Oct. 1, 2026 — One returned home to Wisconsin after law school in the South. Another arrived after nearly two decades of military service and a 10-year journey toward admission. Another traded a corporate law career in Houston for teaching
As you may know, SSRN is discontinuing its Research Paper Series, a platform through
Last Wednesday (9/23) police in Madison Wisconsin responded to reports of a disturbance at a local fraternity house. Here is what they found at 8:20 pm. Wisconsin fraternity hazing tip leads police to find 30 men in hot basement, some
By Stephen E. Mays, Mays Law Office, LLC · Updated September 2026Can you get a criminal record expunged in Wisconsin? For an adult conviction, only if the judge orders it at sentencing. Under Wis. Stat. § 973.015 a court may
Ed. Note: This is Part II of a guest post by Madison, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer Christopher Van Wagner. Part I can be found here.
Anyone of a certain age recalls the famous closing argument by the late Johnny
We are so grateful to Professor Mitra Sharafi (University of Wisconsin, Madison) for coming back to the blog this past month and posting a wonderful series of reflections. Here is a round-up of her contributions, all of which involved the
There has been much discussion/litigation about the post office and election ballots of late. And, changes in postmark practices mean that the mailing date on untracked mail is no longer accurate. But, something more fundamental with mail delivery
When I started working on my second book,
Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia, I created a course to help my research. Specifically, I designed an
undergraduate Legal Studies/History course
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