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Academic Limbo: Reforming Campus Speech Governance for Students

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This essay examines the structural inequalities in academic freedom protections between faculty and students at private universities, highlighted by the 2023 Gaza-related campus protests. While faculty members enjoy multiple layers of protection through tenure, contracts, and legal precedents, students must rely solely on discretionary university policies interpreted by the administrators who restrict their speech. Through analysis of recent campus conflicts, this essay argues that current frameworks for protecting student academic freedom in private universities are fundamentally inadequate and proposes establishing institutional oversight boards inspired by social media governance models. Unlike temporary committees, these boards would provide consistent, transparent adjudication processes while building precedent for future cases. This essay demonstrates why university implementation of such oversight mechanisms offers distinct advantages over social media models, including manageable case volumes and clearer contextual standards. By creating institutional separation of powers, these reforms would help align administrative actions with stated commitments to academic freedom while maintaining necessary operational control.

NextGen Bar Success: A Student-Tested, Student-Approved Method for Completing Counseling Integrated Question Sets

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Legal educators nationwide need to begin teaching students a method for completing Counseling Integrated Question Sets, a novel type of question the National Conference of Bar Examiners (“NCBE”) is introducing on the NextGen bar exam. Counseling Integrated Question Sets require students to answer a series of six multiple choice or short answer questions focused on client counseling or dispute resolution, as they work through an unfolding common fact pattern that also contains rules or elicits rules students have memorized.

Volume 2024, No. 4

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Getting Help by Kathryne M. Young; New Brandeis’s New Battleground by Jared M. Stehle; Algorithmic Judicial Ethics by Keith Swisher; Recognizing Partial AI Authorship: Toward a More Permissive Copyright Regime by Ryan E. Gooding; The Stars Are (Re)Aligning: Extending Title IX to NCAA Conference Realignment in the NIL Era by Nathan Loayza; Tortious Standard, Torturous Results: Improving the Approach Toward Contributory Conduct Under Wisconsin’s Crime Victim Compensation Statute by Emmerson A. Mirus.

The Wisconsin Law Review Joins Coalition of Law Journals in Call for Compensation

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The editors of this journal have come together with the editors of journals across the country to demand compensation for the work we do to publish legal scholarship. Our demand rests on one fundamental principle: Uncompensated labor is wrong. In the below, Journal Work Essay, we expand on this argument and present other important supporting principles.

Volume 2022, No. 6

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Table of Contents Articles Enabling ESG Accountability: Focusing on the Corporate Enterprise by Rachel Brewster This Article examines how a governance aspect of ESG—corporate enterprise law—creates social and environmental concerns through three lenses: (1) limited …