Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The UW Law School has announced the 5th annual outreach workshop series on the theme Global Legal Issues and Wisconsin. The workshops explore the legal and policy implications of global legal issues on Wisconsin. This year’s workshops focus on: renewable energy, global health law, and emerging economies. See the detailed descriptions for more information. The …
From a new Pew survey on Government Online: Government agencies have begun to open up their data to the public, and a surprisingly large number of citizens are showing interest. Some 40% of adult internet users have gone online for raw data about government spending and activities. This includes anyone who has done at least …
The University of Wisconsin Law School is sponsoring a forum this evening on “The Role of Organized Labor in a Democracy.” It will be held Wednesday, March 30, 2011 from 6-8 pm in the Godfrey and Kahn Hall (Law School Room 2260). The forum is open to students, the legal and academic communities, and the …
UW-Madison is sponsoring a capstone event to bring the campus and community together around the important questions regarding race, research involving human subjects and the business of commercializing human-derived biomaterials raised in the book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Co-sponsored by the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, UW Law School, the UW-Madison …
Are you a Zotero user looking to contribute to the community? Need to make Zotero work for you? [What is Zotero?] On Monday, April 11th, join Zotero community developer Avram Lyon, the primary translator reviewer who’s helped to create many translators and has developed for Multilingual Zotero, to learn more about Translator Creation, Citation Style …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. The Sale of Patented Methods: Reconciling On-Sale Bar & Patent Exhaustion Doctrines in Light of In re Kollar & Quanta v. LG by Shubha Ghosh, University of Wisconsin Law School and Lucas Divine The 2006 Procedural and …