Law School
![Sumudu Atapattu](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjM1MywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--57bdfaca77ce61aa7736bfbe1f5add91221aac3d/atapattu_profile_resize.jpg)
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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjQzMCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--f0d6385d38bfc968844e9f2a61ee07c4663df86a/erinbarbato.jpg)
Erin Barbato
Director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic, Clinical Professor
Expert on immigration law.
![Cary Bloodworth](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzE4OCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--eb9e435130791b90b02aac8092010985fe2fe81d/headshot%201.jpg)
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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjU0MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--526b9f1a71862830b59c2092b0aa82365b18c18a/braver_joshua_5x7_hi-res.jpg)
Joshua Braver
Assistant Professor
My work is about how to navigate moments of crisis in constitutional democracies.
![Tonya Brito](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjU0NywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--d6e0105967eb43fe09500e4d91a21abb55158adf/img_7806.jpg)
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.
![Rachel Burg](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Mjk4MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--64ca928eb98e61638002651561d7a48cfd3d9535/rachel_burg_2%20(1).jpg)
Rachel Burg
Assistant Professor and Director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project
Expert on wrongful convictions, criminal law and reform
![Peter Carstensen](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTY4NywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--fdef890c562d1dd13d06b02f253c921e64e1dcf4/carstensen_peter_2008_2224.jpg)
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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTY0NiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--e82f0d1dea17721f4ee8fd9be8783175f2db5ab7/Charo_Alta_hs13_5706.jpg)
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
![William Church](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTc4MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--7b49920cd6abce8b1450117e6984a6325b34c1b1/church_larry_2006_rashid.jpg)
![Derek Clinger](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzE0MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--4e40e8bc03a2c038d77b001a482a0de340b058b2/Derek-473.jpg)
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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjU0MCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--3702c28d56de6f57b8dfc3ea8e698daddba25ac0/Coleman.jpg)
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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTYyMiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--90705dcd2cdd3610b04eb8dd775905d93d5f5442/conti.jpg)
Joseph Conti
Assistant professor, sociology, law
Expert on international trade disputes and world society
![Sarah Davis](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Mjk5MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--03dbe1b46c0b811fbc5cd6f7140a0d4108aa7d6f/sarahdavis_headshot.jpg)
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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTM3NCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--3440505349bf86c28a536565f1cb7b74f7b2a166/Downs_Donald_hs10_9754.jpg)
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
![Howard Erlanger](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTY2NSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--ba2d7627782332bd878f45403c3c5271f044a29c/mg_5540.crop_2_--_erlanger.jpg)
![Keith Findley](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTQxMywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--9eff45c57f531fd7f78e174f1e7a42efd4e92f46/keithfindley.jpg)
Keith Findley
Professor of Law
Expert on criminal procedure, wrongful convictions, forensic science, criminal appeals, post-conviction review, and policing
![John Gross](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjU3MywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--397614bf81d1e1f54e4d855d5ead1afee39ab588/John%20Gross%20Headshot.jpg)
John Gross
Clinical Associate Professor; Director, Public Defender Project
Expert on criminal defense practice, defense ethics and public defense systems.
![Alexandra Huneeus](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTc4MSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--db20b55cf29b3471d33b6856ff2d3671cfb4d8c7/web_photo_2.jpg)
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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTc4OCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--7e378ff3d2af2c0423b848dd70f3bfa70b9c1e3a/Cecilia_15.jpeg)
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
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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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjQ2MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--7e44d4785fb498c64069ebc8988de9daaa11fc6d/Michele-1.jpg)
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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTY0OCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--bf1f4dc150ac09146c4bcae8d6ce6c3dc14115e1/crop.jpg)
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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjUzOCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--2623e46735cc61a0a5feb6fb70b77fe87a631cde/Screen%20Shot%202020-09-08%20at%206.10.02%20PM.png)
Ion Meyn
Assistant Professor
Expert on criminal process, wrongful convictions, race and procedure, mass incarceration, diversion, civil rights, policing, use of force
![_ Mitch](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTY2NCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--ce2fdc0f0faebfc5cdac4fede807285636fc33fe/Mitch_10.jpeg)
_ Mitch
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
![Yaron Nili](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjMyMCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--159c3730b30fd744952c23821efd2f4fbfd83828/Nili_Yaron.jpg)
Yaron Nili
Assistant professor, law
Expert on corporate law, corporate governance and securities law
![John Ohnesorge](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTczOSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--9d6d4af33adb7a8d5b0fa3cdafe79fbc3bc69c2f/ohnesorge_john_empire_2008.jpg)
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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjMwMSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--9695ecfb825af656fde4b443224422a65f45808d/Sarah_Orr.jpg)
Sarah Orr
Clinical Associate Professor, law; director, Consumer Law Litigation Clinic
Expert on consumer protection
![Pilar Ossorio](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjA1OCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--a7bb505644047f42df0208071fd0c40ebfdf01af/pilarossario_7.jpg)
Pilar Ossorio
Associate professor, law
Expert on science and technology law, particularly pertaining to biomedical research, and bioethics.
![Ryan Poe-Gavlinski](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjQ5NywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--ba54f669bfbbca94aead6bf8bc7e35f0291c543c/1_(5).jpg)
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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjE0OSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--b81434a314b4a4488f6e3efa21e6dc9f9acbdb0f/clinical_52.jpg)
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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjQ5MCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--1bfbe6ada5fb1948977d0dca6342eca7ef785d80/DavidSchwartz.jpg)
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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzMwMiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--23654cecd665cb2b872ad99ce314404df0547305/Schweber_Howard_hs22_6129.jpg)
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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjIwNywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--33f2f4a112f9a1bd1d08ecb5da4121764d165cab/miriam.jpg)
Miriam Seifter
Professor, law
Expert on administrative law, state and local government law, executive power, federalism, and the U.S. Supreme Court
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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjY1OSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--6aab7d9e8a8b5f2cb3e0626a4ec975f575f39ae1/smallphotoSept%2021%20copy.jpg)
Bonnie Shucha
Associate Dean for Library & Information Services and Director of the Law Library
Expert on law libraries and legal research
![Mark Sidel](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTk5MywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--350c8c229649f8696e475a314235106d859ba26a/sidel-110311-2-tj-09.jpg)
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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjA3MywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--60005a82d1f1aa883bf02fe1d1f7c682ad90b9b2/adam_1.jpg)
Adam Stevenson
Clinical Professor, law; Director, Frank J Remington Center
Expert in federal and state criminal law, sentencing, executive clemency, and incarceration.
![Kenneth Streit](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTQ2OCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--69eb1ecb76b14359ac93358a9dbd8d0630e3f1e7/StreitKen.jpg)
Kenneth Streit
Clinical associate professor (emeritus), law
Criminal justice systems, arrest statistics, prison, and jail
![Steph Tai](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzI3OCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--ca933ff56ff56c175703be5ca1b11d8650863002/Steph%20Tai.jpg)
Steph Tai
Professor, law school
I study the interaction between scientific research and environmental law and food safety regulation.
![Gerald Thain](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTM4OSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--8c11c710358faa30d8676d3bbf6f37d07e9585b5/dsc_9743.jpg)
Gerald Thain
Professor emeritus, Law School
Expert on First Amendment free speech law, advertising law, secured transactions law, consumer law
![Julie Underwood](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjA3NywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--fe68cbda38ae2f71ee3ac0db6d799e8a0b4a0814/Julie_Underwood-0070.jpeg)
Julie Underwood
Professor, School of Education and Law School
Expert on school law, policy, and funding
![Nina Varsava](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjQ4MywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--084702d5b916210afe93c26d1ab156abed455f9e/IMG_1108_-_Version_6.jpg)
Nina Varsava
Assistant Professor, Law School
Expert on legal ethics and bioethics, procedure, and courts.
![Gretchen Viney](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTY0NywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--9722eae1ac790ff54780f083f16030c817c20cdb/gretchen_viney.jpg)
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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](https://experts.news.wisc.edu/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjM1NSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--23bc5e0e4644c786206356fdf5682f841b3a805a/ry.jpg)
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