Please join us for the Wisconsin Association of Scholars' Fall Symposium entitled Higher Education, Intolerance, and the Future of Academic Integrity with featured speakers Ryan Owens and Daniel Kelly. This will be a riveting event you will not want to miss!
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SPEAKER BIO:
Ryan Owens is a Professor of Political Science and Affiliate Faculty at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He also is an Honorary Fellow in the Institute for Legal Studies. Owens studies law and courts and American political institutions. His work analyzes the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals, legal institutions, and judicial behavior. Between 2008 and 2011, Owens was Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University. Owens earned his Ph.D. at Washington University in Saint Louis. Prior to graduate school, Owens practiced law.
Justice Daniel Kelly was appointed to the Supreme Court by Gov. Scott Walker in 2016 to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice David T. Prosser, Jr. A native of Santa Barbara, California, Kelly grew up in Arvada, Colorado. He came to Waukesha, Wisconsin, to study at Carroll College (now Carroll University), where he earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science and Spanish in 1986. He earned his law degree from Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 1991. Before joining the Court, Kelly had 19 years of experience as a private practice attorney in Wisconsin and represented clients in cases before the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. Kelly spent most of his private practice career at one of the largest and oldest law firms in Wisconsin. Subsequently, he served as vice president and general counsel for a philanthropic foundation, and then practiced law at a firm he owned and founded in Waukesha. Early in his legal career, Kelly was a law clerk and then staff attorney for the Office of Special Masters of the U.S Court of Federal Claims, from 1992-1996. he worked as a law clerk for the late Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judge, Ralph Adam Fine, from 1991-1992. Kelly is a member of the board of advisors and past president of the Milwaukee Lawyer's Chapter of the Federalist Society. He serves on the Carroll University President's Advisory Council and is a former member of the Wisconsin Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.