Faculty & Staff

Soledad O’Brien, journalist, president and CEO of Starfish Media Group Busy might be the best way to describe Soledad O’Brien these days. Well- known for her previous work as an anchor and contributor to all four major television networks as well as PBS and CNN, O’Brien today is running her own multi-platform production company, Starfish Media

Tony Evers, Governor of Wisconsin After just six weeks in office, Tony Evers, the 46th Governor of Wisconsin, sits down with Mike Gousha to discuss the state budget he’ll present in late February, and the new course he hopes to chart with its initiatives. Evers has said he plans to raise the state’s minimum wage, cut taxes for the middle class

NIES LECTURE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Thursday, March 28, 4:30 p.m. Eckstein Hall 1 CLE credit The Rise of Property and Decline of Equity in Trademark Law Mark P. McKenna Trademark law and unfair competition long were related but doctrinally distinct bodies of law. This structure began to crumble in the latter half of the twentieth century, as

HALLOWS LECTURE Tuesday, March 5, 4:30 p.m. Eckstein Hall Room 144 (Lubar Center) 1 CLE credit Ambition, Aspiration, and the Art of Judging Hon. Lee H. Rosenthal Almost 150 years ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. probed what it means to have ambitions and aspirations to accomplishment and satisfaction in the law—whether studying, practicing, teaching

Joan Biskupic, CNN Legal Analyst, author of The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts Joan Biskupic has covered the U.S. Supreme Court for 25 years and has written books about Justices Antonin Scalia, Sandra Day O’Connor, and Sonia Sotomayor. Biskupic’s latest book will be published this spring and is a biography about

Anna Clark, journalist and author of The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy By now, many Americans have heard about what happened to municipal water supply in Flint, Michigan. But why did it happen? Why did state government switch to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes, causing the city’s water to become

Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Born in New York and raised in Milwaukee, Ayad Akhtar is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Disgraced, a searing look at contemporary attitudes toward religion. Akhtar has a longstanding relationship with the Milwaukee Repertory