Tonya Brito
Expert on family law and policy, access to civil justice, poverty law and welfare policy, a and law and inequality.
Jefferson Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law, Law School Law School Work: 608-265-6475 — Home and cell phones available upon request tlbrito@wisc.edu Home page
Topics
- Family law and social policy
- Child support law and policy
- State regulation of poor families
- Access to civil justice
- Law and Inequality
Achievements
- Kellett Mid-Career Award, University of Wisconsin, 2019-2024
- Selected as Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 2018-2019
- Awarded the John Hope Franklin Prize Honorable Mention for the best article on Race, Racism and the Law in 2016
- Awarded the 2016 Sheldon B. Lubar Distinguished Research Chair in Law
- Member, Executive Committee, Institute for Research on Poverty