This is the first of a series of articles on Wisconsin legal history that will appear in the Wisconsin Lawyer through 2003 to commemorate significant anniversaries of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (150 years), the State Bar of Wisconsin (125 years), and the Court of Appeals (25 years).
Vol. 75, No. 9, September
2002
This is the first of a series of articles on Wisconsin legal history
that will appear in the Wisconsin Lawyer through 2003 to commemorate
significant anniversaries of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (150 years),
the State Bar of Wisconsin (125 years), and the Court of Appeals (25
years).
An earlier series of articles, published from 1992 to 1997, focused
on the evolution of various fields of law in Wisconsin from statehood to
the present and on the law's role during several crucial periods of
Wisconsin history. The earlier articles are available on the State Bar's
public Web site, Legal
Explorer.
The new series will present biographies of prominent Wisconsin
Supreme Court justices. The series is part of the work of the Wisconsin
Legal History Committee, which was appointed by Chief Justice Shirley
Abrahamson to commemorate the legal entities' anniversaries in 2003 and
to encourage the study of Wisconsin legal history generally.
Wisconsin
Lawyer
