UW Law School Dean Daniel P. Tokaji took the Attorney’s Oath and was admitted to the Wisconsin Bar during a brief ceremony in the Supreme Court Hearing Room on Jan. 18.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Annette Kingsland Ziegler administers the Attorney’s Oath to UW Law School Dean Daniel P. Tokaji in the Supreme Court Hearing Room Jan. 18.
UW Law School Dean Daniel P. Tokaji moves admission of recent UW Law School grads during a ceremony in the Wisconsin Supreme Court Hearing Room Jan. 18. Justices Ann Walsh Bradley, Jill J. Karofsky and Rebecca Frank Dallet presided and administered the Attorney’s Oath to the new lawyers.
Chief Justice Annette Kingsland Ziegler administered the oath, just minutes before a swearing-in ceremony was held for winter graduates of the UW Law School and Marquette University Law School.
Tokaji, who became dean in 2020, said he was honored to be admitted to the Wisconsin Bar, and especially to be sworn in by Chief Justice Ziegler.
“The Wisconsin legal community has been extraordinary generous in welcoming me since I arrived as Dean of UW Law in 2020, and now I feel like I really belong,” Tokaji said. With my administrative and teaching duties at the Law School, I don’t expect to be practicing law much in the next few years. I will, however, avail myself of my membership by moving the admission of our graduates twice a year… And it was a special privilege to be admitted just ahead of our winter grads and moving their admission this year,” Tokaji said.
Tokaji, who holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and law degree from Yale Law School, was admitted to the California Bar 27 years ago, but has spent much of his career in academia.
Before coming to Wisconsin, he had served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Charles W. Ebersold & Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Professor of Constitutional Law for the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University, where he was a faculty member. He has also previously taught at Harvard Law School, Hong Kong University, and Oxford University.
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