An interview with Professor Anne Smith of the University of Wisconsin Law School. 

Professor Smith is the Director of the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic and she discusses the services the clinic provides and projects the clinic is involved in. She also discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the clinic's services and workflow.

Anne Smith Podcast Interview: Episode 19

An interview with Associate Dean and Director of the Law Library Bonnie Shucha of the University of Wisconsin Law School. 

Dean Shucha discusses various issues surrounding the scholarly visibility of legal academia publishing and the role that law libraries have to play in enhancing visibility, impact, and discoverability.

Bonnie Shucha Podcast Interview: Episode 20

An interview with Director of Research Centers and Senior Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Law School, Prof. Sumudu Atapattu. 

Prof. Atapattu discusses various issues on the topic of environmental justice and sustainable development, especially as it pertains to the Global South.

Sumudu Atapattu Podcast Interview: Episode 21

An interview with Prof. S. Lisa Washington, the 2021-22 William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. 

 Prof. Washington discusses her forthcoming article on how the family regulation system mirrors the criminal justice system and in practice finds that parents encounter a system as coercive, intrusive, and disempowering, especially for marginalized communities.

S. Lisa Washington Podcast Interview: Episode 22

An interview with the Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Dean of International Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School, David Trubek and the Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA Law, Richard Abel. 

 Profs Trubek and Abel discuss their recent symposium, “The Short Happy Life of the Yale Program in Law and Modernization: From the Cold War to Comparative Legal Sociology and Critical Legal Studies.” Profs Trubek and Abel were the main professors managing this program at Yale Law School and they talk about each of their research interests and how the program came about and its goals and ideas.

David Trubek and Richard Abel Podcast Interview- Episode 23

An interview with University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Emeritus William (Bill) Clune. 

Prof. Clune's research focused on school finance, school law, special education, and systemic educational policy. This podcast interview discusses his new book, Legal Realism to Law in Action: Innovative Law Courses at UW Madison, published Dec. 2021 by Pro Quo Books. It compiles articles and interviews focusing on 4 groundbreaking classes conceived and taught at UW Law School and the faculty responsible for them and their legacy.

Bill Clune Podcast Interview- Episode 24

An interview with Voss Bascom Professor of Law Anuj Desai, discussing his forthcoming article, "Text is Not Enough," which focuses on textualism and statutory interpretation through the lens of the 2020 Supreme Court Title VII case Bostock v. Clayton County.

Anuj Desai Podcast Interview- Episode 25

An interview with Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin Law School Mark Sidel. 

Prof. Sidel discusses his recent pieces on the increasing tendency of governments to restrict foreign investments, grants, and donations to nonprofit and philanthropic organizations in those countries.

Mark Sidel Podcast Interview- Episode 26

An interview with Associate Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School Robert Yablon.

Prof. Yablon discusses his recent article on the concept of "gerrylaundering", an idea related to gerrymandering.

Robert Yablon Podcast Interview- Episode 27

An interview with Assistant Professor of Tax Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School Nyamagaga Gondwe. 

Prof. Gondwe discusses her forthcoming article, "The Tax-Invisible Labor Problem: Care Work, Kinship, and Income Security Programs in the IRC."

Nyamagaga Gondwe Podcast Interview- Episode 28

An interview with Assistant Professor of Law Nina Varsava at the University of Wisconsin Law School. 

Prof. Varsava discusses her forthcoming article, "Precedent, Reliance, and Dobbs". The article examines treatment of stare decisis in the 2022 majority Dobbs opinion focusing on its approach to reliance. The article argues that the justices’ refusal to recognize the reliance interest at stake is inconsistent with the Court’s previously prevailing stare decisis doctrine and is also mistaken as a matter of first principles, undermining basic rule of law values.

Nina Varsava Podcast Interview- Episode 29

An interview with Professor of Law and Director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center Richard Monette at the University of Wisconsin Law School. 

Prof. Monette discusses the recent (Nov. 2022) SCOTUS case Brackeen v. Haaland. This case focused on the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978's placement preferences for child placement proceedings involving an "Indian child".

Richard Monette Brackeen case Podcast Interview- Episode 30

An interview with Head of Reference & Scholarly Services at the University of Wisconsin Law School Library Elizabeth Manriquez.

Elizabeth discusses her role and how it fits in to the UW Law School's digital repository. She gives the history of the repository, talks about the team of librarians who work on it, and describes some of the newer collections housed within it.

Elizabeth Manriquez Podcast Interview- Episode 31

A remotely-recorded podcast episode with Yaron Nili (SSRN; Law Repository), Professor of Law and Smith-Rowe Fellow in Business Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Professor Nili is an expert in corporate law, governance, and business. His new article “Side Letter Governance” is forthcoming in the Washington University Law Review. This newest article focuses on a standard but difficult to study practice in private equity known as “side letters.” The article examines how side letters have evolved and how they are viewed in the industry now and what role they play in dealing with investors.

Yaron Nili Podcast Interview- Episode 32

The first episode of "Law in Action: A University of Wisconsin Law School Podcast," a podcast where law librarians interview UW Law faculty about their recent scholarship.

Yaron Nili Podcast Interview

Podcast interview with UW Law faculty member BJ Ard about his working paper on market refusal in copyright.

BJ Ard Podcast Interview- Episode 2

Podcast interview with Prof. Michele LaVigne about her article "Under the Hood: Brendan Dassey, Language Impairments, and Judicial Ignorance," coauthored with Sally Miles. 

This article discusses the case of Brendan Dassey, one of the two subjects of the Netflix documentary series "Making A Murderer," and whether his developmental delays contributed to his confession to the murder.

Michele LaVigne Podcast Interview- Episode 3

Podcast interview with UW Law School Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Patient Partnerships Meg Gaines. Prof. Gaines discusses a 2018 paper about HIPAA and a forthcoming paper on prior authorization reversals.

Meg Gaines Podcast Interview- Episode 4

Interview with UW Law School Professor David S. Schwartz about his new book "The Spirit of the Constitution: John Marshall and the 200-Year Odyssey of McCulloch v. Maryland."

Episode 5: David. S. Schwartz

Interview with UW Law School Professor Keith A. Findley on three recent scholarly works- two law review articles published in Seton Hall Law Review on criminal justice and a report for the Madison Police Department on policy and procedure.

Keith Findley Podcast Interview- Episode 6

University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Yaron Nili discusses his recent article, "Board Diversity by Term Limits?", coauthored with Darren Rosenblum. This article is the first article to academically explore the connection between corporate board term limits and the sex diversification of the corporate board.

Yaron Nili Podcast Interview: Episode 7

Podcast interview with University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Tonya Brito on her recent article, "The Child Support Debt Bubble."

Tonya Brito Podcast Interview- Episode 8

University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Richard Monette discusses a series of initiatives he is involved with, including a $1 million dollar grant to the Menominee Nation and a series of working papers he is working on, on topics including property law and privatization on tribal land and native sovereignty.

Richard Monette Podcast Interview: Episode 9

University of Wisconsin Law Review outgoing (Olivia Radics) and incoming (Anya Gersoff) EICs discuss the Wisconsin Law Review, its recent publications, upcoming plans, and symposia.

Wisconsin Law Review EICs Interview: Episode 10

An interview with the outgoing Wisconsin International Law Journal EIC, Emily Capodarco, about WILJ, its history, and the types of articles it published this year.

Wisconsin International Law Journal EIC Interview: Episode 11

An interview with the EIC of the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender, and Society at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender, and Society EIC Interview: Episode 12

An interview with Steven Wright, Clinical Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Innocence Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prof. Wright discusses his debut novel, "The Coyotes of Carthage."

Steven Wright Podcast Interview: Episode 13

An interview with Cecelia M. Klingele, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prof. Klingele discusses two recently published articles, "Labeling Violence" and "Making Sense of Risk."

Cecelia Klingele Podcast Interview: Episode 14

An interview with R. Alta Charo, the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin.

Prof. Charo discusses the development of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines and the procedures and legal issues that surround each.

Alta Charo Podcast Interview: Episode 15

An interview with Dean Daniel P. Tokaji of the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Dean Tokaji discusses two recent pieces he authored on election law as well as an upcoming article relying on the scholarship of Neil Komesar, University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Emeritus. 

Dean Tokaji's work is especially relevant today and he has excellent insights into the future of truth and democracy.

Dean Daniel Tokaji Podcast Interview: Episode 17

Wisconsin Law in Action is a monthly podcast featuring new or forthcoming scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School. The podcast explores a variety of legal topics and examines new developments in the legal academic field by discussing these topics with UW Law School Faculty.

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