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 …
Year: 2009
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 …
Intellectual Life at the UW Law School
The University of Wisconsin Law School has created a new page entitled Intellectual Life which features the research and scholarship of the faculty and staff. On the page, you’ll find audio recordings of recent presentations, …