University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: June 2011

Law Journal Rankings

Would you like to know which are the top law journals in a specific area of law? Want to submit your article for publication to a law journal? Then check out the Law Journals Submissions and Ranking database from Washington & Lee School of Law.* With this deceptively powerful resource, you can retrieve a list …

Current Law Journal Content Has Ceased Updates

I was disappointed to learn that Current Law Journal Content, from Washington and Lee Law School, ceased to be updated in May 2011. CLJC was a free service through which you could search and subscribe to current tables of contents from over a thousand law journals.

Compiling Lists of Most Cited Law Review Articles

Last week, a faculty member asked me to compile a list of the 100 most cited law review articles in Constitutional law. It turned out to be much easier than I thought it would be, so I thought I’d share how I did it. In the Hein Online Law Journal Library, go to the advanced …

IL Moves to Public Domain Citation

Effective July 1st, Illinois will join Wisconsin and about a dozen other states in using public domain case citation. Although the changes require official citation to the public-domain numbering and paragraph scheme, they continue to allow parallel citations to the unofficial regional reporters such as the North East Reporter and Illinois Decisions. For more, see …

Redaction Failures in PACER Documents

A few years ago, a survey by Carl Malamud revealed that PACER contained more than 1600 cases in which litigants submitted documents with unredacted Social Security numbers. Now Timothy B. Lee of the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy has found thousands more PACER documents in which parties tried to redact sensitive information but the …