Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Smoking Gun reports that “in what is surely a first for the federal judiciary, a Texas bankruptcy judge has quoted from the Adam Sandler film canon in a recent opinion. Dismissing a motion due to ‘incomprehensibility,’ Judge Leif Clark cited a scene from ‘Billy Madison,’ Sandler’s 1995 comedy, in a footnote to a February …
From Dane 101: The University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has hooked up a webserver to the internet and issued a general challenge for people to hack it in an attempt to prove that Mac OS X is a fairly secure operating system. The challenge comes as a response to another contest reported …
Law librarians have a lot to say and a lot to teach about legal research… By writing articles for… law-related publications, librarians can reach out beyond our own organizations and offer research guidance to a much wider audience… Just as importantly, writing articles for legal journals and publications helps law librarians build a higher profile …
In an interesting survey, BluePlateSpecial.net found that all but fourteen of America’s 100 largest newspapers also published one or more blogs. Most blogs are devoted to a specific topic, such as politics, law, sports, lifestyle, etc. Locally, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel blogs (#41) made the list. The Wisconsin State Journal also has a blog. Source: …
Cougar, a Madison-based instrumental post-rock band, had sampled UW Law Prof and blogger, Ann Althouse’s voice on two songs from its debut album, Law, including the first track, “Atlatl.” From the Isthmus: “Atlatl” is available for listening on Cougar’s myspace profile, where it was uploaded in early February. The song is a moderately-paced guitar instrumental …
Cougar, a Madison-based instrumental post-rock band, had sampled UW Law Prof and blogger, Ann Althouse’s voice on two songs from its debut album, Law, including the first track, “Atlatl.” From the Isthmus: “Atlatl” is available for listening on Cougar’s myspace profile, where it was uploaded in early February. The song is a moderately-paced guitar instrumental …
The blog for this summer’s American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting in St. Louis is already up. The AALL Gateway will feature news, announcements and informational pieces about the upcoming meeting (and birthday celebration), as well as stories, tips and other items of interest for conference attendees. AALL is recruiting “Gateway Bloggers” to report …
The blog for this summer’s American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting in St. Louis is already up. The AALL Gateway will feature news, announcements and informational pieces about the upcoming meeting (and birthday celebration), as well as stories, tips and other items of interest for conference attendees. AALL is recruiting “Gateway Bloggers” to report …
The March 2006 edition of WSLL @ Your Service is out and it’s a good one. Heidi Yelk explores some of the electronic resources available at the Wisconsin State Law Library and Connie Von Der Heide shares the schedule of upcoming library events. It appears as though they have a very nice slate of workshops …
My colleague, Jenny Zook, has written a short article on click to donate sites for the UW Law School Newsletter. These sites donate part of their advertising revenue to charity whenever you use their search engine or click on an advertisement from their home page.