UW Law School names Seifter, Wiercioch and Schnur as Teachers of the Year

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The University of Wisconsin Law School honored three faculty members as Teachers of the Year. The honorees are selected based on outstanding classroom, clinical, and adjunct instruction in 2021.

Classroom Teacher of the Year was awarded to Miriam Seifter, an associate professor of law, co-director of the State Democracy Research Initiative and Rowe Faculty Fellow in Regulatory Law. Seifter is a Harvard Law graduate and former law clerk for Chief Judge Merrick Garland on the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court of the United States. Her research interests include federalism, administrative and constitutional law, and state and local government law, with a focus on challenges affecting democracy at the state level. This is Seifter’s second win of Classroom Teacher of the Year, having received the award in 2016.

Clinical Teacher of the Year was awarded to Greg Wiercioch, a supervising attorney with Legal Assistance to Incarcerated People as part of the Frank J. Remington Center. Wiercioch graduated from Washington and Lee University School of Law. Before coming to Wisconsin, he represented Texas death row inmates in state and federal post-conviction proceedings for 18 years. He has represented several severely mentally ill death row inmates and is particularly interested in issues involving competency to stand trial, competency to waive collateral review and competency to be executed.

Adjunct Teacher of the Year was awarded to Robert Schnur, a tax partner with Michael Best & Friedrich. Schnur is a Harvard Law School graduate with admissions to practice in Wisconsin and Illinois. He has taught tax law at UW Law School since 1988 and practices out of his firm’s Milwaukee and Madison offices. This is Schnur’s second win for Adjunct Teacher of the Year, making him the first adjunct faculty to receive the award twice.