U.W. Law School is among a number of U.S. law schools that will no longer provide data to the U.S. News & World Report Law School Survey Rankings. In this article, U.W. Law School Dean Daniel Tokaji, as well as Marquette University Law School Dean Joseph
California nonprofit pushes states to make jury instructions more broadly available
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Since his early days as a lawyer, Wisconsin criminal defense attorney Chad Lanning has been troubled that the state’s jury instructions were not freely available to the legal community or the general public.
He has also long thought it was odd that the materials essential to the functioning of the justice system could be copyrighted by the University of Wisconsin.
“It just always seemed wrong on the most basic level,” Lanning says.
As Lanning rose to leadership in the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in recent years, he renewed the group’s efforts to raise concerns about the state’s handling of jury instructions.
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Law Students Get Earlier Court Experience under Proposed Rule Change
Expanding the law student practice rule also increases access to justice in Wisconsin while promoting greater diversity in the legal profession, according to a petition recently filed with the Wisconsin Supreme Court.