Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From the U.S. Government Printing Office: The sunset of GPO Access is planned for the end of 2010. At this time, FDsys will assume the role as GPO’s electronic system of record. Migration of all content from GPO Access to FDsys will be complete by October 2010, and the two systems will run in parallel …
Next month the UW Madison is hosting a free program called Putting the Wisconsin Idea Online. The program will highlight how campus researchers have used the Web to fulfill the Wisconsin Idea by making their research available not only throughout Wisconsin, but all over the world. When: 19 October 2010, 9am – 4pm Where: Memorial …
From the State Bar of Wisconsin news: The State Bar of Wisconsin’s Board of Governors voted 32-6 to oppose a petition submitted by 71 Wisconsin attorneys that would expand Wisconsin’s diploma privilege to out-of-state law school graduates or repeal it altogether. Read more in the full post.
Today’s New York Times offers a very interesting look at the political and administrative decisions behind President Obama’s visit to the UW Madison campus yesterday, as well as the logistical details.
3 Geeks and a Law Blog reports on two opinions from NY regarding access to both public and private Facebook posts. Bottom line in New York (and possibly every place else in the United States): Expect everything you post on Facebook or MySpace to be considered public information by the courts, and don’t expect that …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Historic, Comparative and Evolutionary Analysis of Tax Systems by Allison Christians, University of Wisconsin Law School The Law of Global Space: Rethinking the Legalization of World Politics by David M. Trubek, University of Wisconsin Law School and …
The Wisconsin Law Journal recently launched a website redesign. The layout is very clean and attractive and offers lots of web 2.0 features such as alerts, RSS feeds, Twitter and Facebook feeds and more. One thing to note, however: If you previously subscribed to any of the WLJ RSS feeds, you’ll need to resubscribe now …
Starting in January 2011, Wisconsin legislative proposals (bills, amendments, and resolutions) will display a graphic code called a “matrix code” that contains a URL, or hyperlink. From the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau: With an Internet-connected cell phone, you can scan the matrix code to display an associated Web page. If the proposal has been introduced, …
From Found in Wisconsin The Elections Division of the WI Government Accountability Board provides information to look up voter registration and polling place location, look up polling place location for an address, and check provisional vote status by using the Voter Public Access link. The site also contains information on alternative sources for polling place …
Next month, the University of Wisconsin Law School and the Institute for Legal Studies is hosting conference for faculty, staff, law students, and visiting scholars entitled Legal Education Reform after Carnegie: Bringing Law-in-Action into the Law School Classroom. The conference will be held October 22-23, 2010. Intellectual Overview: This conference takes its impetus from a …