Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The UW Madison has released a free iPhone app called Mobile UW. Keep up to date on campus news, events and sports. Or find your way around campus on foot, car or by Madison Metro bus. Or watch campus video content, along with other handy features. Features: Campus map: Navigate the UW-Madison campus. View all …
From the John Marshall Law School Library blog: Examples and Explanations, the popular series of study guides, are available online via Google Books. Aspen Publishers has made extensive previews of the titles available for FREE. The full content of each title is not included in the preview, but you will find that a large majority …
Odd Wisconsin, from the Wisconsin Historical Society, is one of my favorite web sites. As a history buff, I love the quirky little tidbits they dig up from the archives. Last week it was a tale of some very creative detective work in an unsolved 19th century murder involving a rope, a barrel, and … …
2009 Wisconsin Act 220, which prohibits electronic text messaging and electronic mail messaging while driving, takes effect Dec 1, 2010. Specifically, the Act creates s. 346.89(3), which states: “No person may drive, as defined in s. 343.305(1)(b), any motor vehicle while composing or sending an electronic text message or an electronic mail message.” Violators are …
The Special Committee on Review of Records Access of Circuit Court Documents met this past Thursday, Nov. 4th. The video and audio of this meeting are available via Wisconsin Eye. Memorandum, reports and documents mentioned during the meeting are available on the Special Committee’s page on the Legislative Council’s website. The Chair, Rep. Kelda Helen …
The Milwaukee Public Library has recently acquired the Digital Sanborn Atlases which contains very detailed, large-scale maps of Wisconsin towns and cities from 1867-1970. The maps were created by the Sanborn Map Company for fire insurance purposes. They detail buildings and their construction materials and were used to assess potential risk from fire and other …
One of my favorite games is called Origins. It’s a trivia game about the origins of customs, cliches, inventions, words and superstitions. Why do we say “break a leg” to wish someone good luck? Or why might we say someone is “mad as a hatter”? Mental Floss had a post the other day on the …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. High Seas Shipwreck Pits Treasure Hunters Against a Sovereign Nation: The Black Swan Case by Kim Alderman, University of Wisconsin Law School Understanding Failure: Examiners and the Bankruptcy Reorganization of Large Public Companies by Jonathan C. Lipson, …
The Government Printing Office has recently released a federated (combined) search engine for multiple databases compiled by the federal government. The new search engine called MetaLib includes reference databases, digital repositories and subject-based Web gateways. View a complete list of all current resources that can be accessed in MetaLib. For more info, see the FDLP …
This weekend, third year law students at the University of Wisconsin will honor an almost century long tradition (no one knows for sure) of the homecoming cane parade and toss. A recent article in On Wisconsin describes the tradition: When they arrive in the shadow of the Field House, students toss their canes over the …