Today’s Inside Track from the Wisconsin State Bar introduces recent law grads to 5 Resources Every New Lawyer Should Know. The article features resources from the WI State Bar and WI State Law Library and offers …
Wisconsin Jury Instructions Now Available via Westlaw
Following the announcement earlier this year that the Wisconsin Jury Instructions (Civil, Criminal, and Children’s) are now freely available online on the Wisconsin State Law Library website, legal professionals may now also access them via …
How to Securely Manage Hundreds of Passwords
In the US, the average email address is associated with 130 different online accounts, according to a study by DigitalGuardian. By my count, I have about 500. That’s a lot of passwords to manage. The …
WI Law In Action Podcast: Bonnie Shucha on Law Faculty Scholarly Impact & Visibility
On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, host Kris Turner interviewed me, Bonnie Shucha, Associate Dean and Director of the Law Library. I discuss my recent …
Senior Faculty Publish as Many Articles and More Books, Book Chapters than Younger Colleagues
Contrary to assertions that senior faculty tend to be less productive, Inside Higher Ed reports that a new study of academic productivity says that older professors publish as much as their younger colleagues. These senior …
Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Alternative Model for the Islamic Marriage Contract and Environmental Justice & Sustainable Development
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “A Meditation on Mahr, Modernity, and Muslim Marriage Contract Law” by ASIFA QURAISHI-LANDES (UW …
Plagiarized Articles Warn of the Evils of Plagiarism
Professor Brian L. Frye of University of Kentucky – College of Law recently published to SSRN an interesting trilogy of articles about plagiarism norms. Why so interesting? Because the articles themselves were completely plagiarized. In …
Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Corporate Governance Gap, Invisible Rules that Govern use of Force, Law Faculty Scholarly Impact, & Challenging James Madison as Father of the Constitution
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “The Corporate Governance Gap” 131 Yale L. J. (Forthcoming) by YARON NILI (UW Law) and …
New Article Highlights UW Law’s Pioneering, Bottom-Up Innovative Clinical Education Program
A new article by Professors Keith A. Findley and Louise G. Trubek highlights the unique strengths of the clinical legal education program at the University of Wisconsin Law School. The article is entitled Clinics at …
“Paving the Way” Explores 1st American Women Law Professors, including UW’s own Margo Melli
Paving the Way: the First American Women Law Professors, the long-awaited book by Herma Hill Kay, former Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law who passed away in 2017, tells the stories of the first …