WisconsinEye, Wisconsin’s nonprofit public affairs network is back online for the month of February after going dark for about seven weeks due to a lack of funding. On Monday, the Joint Committee on Legislative Organization …
Joshua Braver Examines When Military Officers Should Disobey Orders on WI Law in Action Podcast
The latest episode of the Wisconsin Law in Action podcast features Professor Joshua Braver discussing his research on a particularly thorny question: when should military officers disobey orders that are lawful but unethical? Braver’s recent …
Elizabeth Manriquez Explores the Polarizing Legacy of Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kent Kuhn on WI Law in Action Podcast
The latest episode of the Wisconsin Law in Action podcast features Elizabeth Manriquez, Head of Reference and Scholarly Communication at the UW Law Library, discussing her chapter in the book Attorneys in the Baseball Hall …
UW Law School Winter Ethics CLE Seminar Series Returns January 27-29
Each January, the UW Law School offers a series of Ethics CLE seminars. Once again, I have the pleasure of presenting on GenAI with my Law Library colleague, Kris Turner. If you’re interested in attending …
NotebookLM for Lawyers: AI That Focuses on Your Documents
Legal work runs on documents. Case files, contracts, discovery materials, correspondence – they accumulate. Whether you’re building a timeline from scattered dates, searching for contradictions in witness statements, or extracting key clauses from multiple agreements, …
Monitoring Webpage Changes with Visualping
Have you ever been frustrated that some important websites don’t offer email alerts or RSS feeds? Manually keeping track of changes can be very time-consuming. Fortunately, website monitoring tools solve this problem by automatically watching …
Spring Semester Planning? Explore UW Law’s Legal Hypothetical Archive
While WisBlawg typically focuses on resources for practicing attorneys, this post highlights a tool that may be of interest to any readers who teach legal research and writing or know faculty members preparing courses. As …
WisconsinEye to Suspend Coverage Dec. 15 Due to Funding Shortfall
WisconsinEye, the statewide public affairs network that broadcasts Wisconsin capitol proceedings, will stop event coverage on December 15 due to lack of funding, according to a statement on their website. Their archive of more than …
When America Celebrated Two Thanksgivings
This post originally appeared in UW Law Library News and was written by Scott Park, Digital Collections and Reference Librarian. As we approach Thanksgiving, you might assume the fourth Thursday of November has always been …
Is a Change to Wisconsin’s Statutory Interpretation Framework Imminent?
For two decades, Wisconsin courts have followed the approach to statutory interpretation established in State ex rel. Kalal v. Circuit Court for Dane County, 2004 WI 58, 271 Wis. 2d 633, 681 N.W.2d 110. As …