Education

J.D., Yale Law School
B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Biography

Renagh O’Leary is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She teaches in the Legal Assistance to Incarcerated People (LAIP) clinic and writes in the areas of criminal law and criminal procedure. Her scholarship has appeared in the Iowa Law Review and the Wisconsin Law Review. Her article Compassionate Release and Decarceration in the States was honored by the Association of American Law Schools as the runner-up in the Criminal Justice Section's 2022 junior scholars paper competition. 

Before joining the UW Law School, O'Leary was a trial attorney at the Bronx Defenders, a public defender’s office committed to an innovative model of holistic representation. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a Comments Editor for the Yale Law Journal and received the C. LaRue Munson Prize for her clinical work. She received her B.A. in political science, with highest honors, from the University of Michigan.