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Study RanksLaw Library17th in Nation

The UW Law Library hasranked seventeenth in a study oflaw libraries nationwide compiledby The National Jurist magazine.

Using information from theAmerican Bar Association and theAmerican Association of LawLibraries, the study ranked 183national law libraries on criteriaincluding both quantitative factorsand non-quantitative ones.

Quantitative measures includednumber of volumes, ratio of seating

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to student enrollment, number oftitles, number of serial subscriptions,ratio of professional librarians tostudent enrollment, and the numberof hours per week that the libraryis open.

Non-quantitative criteriafocused on quality and dedicationof library staff and the importancethe library places on serving andeducating students and otherlibrary users.

"We have come a long wayfrom the notion that the quality ofa library depends on the quantityof books and journals that thelibrary owns," comments ProfessorSteven M. Barkan, director of the

library. "It is now conventionalwisdom among those familiar withacademic libraries that evaluativemeasures need to focus on theability of the library to provideaccess to a wide variety of informa-tion in various formats and thequality of services and supportoffered to students and faculty."

Barkan notes that factors con-tributing to the UW Law Library'shigh ranking most likely includedits excellent staff, service-orientedphilosophy, and location within agreat university with a highly-esteemed library system.

High-SpiritedFarewell to DeanKransberger

The Law School bid a sad-yet-rollicking goodbye to AdmissionsDean Beth Kransberger inNovember at a farewell roast thatpacked the Atrium with well-wishers. Kransberger is leavingafter six memorable and highlysuccessful years to return toCalifornia.

A string of speakers took themicrophone to comment onKransberger's achievements -students, faculty, staff, and deans.

Dean Alta Chaw told thegroup that Kransberger has been"the best recruiter the law school

has ever had." Student BarAssociation president NathanLundby observed, "She reachedout and brought people here whodidn't know Wisconsin was sucha wonderful place."

Professor Frank Tuerkheimerspoke about Kransberger's combi-nation of humor and profession-alism, and Dean Ruth Robartsread an original poem she hadcomposed titled, simply, "Beth."("It's in free verse," Robartsexplained. "Maybe more freethan verse.")

Throughout the precedingweek students had been takingphotos for a memory book topresent to Kransberger as agoing-away gift. The message onone of the goodbye cakes

captured the communal mood:"Thank you for bringing ustogether. We will miss you."

Dean Davis spoke ofKransberger's "sense of personalinvestment in each individualwho chooses to come here." Healso commented, "A lot of thevalues that make this a specialplace are the values that Bethcherishes. "

Kransberger told the stu-dents, "I have the best job in thewhole Law School because I getto know you before you even gethere." She said she will nowmove on to her new positionof "committed alum"; she is agraduate of the Class of 1993.

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The Atrium was Standing Room Only as students, facultyand other well-wishers gathered in November to conveyappreciation and best wishes to Dean of Admissions BethKransberger (above, center, and in top right and bottomleft photos). Kransberger is moving to California after sixyears as " the best recruiter the Law School has ever had."

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Faculty Share Expertisewith Community, State, and World

Betsy Abramson

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Gregory Shafferhas been award-ed several grantsto support hisongoing study ofWorld TradeOrganizationdispute settle-ment and strate- Gregory Shaffer

gies for assistingdeveloping countries through theprocess. He has won a researchgrant from the InternationalCentre of Trade and SustainableDevelopment in Geneva and aNational Science FoundationGrant. He was also named a OWVilas Associate, an honor recogniz-ing young scholars who havealready achieved prominence intheir fields.

Shaffer also received a grantfrom WAGE (the Center for WorldAffairs and the Global Economy)with matching grants from others,including the East Asian LegalStudies Center, to fund an interna-

Shaffer AssistingWorld TradeOrganization

She spoke on "Examining aNew Family Form - the Shared-time Family" in the ColloquiumSeries in Family Policy and Lawsponsored by the Center forExcellence in Family Studies in theSchool of Human Ecology and theInstitute for Legal Studies.

Melli also filed an amicus briefin the Wisconsin Supreme Courtin November, arguing that a juve-nile should be allowed to consult aparent, guardian, or attorney beforequestioning by the police.

Marsha Mansfield

Melli Gives TalksOn Family Law

gants. The video, geared towardassisting pro se litigants throughthe divorce process, will be distrib-uted statewide to courts, socialservice agencies, and libraries, andwill be available on the State BarWeb site.

Mansfield has also initiatedthe Law School's new DivorceCourt Assistance Project, in whichstudents are facilitators for self-rep-resented individuals going throughthe divorce process. The projectbegan in Fall 2004.

Mansfield has been electedPresident of the Dane County BarAssociation and her term begins inJune 2005.

Marygold Mellipresented apaper in Tosa deMar, Spain, inSeptember, at theconference NewChallenges inFamily Law,sponsored by the Marygold Melli

University ofGirona, Spain, law faculty. Hertopic was "The ALI Principles andthe Economics of FamilyDissol ution."

Leslie Shear

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Marsha Mansfield and LeslieShear are members of the DaneCounty Delivery of Legal ServicesCommittee (Mansfield as chair),which is currently completing thefirst in a series of educationalvideos for pro se family law liri-

Mansfield and ShearOn Team CreatingDivorce Video

Betsy Abramsonwas the keynotespeaker inNovember inBaraboo at theconferenceHoarding by theElderly, in whichshe discussed

confidentiality, ethics, interventionprinciples, and involuntary legalinterventions. In October, she pre-sented a workshop on long-termcare planning choices by elders atthe Wisconsin Department ofHealth and Family Services' LongTerm Support Conference.

Abramson has also beenasked by Richland, La Crosse,Portage, and Marathon countiesto create training materials anda continuing education programon health care advance directivesfor county workers.

In addition, Abramson pre-sented testimony by invitation inSeptember to the LegislativeCouncil's Special Committee onGuardianship of Children, regardingthe State Bar Elder Law Section'sguardianship reform proposal.

Abramson Speaks onElder Law Issues

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Professors PresentTwo-Week SeminarFor Police Chiefs

Alta Charo discussed topicalissues in bioethics in 2004 onCNN, NPR, Wisconsin PublicRadio, Wisconsin Public TV, andAir America'sAl Franken Show.

Anuj Desai has been a gueston radio programs discussingInternet privacy.

Ann Althouse was featured onWisconsin Public Radio withJoy Cardin on October 15,discussing the Supreme Court,the Constitution's EstablishmentClause, and the display of theTen Commandments ongovernment property. In Julyshe was a guest on WisconsinPublic Radio's Here on Earth,discussing the popularity ofWeb logs (blogs). Here On Earthis broadcast live statewide on theIdeas Network ofWPR.

UW Law professors are anever-increasing presence onradio and television discussionprograms, both regionally andnationally. During the past year,for example:

Law ProfessorsTake to theAirwaves

Steve Melli has been interviewednumerous times on radio andtelevision discussing consumerissues such as Wisconsin's lemonlaws, payday loans, bad-faithhealth insurance denials, andnegligent home repairs.

Frank Tuerkheimer debatedelection issues with BillMcCoshen, former member ofGovernor Tommy Thompson'scabinet, on Wisconsin PublicRadio's Ben Merens showOctober 27.

Macaulay, MertzElected to Posts atLaw and SocietyStewart Macaulay and ElizabethMertz were elected to positionswith the Law and SocietyAssociation in November. Mertz isthe new treasurer, and Macaulayhas joined the Executive Board.

They increase the Wisconsinpresence among the organization'sleaders, joining Howard Erlanger,President, and Herbert M. Kritzer,editor of the association's journal,Law & Society Review.

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Police Executive Group inFond du Lac. Findley also spokeon "Crime Victims and WrongfulConvictions" at several WisconsinDOJ Victim-Witness Coordinators'Regional Training sessions, and on"Promoting Justice in Wisconsin"at a Wisconsin Joint Legislative-Judicial Conference on AddressingInjustices in the Justice System.

Viney is SecretaryOf Wisconsin Bar

Gretchen Viney was electedSecretary of the State Bar ofWisconsin in 2004. Her two-yearterm began in July.

Viney was President of theSauk County Bar Association in2003-04.

Herman GoldsteinMichael Scott

Michael Scott, HermanGoldstein, Walter Dickey,Michael Smith, and DavidSchultz conducted a two-week in-residence educational seminar forWisconsin police chiefs and sheriffsin collaboration with the State ofWisconsin Department of Justice inSummer 2004.

The Wisconsin Problem-Oriented Leadership Institute forChief Executives (POLICE) was aclear success, Scott reports, andplanning has begun for next year.The first week of the interactivesessions was in June, after whichpolice went back to their homejurisdictions with the assignmentof applying new knowledge andreporting back when they convenedin July for the second week.

Another Law School professorparticipating in the program wasKeith Findley, who spoke on"Law Enforcement Responses toWrongful Convictions," a topicwhich he also presented at a police-chief training he conducted for the

tional conference in Madison inMay 2005 on WTO dispute settle-ment and developing countries.

Shaffer's speaking engagementsin the past year have taken him tonumerous cities in the UnitedStates and abroad to Florence,Tubingen, Sao Paulo, and Geneva.

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Pilar Ossorio

Ossorio Wins Awardfrom the NationalInstitutes of Health

Three ProfessorsSpeak in Nagoya

In October 2004, NagoyaUniversity Law School broughtProfessors Cliff Thompson,Charles Irish, and David Trubekto Japan for a conference on lawand development in Asia.

Irish spoke on "RemovingImpediments to the Mobilization ofLocal Resources," Trubek on "TheRule of Law in DevelopmentAssistance" and Thompson on"Faculty Development in IndonesianLaw Schools to Strengthen EconomicLaw Expertise."

Richard Monette

Richard Monette has drafted sevenconstitutional amendments for theHavasupai Tribe, which resides onthe Grand Canyon floor in Arizona.He is also assisting members of theNotawasippi Tribe in Michigan inseeking constitutional change, and,through the Great Lakes IndianLaw Center, he assisted the Cheyenneand Arapahoe Tribes of Oklahomawith drafting a total revision of thatFirst Nations constitution.

In November, Monette con-ducted a two-day workshop inGreen Bay for First Nations judgesand administrative hearing officersin the Great Lakes area, and inOctober he spoke at Detroit Collegeof Law on civil rights under U.S.First Narion governments.

Monette AssistsTribes WithConstitutions

Pilar Ossoriowas awarded amillion-dollargrant in 2004from theNationalInsti tutes ofHealth to con-duct a majorproject investi-

gating the practice of communityconsultation as a method inapplied research ethics. The grant,which will run for three years, willenable Ossorio and approximatelynineteen other scholars fromdiverse disciplines to study howresearchers engage in discoursewith minority and indigenous pop-ulations in the U.S. and abroad.

Asifa Quraishispoke in Octoberon "Interpretationand HistoricalMeaningin IslamicJurisprudence" atthe Cardozo Law

Asifa Quraishi School conferenceText, Tradition

and Reason in ComparativePerspective. This was the inauguralprogram for Cardozo's newProgram in Jewish Law andInterdisciplinary Studies.

In November Quraishi pre-sented "An Introduction to IslamicLaw for Teachers of Pre-CollegiateClassrooms" at the Middle EastStudies Association conference, on apanel titled Innovative Approachesto Teaching about Islam in the Pre-Collegiate Classroom.

Quraishi Speaks onIslamic Law atCardozo Program

The Law School'sNeighborhood Law Project(NLP) is featured in a shortvideo that you may see on televi-sion in February if you arewatching Badger Big Ten men'sbasketball games. It is one of agroup of videos made especiallyto be broadcast regionally duringhalf-times of the games.

The video features NLPstudents working with clients intheir community office on SouthPark Street, as well as in the DaneCounty Small Claims Court. NLPis a community-based povertylaw clinic, where law studentsprovide legal services to low-income people in the neighbor-hoods surrounding the law school.

Dean Davis is also inter-viewed about the importance ofclinical education to the LawSchool.

"It was really gratifying tobe selected to represent theUniversity's community-basededucational and service pro-grams," says Clinical ProfessorJuliet Brodie, Director of NLP."The Neighborhood Law Projectis very well-suited to tell theStory of the Law School'scommitment to experience-basedlearning, to Law in Action, andto the justice mission of the legalprofession."

NLP serves hundreds ofclients each year, principally inlandlord-tenant, unpaid wage,and welfare matters. Studentsare responsible, under closesupervision, for every aspect ofclient representation.

Video onNeighborhoodLaw ProjectAiring DuringBadger Games

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Jack Siegel '81ContributesExpertise AsWorldwide DonorsSeek to AidDisaster Relief

Jack Siegel '81

In the weeks since the deadlytsunami struck SouthAsia on December 26,2004, LawSchool alumnus Jack B. Siegel '81has been a source of expertise forpeople around the world who aretrying to determine which relieforganization to choose for sendingdonations to help the victims.

Siegel, who lives in Chicago,is an attorney and CPA who hasadvised numerous nonprofit organi-zations on tax-related issues. He hasalso developed software to helpcharities improve their governance.

On December 28, The NewYork Times published a list offourteen major relief organizationswhere people could send donations.Siegel made a study of whichorganizations on the Times list hada clear method for allowing donorsto earmark their funds for tsunamirelief. He posted his findings on hisWeb site, http://charitygovernance.blogs.com/, under the title "If YouWant to Earmark Your Dollarsfor Southeast Asia Earthquake

and Tsunami Relief Be Sure toReview the Online DonationForm Carefully."

"For me it was just anotherday's post," he recalls.

He did not anticipate whatcame next: He received a call froma reporter at the Times itself, whoincluded information about himand his study in an article titled"Giving for a Cause, and ThatCause Only," in the January 5,2005 edition. Reporter StephanieStrom wrote that "Four of thefourteen charities [Siegel] surveyedoffered a clear method for earmark-ing gifts for tsunami relief efforts.The rest were more ambiguous, andMr. Siegel'sWeb log advised donorsto take care in making their choices."

As soon as the articleappeared, Siegel was surprised tofind himself a focus of worldwideattention, with phone calls fromreporters in France and Italy, ande-rnails from around the world."This was my first exposure tobeing in The New York Times," hesays. "Things really happen whenyou are in The New York Times. "

The reason Siegel decied toinvestigate the issue of earmarkingcontributions was that he wasalready making a study of the RedCross response to the Sept. 11,2001 terrorist attacks. The RedCross encountered great criticismwhen reports revealed that thedonations it received after the 9/11disaster had not all been used tohelp the victims. "So when thetsunami hit," Siegel explains, "Iwanted to examine how relieforganizations were responding tothe lessons of the Red Cross."

He also had a personal reasonto analyze the organizations: heand his wife were planning tomake a donation themselves, and,like countless others worldwide,they were wondering which relieforganization to contact.

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About Jack Siegel

Jack Siegel is currently CEOof Auto Didactix LLC. Beforefounding the firm in 1995, hepracticed law with Foley &Lardner in Milwaukee, where hewas a partner in the CorporateTax Department.

He recalls that he had notrouble deciding what area oflaw to focus on during his UWLaw School years. "I came tolaw school wanting to be a taxlawyer," he says.

After receiving his J.D. in1981, he earned an LL.M. inTaxation from New YorkUniversity Law School, and aMaster of Management degreefrom the Kellogg GraduateSchool of Business atNorthwestern University.

His interest in nonprofitorganizations is partially due tothe fact that his wife, EvelynBrody, a law professor atChicago-Kent College of Law,focuses her research on non prof-its. "We talk about these issuesall the time," he says.

(Brody was a lecturer at theUW Law School from 1985 to1988, teaching partnership tax.)

Siegel advises nonprofits ona wide array of issues, fromproperty taxes to public disclo-sure to governance in general:how directors make decisions."There is a real need for trainingin the nonprofit area," he says.

He says that after the Timesarticle generated unprecedentedinterest in his Web log, he post-ed other stories relating to non-profits for his newfound audi-ence. Titles include "Don't BeMisled by Administrative andFundraising Ratios - TheseAre Largely Irrelevant Numbers"and "What Exactly Are theRelief Organizations Doing?"

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