Opportunities for Mentorship
The Center for Law, Society and Justice (home of the Legal Studies and Criminal Justice Certificate Programs) is pleased to offer the following opportunities for mentorship with alumni and friends. If you are a student or potential mentor interested in participating, please contact Martine Delannay at clsj@ssc.wisc.edu.
Mentoring events
The Center, along with the Legal Studies Association and the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Student Association, organizes two speed mentoring events per year. This is an opportunity to speak one-on-one with multiple individuals who work for criminal justice agencies, law firms, police departments, and not-for-profit organizations.
The next event will be held in late September/early October in the Varsity Hall III room of Wisconsin Union South (1308 Dayton Street - Wisconsin Union South Parking Information and Parking Map).
One-on-one Mentoring
Our mentorship program matches current undergraduates in the Legal Studies Program and the Criminal Justice Certificate Program with alumni and community partners who provide career guidance and networking opportunities. The time commitment is flexible.
Job Shadowing
The program has started a job shadowing program in which students have an opportunity to shadow mentors at work for a day. The following opportunities are currently available:
Opportunity 1: Shadow Attorney Kira Loehr. Attend technical hearing regarding a rate case before the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC) with attorney for Citizens Utility Board (CUB). CUB is a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating on behalf of residential and small business ratepayers, and the PSC is the state agency charged with regulating electric, water, and gas utilities. The technical hearing will be to set rates for one of the five major investor-owned electric utilities in the state.
Opportunity 2: Shadow Judge John Markson. "The students would attend court hearings or a trial, and I would explain the context of the proceeding to them. I would be happy to answer any questions they may have about the legal system, the practice of law, law as a career path, the judicial system, and being a judge. If they are here on a Thursday or Friday, they will see one of our treatment courts - drug court or OWI court. I usually keep a light schedule on those afternoons, however, so if the students are here on one of those days, I would try to find hearings in other courts for them to observe."