.

At the same time, however,Law in Action reminds us that nomatter how interesting or elegantthe theory or idea, we always needto ask, "Why should this matterto people in the real world?" AtWisconsin, we know that if wedon't ask this question of ourselves,one of our colleagues certainly will.I can't tell you how many talks I'veheard and papers I've read over theyears from scholars at other schoolsthat would have benefited greatlyfrom sorneone's asking this questionearly in the project.

In describing what distinguishesLaw in Action scholarship, I amsometimes reminded of thedistinction between the deductiveand inductive methods that welearned in science classes. Much ofthe research I read today starts withan interesting idea from another

discipline-it might be economics,sociology, literary theory, or evenphysics-and then looks for legalsettings in which to apply it. Lawin Action work tends to proceed inthe opposite direction: Theresearcher begins with an observed,real-world problem or phenomenonand then seeks to explain it.

Sometimes that explanationlies entirely within the law library.The work of some of our mosttalented scholars at Wisconsincontinues to rely heavily on theinterplay of legal doctrines andphilosophies. Often, though, theexplanation may lie in the insightsof some other discipline. AtWisconsin, faculty members knowthat even if they themselves are notfamiliar with what is happening inthat discipline, a colleague downthe hall is likely to be.

This leads to one of Law inAction's more subtle benefits. It isagnostic. It owes no allegiance toany particular political philosophy,or branch of the social sciences orhumanities. The test of a good the-ory is simply how well it explainsthe observed phenomena. This nodoubt contributes to the sense ofcollegiality and shared enterprisethat has characterized our facultyover the years.

Starting one's research with areal-world problem also explainsthe strong bond between Law inAction and the Wisconsin Idea.Service to the state, nation, andincreasingly the world not onlyallows our faculty to use theirexpertise in solving the problems

of others, but also creates aninvaluable learning opportunity forthe faculty involved. I can point toseveral of my own research projecrsover the years that trace theirorigins to work I did on variouscorporate law committees orconsulting projects.

Law in Action is agnostic.It owes no allegiance toany particular politicalphilosophy. The test ofa good theory is simplyhow well it explains theobserved phenomena.

Our rich Law in Actiontradition is an important part ofwho we ate, and it will remain animportant part of who we become.It is still flourishing and developingafter all these years, and it occupiesa central position in our StrategicPlan. Law in Action gives us thefocus to confront the challenge ofremaining one of the nation's pre-eminent law schools. With yourhelp, we will continue building ournational reputation for excellenceand our commitment to the Lawin Action philosophy. It is a philos-ophy that has served UW LawSchool graduates well over the pastcentury, and it is one that mayprove even more relevant fortomorrow's graduates as they facean increasingly complex, competitive,and challenging world.

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AnnouncingStrategic Plan 2004

On October 2, 2003, theUW Law School facultyunanimously approved astrategic plan designed toset a course for thegrowth and developmentof the Law School overthe next five years.

The 2004 Strategic Plan is animportant step for the Law Schooland will help the school make criti-cal choices about how to directlimited resources and invest thetime and effort of faculty and staff.The process, which Dean KennethB. Davis, Jr., termed an "excitingprocess that brought the extendedLaw School community together toarticulate a vision for the future,"took more than fWO years andencouraged input from manygroups with varying ideas about the


Law School's priorities and futuredirection.

After collecting and analyzinginformation from fWO extensivesurveys of recent graduates andemployers, called Assessment 2000(www.law.wisc.edu/ alumni/assessment2000/report.pdf orGargoyle of Winter 2000-01), theLaw School worked with a facilitatorto interview members of severalconstituent groups, includingbar leaders, faculty, staff, currentstudents, and alumni.

Dean Davis then spent severalmonths meeting with alumnigroups, both in Wisconsin and incities around the country. Theresult of this information gatheringwas a snapshot of how the manyconstituent groups viewed the LawSchool, its students, and the chal-lenges facing legal education andthe profession.

This information-along witha critical look at the Law School'sstrengths and weaknesses, anassessment of the factors thatmake Wisconsin Law "unique,"and trends in the legal profession-provided the backgroundinformation that the Law School'sstrategic planning group used toidentity seven priorities for thecommg years.

The seven priorities, listedbelow, provide the framework fora plan that Dean Davis believes"will help us meet the challengesof educating future lawyers andkeep us in the top tier of thenation's public law schools."

While the 2004 Strategic Planidentifies specific goals for each ofthe priorities, it is a visionary plan,not a blueprint. Thus the LawSchool is currently working on adetailed operational plan to develop

specific programs andinitiatives for each ofthe priorities, set dead-lines for implementation,and identity ways toreallocate or increaseresources.

We look forwardto having members ofour extended communityjoin us in defining andattaining the prioritiesof the 2004 StrategicPlan. We encourageyou to view the completeStrategic Plan 2004on the Web atwww.law.wisc.edu/shared/ StrategicPlan.pdfAnd we look forwardto sharing moreinformation about theinitiatives and programsthat will help us meetour goals.

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Our Strategic Priorities• Ensure an OutstandingStudent Experience

Our students deserve a comprehen-sive opportunity to develop theskills, knowledge, and awarenessessential to achieve their professionaland personal goals, and we willprovide the student support servicesnecessary to make that happen.We are committed to excellence inour teaching, yet we also appreciatethat much of our students' prepara-tion for their professional careersoccurs outside of the classroom.We understand the importanceof a diverse student body and willfoster an intellectually challengingenvironment in which students withdiffering ideas, perspectives, experi-ences, and backgrounds learn fromone another in a collegial andsupportive atmosphere.

• Re-imagine theCurriculum

Legal education is a lifetime com-mitment, but it is the Law Schooland its curriculum that provide thefoundation for professionalism andall future learning. Our graduateswork in an increasingly complexand rapidly changing world anduse their legal skills in a widevariety of settings. Their employersexpect them to enter the workplace

not only with excellent analyticaland communication skills, but alsowith the judgment and maturity toassume responsibility.We are com-mitted to preparing our graduatesfor the practice of law and forpolitical leadership, public service,and community participation.We will prepare our students forthe legal practice of the future,while holding true to the basic valuesof a traditional legal education anda Law in Action focus.

• Foster a Culture ofParticipation and SharedEnterprise

The Law School is more than thesum of its individual parts. Studentsbuild career skills; faculty teach andpursue scholarship; clinics serve thecommunity; and alumni participateand provide support-and none ofthis happens without the work of atalented, committed, and engagedstaff. All do the work of the school,but what is most essential to athriving law school is the interac-tion among the school's differentconstituencies. The school's historiccontributions, from Lawin Action to "law and society,"have all grown out of collectiveeffort. We resolve to counter theinevitable pressures that lead to theseparation of these functions or the

isolation of individuals. Our goal isnot only to ensure that the LawSchool is more than the sum of itsparts but also to make it a placethat no one wants to leave.

• Anticipate EmergingAreas of Law Practiceand Legal Scholarship

Lawyers are increasingly at thecenter of controversies created bythe technological, political, andsocial transformations around us.Whether it is privacy in the work-place, Internet access in the library,or biotechnology on the farm, legalscholarship and law practice arecentral to developing the socialframework for deciding complicatedcontemporary issues. Being anintegral part of one of the country'sgreat research universities for boththe social and natural sciences, theLaw School is perfectly situated toanticipate emerging areas of practiceand scholarship that require aninterdisciplinary approach.

• Embrace theOpportunities ofGlobalization

Our Law School has a long tradi-tion of international engagement.From the law and developmentmovement to more recent aspects



of globalization, our faculty rnern-bets have been active abroad. Theyhave taught, conducted research,and worked to enhance legaleducation and practice on evetycontinent. The Law School will con-tinue to promote this engagementby building on our internationalresources, such as our highly suc-cessful East Asian Legal StudiesCenter, our opportunities for inter-national lawyers at the Law School,and our exchange programs withprominent law schools in Africa,Europe, and Latin America. Wewill explore additional opportunitiesfor faculty and students in interna-tional programs on campus andin international institutions andprograms based in the UnitedStates and abroad.

• Build on Our ScholarlyTraditions to CreateKnowledge for aChanging World

The UW Law School has long

been at the leading edge of scholarlyinnovation, and that is where weintend to remain. When most legalscholars were confining theirresearch to the law on the books,we were looking at the law inaction. And before interdisciplinaryresearch became fashionable, wewere pioneering "law and society."

We will build on these tradi-tional strengths in new and dynamicways. We will continue to broadenour interdisciplinary connections,and we will commit the resourcesnecessary to support a thrivingculture of scholarship. We willcultivate theory that is groundedin experience, never forgertingboth the local and the internationaldimensions of legal problems andthe importance of scholarly analysis.

• Advance theWisconsin Idea

We take seriously the idea that lawis a profession grounded in serviceto society. Our teaching aims to

prepare students to serve all thosewho need an advocate, and ourresearch aims to develop innovativesolutions to societal problems, bothat home and abroad. Our studentslearn through service to the com-munity, and they do it in hospitals,low-income neighborhoods, correc-tional institutions, and courthousesnear and far. At the Law School,the Wisconsin Idea has become theGlobal Idea-the idea that weserve the university, the localcommunity, the state, the nation,and the world.

We look forward to workingwith you over the next few years aswe implement the 2004 StrategicPlan and continue to make theUniversity of Wisconsin LawSchool one of the best public lawschools in the country. To see thecomplete Law School StrategicPlan, the Web site to visit iswww.law.wisc.edu/shared/StrategicPlan.pdf .•

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Inthe spring of her first year atthe UW Law School, Sarah

Helvey met two classmates whoshare her passion for child welfareand juvenile justice.

"We all came to law schoolto do public interest law-andchildren's law in particular," Sarahsays, referring to her colleaguesHannah Renfro-Sargent andNotesong Srisopark Thompson.Because there was no organizariondevoted to their interests, the threedecided to start the Children'sJustice Project (C]P).

"We see children's law as anarea of law-like contracts law,or constitutional law," says Sarah."The three of us are really passion-ate about this." Their goal: to makea place for children's law at the LawSchool, and to help other studentsinterested in having a career help-ing children. The C]P Web pagemission statement phrases theirpurpose more formally: "to providean organizational structure for thepromotion of justice for childrenand juveniles through interdiscipli-nary advocacy and study includingthe rights of children and juvenilesin the legal, educational, healthcare, and social services systems."(See the Children's Justice Projectpage on the Law School Web site:www.sit.wisc.edu/ -cjp.)

CJP members have a keen eyefor opportunities available in thecommunity, both for themselvesand for their colleagues. "Forexample," Sarah says, "a guardianad litem conference, job opportu-nities or volunteer opportunities,clerkships-we put them on ourlist-serve."

Sarah, Notesong, and Hannahare also Law School liaisons to theboard of the Children and the Lawsection of the Wisconsin State Bar."It has been a great way to link theLaw School to practicing attorneys,"Sarah says.

The CJP has hosted several

talks on topics such as juvenilewaivers to adult court, and haseven influenced the curriculum,working with Clinical ProfessorKen Streit of the RemingtonCenter to bring back his course onjuvenile justice. The students creditStreit and Clinical ProfessorGretchen Viney as sources of greatsupport and inspiration.

How did this specific interestbegin for Sarah? She remembersthat long before her college years,she felt a special pull when sheheard about victims of child abuse.

Later, as a junior majoring inpsychology at the University ofNebraska, she was taking a coursein Community Psychology whenshe discovered that juvenile justiceis a specific field. "For evetyoneelse in the class it was just anotherclass," Sarah says, "but for me, itwas like, 'Oh, my gosh! This ishow I see the world, and it has aname!' »

Among the experiences thathave enriched Sarah's educationsince she began her law degree isher concurrent work on a master'sdegree in educational administra-tion at the School of Education.Last summer, she also worked forthe Dane County PublicDefender's Office through rhePublic Defender Project of theRemington Center.

In May 2003, the Law Schoolawarded Sarah its Brown vs. Boardof Education Award "for a studentwho has made an outstandingcontribution to equal educationalopportunity and social justice." InNovember, Hannah Renfro-Sargentwon the Leonard Loeb ScholarshipAward of $1,000 for excellence inthe field of family law in recogni-tion of her work in co-foundingthe C]P. (See story on page 13.)The Loeb committee was soimpressed with the work of all theCJP founders that they conferredan additional $3,000 on the project.

STUDENT LIFE

Sarah Helvey '04:One of the co-founders of theChildren's Justice Project at the LawSchool, Sarah will make her longtimepassion for child welfare the focus ofher career.

Hometown: Lincoln, Nebraska

Undergraduate work: University ofNebraska-Lincoln

Undergraduate major: Psychology

Focus in law: Children's Law,Educational Policy Law

Additional graduate degree:Dual degree in Law and Education,May 2004


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STUDENT LIFE

Renee Servance '04:After a career in music teaching,Renee came to the Law School tofulfill a dream of becoming a lawyer.

Hometown: Raleigh, North Carolina

Undergraduate work: University ofNorth Carolina-Chapel Hill

Undergraduate major: Music(instrument: double bass)

Focus in law: Litigation, IntellectualProperty, Education Law, EmploymentLaw

Additional graduate degree:Master of Music, Indiana University


nenee Servance graduated froml'the University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill in 1988,and earned her Master of Musicdegree at Indiana University in1991. She had hoped to play thebass professionally in an orchestra,but in the recession year of 1991,orchestras were not holdingauditions. Nor did she have the$10,000 to $15,000 required tobuy a high-quality string bass.

So she accepted a teachingposition in the public schools ofFairfax County, Virginia."Sometimes I taught in a janitor'scloset; sometimes I taught in ahallway; sometimes I was luckyenough to have a classroom. Thosefirst few years were hard, and Irealized it would take a very longtime to save enough to buy a bass."

So Renee started thinkingabout law school-again.

"I came of age in the 1970s-lawyers were heroes to me. It wasnews to me when I moved to theD.C. area and found that somepeople didn't really like lawyers."Still, she didn't think that shewould ever be a lawyer-"that wasa pipe dream."

Nonetheless, Renee increasedthe number of private lessons shewas giving in order to put somemoney away. In 2000, she took theLSAT and applied to eight schools,covering all four tiers, because shedidn't know where she might getin. "Oddly enough," she says,"I got into them all."

She had never heard of theUniversity of Wisconsin, but "theyencouraged me to apply, so I did.Then after I applied, I looked theschool up in the rankings, and Ithought, 'I'll never get in-it's atop-tier school.' I figured theywould want younger students-notsomeone who had been teachingfor ten years and hadn't been inschool for a long time."

Renee narrowed her choicesdown to three schools: two close toher Virginia home, and Wisconsin."My mom and friends said, 'Youshould go out to Wisconsin andjust see it,' so I did a stealth visit."

"I hoped I would come andhate it," Renee confesses. "It was sofar away, and I had heard about thenotorious Wisconsin winters. Butit was such a pretty town; it's atop-notch law school; and thefaculty are on the cutting edge."

She also met with Director ofAdmissions Beth Kransberger whenshe was on campus. "Meeting withDean Kransberger really sealed it,"Renee recalls.

By now, Renee is first-callsubstitute with the MadisonSymphony. She intends to keepplaying when she enters the lawprofession, too. "Playing music forme is kind of like breathing: I haveto do it."

She has also taken the oppor-tunity to work with the ConsumerLaw Litigation Clinic and theNeighborhood Law Project. Theclinics, says Renee, were "the high-light of my experience here. I sawthe Law in Action in the lives ofpoor people, and it challenged meto look beyond the traditional legalremedies." Renee lights up whenshe gives credit to "three wonderfulprofs: Juliet Brodie, MarshaMansfield, and Steve Meili."

Still other formativeexperiences: serving on the LawReview, working as a law clerk inthe Office of the General Counselfor the UW System, and servingas president of the Black LawStudents Association.

Renee hopes to find a job onthe East Coast after she graduatesthis May. "I'm looking forward torejoining the working world and tosettling down," she says. Andwherever that new home is, Reneeknows she will find it a good placeto practice both law and music.

Brian Larson looks back to hisexperiences in editing video,

film, and sound as crucial in thechain of experiences that led him tolaw school. "I've always been intoediting-closed in a small room formarathon periods of time. I'mdrawn to intense working environ-ments. I like working on a projectthat gets my undivided attentionfor a period of time."

As a UW-Madison historymajor, he brought the same loveof intense projects to his researchassignments. "I'd get engrossed init-I loved doing research."

He might have been headedfor a career of solitary productivityif it hadn't been for quite a differentkind of experience after he graduated:He and his now-wife Kris spent ayear and a half teaching in Taiwan.They taught all ages, from kinder-gartners to adults. That was whenhe learned that he also wanted towork with people.

Another formative experiencewas Brian's attendance at Seattle'slarge protests against the WorldTrade Organization (WTO) in2001. He arrived as a protester-flew directly from Taiwan-burbecame involved in learning moreabour the issues. "I gravitated tomeetings and teach-ins; tradelawyers from NGOs-mostly fromEurope-were saying very intelli-gent things. Instead of fighting thefight in the streets, they did it withacademics and intelligence. I likedthe way they were approaching it."

After that experience, Briancame back to Madison and appliedto the UW Law School's dual-degree program with the La FolletteInstitute. At the end of his fourthyear, he will receive both a J.D.from the Law School and anM.P.A. (Master of Public Mfairs)from La Follette.

His first experiences at theUW Law School convinced Brianthat he had chosen well: "I thinkI ended up at the right law school,because from the very beginning-in Professor Whitford's contractclass-it was Law in Action fromDay One. That is so what I'm intoas far as thinking about law."

With each new class, heremembers, he saw the Law inAction aspects. "Property-I foundthat to be fascinating; constitutionallaw-great."

Brian's Law School career alsoincluded time spent abroad: Hewent to Beijing and Shanghai inthe summer of 2002 with ProfessorRalph Cagle's negotiation class ona trip organized by the East AsianLegal Studies Center, and inJanuary 2003 a grant from the cen-ter enabled him to conductresearch in Thailand and Vietnamon international trade issuesconfronting developing countries.

He also traveled to Geneva tovisit the WTO and interview forthe same project. The two researchtrips yielded the information heused in an article on the WTOto be published in the WisconsinLaw Review.

This fall semester, Brian wasbusy as one of the Law Review'stwo symposium editors, workingon its February conference,Freedom from Contract. "This wasa big event in contracts scholarship,"he says, "with eleven papers thatwere presented and then collectedfor the 2004 Symposium issue ofthe Law Review."

As for the question of wherehis dual degree in law and publicaffairs will lead him, at this pointBrian is not sure. "Luckily," hesays, "I have until May 2005 tofigure that out."

STUDENT LIFE

Brian Larson '05:Brian's interest in international tradeissues and the way they affectdeveloping countries has led him toconduct research in Asia and at theWorld Trade Organization in Geneva.

Hometown: Rochester, Minnesota

Undergraduate work:UW-Madison

Undergraduate major: History andCommunication Arts

Focus in law: International TradeLaw, International Public Affairs

Additional graduate degree:Dual degree in Law and Public Affairs,May 2005



STUDENT LIFE

UW Law School students (from left) Jenigh Garrett, Vicky Selkowe, andCarlos Becerra all won national awards to help them pursue public interestlaw work.

Three UW LawStudents WinPublic InterestLaw FellowshipsThe University of Wisconsin LawSchool marked a triple achievementlast winter in the competitive fieldof public interest law fellowships.UW law students were the nationalwinners of three highly esteemedfellowships: both of the Fried FrankFellowships and one SkaddenFellowship.

There are only two Fried FrankFellowships awarded nationally eachyear, making the two Wisconsinawards a "sweep" of the field. "Wewere amazed when the selectioncommittee came up with bothwinners from Wisconsin,"commented Christine Kendall, arepresentative of the firm of Fried,Frank, Harris, Schriver andJacobson, which awards the annualfellowships. This achievement bystudents from the University ofWisconsin Law School places theUW Law School's public interest


progtam in the company of thoseat other leading schools such asHarvard, Columbia, and Yale,whichhave dominated the fellowshipcompetition in past years.

Skadden Fellowships, similarly,are one of the top honors awardedto students entering the field ofpublic interest law. Out of thetwenty-six Skadden Fellowshipsawarded nationally, only four wentto students from universities in theMidwest. This was the second timein three years that a UW LawSchool graduating student won aSkadden Fellowship.

The three UW Law Schoolstudents receiving the awards were:Jenigh Garrett, winner of the FriedFrank/NAACP Legal Defense andEducation Fund Fellowship;Carlos Becerra, winner of the FriedFrank/Mexican-American LegalDefense and Education FundFellowship; and Victoria Selkowe,winner of the Skadden Fellowship.All are May 2003 graduates.

Fried Frank FellowshipsFried Frank Fellows participate

in a two-part program, in whichthe recipient works for two years atFried Frank in New York City,followed by two years ar the fellow-ship's designated public interestfirm supported by funding fromFried Frank. Jenigh Garrett'ssecond two years will be spent atthe national NAACP Legal DefenseFund (LDF) office as a staff attor-ney. Carlos Becerra will work withthe Mexican-American LegalDefense Fund (MALDEF), thenation's leading Latino litigation,advocacy, and educational outreachorganization.

The criteria for selecting FriedFrank Fellows arise from theuniqueness of the two-part fellow-ship, says LDF Assistant CounselJanai Nelson. Recipients arescreened for ability to be stronglitigators, background of workexperience, commitment to publicinterest work, leadership qualities,and tendency to "challenge them-selves" by having a breadth of expe-riences in multiple areas of law.

"It's quite a coup for the UWLaw School to have both nationalwinners," says Becerra.

Garrett's goal for the years thatfollow her Fried Frank experience is"to impact society as an advocatefor the poor and disadvantaged,"including such spheres of activity aswork in the legislative and judicialbranches of government as well asworking as a professor of law, inthe hopes of educating future leaders.

For Becerra, "One of the mostappealing parts of the fellowship isthat Fried Frank provides excellenttraining in litigation, and to takethat training into the public inter-est world will be pretty powerful.If I'm not experienced in litigationnow, I will be by the time I finish!"Becerra expects to focus onvoting rights and employmentdiscrimination in the fellowship'ssecond half, when he will beworking at MALDEF.

Skadden FellowshipThe Skadden FellowshipFoundation, described as a "legalPeace Corps" by the Los AngelesTimes, was established in 1988by the firm of Skadden, Arps,Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLp, tosupport students who have shownexceptional promise in the field ofpublic interest law. The fWo-yearfellowship gives Fellows the free-dom to pursue their interests inpublic interest work, providinglegal services to the poor, elderly,homeless, and disabled, as well asthose deprived of human rightsor civil rights.

Fellows create their projecrsbefore applying. Vicky Selkowe'sproject is to represent low-incomeDane County workers on issuesincluding employment discrimina-tion, unpaid wages, the Family andMedical Leave Act, and access topublic benefits.

Director of the SkaddenFellows program, Susan ButlerPlum, comments, "Wisconsin haslong been regarded as a sociallabo-ratory for exploring innovativeresponses to the challenges facedby disadvantaged communities,and Skadden Fellows fromWisconsin have taken the lead inrepresenting those communities.By sharing their unique experi-ences and expertise with futurepublic interest lawyers, Wisconsin'sSkadden Fellows also further theprogram's goal of building a 'publicinterest law firm without walls' toassist communities nationwide."

Selkowe credits the OW LawSchool's Neighborhood LawProject (NLP), directed by clinicalprofessor Juliet Brodie, as havinghad a significant impact on her.

Alvin Chu '03Wins FordLeadership Award

Alvin Chu, a May 2003 graduateof the University of WisconsinLaw School, was named the recipi-ent of a $10,000 Ford LeadershipAward in 2003, the first year theaward was offered. The award,given by the Ford MotorCompany, recognizes law studentsin rheir second or third year whodemonstrare significant leadershipskills as well as academic excellence,and who make a positive differencefor the community.

Chu was awarded rhreeprofessional degrees simultaneouslyin May 2003: a J.D., an M.B.A. inFinance, and an M.S. inEducational Administration.

Criteria used to select the win-ning students nationwide includeoriginality; independent judgment;self-confidence; driving diversitythrough conduct that is respectfuland that values others' differences;commitment to quality; and main-taining integrity, inspiration, andfocus, even under adversity.

STUDENT LIFE

Leonard LoebFund HonorsChildren'sJustice ProjectFounders

University of Wisconsin Lawstudent Hannah Renfro-Sargenthas been named the winner ofa $1,000 scholarship from theLeonard Loeb ScholarshipFund in recognition of herwork in co-founding theChildren's Justice Project (CJP)at the University of WisconsinLaw School. The LoebScholarship was created by thefamily of the late Leonard Loebto honor a law student who hasdemonstrated outstandingactivity in the field of familylaw. Loeb was a 1952 graduateof the OW Law School.

Members of the AmericanAcademy of MatrimonialLawyers and Fellows, whoadminister the new award,noted that three other nomineeshad also done outstanding workwith Ms. Renfro-Sargent infounding the OW Children'sJustice Project: Sarah Helvey,

otesong Srisopark Thompson,and Alecia Humphrey. Tohonor their work, the LoebScholarship Committee votedto donate an additional $3,000to the Children's Justice Project.

Former State Bar PresidentLeonard Loeb died on March9, 2003. His contributions tothe field of family law includedhis book System Book for FamilyLaw and his work as a co-founderof the Wisconsin Chapter ofthe American Academy ofMatrimonial Lawyers.



ADMISSIONS

Everyone connected with

our Law School deserves

to be extremely proud of

this new group of students

and of the UW Law

School itself for drawing

the interest of so many

highlyqualifiedindividuals.


IntroducingThe UW LawClass of 2006By Assistant Dean Beth KransbergerDirector of Admissions andFinancial Aid

Once again this fall, the Universityof Wisconsin Law School wel-comed an extraordinary enteringclass, full of energetic and accom-plished students with widely vary-ing backgrounds, interests, andcareer VISIOns.

Thanks to all of you whoreferred bright, accomplished peo-ple to us as candidates for admis-sion. We truly value the referralsand opinions of our graduatesacross the country who write to tellus about individuals with the quali-ties to be successful at this terrificLaw School.

It is now my great pleasure toshare with you a few facts aboutthis Class of 2006.

We had nearly 3,200 applica-tions, up almost 40 percent overthe previous year. The nationalapplicant pool only increased by 18percent, so this was particularlygood news for us. This also meanta more than 100 percent increasein admissions applications over thelast five years.

We were aiming for a classof approximately 270, and weachieved this goal with a finalenrollment of 268. These J.D.students hail from 34 states andChina, and represent 121 under-graduate institutions. They rangein age from 21 to the late 50s.Twenty-seven percent received theirundergraduate degrees here at theUW-Madison campus.

Fifty-four percent areWisconsin residents. Twenty stu-dents hold graduate degrees.Approximately 65 percent did notcome to us directly after theirundergraduate studies; they com-pleted their college education oneyear or more prior to enrolling here.

These J.D. students hailfrom 34 states and China,and represent 121 under-graduate institutions.They range in age from 21to the late 50s.

This entering class includes 26percent students of color, of whomtwenty-three are Mrican-American,four are Native American, twenty-five Latino/Chicano, and nineteenAsian-American/Pacific Islanders.This class was one of the academi-cally strongest classes in the last tenyears, with the bottom quarter ofthe class beginning at the 77th per-centile nationally on the entrancetest. This was a reflection of thesignificant increase in the academiccredentials within the applicantpool. The competition for seats inthe class was intense, and the deci-sions just that much more difficult.

The members of our admis-sions committee did a splendid jobduring the last year in workingcarefully with these hundreds andhundreds of applicant files. Thehigh volume presented some newand thorny challenges.

Everyone connected with ourLaw School deserves to be extremelyproud of this new group of studentsand of the UW Law School itselffor drawing the interest of so manyhighly qualified individuals.

CAREER SERVICES

Did You Know?

Our alumni have free, lifetime access to the Job

Bank maintained by the Office of Career Services.

To search for available positions or to hire a new

lawyer for your firm, see our Web site at

www.law.wisc.edu/career/databank.htm and look under

the heading "UW Law School Alumni."

Intelligent,Hard-WorkingLaw StudentsAvailableNow!By Assistant Dean Jane HeymannDirector of Career Services

Greetings from all of us at theOffice of Career Services! I hopethe year 2004 is going well for allof our Gargoyle readers.

This is the season when theCareer ServicesOffice is busy helpingmany of our students find summerwork thar will help them gain prac-tical legal experience. I have beenso impressed by rhe quality andenthusiasm of the law students whohave spoken wirh us about seekingwork this summer that I decided toaddress this column ro all theemployers who might be able tohire one or more of these soon-ro-be-lawyers to work in your officesrhis summer.

Although a full-time, paidposition would be ideal for thesestudents, many of them wouldseriously consider part-time and/orvolunteer positions as well. Theprimary concern for all our studentsis ro obtain valuable, relevant workexpenence.

If you think you might beinterested in hiring one or more ofour students this summer, please letus know. We would be happy toassist you in the hiring process byposting a position on our onlinejob bank, by collecting resumes, orby making facilities available in ouroffice for interviewing. I would bedelighted to hear from you, eitherat [email protected] or by phoneat (608) 262-6413. You can alsocontact our Career Services Officeat [email protected] or(608) 262-7856 if you havequestions or want to advertise asummer position.

I do hope that you will offera summer of legal experience to ourtalented UW law students!

Judicial Clerkships Are Not JustFor New Graduates!

If you are a recent graduate, or someone who has

been practicing for a number of years, you should

consider applying for a judicial clerkship. In the past

few years, more and more federal and state judges

have been hiring clerks who have some "real world"

experience. Indeed, some judges will consider only

applicants who have been out of law school for a

year or more. Clerkships can be particularly ideal for

those of you who are considering leaving a job, but

need a transitional year or two to regain your focus,

make new contacts, or learn about different areas

of law.

If you are interested in learning more about

judicial clerkships, please visit the Career Services

Web site at www.law.wisc.edu/career/

JudiciaIClerkships.htm, or contact Kristin Davis in

the Career Services Office at (608) 262-6444 or

kristi [email protected].


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Professor JamesJones Honored byAALS Section

UW Law Professor James E. Jones,Jr., has been honored by the Laborand Employment Law Section ofthe Association of American Law

Gaylord Nelson'42 Receives WAADistinguishedAlumni Award

Gaylord Nelson, the founder ofEarth Day and a former U.S. sena-tor and Wisconsin governor, hasbeen named a winner of the


Schools for his outstanding contri-butions to the field and teaching oflabor relations and employment law.

A 1956 graduate of the UWLaw School, Jones moved toWashington, D.C., immediatelyupon earning his ].0. There heperformed pioneering work at theU.S. Department of Labor, begin-ning as a legislative attorney andeventually becoming associate solic-itor of labor for the Division ofLabor Relations and Civil Rights.He returned to Wisconsin to teachat the UW Law School in 1969,and has remained an active partici-pant in Law School affairs and thelegal profession ever since. He rookthe status of professor emeritusin 1993.

Introducing Jones at the AALSceremony to honor him in January2004 was Vicki Schultz, who isFord Foundation Professor of Lawat Yale Law School and who beganher teaching career at the UW LawSchool, teaching labor law withJones as her mentor.

Wisconsin Alumni Association's2004 Distinguished Alumni Award.

Nelson received his LL.B.degree from the University ofWisconsin Law School in 1942. Hebegan his public service in 1948 asa state senator, and was re-electedthree times. In 1958, he becameonly the second Democrat of thecentury to be elected governor ofWisconsin. After two terms as gov-ernor, he was elected to the u.s.Senate, where he served a total ofeighteen years.

Nelson has received numerousawards, including the PresidentialMedal of Freedom, awarded to himin 1995. The proclamation fromPresident Clinton read, "As thefather of Earth Day, he is thegrandfather of all that grew out of

Schultz cited Jones for hiscontributions to affirmative actionjurisprudence; for drafting the rulesand recommended procedures forarbitrators in labor-managementrelations in federal governmentemployment that were subsequentlyincorporated into the Civil ServiceReform Act of 1978; for framingthe University of Wisconsin's basicpolicy on minority programs,including the Law School's LegalEducation Opportunity program(LEO); for initiating the LawSchool's William H. HastieMinority Teaching Fellowship in1973; and for teaching the firstknown full-semester law course onemployment discrimination law.

Schultz told Professor Jones,"You have done so much to developthe fields of labor and employmentdiscrimination law-includingyour important contributions inthe field of affirmative action.I can't think of anyone who ismore deserving."

that event: the EnvironmentalProtection Act, the Clean Air Act,the Clean Water Act, the SafeDrinking Water Act." The firstEarth Day took place in 1970,drawing 20 million participants.Throughout his political career, hesponsored or co-sponsored a varietyof bills aimed at promoting conser-vation and protecting consumers.

Nelson has received a varietyof honors for his public service,including the Ansel AdamsConservation Award and twoawards from the United NationsEnvironment Programme: theEnvironmental Leadership Awardin 1982, and the Only One EarthAward in 1992.

Robert Habush '61ReceivesDistinguishedService AwardRobert L. Habush, president ofHabush Habush & Rottier S.c.,has been vored rhe 2003 recipientof rhe University of Wisconsin LawSchool's Distinguished ServiceAward. The award honors UWLaw alumni or faculty who havemade outstanding contributions tothe legal profession.

The annual winner of theDistinguished Service Award ischosen by a vote of the WisconsinLaw Alumni Association's board ofdirectors. The award was formallypresented at the Benchers Dinnerin Milwaukee this fall.

In April 2003, Habush wasnamed one of ten WisconsinLeaders in the Law by WisconsinLaw Journal. He has held leader-ship roles in the Association ofTrial Lawyers of America (ATLA),

MacaulayHonored asOutstandingScholar by ABF

UW Law School Professor StewartMacaulay has won the OutstandingScholar Award conferred annuallyby the American Bar Foundation.The highly esteemed award recog-nizes fellows of the ABF who haveengaged in outstanding scholarshipin the law or in government.

Macaulay's honor wasannounced publicly at the ABF'sFellows Annual Banquet in SanAntonio on February 7, 2004.Both Macaulay and ProfessorStanton Wheeler of YaleUniversityare the 2004 recipients.

serving on the board of governorsin 1969-1970 and 1983-1986,and as president in 1986-1987.He has also been instrumental inthe success of the WisconsinAcademy of Trial Lawyers, servingas its president in 1968-1969 and1971-1972.

Habush is listed in The BestLawyers in America, Who's Who inAmerica, Who's Who in the World,and Who's Who in American Law,among others. He was named therecipient of the ATLA Harry PhiloAward in 1999, and in 2001 hewas named one of the top litigatorsin the United States by theNational Law Journal.

In 2002, he received the highestaward conferred by ATLA-theLeonard Ring Champion of JusticeAward, and ATLA renamed itsendowment the Robert L. HabushATLA Endowment.

Habush has taught courses atthe University of Wisconsin LawSchool and also at MarquetteUniversity School of Law over the

Winners of the OutstandingScholar Award through the yearshave been the nation's leading legalscholars. Macaulay is internationallyrecognized as a leader of the Law inAction approach to contracrs.

As the ABF noted in confer-ring the award, "Stewart Macaulay'sresearch transformed the way thatscholars rhink about contracts andthe role of law in economic activity.In a series of articles beginning in1963 and continuing to the pres-ent, Macaulay has insisted thatscholars must look beyond formallaw to see what actually happens tothe Law in Action. Indeed, the firstauthority who would be cited byvirtually any scholar on the need tostudy the Law in Action would beStewart Macaulay of the Universityof Wisconsin Law School."

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past twenty-five years. He hasauthored law review articles andis the editor of Cross-Examinationof Non-Medical Experts in the Artof Advocacy series by MatthewBender Company. He has lecturedbefore professional groups through-out the country in the area of trialpractice.

Habush practices in theMilwaukee office of HabushHabush & Rottier S.c.



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Larry ChurchReceives TeacherOf the Year Award

Professor William (Larry) Churchhas been voted recipient of the2003 Teacher of the YearAwardfrom the Wisconsin Law AlumniAssociation (WLAA). The award,which has been given each fall for


Robert SchnurNamed Adjunct ofThe YearThe Warren H. Stolper Award,recognizing excellence in teachingand a commitment to the UWLaw School on the part of one ofthe Law School's adjunct profes-sors, has been given this year toRobert A. Schnur. Schnur hastaught tax law at the Law Schoolsince 1988.

This is the second year thatthe Stolper Award has been

almost twenty years, makes a signif-icant statement about the value andimportance of classroom teachingat the University of Wisconsin LawSchool.

Each year, the WLAA polls thethree most recent classes (not thegraduating class) for their advice inconferring the Wisconsin LawAlumni Association's Teacher of theYear Award. To be eligible, a lawprofessor must have completedthree years of teaching at the LawSchool, must not have received theaward in the past four years, andmust be a UW Law School tenure-track faculty member.

Larry Church received hisLL.B. degree summa cum laudefrom the UW Law School in 1963.After teaching at the Haile SelassieUniversity Faculty of Law inEthiopia, then practicing as anassociate with the firm of Foley &Lardner in Milwaukee, he joinedthe UW Law faculty in 1968.Church holds the chair ofSherwood R. Volkman-BascomProfessor of Law.

conferred. The award is named inhonor of Attorney Warren H.Stolper, who taught at the LawSchool for forty years as an adjunctprofessor.

Robert Schnur is a tax partnerin the Milwaukee-based law firmof Michael Best & Friedrich LLp,maintaining offices in the firm'sMilwaukee and Madison locations.He received an undergraduatedegree in Economics from CornellUniversity and a law degree fromHarvard Law School, and is admit-ted to practice in Wisconsin andIllinois.

Race JudicataRaises $6,000To Help FundPublic InterestLaw Students

More than $6,000 in profitwas raised by the 2003 RaceJudicata, sponsored by thePublic Interest LawFoundation (PILF) of theUniversity of Wisconsin LawSchool on Saturday, October11, 2003. More than threehundred individuals participat-ed in the 5K run/walk aroundMonona Bay.

All proceeds will be usedto help fund summer grants forlaw students doing unpaidpublic interest work.

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Ken Casey has joined theRemington Center as director ofthe Criminal Appeals Project.

Mike Scott is researching andteaching in the area of policing.

Betsy Abramson directs the LawSchool's new Elder Law Clinic.

Remington Center Welcomes New FacultyThis fall, the Law School's Frank J.Remington Center welcomed threenew faculty members, all of whombring years of experience specific tothe work they will be doing.

Following his retirement inJune from the Office of the StatePublic Defender, Ken Casey hasjoined the Center as director of theCriminal Appeals Project, in whichstudents represent defendants ondirect appeal cases appointed bythe State Public Defender (SPD).Casey graduated from the OW LawSchool in 1970 and clerked forU.S. District Judge James Doyle.He dedicated the major part of hiscareer to working for public serviceagencies, including the State Bar'sCorrections Committee, LegalAction of Wisconsin, and-since1981-the SPD, where he worked inboth the trial and appellate divisions.

During this period, Caseyoccasionally taught students in theLaw School's LAIP (LegalAssistance to InstitutionalizedPersons) program and also taughtconstitutional law. In the early1990s, Casey and Kate Kruseco-created the Criminal AppealsProject at the Remington Center,

and thus his joining the project asdirector brings him full circle.

Mike Scott will follow in thefootsteps of the Law School'sProfessor Herman Goldstein byresearching and teaching in thearea of policing. A graduate of theUniversity of Wisconsin (B.A.1980) and of Harvard Law School(1990), Scott has served in severalpolice departments, as an officer,legal assistant, and chief. He has alongtime interest in research, andserved as the senior researcher forthe Police Executive Research Forum.

In 1997, Scott founded theCenter for Problem OrientedPolicing, Inc., an independent con-sulting firm through which he hasprovided police research, training,and management services. Scottbrings to the Law School a substan-tial grant from the NationalInstitute of Justice, which he willuse to research, develop, and pub-lish a series of problem-orientedguides for police departmentsaround the nation.

Betsy Abramson has joinedthe Economic Justice Institute,from which she will direct the LawSchool's new Elder Law Clinic.

A 1981 graduate of the OW LawSchool, Abramson is knownthroughout Wisconsin as an expertin the field of elder law, first at theCenter for Public Representation,then as the founder and director ofthe Elder Law Center at theCoalition of Wisconsin AgingGroups, and, since 2001, as aprivate consultant.

With support from the HelenBader Foundation, the RetirementResearch Foundation, and the LawSchool, Abramson is developing aninnovative clinical program inwhich law and graduate nursingstudents will work on site at geriatrichealth care clinics. The students willprovide legal information, counsel-ing, and assistance to elderlypatients on issues such as advancemedical directives and financialmanagement tools, guardianships,public and private benefits, andpatients' rights. They will also workto educate health care providers onhow to identify the legal needs ofthe elderly and the interrelationshipbetween legal issues and goodhealth care outcomes.



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Meredith RossHonored asLeader in Law

Meredith Ross, clinical professor oflaw and director of the Universityof Wisconsin Law School'sRemington Center, was named aWisconsin Leader in the Law 2003by the Wisconsin Law journal. Rossis one of ten attorneys to receivethis honor.

Ross's achievement, asdescribed by the journal, is in lead-ing "the rapid expansion of clinicalcourse offerings available at theUW Law School's Frank J.Remington Center, so law studentstoday have additional options forreceiving real-world experience;moreover, the Remington Center isnow able to serve hundreds ofadditional low-income individualseach year."

Ross became director of theCenter in 1996. In the approxi-mately seven years of her director-ship, the Remington Center's clinicalprograms have expanded to supple-ment the original LAIP (LegalAssistance to InstitutionalizedPersons) program with the FamilyLaw Project, Criminal Appeals


Project, Wisconsin InnocenceProject, and Neighborhood LawProject (now joined with theConsumer Law Litigation Clinic inthe new Economic JusticeInsti tu te) .

Ross received her law degreefrom the UW Law School in 1990.Three other UW Law alumni areamong the Leader in the Lawrecipients: Barrett J. Corneille '80,William L. Gansner '74, andRobert L. Habush '61.

Innocence ProjectWins SecondExoneration

The Wisconsin Innocence Projectof the UW Law School won itssecond exoneration in Septemberwhen a Manitowoc County judgeruled that DNA evidence conclu-sively proves the innocence ofSteven Avery, a man convicted in1985 of the brutal attack of awoman jogging on a beach nearTwo Rivers, Wisconsin.

Avery was released from theStanley Prison in northwesternWisconsin on the morning ofThursday, September 11,2003,after serving eighteen years of athirty-two-year sentence. Avery's isthe first exoneration underWisconsin's new post-convictionDNA-testing statute, which wassigned into law in 2001. His casemarked the 137th DNA exonera-tion nationwide and the thirdDNA exoneration in Wisconsinoverall.

During Avery's 1985 trial inManitowoc County Circuit Court,sixteen witnesses, including Avery'sfamily and friends, a cement con-tractor, and clerks at Shopko, alongwith store receipts from Shopko,corroborated Avery's description ofwhat he had done on the day thecrime was committed. Nevertheless,he was convicted based almost

entirely on the eyewitness identifi-cation testimony of a single wit-ness. Avery had maintained hisinnocence throughout the entireeighteen years he was wrongfullyimprisoned.

For the last two years, lawstudents and their supervisingattorneys worked diligenrly onAvery's case as part of their clinicalwork at the Innocence Project.Eventually, the students obtained acourt order to allow DNA testingof hairs left at the scene of thecrime. The tests, conducted by theWisconsin State Crime Laboratory,proved that Avery was not the per-petrator. They also revealed that theDNA matched that of another manwho was then serving a sixty-yearsentence for a similar crime com-mitted after the 1985 assault forwhich Avery was convicted.

UW clinical professors work-ing on the case were Keith Findleyand John Pray, co-directors of theInnocence Project, and formerInnocence Project attorneyWendy Paul.

"Steven Avery's long-awaitedrelease is a positive event for Averyand the Wisconsin criminal justicesystem," Findley said. "However, itis also a tragic story of wrongfulincarceration. Due to failures in thecriminal justice system, Avery losteighteen years of his life that hewill never be able to recover."

Though Avery is the firstindividual in Wisconsin to bereleased under Wisconsin's newDNA statute, he is the third personwho has had his conviction vacatedbased on the work of the law stu-dents at the Wisconsin InnocenceProject.

The Wisconsin InnocenceProject, a program of the UWLaw School's Frank]. RemingtonCenter, was founded in 1998.Approximately twenty studentsparticipate in the programeach year.

Progressive IdeasForum Created toHonor LaurieCarlsonThe University of Wisconsin LawSchool has received a donarion tocreare rhe Laurie CarlsonProgressive Ideas Forum, to honorrhe memory of rhe formerProgressive Party Srare Legislatorand Dane County clerk of courr.The Forum will provide supportto university programs rhat present,explore, and discuss currentprogressive issues in law, legalinstitutions, public policy, andsocial thoughr.

While the Forum will initiateits own speakers and programs, italso seeks to encourage and assistlearning opportunities suggested byothers in different formats, includ-ing guest speakers, discussion

panels, seminars, workshops, andclassroom activities. One goal ofthe Forum is to promote anexchange of ideas that joins theuniversity community with thelocal community by, among otherthings, fostering a discussion ofcurrent progressive ideas on campusand encouraging public participa-tion in Forum-sponsored events.

Individuals or groups interest-ed in making suggestions forForum programs should prepare adescription of the program andsubmit it by mail to Ralph Cagle,Clinical Professor of Law,University of Wisconsin LawSchool, 975 Bascom Mall,Madison, WI 53706; bye-mail [email protected]; or by phone at(608) 262-7881.

Laurie E. Carlson was born inBayfield, Wisconsin, in 1908. Hisfirst political involvement wasin 1916 when he and his father

Burnele Powell '73Named DeanAt University ofSouth CarolinaLaw School

Burnele Venable Powell, a 1973graduate of the University ofWisconsin Law School, has beennamed Dean of the University ofSouth Carolina Law School. Powellis the first African-American deanof South Carolina's law school.

Powell began his legal career in1973 at the Department ofHousing and Urban Development'sregional counsel's office in Boston,and later was promoted to associateregional counsel. In 1979, heearned an LL.M. degree fromHarvard Law School, and that yearjoined the faculty at the Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

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traveled Bayfield County in a horseand wagon urging farmers to votefor Bob La Follette for governor.This experience, coupled with latermeetings with Bob La Follette, leftan impression that would stay withCarlson for a lifetime.

In 1934, Carlson helped formthe State Progressive Party alongwith La Follette sons Phil and Bob,Jr. He won election as a Progressiveto the state legislature in 1936 atage twenty-eight and served until1942, when he retired to devotehimself to a business career. In1969, Carlson was elected clerk ofcourt and served four terms beforeretiring from public office.Governor Tony Earl honoredLaurie Carlson in 1986 with aproclamation declaring him a "statetreasure." Carlson died in 1999 atthe age of ninety-one.

where he taught from 1979 to1995, serving as associate deanfrom 1990 to 1993. He thenjoined the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in1995, serving as dean there untilMay 2003.

Powell is chair of theAmerican Bar AssociationConsortium on the Delivery ofLegal Services and immediate pastchair of the ABA Center forProfessional Responsibility. He is anationally known authority onlegal ethics, and has publishedwidely on topics related to lawyers'professional ethics and federal! stategovernment administration.

Powell assumed his responsi-bilities in South Carolina at thebeginning of the January 2004semester.


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On the CuttingEdge: Where LawMeets Biotech

Law School alumni arepart of the UW's ground-breaking BiotechnologyMaster's Program.

When Gabe Gross '01 and CraigChristianson '96 graduated fromthe UW Law School, they didnot expect to be back at the UWwithin a few years, pursuinganother degree.

Why, then, are they both backon campus every other week, fromThursday night through Saturdaymorning, working toward theUW's new degree of Master ofScience in Biotechnology?

Answer: The new program-the first of its kind in the coun-try-is providing them with thescientific and legal knowledge theyneed for their "day jobs" as


attorneys. "It's a two-year programdesigned specifically for workingprofessionals," Gross says. "Irencompasses science, law, business,ethics-vastly different but impor-tant disciplines. It's important todevelop the skills set."

Gross is now in his third yearas an associate with La Follette,Godfrey & Kahn. "I became a part-time master's student one year intolaw practice," he says with a touchof wonder. He is full of enthusiasmfor what the master's in biotechprogram is bringing to his lawpractice. "This really was fortuitousfor me," he says. "The year I start-ed the program-my first year atthe firm-the firm launched anentire practice area around FDAlaw. So my practice has advanced inparallel with the program. They'vedovetailed quite nicely for me. Iwas fortunate that the firm saw thevalue of the program."

Craig Christianson has a bach-elor's degree in engineering, and

has more than fourteenyears of experience work-ing with IBM. He ispresident of the AgilityCorporation, a Madisonfirm specializing in busi-ness and legal consultingfor businesses that aregrowing or transformingthemselves. Christiansonplans to use his M.S. inBiotech to practice patentand business law in thebiotech field.

The program providesa hands-on approach tosituations that will ariseincreasingly in the age ofbiotechnology. For exam-ple, students have role-played the scenario of abiotech entrepreneur seek-ing capital; they need tobe aware of the financial

issues, as well as social and ethicalones, that are called into play bybiotech ventures.

"I would encourageanybody who has a basicscience backgroundand who has a thirstfor emerging areas ofas-yet-unsettled law toconsider getting in onwhat is still the groundfloor of the transformativetechnology sectors ofthis century."

- R. Alta CharaAssociate Dean for

Faculty Research andDevelopment

The program's faculty includetop-rated professors from numerousfields and experienced Wisconsinbusiness professionals. Co-foundersare Professors Gail Robertson andRichard Moss from the Depart-ment of Physiology, and other coreprofessors include Law Schoolalumnus Carl Gulbrandsen '81,managing director of the WisconsinAlumni Research Foundation(WARF) and a specialist in intellec-tual property, patent law, andbusiness ethics; and Law SchoolAssociate Dean Alta Charo, anational authority on biotechnologyIssues.

Gross and Christianson areboth members of the program's firstclass, with a ten-person studentbody. They are the only two attor-neys. The second group, whichstarted in Fall 2003, has twentystudents, none of them attorneys.Program administrators are hopingto get the word out to bringlawyers and law students intofuture classes.

"There is an important reason

to have us [attorneys] there, as wellas scientists," Gross says. "Whenlocal biotech firms need to look atethics, they need to find attorneyswho understand biotech."

Agreeing wholeheartedly withthe need for lawyers to gain back-ground in biotechnology is LawSchool Professor and AssociateDean Alta Charo, one of theoriginators of the biotech master'sprogram. Charo holds a jointappointment in the MedicalSchool's Department of MedicalHistory and Bioethics.

"Wisconsin is among the toptier of states that are developing thebiotechnology sector as part oftheir state economic strategy,"Charo says. "We have tremendousstrength in southern Wisconsin inmoving basic science research intoindustrial development. What wedo not yet have is a robust profes-sional infrastructure. For thebiotechnology sector to succeed,the companies and the scientistsneed a cadre of professional busi-ness managers, lawyers, journalists,and public policy specialists whounderstand biotechnology, whounderstand the special businessissues raised by start-up companieswhose primary assets consist of

patents and licenses, and whounderstand the political climatesurrounding the use of biotechnol-ogy and genetics in medicine andagriculture. "

Planning for future yearsincludes a joint degree, Charo says."Right now we aren't able to offer ajoint J.D./M.S. in Biotech degreebecause we haven't worked out thelogistics of what courses would berequired, but in principle, wewould like to see people couple theJ.D. and the master's in biotech,and in the future this master'swould exist not only as a capstonedegree, but as a degree to be takensimultaneously with the lawdegree."

Charo adds, "I would encour-age anybody who has a basicscience background and who has athirst for emerging areas of as-yet-unsettled law to consider gettingin on what is still the ground floorof the transformative technologysectors of this century."

Any law students or alumniwho think the above call mayapply to them will want to visitthe Master's in Biotechnology pro-gram Web site at www.rns-biotech,wisc.edu.

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LEO BanquetFeaturedSpeaker Okihiro

Professor Gary Y. Okihiro,director of the Center for Raceand Ethnicity at ColumbiaUniversity, delivered thekeynote address at the LawSchool's annual LegalEducation Opportunities(LEO) Banquet on Saturday,March 27,2004, at theSheraton Hotel in Madison.

Okihiro, who is professorof international and publicaffairs at Columbia, titled hisaddress, "On CommonGround: Making Real thePromise of America." Okihirois the author of eight books,including The Columbia Guideto Asian-American History. Heis the recipient of the LifetimeAchievement Award from theAmerican Studies Association,and is a past president of theAssociation for Asian-AmericanStudies.

The UW Law School'sLEO program celebrated itsthirty-sixth anniversary withthis banquet (the thirty-fifthannual banquet). The annualevent is an occasion for alumniand students to meet eachother, to meet prospective stu-dents, and to recognize theachievements of current andformer LEO students. One ofthe alumni who attended wasattorney Michelle Behnke,president-elect of the State Barof Wisconsin. Behnke will bethe Bar's first African-Americanpresident.



SIN?r ey arrive from Michigan and California,

arts an Johannesburg. Why do ournew young professors choose the UWLaw School?I

What is that special new energy that is so noticeable in the classrooms,orridors, and professors' offices at the UW Law School in recent years?

" e over how lucky we are," smiles Alta Charo, associate deanfor Faculty Research and Development. "Our traditional strength ininterdisciplinary approaches to law continues to make us fresh and exciting

--- 0 ose interests span the Internet, emerging democracies,biotechnology, and entrepreneurship. They're choosing Wisconsin overother schools because we offer a chance to do research that takes fulladvantage of our enior faculty and the rest of a first-rate research campus.In turn, they're bringing a positively infectious enthusiasm into the building."

Dean Ken Davis is of the same mind. "I would like to convey to ourreaders a sense of our talented and energetic faculty," Davis says. "Ourbuilding is alive not only with our terrifically talented student body, butwith faculty energy and interaction, a lot of which is coming from ouraculty who have joined us recently. When we add this new group to the

world-class faculty members who have been here longer and whose workhas built our top national reputation, we have a powerful combination.

CAMPUS SCENICS BY JEFF MillER, UW-MADISON, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS

Juliet M, Brodie Anuj C, Desai Heinz J. Klug Marsha M. Mansfield John K, M, Ohnesorge Pilar N. OssorioClinical Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of Law Associate Professor of Law Clinical Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of Law Assisfant Professor of Lawof Law ofLaw and Medical EthicsDirector, Neighborhood Law Master's in International J.D., University of California- J.D., University of MinnesotaProject Affairs, Columbia University Hastings J.D., University of Wisconsin law School Ph.D., Stanford University

J.D., University of California- S.J.D., University of Law School S.J.D., Harvard law School (Microbiology andJ.D., Harvard law School Berkeley (Boalt Hall) Wisconsin Law School Neighborhood Law Project, Administrative Law, Immunology)Poverty law, Community Copyright, Trademarks, Constitutional Law, Consumer Law Litigation Business Organizations! J.D., University of Calitomia-Lawyering Cyberlaw Comparative Constitutional Clinic Corporations, Law and Berkeley (Boa~ Hall)

Law, Property law Development, International Biotechnology Law, PatentTrade law Law


These young people are happy tobe here, and they have very clearperceptions of how Wisconsin differsfrom the other institutions wherethey have studied and taught."

In order for readers to get to knowthese professors informally, theGargoyle invited them to talk witheach other about what drew themto Wisconsin (both the state andthe Law School) and what theyfound here. A total of twelvemembers of the newer facultyfound time in their busy schedulesto sit down and share observationson their experiences.

Q. What did you knowabout Wisconsin beforeyou came?

Anuj Desai: I didn't know muchabout Wisconsin the state, but Ihad a pretty good sense of the rep-utation of the school-certainly ofthe faculty. All my mentors gotexcited when they found out I hadan interview at Wisconsin. That's atestament to how well it's regarded.

Bernie Trujillo: I knew about StewartMacaulay-we read Macaulay infirst-year contracts at Yale. Therewas a lot of respect there for theLaw in Action approach to

contracts. Then when I came herefor my interview, I was reallyimpressed when Macaulay wason the interview team-it was likerock-star time.

Juliet Brodie: I always knew since Iwas a teenager that the state ofWisconsin was home to great,progressive social policy-myparents schooled me in that. GerdaLerner, Bob La Follette ...

We read Macaulay infirst-year contracts atYale. Then when I camehere for my interview,Macaulay was on theinterview team-it waslike rock-star time.

- Bernie Trujillo

Greg Shaffer: I had vague ideasabout Wisconsin, but I had nevervisited. I had Lawrence Friedmanas a professor at Stanford, and Iremember him saying wonderfulthings about Willard Hurst andthe UW approach to legal history-there was a sense of colleagues work-ing together on how to approachlegal questions. I don't rememberany other law schools spoken ofbecause of their intellectual tradition.

Pilar Ossorio: I knew very littleabout Wisconsin-I knew it hadsome very enthusiastic sports fanswho wore cheeses on their heads,and it was very cold. But the LawSchool-I knew it as the placewhere quality of scholarship washighly reputed, and where therewas a broad range of interdiscipli-nary studies, which is always veryimportant to me. This was on myradar screen as a place I would beinterested in.

Richard Ross: I come from anunusual perspective since I do legalhistory-Wisconsin has been thehome of the dominant approach inmy field for over half a century: theWisconsin School. So it was part ofmy awareness and part of everylegal historian's-"law and society."

Gordon Smith: I knew about StewartMacaulay and Bill Whitford andMarc Galanter and Willard Hurstand Ken Davis (I had actually citedhim in some articles).

John Ohnesorge: I knew about thetraditions in legal history-legalsociology-personalities like DavidTrubek and Marc Galanter fromthe law and development debate,Stewart Macaulay ...

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Richard J. RossAssociate Professor of Lawand History

J.D., Yale Law SchoolPh.D., Yale University(History)Legal History, Property Law,Trusts and Estates

David SchwartzAssistant Professor of Law

J. D., Yale Law SchoolEmployment Law, EqualEmployment Law,Constitutional Law

Gregory C. ShafferAssociate Professor of Law

J.D., Stanford Law SchoolInternational Trade Law,European Union Law,International BusinessTransactions

Leslie D. ShearClinicai Assistant Professorof LawDirector, Family Law Project

J.D., University of MiamiLaw SchoolFamily Law

D, Gordon SmithProfessor of Law

J.D., University of ChicagoLaw SchoolBusiness Organizations,Contracts, Law andEntrepreneurship

Bernard R. TrujilloAssistant Professor of Law

J.D., Yale Law SchoolImmigration Law,Bankruptcy, CorporateFinance



Gordon Smith: ... for being famous ...

John Ohnesorge: Yes-for beingfamous.

Q. What are some specificreasons why you choseto come here?

Juliet Brodie: I had been teachingelsewhere, and I wanted to comehome. I really missed that progressiveWisconsin Law in Action. Also, Iwas really impressed with theopportunity to build on what wasthen a fledgling community lawyer-ing project. I think the UW LawSchool is such a great place topursue clinical teaching. There's adeep intellectual tradition ofinterest in the law as it actuallyfunctions. In my view there's nobetter place to explore that thanin a clinical setting, when you'reactually watching Law in Action.All the questions that the academicfaculty engage students in on thegap between law and everydayreality come together. I say, "This isa great example of Law in Action"practically every day. The law saysthis-the judge does this.

Leslie Shear: Yes, I have too manydiscovery motions that didn't comeout the way they should have accord-ing to the law of civil procedure.

Anuj Desai: Part of it was the sensein which I thought life outside theLaw School would be a nice life-State Street, the lakes, the bike path,the Law School right on campuswith the rest of the university offorty thousand students-I wouldnever feel like I was cloistered away.At one of the schools I was think-ing about going to, the law schoolwas on a whole separate campus-surrounded by beautiful trees, butthat was it.

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Bernie Trujillo: I was impressedwhen I came out for an interview.I thought, "These people are notfull of themselves-they would beeasy to learn from."

I think the UW LawSchool is such a greatplace to pursue clinicalteaching. There's a deepintellectual tradition ofinterest in the law as itactually functions.

- Juliet Brodie

John Ohnesorge: Once I got the callfor an interview here, I learnedabout the East Asian Legal StudiesCenter. It was very attractive to mebecause it gives me the opportunityto do comparative law projecrs andalso to work with students fromAsia, which I'm inreresred in.

Gordon Smith: There are a lot ofreasons why I came here: thechance to teach first-year contracts;a great contracts group that meetsweekly to have lunch and talkabout it-I thought that would bean amazing experience, and it hasbeen-with John Kidwell,Bill Whitford, Stewart Macaulay;the technology entrepreneurshipcluster; and the intellectual envi-ronment of the Law School, asense of intellectual adventure,people open to thinking of newapproaches, and people involvedin other disciplines. When Ipresented my paper at my jobinterview here, the commentswere outstanding.

John Ohnesorge: And, I use hisbook. Gordon co-authored a casebook, Business Associations, and Ivolunteered to be the guinea pig.

Gordon Smith: Actually, it's yourstudents who are the guinea pigs.

Q. What surprised youwhen you first came here?

David Schwartz: The absence offaculty politics ... and how easy itwas to take sailing lessons.

Heinz Klug: Snow-but let's not gothere.

Greg Shaffer: The biggest surprisewas Madison and Wisconsin itself.I came here from Paris, and I hadsome concern-especially becauseI'm interested in internationalissues-concern that I'd lack theexchange of a cosmopolitan place.I remember walking up State Streetwhen I arrived for my interview.I was shocked that this is really avibrant community, beyond justthe university. A town-studentsand non-students and coffee shopsand used bookstores-then walkingonto Bascom Hill with all its elmtrees. I thought, "This is beautiful!Absolutely stunning."

Heinz Klug: The lake and thephysical beauty.

Greg Shaffer: The physical beautyand the city planning that links theuniversity to the state government.It's part of the Wisconsin Idea-tied into a social goal. I'd had noclue. It was a visceral sensation-I felt it. I didn't have to be told it.

Richard Ross: I was surprised athow much the Law School isintegrated into the university. A lotof law schools talk a good game,but when you go there, it's a differ-ent story. But here-funding comesfrom the grad school-we'retreated as a department of thegrad school, and that institutionalconnection fosters an intellectualorientation.

Pilar Ossorio: I was surprised that

there was more diversity inMadison even than I had expected.The diversity here in this school isnor just racial and ethnic. I lovethat a lot of our students aresecond-career students-they'vehad a life, and that brings a lor tothe atmosphere of the school anddiscussions in the classroom. Thisis very different from any otherlaw school I know of. Intellectuallyit has more of the feeling of a gradschool than a law school. I've beenaround a few law schools ... Here,outside professors are coming in togive talks-it's more intellectuallystimulating. We have talks by ourown faculty. I really like that.

John Ohnesorge: I was surprised atthe number of faculty memberswho have taught abroad or who areinvolved with law and developmentfrom the '60s and '70s. Everyone inthe field knows about Trubek andGalanter, but the number of peopleon the faculty doing this is extra-ordinary: Baldwin in Egypt,Whitford and Church in Africa,Stewart Macaulay in Latin America,Chuck Irish was an adviser to thefinance ministry of Zambia.

Gordon Smith: Even in the youngetfaculty, people have done some ofthat: Greg Shaffer practiced inFrance; Heinz worked in SouthAfrica.

John Ohnesorge: I don't think anyother American law faculty hasthis number of professors withreal, long-term, foreign experience-and they don't necessarily teach"foreign" subjects.

Gordon Smith: Yes, the internationalorientation of the entire university.Having grown up in Wisconsin,I think of Wisconsin as a prettyisolated place, but there is so muchopportunity to teach abroad-and

international and non-U.S. studentsand faculty.

John Ohnesorge: Access to thecourts is pretty amazing here-the connection between the LawSchool and the state courts. Forour program with the Shanghaijudges, the state judiciary was justeager to get involved; the waythings are set up here, you cantap into these resources very easily.Other law schools I'm familiarwith have almost no connectionwith the courts.

I don't think any otherAmerican law faculty hasthis number of professorswith real, long-term,foreign experience-andthey don't necessarilyteach "foreign" subjects.

- John Ohnesorge

Marsha Mansfield: I was surprisedat how much time the clinicalprofessors spend with students inguiding them through the work.The clinical experience is veryintensive; the instructors give a lorof time and energy.

Bernie Trujillo: I was surprised at thefact that I immediately starteddoing an empirical project. It wassurprising that they would even letan untenured person do that kindof work, which can take a longtime. They put their money wheretheir mouth is here. They're saying,"Here we care about empiricalwork-go do it!" And I was sur-prised at the availability of peoplelike Bill Whitford to answer myfreshman questions.

Q. What work are youdoing here that you maynot have done elsewhere?

Heinz Klug: I have been able topursue an intellectual agenda thatwould not have been encouraged asmuch elsewhere: to link law tosocial developments and change.

Greg Shaffer: How law works inpractice, rather than creating elo-quent, theoretical frameworks. I'vebeen applying the "law and society"tradition at the international level.I've been encouraged to do workthat no one else in my field is doing.

Bernie Trujillo: Once you start work-ing on empirical work, you can'tleave it. It's got to matter in a real-world way. The way I think ofimmigration law is new. I'm work-ing on the remittance market-low-skilled, undocumented workerswho send money home-whatlegal significance it has. Beforecoming here, I might have justlooked at Supreme Court cases.

David Schwartz: Empirical research.It's not so supported elsewhere.

John Ohnesorge: My work with theEast Asian Legal Studies Center.For people who work in these cen-ters or do comparative law, twothings can happen: Either they endup running the center from DayOne, which pulls you our of beinga regular core faculty member, andthat's a problem for comparativelaw people-colleagues see you asmarginal, exotic-or you don't getto have anything to do with thecenter. So this is really nice-I'vebeen able to get involved with thecenter as much as I've wanted with-out being the one who runs it.

Q. What kind of experiencehave you had with yourUW Law colleagues?

David Schwartz: People here are sothe opposite of "full of themselves."

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It's hard to imagine having a groupof colleagues so accomplished andat the same time so down-to-earth.

Richard Ross: Having a jointappointment in both the Law Schooland the history department, I seean absence of interdepartmentaljealousies. Nobody is asking,"What are you really?" Everyoneunderstands that people havemultiple spheres of interest, andthat is encouraged. People are open-minded; the hierarchy is muted.

Pilar Ossoria: There's creativity, alsointellectual rigor, very high stan-dards for scholarship. I entirelyagree that the hierarchy is verymuch muted here. I think that isalso a Wisconsin attitude towardthe world.

Gordon Smith: I think people areincredibly accessible. People arevery generous with their time andwilling to discuss everything fromvery basic questions about theirfield to really profound questionsof law. One indication of the intel-lectual energy of the place is thenumber of speakers. During thesemester there are often three aweek, and this summer there was aseries of talks by our faculty on theSupreme Court cases. The buzz-word is "collegiality"-it's morethan just "we don't fight."

John Ohnesorge: And even the mostfamous people on the faculty havetheir egos firmly under control.People who are internationallyknown-Stewart Macaulay, MarcGalanter, David Trubek-are prettydown-to-earth, and for a new facultymember, they're pretty accessible.That's part of the collegiality-itapplies to people who are at the topof their profession. I'm not sure thestudents appreciate how famoussome of these people are.

Heinz Klug: Collegiality in the senseof a genuine commitment to col-leagues. We have extraordinarilygenerous colleagues.

Greg Shaffer: Yes, I'd stress thewords "collegiality" and "generosity."When I talk with other youngfaculty at other schools, they'vebeen so surprised at the number of[senior] faculty who have read mywork and commented on many ofmy articles. As a young personfinding his way, in many lawschools you're left to yourself. Here,people want to read what you'vewritten. Their comments are verydetailed. It's invaluable, especiallywhen you're starting out.

It's hard to imagine havinga group of colleaguesso accomplished andat the same time sodown-to-earth.

- David Schwartz

Leslie Shear: What I like seems tobe the values: down-to-earth.Nobody really seems ...

Juliet Brodie: Stuck up ...

Leslie Shear: Elitist. I see the valuesof contributing to the communityor humanity as a whole. Doingimportant work for humankindreally seems to be what motivatespeople.

Q. What about thestudents?

David Schwartz: The students havequalities like the faculty: bright andcapable, but not the arrogance thatcan go with that. I appreciate howinterested they are in having inter-actions with faculty outside of

class. Inside the classroom, they'revery open to breaking out ofSocratic method into alternativemethods.

Anuj Desai: And David is the kingof alternative methods. He wasnominated for a teaching awardfrom the university as anuntenured faculty member.

Heinz Klug: Students here are partic-ularly open to interdisciplinarydiscussions and ways of thinkingabout law because of the traditionof the school.

Greg Shaffer: And I think you cansee in students something thatparallels what we see in faculty:Students are less concerned withclass rank, and much moreinterested in learning in the classenvironment.

Leslie Shear: I've been reallyimpressed with the depth of theirexperiences-all the things thatthey've done. I've looked at theseresumes-all they have donealready-they're really impressive.They're hardworking, creative, verymature for their age. I have to keepreminding myself how young theyare. They've had incredible experi-ences prior to law school.

Pilar Ossorio: They're grown-ups,and they've had experience.

Bernie Trujillo: The folks in myclasses are very committed. I learna lot from them. There are peopleI can learn from in every class.

Marsha Mansfield: Their energy,their intensity, their passion-that'swhat I see with the clinical stu-dents. They're so passionate aboutwhat they're doing. And I thinkWisconsin does a great job ofbringing a varied student body.

Q. What is some of themost exciting work beingdone by your colleagues?

David Schwartz: Thomas Mitchell'sresearch on black land loss in therural Sourh.

Greg Shaffer: We have a number ofyoung colleagues in policy fieldsthat span the domestic and theinternational: John Ohnesorgeworking on cotpotate governancein the U.S. and Asia; Anuj's workon the Internet-how does oneregulate a technology which, by itsvery nature, is impossible toregulate properly from a nationalperspective?

John Ohnesorge: Gordon's entrepre-neurship work. In comparative lawthat's a big topic: having to figureout the magic of U.S. venture capital.

Juliet Brodie: The InnocenceProject. It's a big, exciting, nationalthing that is happening, and it'sgreat to see our students be a partof it, be so connected to a majormovement in criminal justice-oneof the most exciting things a lawyercould ever do.

Leslie Shear: I think the EconomicJustice Institute, because it has avision, a real vision: trying to bringto law students an understanding ofthe bigger community, looking at anumber of ways to impact people'slives, and also teaching the struc-ture of society-how differentthings impact each other (poverty,economics, the judicial system) andhow to make changes that ulti-mately will impact individuals.That is what lawyers are supposedto do: improve people's lives.

Anuj Desai: I am impressed withhow many of the newer faculty aredoing some work following in the

"law and society" tradition. GregShaffer is doing classic "law andsociety" fLaw in Action in the inter-national trade area. Rather thantheorizing about the relationshipbetween developing and developednations, he is actually talking torepresentatives of different coun-tries about whar their goals arewhen they go into negotiations.

Bernie Trujillo: Jane Larson's work isvery exciting: informal propertytights among folks on the Texas-Mexican border-great work. Ithink Kathie Hendley's work onRussia is pretty cool, too.

Gordon Smith: And Pilar is doingsome very interesting policy work.

Their energy, their inten-sity, their passion-that'swhat I see with the clini-cal students. And I thinkWisconsin does a greatjob of bringing a variedstudent body.

- Marsha Mansfield

Q. What would you nameas the most excitingservice project goingon here?

David Schwartz: The LRAP gotlaunched this year. [LoanRepayment Assistance Program; seepages 34-35.]

Heinz Klug: The Neighborhood LawProject is very exciting-really outand active in the community.

Bernie Trujillo: The work theConsumer Law Clinic does withpayday loans.

Marsha Mansfield: Yes, Steve Meili's

work. And Community ServiceDay-that's a wonderful way to getlaw students involved in the com-munity. It serves many functions.

Pilar Ossorio: The InnocenceProject-one of those things that Ifelt like everybody in the entireLaw School could feel so veryproud of, what these students haddone. In terms of the impact that ithad in the world, it is huge. Itraised the esprit de corps. And thework the Consumer Law Clinic isdoing with the pharmaceuticalcompanies that are trying to keeptheir prices high-it's a great thingfor students to be working in thereal world.

Leslie Shear: Michele LaVigne'swork with deaf students.

Greg Shaffer: There are multipleprojects, from state to nationalto international. A lot of people'sscholarship is linked to service-dealing with social policy problemswhich are now being debatedand have a major effect onpeople's lives .•

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A Conversation with

SUSAN STEINGASSFormer judge and State Bar president takes the reins as director ofthe Law School's new Communication and Advocacy Program.

Susan R. Steingass, formerly aDane County circuit judge andpresident of the State Bar ofWisconsin, has been named direc-tor of the University of WisconsinLaw School's new Communicationand Advocacy Program. The newprogram is the OW Law School'sresponse to an in-depth survey ofrecent graduates and their employ-ers, in which the strong opinion ofboth groups was that oral and writ-ten communication skills join legalreasoning as the most importantskills to be learned by tcday's lawstudents. Steingass, a shareholder inthe firm of Habush Habush &Rottier, will continue to be ofcounsel with the firm.

As classes began this fall,Professor Steingass found time toanswer questions about the newprogram and talk about why she isexcited to be directing it.

What prompted your interestin this position at this time inyour career?Many things came together: I'vealways taught here; I love teaching;and I've always kept in contactwith the Law School. I wanted toget back to teaching and wanted tocontribute as I could to the excitingnew advocacy communicationsprogram at the Law School. As ajudge and a lawyer, as well as ateacher of law students for quite a


number of years,I've seen bothsides of legal edu-cation: the lawschool learningexperience andthe challengesthat new lawyersface in theircareers after lawschool. I knewthat I wanted tohelp move theprogram in thedirection of beinga learning-by-doing and areality-basedprogram-basedon the work thatlawyers really do.

Did you knowinstantly whenyou saw theposition description that thiswas a challenge you wanted totake on?When the position was posted,I was particularly interested in theintegrated approach to communica-tion: oral and written-pullingtogether all the parts.

What did you do to preparefor the task of reinventing theprogram?First of all I read a lot-about legalwriting and communication

programs around the country. Italked to people in the LegalResearch and Writing program,because there's a lot of experienceand wisdom in that program. AvivaKaiser, my predecessor, has animportant continuing role as aninstructor of advanced legal writ-ing. Mary Barnard Ray has beenworking here for twenty years-sheknows the national scene, whatworks. I talked with law faculty andmembers of the profession. And Ireviewed our survey of alumni and

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employers, Assessment 2000,which identifies written and oralcommunication as the mostimportant skills a lawyer needs.

Would you like to put intowords for readerswhat yourvision is for this program-whatit is going to accomplish?"To build on what we have and tomove forward to help studentslearn what they need to know."The Assessment 2000 survey toldus that the three areas that are themost important are the ability todo legal reasoning and the abilityto communicate the results of thatlegal reasoning in writing and orally.

We're trying to give studentsthe tools to successfully articulatein writing and orally the results oftheir legal reasoning-and we'redoing that-by doing it!

If you have excellent teachersand an excellent curriculum andindividual help, as we do here, youought to be able to produce excel-lent communicators.

How is the program unfolding:What changes are already inplace?There are four major areas ofchange:

First, we had in mind morereality-based writing assignments-more like those that students willface in their clerkships and theircareers. We have designed a com-pletely new curriculum to reflectthis core value.

For example, all 279 first-yearstudents had a first assignment thatwas meant to set the tone. We sentthem in teams of four to StareStreet to identify and report onskateboarding and street obstruc~tion ordinances on State Street.They had to understand the rules,then analyze what they saw in light

of those rules-a critical analyticalskill.

We asked them to be silentobservers, as if they were law clerksasked to do a report. We didencourage them not to make anycitizens' arrests!

The statutes are ambiguouslywritten, and this was to make theimportant point that law in a voiddoesn't mean much-a lot of inter-pretation is needed.

All our assignments wereredesigned, under the leadership ofLaura Dunek, to be reality-based.

Second, we also wanted tointegrate the program with sub-stantive courses. We have put inplace several changes designed toadvance this integration, and wehope to expand efforts over thenext several years.

Taking advantage of the factthat all Legal Research and Writingsections have no more than fifteenstudents, and each entering studentis assigned to one of his or hersubstantive courses in small groupsof no more than twenty, we havepaired six of the twenty-one LegalResearch and Writing sections withsubstantive-course small groups.

In those pairings, we are try-ing to pass the message that theanalytic process without the abilityto communicate that analysis orallyand in writing does not completethe circle: Each is part of a neces-sary whole. We hope to havemore pairing for the next class,with more interaction betweensubstance and communication.

Third, we worked hard onteacher training before the semes-ter began. We also turned to oneof our very best teachers, VirginiaHayes, to work with writingteachers on how to teach skillsand concepts.

Susan Steingass receivedher undergraduate degreefrom Denison University

in 1963, her M.A. in Englishliterature from NorthwesternUniversity with honors in1965, and her J.D. degreemagna cum laude from theUW Law School in 1976.After graduation from LawSchool, she served as lawclerk to Nathan S. Heffernan,chief justice of the WisconsinSupreme Court.

Steingass was anassociate and then a partner atStafford, Rosenbaum, Rieser& Hansen in Madison from1977 to 1985. She was a DaneCounty circuit judge from1985 to 1993, and was electedWisconsin Trial Judge of theYear in 1993 by the Wisconsinchapter of the American Boardof Trial Advocates.

In 1994, she joinedHabush Habush & Rottier,where she has focused herpractice on personal injuryand commercial litigation,and is now a shareholder.She remains of counsel withthe firm.

Steingass was the1998-1999 president of theState Bar of Wisconsin. Shehas been named one of theBest Lawyers in America, andis a recipient of the MarygoldMelli Achievement Award,given by the Legal Associationfor Women. In 2003 she wasnamed chair of the WisconsinSentencing Commission, andcontinues to receive numeroushonors and appointments.



Fourth, we wanted to recruit somemore lawyers from the communi-ty-lawyers who are good writersand good teachers. We now havesix new teachers as a result.

These are changes alreadyin place.

What other changes can we lookforward to?This year we are re-thinking theentire course. No new idea is outof bounds.

That doesn't mean that we aregoing to throw the baby out wirhthe bath water. We are looking atwhat's good in the program-atwhat our students need and howwe give it to them.

This winter we invited agroup of faculty members, alumni,students, practitioners, and LawSchool administrators to brain-storm about how best to teachwriting. Our course redesign willcome from these ideas, refined anddeveloped by the Legal Researchand Writing faculty.

We're looking to move rheprogram forward.

Despite the fact that you maybe known more in the legalcommunity for your work asa judge, attorney, State Barpresident, etc., you have yearsof experience in the teachingprofession, don't you?Yes, I've done a lot of teaching.Before I went to law school, I was acollege English teacher. I've taught


here at the Law School: Evidence,Civ Pro I and II, EnvironmentalLaw, Negotiation, Trial Advocacyprobably ten times. I also do a lotof national and international teach-ing. I've been on the board of theNational Institute for TrialAdvocacy for years. And I've donea lot of continuing education withthe State Bar.

What have you learned fromthese teaching experiences thatyou brought to the project ofcreating the new program?What I've learned over the years isthat teaching adults is a collabora-tive process: Adult learning comesfrom the interaction between stu-dents and teacher. With courseslike Civil Procedure you give a lotof information, but when they real-ly learn it is when they engage withrhe ideas. For me, engaged learningcomes from interaction.

One thing that people maynot know about this job is rhat Iwas hired not only to direct rheprogram, but also to teach. I taughtCivil Procedure in Fall semester,and I'm teaching Evidence andOral Communication Springsemester. Teaching across subjectareas is one way of integrating theCommunication and AdvocacyProgram into rhe substantive life ofthe Law School.

What are the major challengesfor you as you begin this work?Change is vety difficult for people-

for all of us-whether it's a positivechange or a negative change. Peoplealso get committed to doing thingsa certain way. Then there's thebudget-budget is always a chal-lenge here. We are working withvery limited means in these times.

But on the other hand, I'vefound people ready and willingto change. It's difficult, but notinsurmountable.

Did anything surprise you whenyou began this position?I had worked all summer with ateam from the Legal Research andWriting department designing thecurriculum and syllabus-I waspretty grounded in this program.I was glad to see the commitmentof the people in this program-andthey certainly have it.

I was also glad to see the entireLaw School faculty's commitmentto improving and expanding thecommunication and advocacytraining and programs.

Are there any other facets of yournew job that you would like toshare with readers?I want to stress rhe amount ofsupport I've received from the LawSchool-from Dean Davis right ondown. People have been not justwelcoming, but encouraging. Ihave confidence we're going to dogood things together.

Law SchoolReceives MajorBequest

By Dennis Chaptman,University Communications

A gift of more than $7 million tocreate an endowed deanship at theLaw School at the University ofWisconsin-Madison-a first forthe university-was provided inthe estate of Frederick W Miller,former president and publisher ofthe Capital Times.

"Fred was always a devotedfriend of the university, and thisgenerous gift will go far to ensurethat his name will always be associ-ated with excellence in the LawSchool," said Chancellor John D.Wiley. "He was always interested intopnotch academics, and his phi-lanthropy reflected that."

The Miller donation is thelargest ever received by the LawSchool, and it will endow the firstnamed deanship on the campus.The post, held by Kenneth B.Davis, Jr., will be known as theFrederick W Miller Dean of theLaw School.

Davis says the gift demon-strates that Miller, who died lastDecember at age ninety-one,placed a high value on the educa-tion he received at the Law School.Miller graduated from the schoolin 1936, went on to help set up thestate's first unemployment compen-sation program, and spent forty-oneyears as a state government attor-ney and administrative law judge.

"This gift is a reflection ofFred Miller's dedication to theschool and his wish that it continueto be a vibrant teacher of futuregenerations of attorneys," Davissaid. "We are incredibly gratefulfor his vision, his generosity andhis unbending attention toacademic achievement."

The donation will cover thecosts of the deanship and provideother support for legal education atUW-Madison.

"This gift is a reflection ofFred Miller's dedicationto the school and hiswish that it continue tobe a vibrant teacher offuture attorneys."

- Dean Kenneth B. Davis, Jr.

"This is a wonderful gift andwill permit us to make significantprogress in realizing the goals ofour strategic plan," Davis said."Fred Miller was universallyadmired. That he would chooseto recognize and support the LawSchool's mission in this way istruly moving."

Gordon and MarjorieDavenport, trustees of the Millertrust and longtime friends of thenewspaper executive, say Milleralways held the university inhigh regard.

"He frequently talked aboutthe university and how proud hewas of it," Gordon Davenport said."His aim in this gift was to help tomake the Law School pre-eminentin the nation. It's his pride in the

ALUMNI GIVINGLaw School that is behind this."

Miller was an enthusiasticsupporter of the university andtook a leading role with both theWilliam T. Evjue Charitable Trustand the Evjue Foundation, Inc.,which has been a substantial con-tributor to UW-Madison over theyears. Evjue was the founder of theCapital Times.

Wiley notes that Miller had aparticular interest in the WisconsinIdea-the notion that the bound-aries of the university are theboundaries of the state-and wasinstrumental in creating theWilliam T. Evjue Chair for theWisconsin Idea, now held bychemist Bassam Shakhashiri.

The Evjue Foundation gaveforty-five gifts to the university inthe last year, ranging from a $1million pledge for renovation ofthe communications center atCamp Randall Stadium, to a giftto the African Studies Program tosupport South African teachertraining, to a Capital Timesscholarship.

Miller's ties to the universitywere long-standing. He graduatedin 1934 with a political sciencedegree before going on to LawSchool. As a freshman, he partici-pated in the first basketball gameever played at the UW FieldHouse, and lettered in the sport in1931, 1932, and 1933. In his firstyear as a law student, he alsocoached the freshman team.

Andrew "Sandy" Wilcox,president of the UW Foundation,said Miller's philanthropy left aprofound mark on the universitycommunity and Madison at large.

"This latest gift guaranteesthat Fred's influence will continueto be felt at UW-Madison, as it isthroughout our community," saidWilcox. "His support of the LawSchool is a lasting tribute to hiscommitment to higher education."



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Profile in Giving:Bill Schwenn '41Finds Special WayTo Give Back

Willard (Bill) Schwenn '41has been living in the Portland,Oregon, area for more than fiftyyears, bur he has never forgottenthe UW Law School and hisWisconsin roots. Over the years, hehas made many trips back toMadison and his hometown ofMiddleton, and he has given gener-ously to the university that grantedboth his undergraduate degree andhis law degree.

"I am very cognizant of thefact that if it hadn't been for theUniversity of Wisconsin, I neverwould have had an education. Thisis our way of giving back."

"Our" refers to Schwenn'swife, Martha, another firm believerin stepping forward with financialcontributions to help the university-and especially in difficulteconomic times. Bill and his brotherSterling' 48 are longtime contribu-tors to the Law School Fund, andBill and Martha have endowed afund for need-based scholarshipsto cover tuition and fees, housing,


books, and other academicallyrelated supplies.

When Bill received his lawdegree in 1941, his first job (withEmployers Mutual of Wausau)took him to St. Louis for abouteighteen months, during whichtime he met Martha, a graduate ofWashington University in St.Louis. Bill rhen accepted a positionwith the company's branch inPortland, Oregon, and later, afterpassing the Oregon Bar exam, hewent into privare practice in nearbyHillsboro. Fifty-two years later, heretired as senior partner in Schwenn,Bradley, Batchelor & Bailey.

Bill and Martha have madetheir home in the Portland areaever since they married in 1943.

Now, Bill says, he is "verymuch enjoying retirement. I'mplaying golE" He volunteers infor-mation about his age: "Whenpeople ask me how old I am, I say,'Do you know the number of keyson a piano? That's how old I am-eighty-eight.' " Actually, as thisissue of Gargoyle is going to press,he has already turned eighty-nine.''I'll have to think of somethingelse to tell people," he notes.

Nothing has interfered, how-ever, with Bill's perfect record ofattending Rose Bowls when theUW was playing. An avid sportsfan, he began attending the UW'sRose Bowl appearances in 1953,and forty years later, in the 1990s,he was rhere in person once again.

Bill now has his sighrs set onthe year 2005, when Oregon Statewill play at Wisconsin, and hehopes to attend. "Everything is onhold until Oregon plays Wisconsinin 2005," he says.

Bill Schwenn enjoys sharinghis memories from those collegeyears of more than sixty years ago,bur he is also looking toward thefuture. An example of his forward-looking contribution to the Law

School and irs graduates is hisrecent decision to allocate aportion of rhe Schwenn Fund tothe Law School's Loan RepaymentAssistance Program (LRAP).

"Two years ago, Ken Daviscame to me with the idea of usingmoney from the fund to help sup-port the LRAP Ken had signed onvery early to that approach," Billrecalls. Thus, a big boost from theSchwenn Fund, along with generousindividual contributions fromstudents and faculty members, haslaunched the UW's LRAp, whichawarded its first six grants in 2003.(See rhe opposite page to learnmore about students whose LRAPgrants have helped them to pursuework in public interesr law.)

An LRAP grant provides assis-rance in paying back approximatelysix months' worth of their LawSchool debr to graduares who acceptjobs in the sphere of public interestlaw. LRAPs are a major help rostudents who might not otherwisehave been in a financial position toaccept public interest work.

The Law School plans toaward the LRAP grants on anannual basis as it works ro establisha full-scale LRAp, which would payback more debt for longer periodsthan the current grant program.By instituting the grant programand working toward an LRAp,the UW Law School has joinedapproximarely fifty other lawschools with similar programs.

"We've had some letters ofthanks," Bill comments. Indeed,students have thanked the Schwennseloquently for giving them achance to pursue long-held dreamsof working in public interest law.(See page 35, at right')

Altogether, for Bill Schwenn,his involvement wirh the UW LawSchool is a winning combinarion:pride in the past, and a hand inbuilding the future.

Dear Mr. Schwenn ...

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LRAP grant recipientsthank the man whohelped make it happen

Excerpts from letters to WillardSchwenn '41, the principaldonor offunds for th; LoanRepayment Assistance Program,from the first six recipients ofLRAP grants:

Dear Mr. Schwenn,I would like to thank you for

helping me to pursue my goal ofworking in public interest law,a goal which would have beenmuch more difficult to achievewithout your generosity. I workfor the Illinois Migrant LegalAssistance Project in Chicago ....We have been very successful inrepresenting our clients with alltypes of claims, including employ-ment disputes, housing violations,discrimination, and health issues.

Michael Keberlein GutierrezIllinois Migrant Legal Assistance

Project

Dear Mr. Schwenn,I am deeply committed to

public interest law, and yet I havebeen faced with some toughchoices. It is very hard to contin-ue to do this work with a loomingeducational debt, while positionsat law firms offer the possibilityof paying off debts and greaterfinancial security. The LoanRepayment Assistance Programallows persons to work in a capac-ity that is greatly needed in oursociety so that qualified peoplewith the desire to do public interestcan do this work.

Thank you very, very much.Farrah Wilder

Equal Rights Advocates

Dear Mr. Schwenn,Thank you so much for the

generous grant from the WillardC. and Martha P. SchwennScholarship Fund. Your kindnessis heartwarming, and has assistedin my pursuit of a legal aid careerin Appalachian Ohio .... Ouroffice, in my placement town ofPortsmouth, represents Ohio'sthree poorest counties ....

Jessica L. LaneSoutheastern Ohio Legal Services

Dear Mr. Schwenn,I am the son of deaf parents.

Growing up, I had to help myparents negotiate the hearingworld. There were limits to myabilities. When my parents neededlegal advice or assistance, therewere no attorneys who couldeffectively communicate withthem or understand their uniquesituation. Even as a child, I couldsee that my parents were deniedeffective access to the legal world.

I elected to enter the UWLaw School to become an attor-ney who could serve the differentlyabled segment of our population.I currently serve as a law clerk forthe Madison Equal OpportunitiesCommission .... I know thisexperience is preparing me for acareer in serving the interests ofWisconsinites who would other-wise have limited legal alternatives.

Terry KentMadison Equal Opportunities

Commission

Dear Mr. Schwenn,My experience in public

interest law has been extremelyrewarding. Most of our clientsrequire protection from domesticviolence, decent housing

accommodations from theirlandlords, and protection frombusinesses that violate consumer-rights statutes. Other cases thatI have worked on were relatedto clients who were mistreated innursing homes, clients who wereharassed by water and gas compa-nies, and by public schools denyingchildren special-education facilities.

As a father of two younggirls, it is quite difficult for me towork in public interest-area lawwithout any assistance to paymonthly Law School loan debts.My family and I are deeply gratefulfor your generosity.

Adnan A. LatifSoutheastern Ohio Legal Services

Dear Mr. Schwenn,Thank you for your support

of the LRAP program and of mywork. It has made a big differencein my career planning this year. Ihave pursued public interest workthe entire time I was in LawSchool, almost all of which wasunpaid, leading to a greater LawSchool debt than had I worked ata private firm during my sum-mers. By assisting with my loanrepayment, the LRAP grant notonly helps me pursue my currentwork, but also goes to support thepublic interest path that I havetaken until now. It is very affirm-ing to have the financial andsymbolic support of this grant.

Emilia SiciliaDemocracy Program

Brennan Center for JusticeNew York University Law School



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Donor Profile:O.K. Johnson '55

By his own admission, Orland K.Johnson, Jr.-"O.K." to every-one-did not apply himself fullyto his own education.

Nevertheless, Johnson gradu-ated from Lawrence Universityand in 1952 arrived in Madisonto begin Law School. "1 wentthrough orientation and almostimmediately made up my mindthat there was a lot more toschool than going to class," hesaid. While a law student,Johnson tended bar, drove a cab,worked for a c.P.A., cateredprivate parties, and waited ontables in a sorority.

Johnson's father was aMilwaukee banker, and he helpedO.K. get a summer clerkship witha prominent Milwaukee law firm.But practicing law was not thedirection Johnson would choose.His orientation became clear ashe took Law School courses incommercial law, banking,accounting, and negotiableinstruments. O.K. remembers afaculty member in one of these

Ann Flynn '93Is NamedDirector ofDevelopment

Ann J. Flynn,a 1993 graduateof the UWLawSchool, has beennamed to theposition ofdirector ofdevelopment.Flynn has


courses commenting, "Johnson,1 know you know this stuff cold,and 1 don't call on you becausethe others in the class need theexperience!"

Johnson began his professionalcareer at a bank in Racine. Fromthat first day until he retired asan executive officer of a largeMilwaukee bank in 1995,Johnson assumed progressivelymore important roles in bothbanks and banking organizations."I'm sorry 1 didn't make more outof what the Law School offered.But it did give me the backgroundfor banking and an opportunityto work with many fine lawyers,"he says. "Had 1 not had a general-ized Law School background, 1would not have had ... thesuccess 1 have enjoyed!"

After retiring, Johnson beganpondering the role both his LawSchool and his undergraduateinstitution had played in his life.Perhaps he could help somestudents like himself to focusmore on their educational oppor-tunities if he could fund a scholar-ship at each institution. "As I'vebecome older and a little bit wiser,1 recognize people should 'paytheir dues' when they can. Itseemed a useful gesture 1 could

conducted a solo practice inMadison for the last eleven years,and has worked in the field offund-raising for a local nonprofitorganization.

"Ann was selected through anintensive search after our previousdevelopment director, Ken Krueger,accepted a new position within theUW Foundation," Dean Ken Davistold the Law School community inannouncing Flynn's appointment."Ann's experience as an attorney inMadison, her knowledge of theLaw School and the State Bar ofWisconsin, and her breadth of

make for generations yet to come,saying thank you for what theLaw School did for me," he says.

Johnson made an initial giftseveral years ago to create theO.K. Johnson Scholarship at theUW Foundation and another atLawrence. He is now adding tohis UW Law School scholarship.After his death, the earnings fromvery substantial assets, professionallyadministered through a charitablelead trust, will make even morescholarship assistance available tolaw students. Several students havealready benefitted ftom Johnson'slargesse, and generations to comewill find their financial burden alittle lighter because of him.

interests augur well for her successin engaging an increasing numberof alumni to stay connected withthe Law School."

Flynn comments, "I'm lookingforward to getting to know manymore of my fellow alumni, and 1would be pleased to work with any-one who may have thought aboutgiving a gift to the Law School butwants to learn more about the dif-ferent options available for giving."

Ann Flynn can be reachedat (608) 263-2202 or bye-mail [email protected].


How European Law Affects U.S.Business Practice: The Case ofData Privacy Regulation

By Gregory ShafferAssociate ProfessorUniversity o/Wisconsin Law School

Typically, we Americansthink of U.S. regulation asextraterritorial or unilateral.

We do not think of other partiesexercising influence within theUnited States. In fact, however,much of my work concerns theimpact of the policy of theEuropean Union (EU) on theUnited States, in matters rangingfrom the regulation of pharmaceu-tical production, medical devices,and telecommunications equipment,to the standards for commercialuse of data about us.' In the pagesthat follow, I will focus on theissue of data privacy protection.

In a globalizing world,economic regulation is bound tohave effects across borders. TheU.S.-EU dispute over data privacyregulation and their efforts atcooperation demonstrate theinherent interrelation betweensocial regulation and open tradepolicies where regulation (or thelack thereof) has external effects.

Alleged U.S. underregulationof data privacy protection canjeopardize the privacy interests ofEuropeans. Alleged EU overregula-tion can limit the commercialoperations of U.S. enterprises. Inan interdependent, transatlanticeconomy, U.S. and EU authoritiesinevitably must attempt to managethe ensuing conflicts and mesh,where possible, their divergentregulatory systems.

Data privacy protection is atransatlantic issue because of thegrowing interdependence of theU.S. and European economies and

the rising importance of informa-tion technology. Companiesdepend on information flows notonly with third-party suppliers,customers, consultants, marketers,and other service providers, but alsointernally, within their complexnetworks of transnational affiliates,joint ventures, and partnerships.

The president of theEuropean Parliamenteven called the SafeHarbor approach a"template for the future,"serving as a model forregulation in otherpolicy areas.

On October 24, 1998,Directive 95/46/EC on theProtection of Individuals withRegard to the Processing ofPersonal Data and the FreeMovement of Such Data becameeffective. The EU directive isnoteworthy for its broad scope ofcoverage; its standards for individualconsent, use, transfer, and access toinformation; and its enforcementmechanisms.

Article 25 of the directiveprovides that EU member statesshall prohibit all data transfers to athird country if the EuropeanCommission finds that the countrydoes not ensure "an adequate levelof protection" of data privacy.

Since it appeared that theUnited States might not providefor "adequate" data privacy protec-tion under the directive's criteria,U.S. and EU authorities engagedin intensive negotiations to avoida ban on data flows to the UnitedStates, culminating in their agree-ment on "Safe Harbor Principles."

. FOCUSON THE FACULTY

Professor Gregory Shaffer teaches courses ininternational trade law, international law, internationalbusiness transactions, public corporations, andEuropean Union law. He received his B.A. fromDartmouth College and his J.D. from Stanford LawSchool. Prior to joining the UW Law faculty in 1996,he practiced law in Paris for more than seven years.

Shaffer's publications include two books and morethan thirty articles and book chapters on internationaltrade law, global governance, and globalization'simpact on domestic regulation. His work applies asocio-Iegal approach to such topics as public-privatenetworks in international trade litigation; comparativeinstitutional approaches to handling trade-socialpolicy conflicts; and the regulation of data privacyand genetically modified foods.

Shaffer has received grants from both the NationalScience Foundation and the International Centreon Trade and Sustainable Development, based inGeneva, to study WTO dispute settlement anddeveloping countries. In February 2004 he wasnamed a UW-Madison Vilas Associate in recognitionof scholarly achievement.



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MILESTONESAWARDS & HONORSRichard Bilder, Foley & Lardner emeritus professorof law, was honored at the annual WisconsinInternational Law Journal Symposium, Speaking Law toPower: International Law and Foreign Policy, in March.The conference was dedicated to Bilder, who hastaught international law at the Law School since 1965.

Nina Emerson, director of the Resource Center onImpaired Driving, was profiled in Wisconsin TrafficSafety Reporter as a Highway Safety Partner, helpingto improve traffic safety in Wisconsin. The Center,which celebrated its eleventh anniversary inSeptember, provides a wide range of alcohol-relateddata and legal information on impaired-driving issuesto judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, law enforce-ment officers, educators, legislators, and citizens.

Keith Findley and John Pray were jointly namedthe ACLU Wisconsin Civil Libertarian of the Year fortheir work in directing the Wisconsin InnocenceProject. Findley and Pray were also selected by theWisconsin Law Journal as Leaders in the Law asthis Gargoyle was in preparation.

Michele LaVigne has been selected to receive theGordon Sinykin Award for excellence in law-relatededucation from the Wisconsin Bar Foundation forfounding and coaching the mock-trial project at theWisconsin School for the Deaf.

Gordon Smith's article "Toward a New Theory ofthe Shareholder Role: 'Sacred Space' in CorporateTransactions, '80 Texas L. Rev. 261 (2001) (withRobert B. Thompson), was selected as one of theTop 10 Corporate and Securities Law Articles of2002 in a poll of law teachers conducted by theCorporate Practice Commentator.

Louise Trubek was honored in September forthirty years of service to the Center for PublicRepresentation and the people of Wisconsin. Trubekalso won an award from the Wisconsin Public Healthand Health Policy Institute recognizing excellence ina peer-reviewed publication for her article"Achieving Equality: Healthcare Governance inTransition," co-authored with Maya Das, 29American Journal of Law and Medicine 395 (2003).


The u.s. Department ofCommerce issued its first draft ofSafe Harbor Principles inNovember 1998, within a monthof the directive becoming effective.

In July 2000, the UnitedStates Department of Commerceand European Commissionformalized a set of Safe HarborPrinciples (the Principles) on dataprivacy protection, under whichU.S.-based firms may certifythemselves in order to avoidEuropean restrictions on datatransfers to the United States.

The Principles constitute aunique development in the gover-nance of U.S.-EU economic rela-tions. To some, they represent theEU's exercise of coercive marketpower in an extraterritorial fashionin an attempt to leverage up privacystandards within the United States.To others, they represent a capitu-lation by EU trade bureaucrats toU.S. trading concerns through aweak agreement filled with loop-holes. To others, including thisauthor, they represent a compromisethrough new institutional develop-ment pursuant to which freetransatlantic information flowsmay be preserved, while satisfyinglegitimate EU concerns about theuse of personal information con-cerning European residentsin a technology-intensive, interde-pendent globalizing economy.

The Principles go beyondcurrent regulatory requirements inthe United States and thereby con-stitute a regulatory floor withwhich trading firms must complyif they wish to receive data fromEurope without threat of challenge.This harmonization, however, isdesigned to affect only tradingfirms, and otherwise to createno legal obligations within theUnited States.

The United States and EUthereby may claim that they for-mally retain autonomy to enact

whatever privacy legislation theydeem appropriate. However, anyfirm that engages in cross-borderexchange is subject to pressure toabide by the Principles. In this way,Europe's regulatory approach canhave spillover effects within theUnited States.

Companies join the SafeHarbor program by annuallycertifying to the U.S. Departmentof Commerce that they willcomply with the Principles. TheDepartment of Commerce thenplaces the company's name on itsWeb site list of certifying firms.

The firms' primary benefitfrom certifying is that EU memberstates may not challenge them undermember state law or otherwise con-dition any data transfers to them.

Moreover, U.S. law applies tothe Principles' interpretation, andU.S. courts and administrativebodies hear all claims (althoughEuropean courts and administrativebodies may still challenge theonline collection of informationfrom European residents by U.S.-based firms).

Self-regulatory organizations,backed by the U.S. Federal TradeCommission, offer the primarymeans for the Principles' enforce-ment. If a company adopts thePrinciples and fails to comply withthem, it subjects itself to challengeby the FTC for "using unfair ordeceptive acts or practices in oraffecting commerce" under U.S.consumer protection law.

In a letter to the Commissiondated July 14, 2000, the FTCcommitted itself to "give priority toreferrals of non-compliance withself-regulatory guidelines ... [and]Safe Harbor Principles" respectivelyreferred to it from certifying organ-izations and EU member stateauthorities. In this backhandedway, the directive informally shapesU.S. data privacy requirements,potentially becoming a baseline

standard. Yet, it does so in a rela-tively flexible manner that respectsU.S. legal sovereignty and use ofprivate oversight bodies.

The Safe Harbor Principlesshould not be viewed in isolation,since the directive provides otherways to comply with it-in particu-lar through obtaining "unambiguous"consent from the "data subject" inEurope (art. 7) and the signatureof a "model contract" with dataprivacy authorities in memberstates (art. 26).

Firms also can sign ad hoccontracts with individual memberstate data privacy authorities, orsign contracts with affiliates whentransferring personal information,such as information contained inpersonnel files. Whether or notthey certify to the Safe HarborPrinciples, U.S. companies engagedin transatlantic business operate inthe shadow of the directive's poten-tial enforcement.

Data privacy regulation inEurope has informed not only thetenor and context of debates in theUnited States; it has shaped interestgroups' appreciation of theiroptions. Under the directive, U.S.businesses face potential litigationbefore European courts and admin-istrative bodies unless they adhereto the Safe Harbor Principles.

Playing off the U.S.-EUregulatory conflict and its mediacoverage, privacy advocates haveincreased pressure on U.S. federaland state politicians, regulatoryauthorities, and businesses. Eventhough privacy advocates have criti-cized the Safe Harbor Principles,privacy advocates will use them aspart of their larger strategies.

For example, in August 2002,Microsoft entered into a consentdecree with the Federal TradeCommission, resulting in Microsoft'sagreement "to be monitored fortwenty years" by the Commission,under the threat of severe civil

penalties. The government chargedMicrosoft with not abiding by itsprivacy policies for users of its.NET Passport system. These privacypolicies, in turn, were shaped byMicrosoft's agreement to adhere tothe Safe Harbor Principles. Thecontext in which U.S. domesticdebates over data privacy protec-tion take place has been altered.

The directive, in particular,has increased the demand forprivacy services within the UnitedStates. The Center for Social andLegal Research, a "privacy thinktank" based in Hackensack, NewJersey, works with multinationalcompanies in drafting codes ofconduct incorporating the direc-tive's requirements. The BetterBusiness Bureau OnLine created aprivacy seal program that incorpo-rates the Safe Harbor Principles.The Electronic Frontier Foundation,a San Francisco-based publicinterest organization, has associatedwith information technologycompanies to launch a programnamed TRUSTe to rate the privacyprotection of Internet sites, whichprogram is certified under SafeHarbor.

Legislation, in this case foreignlegislation, has helped raise thestandards to be certified and spurredmore companies to use seal programswith oversight and sanctioningmechanisms.

The directive also has spurredthe creation of a new corporateposition: the chief data privacyofficer in companies' humanresources divisions. These companyemployees attend conferences onthe directive and U.S. privacylegislation, write memoranda onprivacy issues that they distributewithin firms, and generally increasefirm awareness of privacy issues.

Finally, outside law firmsprovide advice to firms regardingthe directive and the Safe HarborPrinciples, again promoting


MILESTONESPUBLICATIONSSelected list of recent publications by the UW Lawfaculty, representative of the faculty's breadth ofinterests.

Betsy Abramson, "Ethical Considerations inPotential Elder Abuse Cases," NAELA Quarterly,The Journal of the National Academy of Elder Law

Attorneys, Fall 2003.

R. Alta Charo, "Research Uses of Human BiologicalMaterials," with David Lazer (ed.), DNA and theCriminal Justice System (Oxford U. Press, 2004).

Michele LaVigne, "An Interpreter Isn't Enough:Deafness, Language, and Due Process," with McCayVernon, 2003 Wis. L. Rev. 843.

John Ohnesorge, "China's Economic Transition andthe New Legal Origins Literature," 14(4) ChinaEconomic Review 285 (2003).

Gregory Shaffer, Defending Interests: Public-PrivatePartnerships in WTO Litigation (Brookings InstitutionPress, 2003).

Gerald Thain, "Consumer Law," Chapter 25 inThe Oxford Handbook of Legal Essays, ed. Cane &Tushnet, (Oxford U. Press, 2003).

June Weisberger, Public Sector Employment: Casesand Materials (West 2004), co-authored with JosephGrodin and Martin Malin. The book is part of a seriesproduced by scholars of the Labor Law Group, whodonate all royalties for educational undertakings.Law School professor James Jones has played aprominent role in the Labor Law Group.

Jane Schacter, "Form, Function and Feminist LawJournals," Columbia Journal of Gender and Law,Vol. 13, NO.1 (2004).

David Schwartz, "Understanding Remedy-StrippingArbitration Clauses: Validity, Arbitrability, andPreclusion Principles, 38 U.S.F.L. Rev. 49 (2003).

Michael Scott, The Benefits and Consequences ofPolice Crackdowns (U.S. Department of Justice, 2003).




adaptation of US. businesspractice. This conjunction oflawyer, consultant, and "privacyofficer" advice, rendered in thecontext of the Safe HarborPrinciples, shapes business practiceregardless of changes in U.S. law.

European officials haveindicated that they are willing toentertain the adaptation to theEuropean context of less-centralizedUS. regulatory mechanisms fordata protection. The president ofthe European Parliament evencalled the Safe Harbor approach a"template for the future," servingas a model for regulation in otherpolicy areas.

In a world of increasedeconomic interdependence, theSafe Harbor Principles point tothe importance of regulatorycoordination across borders involvingpublic and private actors. From apractical standpoint, the separategoals of protecting individual privacyon the one hand, while ensuringtrade liberalization on the other,are inseparable.

The Safe Harbor Principlesare an example of an instrumentfor reconciling these regulatoryconcerns with the goals of liberal-ized trade. They represent a formof compromise that recognizesdifferent institutional approachesand social values, yet nonethelesssets baseline rules where domesticvalues are affected by trade.

To make them work, however,will require sustained, cross-bordercooperation. New institutionaldevelopment requires creativeproblem-solving and political will.These new experiments in gover-nance are a much preferred wayto proceed than through litigationbefore a supranational court, suchas that of the World TradeOrganization.

Overall, transatlantic institu-tional adaptation has been slow(and often creeping), but where it


has occurred, the United States hasmade most of the changes.Although Europe certainly haslearned and borrowed from U.S.experiences with regulation, as inthe fields of competition, consumer,and environmental law, morerecent transatlantic regulatorychange has tended to adoptimportant aspects of an EU model.

These new experimentsin governance are amuch preferred way toproceed than throughlitigation before a supra-national court, such asthat of the World TradeOrganization.

Unlike their US. counter-parts, EU regulatory authoritieshave operated for over a decadeunder a dual mission of ensuringpublic safety on the one hand, andensuring free movement of goodswithin the EU's single market onthe other. They consequently aremore experienced in managing thecoordination of distinct nationalregulatory systems than their US.counterparts. The EU experiencehas offered workable models to beconsidered, and possibly adapted,for the transatlantic context.

Yet, regardless of one's views ofthe EU model's appropriateness,the EU exercises significant marketleverage in determining transatlanticstandards and regulatory structureson account of the size of its singlemarket. The EU has the largestmarket in the world. Following theED's expansion in 2004 from fifteento twenty-five member states, theED's population will be greaterthan the combined populations ofthe United States, Canada, Japan,Australia, and New Zealand. Theshift of European regulation to theEU level has strengthened the EU'sability to represent the interests ofEuropean constituents vis-a-vis the

United States. In pooling theirsovereignty, EU member states nowspeak with a more powerful voicetransatlantically.

The timing of the UnitedStates' reaction to the threat ofbans on data transfers from Europedemonstrates this. When the threatof bans on data transfers moved tothe EU level, the United Statestook the threat more seriously. Asthe EU enters into data privacyprotection arrangements with otherOECD countries, such as Canada,Japan, Australia, New Zealand, andSwitzerland, and as these countriesadapt their systems to interact withthe EU model, the pressure on theUnited States to adapt its own reg-ulatory structures should increase.Consciously or unconsciously, theEU is steadily exporting its systemglobally. The 2000 Safe HarborPrinciples so attest. •

J This analysis is expanded in theauthor's edited volume TransatlanticGovernance in the GlobalEconomy (Rowman & Littlefield,2001) and his articles"Globalization and SocialProtection: The Impact of EU andInternational Rules in the Ratchetingup of us. Privacy Standards," 25Yale J. Inr'l. L. 1 (2000), and"Reconciling Trade and RegulatoryGoals: The Prospects and Limits ofNew Approaches to TransatlanticGovernance through MutualRecognition and Safe HarborAgreements," 9 Columbia Journal ofEuropean Law 29 (2002).

Zig: A TributeExcerpted from the LawSchool's official tribute tothe late Professor Zig Zile,written by Gordon B.Baldwin, Evjue-Bascomemeritus professor of law.

'\VThen a colleagueW with the character,

vigor, and value ofZigurds Zile dies, it leavesour school more barrenand less interesting. Nomember of our faculty pos-sessed a broader experienceand background for lawteaching and research. Histeaching and his researchcovered a wide range-torrs, civil procedure, landuse planning, Soviet legalstudies, comparative andinternational law.

Foley and Lardner-Bascom EmeritusProfessor of LawZigurds L. Zile died on November26, 2002, after a short but acutebout with cancer. He had agreed toreturn to teaching a first-year lawcourse rhree months earlier to fillan unexpected vacancy and hadnearly completed that assignmentwhen felled.

Zig was born in Riga, Larvia,in 1927. His family suffered undera year of Soviet occupation andthree years of dominarion byGermany. During his unusualschooling in Larvia and Germany,he achieved fluency in Larvian,German, Russian, and French.(Later in his career he gainedknowledge of Spanish and someFinnish.) He spoke and wrotecultivated and direct English. Fornearly two years, the InternationalRefugee Organization employedhim as a translator before heentered the American army in1950. He achieved the rank of

Zigurds L. Zile

sergeant and became a naturalizedU.S. citizen in 1953. His familymoved to Milwaukee, and Zigsupported himself as a sheet metalworker and carpenter. TheUniversity of Wisconsin-Madisonawarded him a B.A. in economicswith Phi Beta Kappa honors in1955, and his law degree in 1958.He served on and published in theWisconsin Law Review. An LL.M.from Wisconsin followed in 1959,and a fellowship at Harvard LawSchool culminated a few years laterin their award of an S.].D.

The law faculty markedZigurds as a potential teacher earlyin his studies, and he was appoint-ed an assistant professor of law in1961 after completing his residencyat Harvard. Already he had publishedfour highly regarded law reviewarticles on land planning inWisconsin and France. He was

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IN MEMORIAMawarded tenure early in1964, and elevated toprofessor in 1966. Hetook emeritus status in1990, but continued toteach half time for severalmore years.

The Law Schoolappointed Zigurds withthe expectation that hewould devote himself tothe comparative lawarena, with specialemphasis on the Sovietlegal system. Zigurds didthis, and more. Hebecame highly successfulas a teacher and an experton the law of torts andproduct liability.Doubtlesshis popularity in teachinga basic, first-year tortsclass stimulated manystudents to undertakecomparative law studieswith him thereafter. TheStudent Bar Association

awarded him the honor of Teacherof the Year in 1977. His mentor-ship also spawned teachers. Severalformer students became accom-plished scholars of Soviet andRussian law.

An extensive research contracton Soviet Law from the UnitedStates Arms Control Agency(which produced a book), and aFulbright professorship in Finlandin 1977 confirm Zigurds's broadinterests and extraordinary compe-tence. He returned for an additionalappointment in Finland in 1982,where he examined materials onLarvia unavailable to him in Larviaitself. His skills and knowledge ofthat civil law system brought him aFord Foundation-sponsored programto improve legal education at thePontifical Catholic University ofPeru. There he encapsulated hisbasic disposition "to rejoice withcaution and despair with restraint."



IN MEMORIAM

Zig: A RemembranceFrom remarks delivered at a memorialgathering for Professor Zigurds Zileon December 1,2002.

Robert L. RabinProftssor of Law

Stanford University'VJhen I arrived at theW University of Wisconsin Law

School in early September 1966, justhired as a novice torts teacher, myinitial stroke of good fortune wastotally unexpected in character-the location of my office.Next doorwas the pre-eminent legal historianWillard Hurst, whose sheer presencewas a source of great inspiration toa young man in his mid-twenties,embarking on an academic career.And immediately across the corri-dor-indeed, when our office doorswere open we looked directly ateach other-was a fortyish, ratherdecorous-looking scholar of Sovietlaw (and more importantly for me,a torts teacher as well), whose life isbeing remembered today, ZigurdsZile. Willard would playa mentor'srole at that early stage in my career.Zig would become a colleague anda friend ("buddies," as he wouldsay in later years) for life.

I cannot remember preciselyhow long it was before I beganbringing my sandwich to his officeat noon, and turning what com-menced as an occasional sharedlunch hour into a daily routine.But before long, we were morethan colleagues hashing out tortsissues. Our lunchtime conversationsranged over the troubles on campus(it was, one must recall, the late'60s), our home lives, and the worldat large: the tragic, the mundane,and the absurd, at a level of easyintimacy that would become thehallmark of our relationship.

I want to emphasize theabsurd, because Zig had a marvelouseye for the preposterous pretensionsof self-important types from everywalk of life,whether in Washington


or closer to home. He followed thenews avidly and was a keen observerof the social scene. But always therewas a sense of distance. He remainedgrounded in a set of core values-finding a center in repose and reflec-tion far from the crosscurrents ofeveryday life, perhaps best exempli-fied by his love for the untrammeledexpanses of northern Wisconsin.

Zig in Latin AmericaJoseph R. Thome

Emeritus Professor of Law

Since I think I am the only personon this faculty who saw Zig in

Latin America, perhaps a few wordsare in order.

In 1968, our Law School wasselected to work with youngprofessors from the Law Schoolof Catholic University in Peru.Its very dynamic dean, JorgeAvendano, decided that instead ofhaving American professors cometo Latin America, as was the norm,he would send young professors toWisconsin for about a year to learna version of the Socratic or case-study teaching methods. Zig, perhapsbecause he was quite familiar withthe civil law system prevalent inboth Europe and Latin America,was selected as our faculty personresponsible for this program.

At one point, Zig traveled toboth Peru and Chile with Avendano,to study the law and developmentprograms there. I became their hostfor their week or so in Chile. Thatweek was a very valuable academicexperience. But much moreinteresting for me was to witnessthe incredibly close relationshipthat developed between Zig andJorge. On the surface, you couldn'tthink of two more differentpersonalities. Jorge was very urbane,a sophisticated bon vivant, butbrilliant, upper-class Peruvian. Zigwas, well ... Zig: down-to-earth,frank to a fault, and not very toler-ant of pretentious people.

I always thought that thisbonding was one of the reasons forthe success of our program withCatolica of Peru. Many youngprofessors came over for severalyears, Zig worked them hard, butthey learned and loved the experienceand actually applied what theylearned to their classroom teachingand research back in Peru. To thisday they are known in Peru as the"Wisconsin boys," a term whichthose who came carry proudly.

Zig never went back toLatin America until 1998, whenCatolica of Peru celebrated thethirtieth anniversary of theCatolica-Wisconsin program, andDean Zolezzi, himself a Wisconsinboy, specially invited Zig to cometo Peru for the event. I think Zigenjoyed it to the fullest, and Iknow the "Wisconsin boys" weredelighted to have him back.

Zig as a RefugeeLawrence M. Friedman

Professor of LawStanford University

Ihave lots of memories of Zig,and all of them are pleasant. Zig

was somebody who went through alot when he was young. He was,literally, a "Dl;" or displaced person,after the Second World War. Hewas one of those refugees whoended up, as so often happens,really enriching the United States.

Zig was a wonderful person-and he had a great, somewhatmordant sense of humor. Thathumor was directed against any-thing that was stuffy, arrogant, orself-important. Zig tried to teachme Russian (I've since forgottenalmost all of it), and we actuallywrote an article together. TheRussians had stolen his countryand driven him from his home; hetook his revenge by becoming anexpert on Russian law, which hedissected mercilessly and accurately.I remember him very, very fondly.

Spencer L. KimballDean of the UW Law School

1968-1972

Spencer Le Van Kimball, legalscholar, insurance lawyer, LawSchool dean, and professor, diedon October 26, 2003, at the ageof eighty-five. Kimball was deanof the University of WisconsinLaw School from 1968 to 1972,

and also received his S.].D. degreefrom Wisconsin.

Kimball, born in Thatcher,Arizona, in 1918, made notablecontributions to the field of lawduring his lifetime and was recog-nized both nationally and interna-tionally for his work. He wasdirector of the Wisconsin StatutesRevision Project, and his workremains a model for insurancecodes to this day. Kimball wasone of the co-founders of AIDA,an international insurance lawassociation. He was also the authorof many works on insurance lawand regulation.

In addition to his work atWisconsin, he served as dean ofthe University of Utah Law

IN MEMORIAM

School, law professor at theUniversity of Michigan andUniversity of Chicago, and execu-tive director of the American BarFoundation in Chicago.

Kimball's wife of fifty-oneyears, Kathryn Murphy Kimball,died in 1990. They had six children,in addition to sixteen grandchil-dren and six great-grandchildren.In 1994, he married VirginiaBarrus Johnson, who died onemonth before he did. With thismarriage he added more children,grandchildren, and great-grand-children to his family.

After the death of his wifeKathryn, he retired to Salt LakeCity, Utah, to live by the mountainsand his siblings.

19208W. Roy Kopp '28 James C. Geisler '42 Leonard Loeb '52 David A. Saicheck '64in Naples, Florida in Madison in Milwaukee in Milwaukee

19308 Roy B. Hovel '42 Robert J. Schmidt '52 Robert D. Heidel '68George C. Berteau '33 in Sun Prairie in King, Wisconsin in Middletonin Neillsville

James F. Clark '47 Lloyd A. Barbee '55 19708Robert 1. Murphy '35 in Poynette in Milwaukee Robert Whitney '74in Pompano Beach, Florida in Madison

Philip S. Habermann '47 John Maciver '55Doris Vaudreuil '36 in Madison in Milwaukee Gerald R. Falk '76in Kenosha in Milwaukee

Norman H. Quale '47 David H. Bennett '56H. Wilson Gray '37 in Sarasota, Florida in Portage Jerome M. Ott '76in St. Louis, Missouri in Mt. Horeb

Albert McGinnis '48 Richard E. Nelson '56Willis E. Hoard '38 in Madison in Wauwatosa 19808in Beloit Ronni Gale Jones '85

Norman Rosen '48 Spencer L. Kimball '58 in MadisonE. Radcliffe Park '38 in EI Paso, Texas in Salt Lake City, Utahin Falls Church, Virginia (see article above) 19908

19508 Richard Moncada '94Gerard H. Van Hoof '38 Mark H. Makholm '50 Sverre O. Tinglum '58 in Pewaukeein Appleton in Marshfield in Green Valley, Arizona

2000819408 Byron Ostby '51 19608 Jessica M. Vianes '02Martin W. Peterman '41 in Madison James R. Cwayna '62 in Milwaukeein Albuquerque, New Mexico in Bloomington, Minnesota



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CLASS NOTES19308 the right to bring damage suits against Cletus R. Willems '70 has been namedFrederick C. Suhr '35 has retired from states under the Family Medical Leave Act. vice president and general counsel forthe Boardman Law Firm, formerly known JHT Holdings in Kenosha. JHT is anas Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field, in San W. Orr, Jr. '66, chair of the Wausau- international provider of transportationMadison. He had been with that firm Mosinee Paper Corporation, has joined the services for auto and truck manufacturers.since 1936. board of the Wisconsin Alumni Association.

Howard Schoenfeld '71 has joined theTommy G. Thompson '66, U.S. Milwaukee office of DeWitt Ross & Stevens.

19408 Secretary of Health and Human Services,Harry F. Franke '49, of the Milwaukee was awarded a 2003 Distinguished Patricia Banks '72, a Cook County

Joel Hirshhorn '67 firm Cook & Franke, was recently Alumni Award by the Wisconsin Alumni (Illinois) circuit judge, has been electedhonored by the State Bar of Wisconsin Association. chair of the National Bar Association'swith the Belle Case La Follette Judicial Council.Outstanding Professional Award during Joel Hirshhorn '67, a member of theits Public Service/Pro Bono Volunteer Law School's board of visitors and a Frederick Hardt '72 has been named aLawyers Recognition Celebration. partner in the Coral Gables, Florida, firm circuit judge in Naples, Florida. Hardt had

of Hirshhorn & Bieber, has been appointed been a partner in Roetzel & Andress priorto the Review Committee of the Wisconsin to taking the bench.

19508 Bar of Bar Examiners. Hirshhorn servesGalen Winter '50, Shawano, is the on the board of governors of the State Mari M. Shaw '72, of counsel withauthor of The Best of the Major, a Bar of Wisconsin and is president -elect Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippelcollection of hunting and fishing tales of the Non-Resident Lawyers Division of in Philadelphia, has received a Woman of

Lawrence J. Jost '69which have run in Shooting Sportsman the State Bar of Wisconsin. Distinction Award from the Philadelphiamagazine over the last ten years. Business Journal. In addition to practicing

John C. Klotsche '67, former chair of in the firm's litigation and intellectualRobert Bruce Murray '51 has published Baker & McKenzie, has been appointed property groups, Shaw has been activeLegal Cases of the Civil War. Murray lives senior advisor to IRS Commissioner Mark in the arts, legal education, and profes-in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Everson. Klotsche will assist in IRS efforts sional service groups.

to prioritize enforcement initiatives andLarry R. Henneman '59, a partner in enhance compliance with tax laws. Thomas R. Hefty '73, retired chair andRider, Bennett, Egan & Arundel in CEO of the Cobalt Corporation inMinneapolis, has been included in the Paul J. Cherner '68 has joined the Milwaukee, was awarded a 20032003-04 edition of The Best Lawyers Chicago firm Hinshaw & Culbertson, where Distinguished Alumni Award by thein America for his work in the trust he will practice labor and employment law. Wisconsin Alumni Association. Heftyand estates area. has also become a member of Reinhart

Linda Roberson '74 Lawrence J. Jost '69, a partner in the Boerner Van Deuren of Milwaukee, whereMilwaukee office of Quarles & Brady, has he will help develop the firm's government-

19608 been inducted into the American College relations practice.William M. Shernoff '62, partner in of Mortgage Attorneys.Shernoff Bidart & Darras in Claremont, Kathryn Oberly '73, vice-chair andCalifornia, has won the first Trial Lawyer Ellen Kozak '69 reports that her book, general counsel of Ernst & Young, hasof the Year Award from the Consumer Every Writer's Guide to Copyright and been named one of Corporate America'sAttorneys of California. He was specifically Publishing Law, has recently been pub- Five Most Influential Women Generalrecognized for his efforts to secure lished in its third edition by Henry Holt & Counsels by the Corporate Legal Times.insurance benefits for thousands of Company. Kozak is a Milwaukee lawyerHolocaust survivors. doing copyright, publishing, entertain- David Ullrich '73, former deputy regional

ment, and media law, and is the former administrator for the U.S. EnvironmentalRobert M. Larsen '79 Daniel W. Hildebrand '64, an attorney chair of the State Bar's Intellectual Protection Agency, has been named

at DeWitt Ross & Stevens S.C., was Property Law section. executive director of the Great Lakeselected to serve a three-year term on the Cities Initiative, which will work toboard of governors of the American Bar promote and preserve the Great Lakes.Association. Hildebrand has been named 19708a 2004 Leader in the Law by the John W. Rowe '70, chair, president, and William D. Harvey '74 has been namedWisconsin Law Journal. CEO of Exelon Corporation in Chicago, president and chief operating officer of

was awarded a 2003 Distinguished Alliant Energy Corporation in Madison.Judith Lichtman '65, of the National Alumni Award by the Wisconsin Alumni Harvey had been executive vice presi-Partnership for Women and Families in Association. Rowe delivered the keynote dent -generation and president of AlliantWashington, D.C., recently won a case speech at the Law School's May 2003 Energy-Wisconsin Power & Light Company.before the U.S. Supreme Court establishing graduation ceremony.


Richard J. Langer '74, a partner in theMadison office of Michael Best &Friedrich, was recently featured in theWisconsin State Journal in its "KnowYour Madisonian" column.

Rod Nilsestuen '74, longtimepresident of the Wisconsin Federationof Cooperatives, has been namedsecretary of agriculture by WisconsinGovernor Jim Doyle.

Linda Roberson '74, a partner in theMadison firm Balisle & Roberson, hasbeen designated president-elect of theFamily Law Council of CommunityProperty States.

Andrew M. Barnes '75, a partner in theMilwaukee office of Quarles & Brady, hasbeen included in the tenth edition of TheBest Lawyers in America. Barnes practicesbankruptcy and creditor-debtor law.

Peter Gaines '75 has joined theMinneapolis office of Faegre & BensonLLP as a partner in the banking andbankruptcy law department. Gainescomes from the London office of Vinson& Elkins, where he focused on interna-tional finance.

John E. Lange '75 has been appointeddeputy coordinator in the U.S. StateDepartment's Office of the Global AIDSCoordinator. Lange is a career ForeignService officer and former ambassador toBotswana.

David D. Leeper '75 has been appointedassistant dean and director of thePlowshares Peace Studies Project atEarlham College in Richmond, Indiana.Leeper also teaches a course innegotiation skills.

Pamela Baker '76 has been namedco-managing partner at Sonnenschein,Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago. She has beenwith the firm since 1980, practicingemployment benefits and executivecompensation law.

Peter Christianson '77, a partner in theMilwaukee-based firm Quarles & Brady,has joined the board of the WisconsinAlumni Association.

Judith Neumann '77, who servedeleven years as legal counsel for theMassachusetts Teachers Association,has been named chair of the WisconsinEmployment Relations Commission.

Les Abramson '78 has received the2003 Trustees Award at the University ofLouisville, where he teaches in the LawSchool. The award is presented to thefaculty member who has had an extraor-dinary impact on his or her students.

Karen L. Strombom '78, a superiorcourt judge in Tacoma, Washington,since 1990, has been appointed federalmagistrate judge for the western districtof Washington.

Christian Halabi '79 has been named tohead the real estate investment group forZurich Financial Services Group in NewYork City.

Robert M. Larsen '79 has been namedmanaging director of the Sulloway &Hollis law firm in Concord, New Hampshire.He continues an active trial practice andrecently taught a session on trial tacticsfor the NITA program.

19808 --------Tom Barrett '80 took office as mayorof Milwaukee in April 2004. Barrettpreviously served as state representative,state senator, and five-term U.S.Congressman from Wisconsin's 5thDistrict.

Betsy J. Abramson '81 has joined theclinical faculty at the UW Law School.She was also recently honored with theDan Tuchscherer Outstanding PublicInterest Law Attorney Award by the StateBar of Wisconsin.

Susan Bauman '81, former mayor ofMadison, has been appointed to serveon the Wisconsin Employment RelationsCommission. Bauman had sixteen yearsof private practice experience in laborand employment law before beingelected mayor.

Ann B. Burns '81, a partner in theMinneapolis office of Rider, Bennett, Egan& Arundel, has been included in the tenthedition of The Best Lawyers in Americafor her work in trusts and estates.

CLASS NOTES

Philip Lebowitz '81 has joined thePhiladelphia office of Duane Morris,where he will continue his practice inhealth-care law.

Judith Sperling-Newton '81 hasopened The Law Center for Children andFamilies in Madison. The firm focuses onissues including adoption, guardianship,visitation, custody, and assisted repro-duction.

Burneatta Bridge '82 has been appointedchair of the Wisconsin Public ServiceCommission.

Jonathan Stein '82, of St. Petersburg,Florida, has been appointed director ofregulatory affairs for Raymond JamesFinancial, a diversified financial servicesholding company.

Julie Werner-Simon '82 of SantaMonica, California, wants her friends toknow that she had a really good time ather twentieth reunion last year. So good,in fact, that nine months later, Dasha FlorSimon Rothblatt, a new "Badger" wasborn in June! Her husband now remarks,"Who knew that bratwursts hadaphrodisiac properties!"

Joel D. Bertocchi '83, former solicitorgeneral for the State of Illinois, has joinedthe Chicago office of Mayer, Brown,Rowe & Maw, where he will be a partnerconcentrating on appellate matters.

Stephen K. Postema '85 has beenappointed city attorney for Ann Arbor,Michigan.

Laura E. Schuett '85, a shareholder inthe Milwaukee firm Cook & Franke, hasbeen named to the LakefrontTask Forceby Milwaukee County Executive ScottWalker. The Task Force will draft stan-dards for development on Milwaukee'sLake Michigan shoreline.

Jennifer Lee Edmondson '86 has beennamed to the board of directors of theAppleton Education Foundation inAppleton, Wisconsin.

Hugh R. Jones '86 has been elected tothe board of the National Association ofState Charity Officials. Jones is a deputyattorney general for Hawaii.



CLASS NOTES

Jo Pasqualucci '86 has received the2002 John Wesley Jackson OutstandingFaculty Award at the University of SouthDakota Law School. The award recognizesexcellence in the classroom, research,writing, public service, and contributionsto the academic environment. Shereceived tenure at the school last spring.

Nancy C. Wettersten '86 has beenpromoted to shareholder in DeWittRoss & Stevens, Madison. Wetterstenpractices family and juvenile law inaddition to criminal defense.

Lynn J. Bodi '87 and Carol M.Gapen '88 are founding partners in TheLaw Center for Children and Families inMadison. The firm focuses on issuesincluding adoption, guardianship, visita-tion, custody, and assisted reproduction.

Jay R. Starrett '87 has been elected tothe board of directors of the TruckingIndustry Defense Association, a nationalorganization devoted to the defense ofthe trucking industry. Starrett is a share-holder at Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C.,Milwaukee, and focuses his practice ontransportation law, product liability, andlegal malpractice defense.

Lorna Hemp Boll '88 has joinedThompson Plumb Trust Company as vicepresident and trust officer in Madison.

Katherine P. Lloyd '88 has taken aposition as general counsel and directorof charitable planning at the HawaiiCommunity Foundation and is an adjunctprofessor at the University of Hawaii LawSchool, teaching federal income tax law.

Elizabeth M. Bruch '89 has accepted afaculty position at Valparaiso UniversityLaw School, where she will teachinternational law. Bruch has been apractitioner-in-residence at AmericanUniversity, Washington College of Law.

1990s --------Michael Boykins '90, a partner atMcDermott Will & Emery, was part of apanel for UW law students presented bythe Chicago Committee on Minorities inLarge Law Firms.

Roberta Cordano '90, formerly an


assistant attorney general in Minnesotaand now director of disability servicesat the University of Minnesota, hasreceived the Hubert H. Humphrey PublicLeadership Award from the university forher contributions to the common goodthrough public leadership and service.Cordano co-founded two bicultural/bilingual schools for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and deaf-blind children.

Mark R. Sewell '90 has been promotedto shareholder in DeWitt Ross & Stevens,Madison's largest law firm. Sewell focuseson estates, real estate, and business law.

Lynne Boehringer '91 has been namedto the health care sector and legalpractice of TMP Worldwide ExecutiveSearch, Inc. in Chicago.

Lisa Keys '92, a partner at King &Spalding, Atlanta, Georgia, is the chair-elect of the board of Planned Parenthoodof Georgia. She practices technology law.

J. Timothy Lovett '92 has joined theMilwaukee office of DeWitt Ross &Stevens. Lovett practices in the areas ofland use, zoning, and development law.

Marcia MacKenzie '92 has been appointedcorporation counsel for Dane County.

Aurene M. Martin '93, a member ofthe Bad River Band of Lake SuperiorChippewa, has been named actingassistant secretary of Indian affairs bySecretary of the Interior Gale Norton.

Jennifer Mirus '93 has been nameda partner in the Boardman Law Firm,Madison, where she practices employmentand health law.

Marta Meyers '93 has joined theBoardman Law Firm in Madison. Shewill practice in the areas of family law,commercial litigation, trust and estatelitigation, and guardianships.

Arthur Gollwitzer '94 has been nameda partner at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago,where he practices intellectual propertyand commercial litigation.

Pamela Krill '94 has been named apartner in the Madison office of Godfrey& Kahn. Krill is a member of the securitiesteam.

Warren Nelson '94, a partner in theIrvine, California, office of Fisher andPhillips, practices labor law for the firm.

Shannon B. Farrell '95 has been swornin by the U.S. Foreign Service. She hasbeen assigned to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Farrell was previously with Foley & Lardner.

Shawn D. Guse '95, a member of theMadison office of Quarles & Brady, hasbeen selected as a Fellow of theBusiness Law Section of the ABA and asa state delegate for the organization.

Theresa Hottenroth '95 has become ofcounsel to the Boardman Law Firm inMadison. She will focus on health law,administrative law, litigation, andgovernmental relations.

Steve Przesmicki '95 has become apartner at Cooley Godward in San Diego.Przesmicki practices corporate law forthe firm.

Paul W. Stenzel '95 has joined theIndian law section of Von Briesen &Roper, Milwaukee. Stenzel had been astaff attorney with the Stockbridge-Munsee Indian Community.

Wendy W. Citron '96 has been electeda shareholder in the Minneapolis firm ofBriggs and Morgan. Citron practices laborand employment law for health care clients.

Kevin Grossman '96 is a detective withthe Seattle Police Department's SexualAssault and Child Abuse Unit.

Kathleen Meinerz Johnston '96 hasbeen named a principal of Lake Capital,a private investment firm in Chicago.

Joseph W. Byrne '97 has been nameda partner at the Boardman Law Firm inMadison. Byrne practices in all areas ofintellectual property.

Jude Cisneros '97 has joined the SanFrancisco firm Kenney & Markowitz,where he tries cases in business andcommercial law.

Mark Grapentine '97 is the newlegislative counsel for the WisconsinMedical Society in Madison.

CLASS NOTES

Anthony J. Lucchesi '00

Christopher M. Toner '02

Michael E. Martinez '97

Rachel N. Schepp '03

Laurel A. Kent '02

Jennifer Mirus '93

Marta Meyers '93

Paul W. Stenzel '95

Shawn D. Guse '95

Joseph W. Byrne '97

Marta Kline Chou '03 has joined Robins,Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi as an associate inthe firm's Minneapolis office.

Angeles County Public Defender's office.Jane Hong '01, an associate at KattenMuchin in Chicago, was part of a panelfor UW law students presented by theChicago Committee on Minorities inLarge Law Firms.

Laurel A. Kent '02 has joined Balisle &Roberson in Madison, where she willpractice family law, probate and estatelaw, and appellate litigation.

Noleta Jansen '03 has joined theMilwaukee office of Whyte HirschboeckDudek, where she will be a member ofthe trusts and estates practice group.

Christopher M. Toner '02 has joined theGreen Bay, Wisconsin, firm of Metzlerand Hager. Toner will practice businessand civil litigation, employment law,municipal/zoning law, and landlord/tenant law.

Eric S. Grodsky '02 has joined the Cleve-land office of Calfee, Halter & Griswold,where he will do business litigation.

Traci L. McClellan '01 has joined theNational Indian Health Board as itslegislative director. She is an enrolledcitizen of the Cherokee Nation and special-izes in federal Indian law and policy.

Erik R. Guenther '02 has received theVolunteer Attorney of the Year awardfrom the American Civil Liberties Union.He has also received the Racine JournalTimes Award for "making a difference inRacine County." Guenther is an associateat Hostak, Henzl & Bichler in Racine,where he practices business andemployment law and employmentdiscrimination litigation.

Kristin A. Rozum '03 has joined Stellato& Schwartz in Chicago. She will practicecivil litigation defense.

Rachel N. Schepp '03 has joinedvon Briesen & Roper, Milwaukee, whereshe will be a part of the general litigationand risk-management practice group.

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Nia Enemuoh- Trammell '98 has beenappointed to the city of Madison's EqualOpportunities Commission. Trammell is alitigation associate in the Madison officeof Michael Best & Friedrich.

Kayla K. Hiller '97 has become a partnerat Nowlan & Mouat in Janesville. Hillerconcentrates in business, real estate,municipal, and estate planning.

M. Elizabeth Winters '97 has beennamed a shareholder at DeWitt Ross &Stevens. Winters devotes her practice tocommercial litigation, representing man-agement interests in employment relation-ships, and working with local government.

Jonathan S. Goodman '98 has joinedthe Chicago office of Wildman, Harrold,Allen & Dixon, where he will do litigation.

Chad Walker '99, an associate in theChicago office of Michael Best & Friedrich,was part of a panel for UW law studentspresented by the Chicago Committee onMinorities in Large Law Firms.

Michael E. Martinez '97 has beennamed a partner at Bell, Boyd & Lloyd,LLC in Chicago. He concentrates hispractice in antitrust and complexcommercial litigation.

Lisa R. Foerst '99 has joined theMadison office of Whyte HirschboeckDudek, where she will focus on businessand corporate matters.

20008Anthony J. Lucchesi '00 joined Balisle& Roberson in Madison, where he willpractice family law, probate and estatelaw, and appellate litigation. Lucchesipreviously clerked for Judge CharlesDykman, Wisconsin Court of Appeals,and Justice Ann Walsh Bradley,Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Stuart Kim '99, an attorney in thelegal regulatory department of AbbottLaboratories in Abbott Park, Illinois,recently won the "Let It Ride" pokertournament in Las Vegas, defeating 450other hopefuls.

Stephanie Bedi '01 has been appointedas a deputy public defender with the Los




CLASS NOTES-REUNIONS

Save the DateFor Your

Reunion Weekend!

If you are a member of any ofthe graduating classes listedbelow, it's time to save theweekend of September 3-4,2004, for your class reunion.

This year's reunion classesare 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969,1974,1979,1984,1994,and1999.

Events will include:• CLE program on ethics

• tailgate before the "Hall ofFame Game," featuring theBadgers against the Universityof Central Florida's GoldenKnights

• individual class dinners

• and a reception for all classes.

It's not too early to beginencouraging your classmates toattend, too. Please visit thereunion Web site during the nextfew months for event updatesand individual registration infor-mation: www.law.wisc.edu/alum ni/reun ion/i ndex. htm.

If you would like to be amember of your class committeeor to have more information onreunion events, contact LynnThompson, reunion eventmanager, at the UW LawSchool's Office of ContinuingEducation and Outreach at: (608)262-4915 or bye-mail [email protected].

The Law School's September 2003 classreunions brought approximately 400 partici-pants to reconnect with friends and professorsfrom Law School days. From the CLE programon ethics to the individual class dinners andtailgate party for the Badgers (who won theirgame against the North Carolina Tar Heels38-27), the weekend provided numerousopportunities for getting back in touch.

Several Law School professors madeguest appearances to speak at class dinners.Chuck Irish spoke to the Class of 1953;Larry Church spoke at his own class reuniondinner (1963); Jane Schacter-Class of 1968;Frank Tuerkheimer-Class of 1973; StewartMacaulay-Class of 1978; and Dean Ken Davisachieved the feat of visiting all of the dinners.

Chairs for the reunion classes were:Francis Croak, Sheldon Lubar, and WalterRaushenbush (Class of 1953); Richard Olson,George Stephan, and James Vance (Class of1958); William Eich and Timothy Frautschi(Class of 1963); Jeffrey Bartell, David Hanson,and John Kramer (Class of 1968); BruceLoring and Howard Pollack (Class of 1973);David Charne and Gretchen Viney (Class of1978); Meg Gaines and Sylvan Sobel (Class of1983); Kelly and Michael Grebe, andStephanie and Gregory Monday (Class of1993); and Sonja Larson Carter and ChrisDickerson (Class of 1998).

Reunion Weekend 2003 photos by Jay Salvo


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FROM THE EDITOR

If you have informationabout any of these names orinitials, please contact EdReisner at (608) 262-8554or [email protected].

6. Gehrig '57: Donald E.Gehrig graduated in 1958.

7. P.H. '88?8. Howington?9. B.H. '86?10. Hoff'51?11. D. Johnson: Donald

"Deacon" Johnsongraduated in 1961.

12. MeG. '83?13. M. Myers '77 or '79?14. R. Pohle: Robert Pohle,

Class of 1959, is nowliving in Connecticut.

15. Rubbert'60?16. Ryan '56?

Other names or initialslisted on the cane include:1. Cy Butt' 52-' 53:

attended Law School forsix years, graduating in1955. Died in 1968.

2. Byrne '84?3. IG.?4. W. Eich '63: William Eich

graduated in 1963 andwent on to a distinguishedcareer as a commissionerof the Public ServiceCommission and as ajudge.

5. Flaten: Milo Flaten '52,one of the fi rst Americansoldiers to reach thebeach in Normandy onD-Day, has practicedlaw in Madison sincegraduation.

Law School legenddeclares that anysenior law studentwho successfullytosses a caneover the goalposts at theHomecomingfootball game will win his or her first case. The battle-scarred Log Cabin Cane (above left), first used in the1949 Cane Parade, crossed the field again in 2002 withCandace White Halverson '03 (above).

Current SEAPresident MikeHall carried it andthen addedhis initials!

his initials and the yearon the cane. The canecontinued to reside at theLog Cabin long afterDick graduated. Overthe years another sixteennames or initials wereadded to the cane.

Time passed, theLog Cabin moved and became theold Brathouse, and finally, in 1988,the Brathouse itself closed. The lastname was added in 1988, and thewhereabouts of the cane, from thenuntil 2002, is murky. Last year thecane turned up at the Boot Barn,another State Street business.

One of the owners mentionedthe cane to his barber, adding thathe thought the cane had oncebelonged to Dick Williams. In astroke of luck, the barber knewDick's son, Dave, now a retiredMadison police officer, and offeredto deliver it to Dave's home. Inanother stroke of luck, the canearrived just before Dave finishedpacking to move from Madison!Dave brought the cane to the LawSchool with instructions that weshould put it back into use by somewilling student. Enter CandyWhite Halverson, the president ofour Student Bar Association.

If you can shed light on someof the names, let me know. It isprobable that some of the namesare not Law School grads, but I'dlove to know who used this caneover the years.

The cane will soon reside in awall case here in the law building,to be taken out once each year for atrip to Camp Randall. At somepoint it will probably become toocrowded with initials, and it willhave to be cloned. The story is toogood, the tradition too appealing,to let it lapse just because there isn'tenough wood to carve on.

Note: The cane took another tripacross the field on October 18, 2003.

Log Cabin Cane

Edward J. ReisnerAssistant Dean forExternal Affairs

There are two historic canes in thelaw building. One was the lateDean George Young's. It resides ina glass case in the George YoungRoom on the seventh floor. Ithas twenty-four brass bands,each engraved with a year whenGeorge led the Cane Parade atHomecoming. The other-muchless formal, a bit scarred, and notyet possessing its own displaycase-also has a unique story.

On the afternoon of Saturday,October 19, 2002, just before theUW football team came out ontothe field for the start of the game,two hundred Law School seniorsgathered under the north goal postawaiting the start of one of ourmost unique traditions-the CaneParade. Since sometime early in thetwentieth century, senior law stu-dents have rushed the length of thefield, tossed their canes over thegoal posts, and attempted to catchthe canes, thus guaranteeing successin their first cases.

Candace White Halverson,a 3L and president of the StudentBar Association, was carrying acane that was a little different, anda lot older, than those of her class-mates. In so doing, Candy wasreviving a sub-tradition, one begunin 1949. In that year, RichardWilliams '50, also a senior, wasworking at the old Log Cabin baron State Street.

Dick bought his cane to par-ticipate in the Cane Parade, butwhen he was done, decided that thecane should be hung over the grillat the Log Cabin "so that a law stu-dent next year could use it." Beforehanging it, however, Dick scratched




FROM THE EDITOR

SBA PresidentsIn my continuing quest to docu-ment as much Law School historyas I can, I was surprised recently tolearn that no authoritative list ofpresidents of the Student BarAssociation seems to exist. I wasalso surprised to learn that theStudent Bar does not seem to haveexisted prior to 1938. How did allthose student-faculty mixers getorganized during the RoaringTwenties? Who organized the fooddrives during the Depression? Whocame complaining to Dean Richardswhen there wasn't enough coal forthe stove in the lecture hall?

In case you are curious, Igraduated in 1972 and no, I can'tremember who rhe SBA presidentwas for my own class. Rather thanblaming it on a "senior moment,"I contend thar there was just toomuch going on around here thatyear-things like Watergate, a warin Southeast Asia, and exams!

The Man withThe HighestGrade Point

Our Law School officially doesnot maintain class ranking.

Perhaps this is why the topic ofwho had the highest average is sopopular when classmates gather.After twenty-seven years of workingwith our alumni, I have heardhundreds of names mentioned-and more, if you count those men-tioned for the bottom of the class!

Some years ago I begancollecting the names of personsmentioned having outstandingacademic records. When possible,I checked their record cards andbegan to compile a list of truly


Using a variety of resources athand, and with the valuable assis-tance of Mary Beth Shiels Lubing,Law School registrar, we have puttogether the following incompletelist of SBA presidents. Perhaps youcan correct an entry or two; some-one else surely can fill in a blankhere or there. I look forward tohearing from you on this as well:

2003-4 Mike Hall2002-3 Candace White Halverson2001-2 Candace White Halverson2000-1 Richard Holland1999-0 Tonya Wilkes1998-9 Alison Spakowitz1997-8 Laura Halferty1996-7 Chris Jackson1995-6 Greg Davis1994- 5 Reed Peterson1993-4 Oscar Herasme1992-3 Terrance Thomas1991-2 Waverly Booth1990-1 Pierre Abarca1989-0 Stan Stallworth1988-9 Ted Tremunde1987-8 Mary Sue Feldmeyer

Marvin A. Klitsner '42 was famedfor his intelligence. Even the noto-riously belittling Professor HerbiePage once said to Klitsner, "If youtold me the sun rose in the west,I would get up to check!"

1986-7 Valeria Taylor1985-6 Sean Duffy1984-5 Manny Regala1983-4 Christina Mondragon1982-3 Mark Borns1981-2 Eric Christenson1980-1 Jill Goodman1979-0 Cindra Carson1978-9 Terry Mead

1976-7 Mark Bradley

1970-1 Tom Donohue1969-0 Patricia Nelson Colloton1968-9 Jim Miles1967-8 Chuck Pellino1966-7 Bill Mett1965-6 Bob Moberly1964- 5 George Whyte

1962-3 Jim Huber1961-2 Dick Meyer

1957-8 Bob Aberg

1952-3 Norm Fons1951-2 Don Haberman

remarkable law students. But onename stood clearly above all hisfellow graduates. Almost one fullgrade point above his closest com-petitor, I think I have found thegraduate with the highest gradepoint average in our long history.

One caveat, however: Theearliest student records from ourschool, from 1869 to 1904, werekept at the offices of the WisconsinSupreme Court, in the state capi-tol. You have to remember that theearliest classes were given in a roomin the capitol building, and thejustices of our court were frequentlyinvolved in instruction, even intothe 1970s. When the capitol build-ing burned on February 27, 1904,these early records were lost.

Records from 1904-05 until1948 have been reduced to

microfiche and are sometimes verydifficult to read. Nevertheless, Ihave a "top twenty" list of gradepoint averages comprising graduatesfrom 1932 to 1988. From time totime, a new name is added andsomeone drops off. But, for at leasta decade, one name has remained atthe top of the list.

Marvin A. Klitsner was born ina small, northern Wisconsin townin 1918. While he was in highschool, his family moved toLancaster, where they ran a depart-ment store. After graduating fromhigh school in Lancaster, Marvattended nearby Platteville StateTeachers College for three yearsbefore transferring to UW-Madison, where he graduated in1940 after completing his first yearat our Law School. (Many UW-Madison undergraduate studentstook advantage of the rules thatallowed them to finish their under-graduate degrees with the first yearof law study.) In his senior year,Marv was editor-in-chief of theLaw Review.

After graduating from LawSchool in June 1942, Marv enlistedin the navy. On the day he arrivedat his posting, Bill Goodrich, whohad been a year behind Marv andwho had been teaching a course,was leaving. Bill's superiors won-dered who could replace him. Billtold them, "I know Klitsner justgot here, but hand him the bookand he can teach it!"

After the service, Marv joinedthe Milwaukee firm that today isFoley & Lardner and began a sto-ried career trying cases and advisingclients. Eventually he retired andmoved to Jerusalem, where he diedin 2001 at the age of eighty-two.

Marv's lowest grade in LawSchool was a 92 in Tax. He hadone 99 and eight 98s. Bur his high-est grade came in second-semesterTorts, taught by Professor RichardCampbell.

As Jack DeWitt '42, Marv's

FROM THE EDITOR

Mystery Photo

For this issue I have chosen what may have been a staged photo.Surely three students would not have gathered in the old (pre-1993)courtyard to review their Gilbert's outlines! Not that using Gilbert'sis rare, but each of these three students has a Gilbert's for a differentsubject. Who are these folks, and why are they trying to relate estatetax, income tax, and torts?

Please contact Editor Ed Reisner, [email protected] or (608)262-8554, if you have information (or even guesses) about theMystery Photo.

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Five alumni provided information on the last Mystery Photo: ChuckHinners '73, Dave Nelson '77, Lisa Smith '77, Nancy Splain '77,and Arthur Thexton '77. Nancy could actually give first-hand infor-mation since she was one of those pictured with George Young in thespring of 1977. Sharp-eyed Dave Nelson points our that Nancy scoredan "unprecedented Gargoyle trifecta!" by appearing in three differentphotos in the same issue (The bill is in the mail, Nancy.) Alumniidentified include, from left, Nick Loniello, Kirby Knutson, JeanHanson, three as-yet-unidentified individuals, and Nancy Splain.




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lifelong friend, remembers it,Professor Campbell explained,"I never thought I'd give a studenta grade of 100. But Marv answeredevery question correctly and put ina couple things that I had to checkto see if he was correct. He was.I didn't see how I could give himless than 100!" He graduated Orderof the Coif and with high honors.His cumulative GPA was 96.70,the highest GPA I have been ableto locate.

Academic achievement was notthe end of Marv's distinction, how-ever. When Tim Frautschi '63joined the Foley firm, it was organ-ized in teams-the litigation team,the estates team, etc. Except for theteam that Tim joined-the KlitsnerTeam. The Klitsner Team wasorganized around those clients loyalto Marv. While he often trieddifficult cases, he also advisedsmall-business clients, did estateplanning, and served his community.

Marv clearly had an ability inthe courtroom that was beyondthat of mere mortal lawyers. Hewas particularly adept at cross-examination. John Skilton '69,recruited for the Klitsner Teamwhen he graduated, related the oldadage that you never ask a questionon cross that you don't alreadyknow the answer to. Marv didn'tobserve that rule, although hisjudgment stopped him from askingquestions he knew would damagehis case.

"He did ask high-risk ques-tions," John remembers. "It wasn'tnecessarily that he knew what theanswer was going to be. But heknew that he could deal with what-ever answer was given and dealwith it in a way to turn it againsthis opponent if necessary. He hadthought through each alternativeanswer prior to walking into thatcourtroom!"

But it was not only in thecourtroom that Marv's brilliancewas demonstrated. He used histotal charm to assist in settlingdisputes before they could reachcourt. Marv could go into a confer-ence with both sides to a dispute,armed with a number of solutionsof his own design. If, however, theparties could not accept his solu-tions, Marv would abandon themand strive to create new approaches,often based on the suggestions ofthe parties themselves.

Jack DeWitt said, "Marv sawthings differently than most of us.We saw a problem and a solution,maybe two or three solutions. ButMarv was going to see four or five!"A Madison businessman whoengaged Marv in a difficult negotia-tion observed, "This guy is so smartit almost scares me!"

Such a reputation mightsuggest an individual who was notlikable. All the evidence, however,suggests that Marv was not onlyadmired for his abilities, but alsowell liked by his acquaintances,colleagues, clients, and friends.

Jack DeWitt remembers thatMarv was a guard on his highschool football team, and theyplayed together on an intermuralbasketball team that Marv hadnamed the "Five Furious FightingFlat Feet."

In Law School, Marv helpedJack with a Law Review article andwas "as helpful as one of the faculty.He'd sit there and help guys likeAdrian Cassidy and Bill Collins whowere his principal competitors asstudents. He was just a regular guy."

John Skilton called him "a fineman; an honest, humble fellow. Hewould never brag about himself.His lifestyle was quiet and unas-suming. He had a deep, resonantvoice and a commanding presence,but he was also quiet and never

yelled or got mad-a remarkablecombination of grace, dignity, andstrength of character."

It makes me proud to be agraduate of the same school thatMarv Klitsner came from. It makesme grateful to have met him once,on the occasion of his fiftieth classreunion, if only briefly. It makesme sad that he is gone and that Ididn't know more about his lifeand accomplishments before it wastoo late.

Phil Habermann

The In Memoriam column ofeach issue has the names ofmore of my own friends andacquaintances. I cannot write apersonal note about all of them,but I cannot let the death ofPhil Habermann go without abrief, personal observation.

In 1972, as I nearedgraduation, I was referred toPhil, then executive director ofthe State Bar of Wisconsin, tointerview for a possible job. Sobegan a relationship that lasteduntil Phil passed away last year.That might not be remarkable,except that I worked for Phil foronly two years before he retired;he was a private man thirty yearsmy senior; and we seldomshared the same side of a politi-cal question.

Nevertheless, our friendshipcontinued all these years, andI miss our occasional visits andmore frequent phone conversa-tions. Shortly before his death,Phil invited me over to hishouse while he "cleaned" hisbasement workshop. He sentme home with a number of hishand tools-tools I will treasurenow because they were his.

-Ed Reisner


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