Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The latest edition of InsideTrack from the Wisconsin State Bar highlights some major improvements in the search capability of Books Unbound. Books UnBound is the subscription-based online library of State Bar of Wisconsin CLE Books. The first improvement is that you can now search across the all of the Books UnBound titles in your subscription. …
This morning, Wisconsin Supreme Court voted 7-0 to keep Wisconsin’s diploma privilege in tact. The justices rejected a proposal from a group of lawyers who wanted to end the practice. Read more at the JS Online blog, Proof and Hearsay, and the Marquette Law School faculty blog.
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Legal Protection of Archaeological Remains on Public Property in the U.S. Virgin Islands by Kim Alderman, University of Wisconsin Law School Controlling Creditor Opportunism by Jonathan C. Lipson, University of Wisconsin Law School Bella’s Case: Parsi Identity …
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 …