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Alex Wiedenhoeft

Alex Wiedenhoeft

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Botany

Specialist in the anatomy and function of wood, forensic wood science, and forensic botany

Bonnie Shucha

Bonnie Shucha

Associate Dean for Library & Information Services and Director of the Law Library

Expert on law libraries and legal research

Erin Barbato

Erin Barbato

Director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic, Clinical Professor

Expert on immigration law.

Anuj Desai

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.

Cody Wenthur

Cody Wenthur

Assistant Professor, Divisions of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Expert on addiction, abused drugs, opioids, naloxone, psychoactive substances, psilocybin, psychedelics, stress and reward learning, vaccine design, drug development, glutamate

Michele LaVigne

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.

Nina Varsava

Nina Varsava

Assistant Professor, Law School

Expert on legal ethics and bioethics, procedure, and courts.

David S. Schwartz

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

Mary Beth  Collins

Mary Beth Collins

Executive Director, UW-Madison Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies

Executive Director of the UW-Madison Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies. Experience as an Attorney, Nonprofit Professional, and Instructor.

Ryan Poe-Gavlinski

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.

Ion Meyn

Ion Meyn

Assistant Professor

Expert on criminal process, wrongful convictions, race and procedure, mass incarceration, diversion, civil rights, policing, use of force

Franciska Coleman

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

Joshua Braver

Joshua Braver

Assistant Professor

My work is about how to navigate moments of crisis in constitutional democracies.

Tonya Brito

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.

John Gross

John Gross

Clinical Associate Professor; Director, Public Defender Project

Expert on criminal defense practice, defense ethics and public defense systems.

Nathan Atkinson

Nathan Atkinson

Assistant Professor, Law

Alternative voting rules, Social Choice Theory, Law, Economics,.

Francine Hirsch

Francine Hirsch

Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History

Expert on the history of Russia and the Soviet Union

Rachel  Burg

Rachel Burg

Assistant Professor and Director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project

Expert on wrongful convictions, criminal law and reform

Kasey Keeler

Kasey Keeler

Assistant Professor of American Indian & Indigenous Studies

Expert on federal Indian policy; American Indian history, land, dispossession; contemporary American Indian people, including (sub)urbanization

Derek Clinger

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.

Alex Tahk

Alex Tahk

Associate professor, political science; director, Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership

American politics and courts

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

Cary Bloodworth

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

Lisa Washington

Assistant Professor of Law

I study state intervention into the lives of families with a focus on the child welfare system