Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Two news items involving historical Wisconsin statutes: A Capital Times writer authenticates Wikipedia claim that the nation’s first open records law was passed in Wisconsin shortly after it became a state. WI Revised Statutes, 1849 – Chapter 10, Section 137 required every sheriff, circuit court clerk, county board clerk, register of deeds and county treasurer …
A big manila envelope from the New York Times was in my mailbox today. Hmm, I didn’t request anything from them lately. It was from none other than Robert Pear, NYT Washington Bureau reporter, whom I “met” a while back via his response to something I posted on WisBlawg. He was thoughtful enough to send …
This is one of those odd-ball posts that I like to sometimes share. It has nothing to do with law or libraries, but I just thought it was so awesome. Boing Boing reports on a unique item up for auction: “Brian Sack offers to drive a person of your choice crazy with mysterious postcards from …
From the Appleton Post-Crescent: A new law that gives police quick access to public library surveillance video showing suspected criminal activity was put to use two days after the legislation took effect. See the full article for details. See my earlier post for information about the new legislation.
From the HeinOnline Weblog: Next month, HeinOnline will release an enhancement that will allow you to search an Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law Database. The database was created from the Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law publication, which is compiled and edited by Roy M. Mersky and Donald J. Dunn and has …
I learned today that full-time professors of law, economics, or accounting may sign up for complimentary access to Tax Analysts Campus. The purpose of Tax Analysts Campus is to provide professors an opportunity to teach with, and students to learn with, Tax Analysts’ news and research products. These products include: Tax Notes Today (Daily) Tax …
I ran across this announcement today on the Wisconsin Sentencing Commission Web site: The Wisconsin Sentencing Commission and its statutory provisions under
A question about citation management software on the ALL-SIS listserv reminded me that I haven’t yet posted about EndNote’s addition of the Bluebook citation style. Previously, the only product of which I was aware that supported Bluebook was Citation Legal Edition. [What is citation management software?] I learned about this back in August when Web …
Last week, the popular blogging software, Movable Type announced that they are now open source. This means you can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose you choose. Read more at the Movable Type blog. Source: Boing Boing
Beginning in 2008, the MBA Messenger will be published quarterly in a stand alone magazine format. Milwaukee Bar Association members will continue to receive it by mail, but it will no longer be included with the Wisconsin Law Journal. Source: MBA Messenger, Dec 2007 – Thanks to Bill Ebbott for the tip.