The Wisconsin Judicial Council has presented petition to the state Supreme Court proposing “amendments to the Wisconsin rules of discovery in direct response to the unavoidable increase in the discovery of electronically stored information.” From …
Month: April 2009
A Fair(y) Use Tale – Copyright Explained by an Unwitting Cast of Familiar Characters
From Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society: Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank …
Interactive Statistics from Google
Google has recently launched a new search feature that makes it easy to find and compare public data. From the Google Blog: If you go to Google.com and type in [unemployment rate] or [population] followed …
Black's Law Dictionary for iPhone/iTouch
Earlier this month, West launched Black’s Law Dictionary for the iPhone/iPod Touch. The cost? A hefty $49.99, although that is still less than the print edition. This digital version of Black’s 8th edition offers audio …
ATL Career Center Offers Firm Profiles and Comparisons
Above the Law has developed a new site called Career Center for researching information about law firms. In Firm Snapshots, you can view profiles of individual firms, including Compensation, Associate Experience, Billable Hours, Face Time …
The Legal Workshop Aggregates, Simplifies Law Review Articles
The Legal Workshop is a new, free, online magazine featuring articles based on legal scholarship published in the print editions of seven participating law reviews: Stanford Law Review, New York University Law Review, Cornell Law …
Appeals Court Rules that TurnItIn Plagiarism Detection Service Does Not Violate Students' Copyrights
A recent decision from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that students’ copyrights were not violated by plagiarism detection service TurnItIn, even though the works were archived. From ars technica: The federal decision (PDF) …
Case Reversed for Allowing Wikipedia as Evidence
From the North Jersey Crime Examiner: A Bergen County [NJ] judge mistakenly let a collection company lawyer cover a gap in evidence against a credit-card holder by using a Wikipedia page, a state appeals court …
Recent UW Law School Faculty & Staff Scholarship
Recent faculty and staff scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series in SSRN: Rediscovering the Lawyer School: Curriculum Reform in Wisconsin by Keith A. Findley, University of Wisconsin Law …
Email Subscription Problems
I’ve been informed that some subscribers received the following error message this morning informing them that ” ‘University of Wisconsin Law School’ has changed.” We believe that this error was the result of some web …