Law School
Sumudu Atapattu
Director, Research Centers, UW Law School
Expert on link between environmental issues and human rights, climate change, international environmental law, sustainable development, environmental justice
Nathan Atkinson
Assistant Professor, Law
Alternative voting rules, Social Choice Theory, Law, Economics,.
Erin Barbato
Director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic, Clinical Professor
Expert on immigration law.
Cary Bloodworth
Supervising Attorney, Family Legal Advocacy & Supports Clinic ("FLASC")
Expert on family law, child welfare law, multidisciplinary legal practice, and legal services to underserved communities
Joshua Braver
Assistant Professor
My work is about how to navigate moments of crisis in constitutional democracies.
Tonya Brito
Jefferson Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law, Law School
Expert on family law and policy, access to civil justice, poverty law and welfare policy, a and law and inequality.
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Rachel Burg
Assistant Professor and Director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project
Expert on wrongful convictions, criminal law and reform
Peter Carstensen
Professor, law
Expert on competition law and policy (antitrust law and economic regulation); energy regulation; agricultural market regulation; insurance and torts
R. Alta Charo
Emerita professor, law and bioethics
Expert on regulation and ethics of scientific and medical innovation, including genetics, synthetic biology, stem cell biology and reproductive technologies
Derek Clinger
Senior Staff Attorney, State Democracy Research Initiative
Expert on political and election law, state constitutional law, and state courts, and with a particular focus on Ohio, Michigan, Arizona, and Wisconsin.
Franciska Coleman
Assistant Professor, Law School; Associate Director, East Asian Legal Studies Center
Expert on free speech implications of cancel/consequence culture; constitutional implications of a minority-majority society; Fifteenth Amendment and political equality of racial minorities and the poor
Joseph Conti
Assistant professor, sociology, law
Expert on international trade disputes and world society
Sarah Davis
Co-Director Center for Patient Partnerships/ Clinical Professor
Expert on health advocacy, patients' experiences with health care, and health and civil justice systems transformation
Anuj Desai
Volkman-Bascom Professor of Law
Expert on free speech/freedom of speech and communications/information technology law, and the role of courts, especially when interpreting statutes.
Donald Downs
Professor emeritus, political science, law and journalism
Expert on constitutional law, criminal law, civil liberties, academic freedom, free speech and military-university relations
Keith Findley
Professor emeritus of Law
Expert on criminal procedure, wrongful convictions, forensic science, criminal appeals, post-conviction review, and policing
Kate Finley
Clinical Associate Professor; Director, Frank J. Remington Center
Expert on sentencing, "second look" legislation, and criminal law
Raffi Friedman
Clinical Instructor, Immigrant Justice Clinic
Expert on immigration, the border, and federal criminal law.
John Gross
Clinical Associate Professor; Director, Public Defender Project
Expert on criminal defense practice, defense ethics and public defense systems.
Alexandra Huneeus
Professor of Law and Legal Studies
Expert on Latin American law, public international law and human rights law. Foreign Legal Expert before the Jurisdiccion Especial de la Paz in Colombia.
Cecelia Klingele
Associate Professor, Law; Faculty Associate, Frank J. Remington Center & Institute for Research on Poverty
Expert on criminal law and criminal justice policy and administration
Alexa Kulwiec
Associate Professor, Department of Labor Education; Adjunct Labor Law Professor, UW Law School
Expert on federal and state labor law, labor/management relations, practice before National Labor Relations Board, Collective Bargaining
Michele LaVigne
Distinguished Clinical Professor; Director, Public Defender Project
The prevalence of language deficits and impairments among criminal defendants and their effects on the quality of justice.
Elizabeth Mertz
Professor, law
Expert on use of social science in law (especially families and children in divorce and/or abuse cases), legal education
Ion Meyn
Assistant Professor
Expert on criminal process, wrongful convictions, race and procedure, mass incarceration, diversion, civil rights, policing, use of force
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Associate Clinical Professor, Law
Expert on Wisconsin's rental housing laws, discrimination and unpaid worker laws, and Access to Justice issues. Full name is Mitch.
Richard Monette
Professor, law; director, Great Lakes Indian Law Center
Expert on Native Americans, American Indians, tribes, first nations and U.S. law
John Ohnesorge
Associate professor, law; vice director, East Asian Legal Studies Center; co-chair, Wisconsin China Initiative
Expert in administrative and corporate law, East Asian legal systems, and law and economic development in developing countries
Sarah Orr
Clinical Associate Professor, law; director, Consumer Law Litigation Clinic
Expert on consumer protection
Pilar Ossorio
Associate professor, law
Expert on science and technology law, particularly pertaining to biomedical research, and bioethics.
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Ryan Poe-Gavlinski
Clinical Assistant Professor, Director, Restraining Order and Survivor Advocacy Clinic, Director, Lawyering Skills
Expert on domestic violence and legal services for victims of crime. Expert on child welfare and effects of trauma.
Jonathan Scharrer
Clinical Associate Professor, law; Director, Restorative Justice Project
Expert on restorative justice and the criminal justice system and restorative practices in prisons, schools, and the community.
David S. Schwartz
Foley & Lardner-Bascom Professor of Law
Expert on U.S. Constitutional Law and history, and the constitutional implications of American politics; procedural and evidence law
Howard Schweber
Professor emeritus, political science and legal studies; affiliate faculty, law, Integrated Liberal Studies
Expert in constitutional law, judicial politics, free speech/religion/First Amendment, democratic theory and American politics
Miriam Seifter
Professor, law
Expert on administrative law, state and local government law, executive power, federalism, and the U.S. Supreme Court
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Mitra Sharafi
Associate professor, law and legal studies, history
Expert on South Asia, colonialism (especially British Empire and former colonial jurisdictions), law and religion, and minorities in legal history
Bonnie Shucha
Associate Dean for Library & Information Services and Director of the Law Library
Expert on law libraries and legal research
Mark Sidel
Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs
Specialist on nonprofit and philanthropic organizations; China, Vietnam, and India; and human trafficking
Adam Stevenson
Clinical Professor, law; Director, Frank J Remington Center
Expert in federal and state criminal law, sentencing, executive clemency, and incarceration.
Kenneth Streit
Clinical associate professor (emeritus), law
Criminal justice systems, arrest statistics, prison, and jail
Steph Tai
Professor, law school
I study the interaction between scientific research and environmental law and food safety regulation.
Gerald Thain
Professor emeritus, Law School
Expert on First Amendment free speech law, advertising law, secured transactions law, consumer law
Julie Underwood
Professor, School of Education and Law School
Expert on school law, policy, and funding
Nina Varsava
Assistant Professor, Law School
Expert on legal ethics and bioethics, procedure, and courts.
Lisa Washington
Assistant Professor of Law
I study state intervention into the lives of families with a focus on the child welfare system
Robert Yablon
Associate Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director, State Democracy Research Initiative
Expert on political and election law, federal and state constitutional law, and the federal and state court systems, including the U.S. Supreme Court