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Brady Williamson is a constitutional and corporate litigator who has taught periodically at the University of Wisconsin Law School for more than 20 years. Brady is a member of the firm's Business Finance and Restructuring Practice and Media Law Groups. He has successfully represented clients in the U.S. Supreme Court, and he often has appeared in the federal and state appellate courts. Since late 2004, he has been involved in constitutional and election law projects in Iraq, Sudan and Ukraine, traveling frequently to Baghdad and East Africa to work with the committees drafting new national and regional constitutions. His constitutional work has been sponsored, under a grant from the U.S. government, by the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, a nonprofit organization working to strengthen and expand democracy world-wide. He also has served on the public advisory committees formed by U.S. Senators Russell Feingold (D.-WI) and Herb Kohl (D.-WI) to help evaluate U.S. Supreme Court nominees. In the United States, Brady's legal practice focuses on appellate advocacy and corporate law and reorganization. He has argued and won a U.S. Supreme Court case that addressed the relationship between federal and state law, and he has litigated a wide range of Equal Protection, Due Process and First Amendment cases, including media law and election law and campaign finance disputes. In 1996, Brady was appointed by the President of the United States to chair the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, which submitted its 1,300-page report to Congress, the Chief Justice and the President on October 20, 1997. Brady is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference, whose membership is limited to 60 academics, judges, and practitioners with a particular focus on bankruptcy law. He is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the American College of Bankruptcy. Brady is a 1975 graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center.
Honors
2006 recipient of the University of Wisconsin Law School's Warren H. Stolper Award, recognizing excellence in teaching and a commitment to the law school by an adjunct professor.
Best First Amendment Lawyers
Best Bankruptcy Lawyers in America
Top 50 Lawyers in Wisconsin
Publications
(Partial list)
"Democratic Institutions in Sudan: More Than Just a Promise?," Wisconsin International Law Journal (25 Wis. Int'l L.J. 313 (2007)); paper presented at the World Congress of Constitutional Law, Athens, Greece, June 11-15, 2007
Commentaries: "Courting Failure? The Effects of Venue Choice on Big Bankruptcies," Buffalo Law Review (2006)
Symposium: Weapons of Mass Destruction, National Security and a Free Press: Seminal Issues as Viewed Through the Lens of the Progressive Case, Cardozo Law Review (2005)
Co-author, "State Constitutions: The Shopping Mall Cases," Wisconsin Law Review (1998)
"Bankruptcy, The Need for Balance," Mississippi College Law Review (1998)
In the News
November 29, 2006 - Brady Williamson was featured in, "The Supreme Thrill: Four Wisconsin Attorneys Talk About Taking Their Cases All the Way to the Supreme Court." (2006 Wisconsin Super Lawyers & Rising Stars)
Seminars & Events
Constitution-building in Africa post-1989, Global Legal Studies Initiative - Oct 15, 2005
Constitution-building in Iraq - Sep 14, 2005
Admitted to Practice
Wisconsin - 1975
Court Admissions
United States District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin
United States District Court, Western District of Wisconsin
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
United States Supreme Court
Activities
National Bankruptcy Review Commission (1996-97)
Education
Juris Doctor, Georgetown University Law Center, 1975.
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