Forget the Weather – What's the Mosquito Activity Forecast?
Here’s a fun one from The Weather Channel: the Mosquito Activity Forecast. Ok – maybe not fun. More like scary… useful… educational… Thanks to Bev Butula for passing it on in her WLJ blog.
Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Here’s a fun one from The Weather Channel: the Mosquito Activity Forecast. Ok – maybe not fun. More like scary… useful… educational… Thanks to Bev Butula for passing it on in her WLJ blog.
The latest InsideTrack from the State Bar of Wisconsin has an excellent guide on Investigating Wisconsin Administrative Rules. Author, Bev Butula writes: Many issues we research center around the rules established by administrative agencies. It is often beneficial to gather background information, reports, and analysis similar to a legislative history when investigating a specific rule. …
From the Gov Docs list: The Library of Congress added its fourth blog today entitled In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress (http://blogs.loc.gov/law/). In Custodia Legis is Latin for in the custody of the law. One role of the Law Library of Congress is to be a custodian of law and legislation. As part of …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Libertarian Paternalism, Externalities, and the ‘Spirit of Liberty’: How Thaler and Sunstein are Nudging Us Toward an ‘Overlapping Consensus’ by Anuj C. Desai Review of ‘Judges Beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile’ by Alexandra …
Zimmerman’s Legal Research Guide is a tremendous resource for discovering the best resources in specific areas of law. I often use the online encyclopedia when I’m presented with a research question on an unfamiliar topic. Zimmerman’s guide is well known among the law librarian community – and rightly so. With addition of a new Zimmerman’s …
Looks like the 2011 Conference for Law School Computing (CALI Conference) will be held at Marquette Law School next summer. I can’t wait to attend! From John Mayer posted to the Teknoids list: Just got back from a visit to the amazing new building that Marquette has built for their law school. I am delighted …
Wisconsin Attorney General Van Hollen recently issued a memorandum addressing the practical impact of the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court case, Schill v. Wisconsin Rapids School District. In Schill, the Court held that the Public Records Law (Wis. Stat. 19.31-19.39) does not require the disclosure of the contents of purely personal e-mails sent or received on …
From PC Magazine: The Copyright Office within the LOC on Monday ruled that jailbreaking a smartphone – particularly Apple’s iPhone – is permissible under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) fair use provisions. From Search Engine Watch: [The Copyright Office also] granted an exemption for people remixing videos on YouTube, declaring it is not a …
In celebration of its 75th anniversary, the Federal Register launched a new online edition this week. From the press release: Federal Register 2.0 features a new layout that organizes the content by topics similar to a newspaper Web site. The site displays individual sections for Money, Environment, World, Science and Technology, Business and Industry, and …
UW–Madison experts, including several Law School faculty and staff, have been appointed to 12 special committees the Wisconsin Legislature created to study emerging state issues and make recommendations for the 2011-12 legislative session. Law school appointees include: Criminal Justice Funding and Strategies: Ben Kempinen Judicial Discipline and Recusal: David Schultz Records Access of Circuit Court …