Howie Erlanger is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Emeritus Voss-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he served as Director of the Institute for Legal Studies (1999-2013) and of the undergraduate Legal Studies Program (2007-2013), and where he taught in various capacities from 1971-2025. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He has been active in LSA for close to 60 years and has served as President (2003-2005), Secretary (2000-2003), and Treasurer (2018-2021). He has served on the Budget and Finance Committee, where he led the effort to rationalize LSA finances and investments, since its inception in 2008. He has received the LSA Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award (2010) and the Ron Pipkin Service Award (2020).  Since 1982 he has been Review Section Editor of Law and Social Inquiry, where he has solicited and edited well over 500 article-length review essays. In that role, he has placed special emphasis on representing multiple perspectives and methodologies and on working with new scholars in the field. His research has focused primarily on the careers of lawyers in public interest practice, the socialization of law students, and the role of professionals in organizational dispute resolution and in compliance with legal mandates (in collaboration with the late Lauren Edelman).