State Bar of Wisconsin recently launched an improved interface for their Books UnBound online digital library. The collection includes State Bar treatises, aka “the brown binders,” the Wisconsin Attorney’s Desk Reference, Wisconsin Judicial Benchbooks, and …
Tools for Tracking Federal and Wisconsin Lobbying
Over $52 million was spent on lobbying in Wisconsin in 2021. Nationally, total lobbying spending amounted to a whopping $3.73 billion. You can follow the money with these tools. Lobbying in Wisconsin from the Wisconsin …
Pros & Cons of a Law Faculty Scholarly Impact Ranking using SSRN Downloads
Yesterday, I blogged about new scholarship by Rob Willey, Melanie Knapp, and Ashley Matthews at George Mason University Law Library that explores how and why women are frequently underrepresented in law scholarly impact rankings and …
New Scholarship Explores Underrepresentation of Women in Law Scholarly Impact Rankings & Proposes Alternative Metric
Several studies have found that women tend to publish less frequently than men. However, research also shows that, per publication, women tend to be cited at the same or higher rates than men. New scholarship by …
WI Law In Action Podcast: Rob Yablon on the Use of “Gerrylaundering” to Lock in Favorable Voting Districts
On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, host Kris Turner interviews UW Law School Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the State Democracy Research Initiative, …
All Publications & Supporting Data from Federally Funded Research must be Openly Accessible from First Publication by 2026
In a surprise announcement yesterday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released new guidance that starting in 2026, any publications and supporting data resulting from federally funded research must be openly …
New Positions for Liz Manriquez and BJ Ramsay in the UW Law Library
Two members of the UW Law Library staff have recently taken on new positions with expanded responsibilities. Liz Manriquez, formerly Scholarly Communications and Reference Librarian, is now Head of Reference and Scholarly Support. In this …
Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Countering the New Election Subversion: The Democracy Principle and the Role of State Courts; Reliance; and Law and Public Policy: What Is It, Skills of Practitioners and Researchers, Research Designs and Methods, Law School Courses
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “Countering the New Election Subversion: The Democracy Principle and the Role of State Courts” Wis. …
Three Sources on the Respect for and Availability of Tribal Law
Today, in the United States, there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes. These sovereign Nations produce thousands of statutes, regulations, and judicial opinions each year. However, there is a lot of uncertainty and misunderstanding …
New, Easier Way to Make Federal Court Documents Freely Available via RECAP
If you routinely access federal dockets and court documents, you may already know that you can get some documents free from the RECAP Archive, a database of millions of PACER documents and dockets maintained by …