The Center for Public Representation is apublic interest law firm providing repre-sentation for traditionally under-servedgroups such as families with health careneeds, consumers and low-income com-munities. Law students serve as interns atCPR appearing at legislative and adminis-trative hearings, assisting in litigation andproviding community development coun-seling.Clinical staff at CPR: Nina Carnic, UW LawSchool; Clinical Assistant Professor of LawSteve Meili, N.Y.U. School of Law; ClinicalAssistant Professor of Law Sue Brehm-Stecher, UW Law School

The East Asian Legal Studies Center at theUniversity of Wisconsin Law School hasestablished an environment for learning,research and the exchange of ideas forlawyers, legally trained individuals, busi-ness people, researchers and law studentsfrom the countries of East Asia and theUnited States. The Center's missionincludes facilitating high-quality graduate-level education in two distinct ways: first,by augmenting the Law School's curricu-lum with courses that focus on East Asianlaws and institutions, as well as coursesthat deal with international and legalissues involving countries of the PacificRim and North America; second, by actingas a strong individualized support centerfor law students from East Asia who pur-sue advanced degrees at the Law School.

Since its inception, the Center has pro-vided a "home away from home" for stu-dents from countries of East and SoutheastAsia. Many of these were or are studentsin the Master's in Legal Institutions (M.L.I.)degree program through the University'sGraduate School, a one-year course of

advanced study in law especially for stu-dents whose law training was in a civilcode country. In addition, several studentspursue or are pursuing the Master of Laws(LL.M.), through its intensive research pro-gram at the Law School, and a few stu-dents have pursued an S.].D. degree, theUniversity's terminal degree in law. Allstudents have an individual faculty advisorand access to legal writing tutors (experi-enced, usually bilingual law students).

The Center has been instrumental inencouraging academic participation inboth formal and informal lectureships.Law faculty have taught through theexchanges that the Center has helpedestablish for the Law School at Chua Uni-versity, Tokyo, and the the East ChinaUniversity of Politics and Law, Shanghai,and have also participated in less-formal-ized lecture programs in Seoul, Taipei,Beijing, and various cities in Japan.

The Center also assists Law School J.D.students with study opportunities in Eastand Southeast Asian countries with infor-mation and through its Travel Subsidy

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Grant Program.The center has co-sponsored programs

for the international business community,most notably the l-i-week InternationalCustoms Academy in Taipei, Taiwan,which completed its third annual trainingprogram in 1993.

The Center continues to host distin-guished scholars and researchers fromcountries of East Asia. In recent years, vis-iting professors have included, fromJapan, Professors Koichiro Fujikura, Yoshi-haru Matsuura and Itsuko Matsuura; fromKorea, Professor Seokin Huang; and fromthe People's Republic of China, ProfessorsSun Chao, Zhang Qiang, and Wang Chen-guang. Professors Zhang and Wang werealso Fulbright Scholars.

The General Practice Skills Program devel-ops curriculum and offers simulationcourses that enable students to developlawyering skills through experiential learn-ing. The General Practice Skills Course isa comprehensive lawyering skills coursethat brings over 60 practitioner faculty tothe Law School each spring to work withstudents in developing the skills of draft-ing, client counseling, negotiations, caseplanning, problem solving, oral communi-cations, practice management, and profes-sional responsibilities. Other coursesoffered through the General Practice SkillsProgram are Negotiations and Mediation,Starting and Sustaining Your Own LawPractice, Pre-Trial Advocacy, and Profes-sional Responsibilities.

The Institute for Legal Studies, establishedby the faculty in 1985, is known as one ofthe outstanding centers for interdisci-plinary research on the role of law in soci-ety. The Institute has three componentprograms: the Disputes ProcessingResearch Program, the Legal History Pro-gram and the Family Policy and Law Pro-gram. Each of these represents a cluster ofinterested faculty and advanced studentswho are pursuing individual and collabo-rative research projects. The Institute pro-vides assistance in identifying researchopportunities, developing proposals, andcarrying out research.

The Institute provides a forum forexploration of cutting-edge issues. It orga-nizes and sponsors workshops, colloquiaand national conferences on a wide rangeof legal issues, and disseminates researchfindings through its publication program.It organizes visits and lectures by scholarsand jurists and maintains links with legalscholars and research organizationsthroughout the world.

Staff: Ralph M. Cagle, UW Law School1974; Jane Heymann, Washington Univer-

In recent years, the Institute has pro-moted and supported research on chang-ing patterns of litigation and disputing inthe United States, including pioneeringstudies of trends in corporate litigationand of the transformation of legal practice.It has been the site of innovative explo-rations of the legal history of the family. Ithas promoted analysis of new departuresin family policy and in the delivery of

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legal services to the poor and disadvan-taged.

Institute staff are Marc Galanter (Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law), Director;Thomas Palay (Professor of Law), DeputyDirector; Joy Roberts (Ph.D.), AssociateDirector; Danette Pahl, Program Assistant;Tisha Remmers, student helper; and Patri-cia Doyle, clerical helper.

The Legal Assistance Program (formerlycalled the Legal Assistance to Institutional-ized Persons Program) is the oldest andlargest clinincal program at the Universityof Wisconsin Law School, and one of theoldest in the country. Originating in the1960s with a grant from the American BarAssociation, the primary mission of theLegal Assistance Program has been todevelop in law students an in-depthunderstanding of the legal problems facingindividuals confined in institutions. Thismission is accomplished by having the stu-dents work under the supervision of clini-cal attorneys to provide legal assistance toinstitutionalized persons. Because it beganas a prison inmate assistance program, theLegal Assistance Program originallyfocused on clients' criminal law issues,often involving the fact or duration of con-finement. However, as other civil legalassistance providers either disbanded ordiscontinued services to incarceratedclients in the late 1970s, the Program hasdeveloped a strong civil practice, particu-larly in the family law area.

Currently, the Legal Assistance Programhas eleven staff attorneys who provideindividualized supervision to approximate-ly 80-90 law students a year. The Programis made up of four projects, the largest ofwhich is the Legal Assistance to Institution-alized Persons Project (LAIP). In LAIP, sec-ond- and third-year students provide awide range of criminal and civil legal assis-tance to inmates in Wisconsin state prisons

and the Federal Correctional Institution atOxford, Wisconsin. Students interviewinmates in the prisons, determine if reme-dies are available to them, draft pleadingsand briefs, and represent clients in admin-istrative and judicial hearings. Students alsohave the opportunity to meet with guestspeakers-including judges, lawyers, andcorrectional officials-who provide theirown views on aspects of the criminal jus-tice system.

In addition to the LAIP, the Legal Assi-tance Program includes a Mental HealthProject, providing legal assistance topatients at Mendota Mental Health Institu-tion and participation in PACT, a commu-nity-based treatment program for mentallyill individuals in Madison; a ProsecutorProject, placing second-year students in

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state district attorney offices; and aDefender Project, placing second-year lawstudents in state public defender offices.

To complement the students' clinicalexperience, Legal Assistance Program staffoffer seminars to students on a variety ofissues, including problems in corrections;racism and criminal law; conditions ofconfinement; the death penalty; juvenilejustice; mental health systems; and the his-tory and theories of punishment.

Staff: Walter Dickey, Director; MeredithRoss, Deputy Director. Supervising Attor-neys: David Cook, Peter DeWind, MegGaines, Kate Kruse, Michele LaVigne, PaulLaZotte, Judy Olingy, John Pray, Ken Streit.Support Staff: Diane Collins, Legal Secre-tary; Bobby Austin, Paralegal.

Legal writing is a form of legal reasoningwhich is integrally related to the reasoningprocess taught in substantive law courses.The UW Legal Research and Writing Pro-gram seeks to integrate knowledge, clarifyanalysis, and crystallize abstract thinkinginto concrete documents.

The six goals of the Program are toteach student') (1) how to find and identi-fy relevant authority, (2) how to read andanalyze authority, (3) how to synthesizeauthority to analyze and write about atopic, (4) how to apply the synthesis to aparticular fact situation to solve a prob-lem, (5) how to crystallize the synthesisand application into the appropriate docu-ment, and (6) how to present an oralargument to a court. Each of these goalsincludes many topics and skills that thestudents must master.

All first-year students are required totake the two-semester introductory LegalResearch and Writing course. The one-credit fall semester course introduces stu-dents to case and statutory analysis, casesynthesis, objective legal writing, andsome basic legal research sources. Thetwo-credit spring semester course contin-ues instruction in objective legal writing,covers the remaining basic legal researchsources, and introduces persuasive legalwriting and oral argument.

The Program offers a number of two-credit advanced seminars to upper-classstudents. The seminars build upon topicscovered in the introductory course andcover a variety of new topics, such asadvanced research sources, pleadings,opinion letters, and contracts.

The Program staff includes a director,assistant director, lecturers, and teachingassistants.

The Legal Defense Project is a clinical pro-gram jointly funded by the Law Schooland the State Public Defender which pro-vides the opportunity for second- andthird-year law students to represent indi-gent defendants charged with misde-meanor and traffic crimes. The programgenerally requires a two-semester commit-ment and has a maximum capacity of 16students. LDP students earn up to sevenclinical credits and four graded trial advo-cacy credits each semester.

The Legal Writing Individualized Instruc-tion Service (nS) helps law students at allability levels improve their writingthroughout law school. It offers individu-alized instruction so that each student canfocus on his or her own writing concernsor on a particular writing task. Becauseimproving writing skills is an ongoingprocess, the Individualized Instruction Ser-vice is available to upper-class as well asfirst-year students.

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The LDP students work under theclose supervision of Prof. Krista Ralstonand three Clinical Instructors: James Coo-ley, UW Law School 1990; Bernie Cantor-na, UW Law School 1990; and DavidKarpe, UW Law School 1984. All threeinstructors are experienced criminaldefense attorneys as well as dedicatedteachers. The program is also fortunate tohave an excellent secretary and officemanager, Lois Gruchow.

Services available include a diagnosticevaluation for each entering student,workshops, and individual conferences.Topics for workshops focus on two areas:(1) techniques for creating particular writ-ing qualities, such as organization, clarity,and conciseness; and (2) processapproaches to common law school W11t-ing tasks, such as case briefs, exams, andresumes. The IIS staff include MaryBarnard Ray and Claudia Carlos.