Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
In updating the “Legal Periodicals and Indexes” chapter of the upcoming edition of Fundamentals of Legal Research, I’ve done some digging into the details of two major indexes that will be changing platforms in the very near future: Index to Legal Periodicals and Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals. Index to Legal Periodicals For many years, …
It appears that Jureeka! is now powered by Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII). Jureeka! is a Firefox plugin that turns legal citations in web pages into hyperlinks that point to online legal source material. It’s great for quickly locating statutes, case law, regulations, federal court rules, international law sources, and more. We’ve installed Jureeka! on …
A few weeks ago I posted that Google had discontinued the Google Uncle Sam search engine for government documents. Law Librarian Blog reports that Google has, unfortunately, discontinued a few more things: “The option for Advanced Search no longer appears on the main Google page. You can still get there by going to http://www.google.com/advanced_search. The …
UW Law Profs Stewart Macaulay and Elizabeth Mertz have started a blog called New Legal Realism Conversations. The blog is an extension of the NLR Project webpage started in 2009 and will feature commentary from current contributors and highlights of important legal realist scholarship. Some past topics include: Leading Economists Criticize Rational Choice Models Why …
This week, the New York Times had an interesting article about a digital archive of the Proceedings of the Old Bailey. The archive is a fully searchable collection of criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court including biographical details of the men and women executed at Tyburn. Contains all surviving editions of the Old …
From Government Computer News: Saying that search technology has made some specialized tools unnecessary, Google has discontinued operation the Google.com/UncleSam tool for searching government websites…. “Today, search quality has advanced tremendously, and based on our analysis we’ve found that in most cases you’re better off looking for this kind of specialized information using the regular …
From the AALL Government Relations Office: The Office of the Law Revision Counsel is seeking comments on the new beta version of its website for the U.S. Code. The Office is looking for feedback from law librarians and members of the public about the site’s features, content, and ease of use. The beta site is …
If you’re considering writing an article for a legal publication, check out Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals. This guide, compiled by librarians from the University of Missouri at Kansas City – School of Law, contains information about submitting articles to law reviews and journals, including the methods for submitting an article, …
H.R. 2551, passed by the House of Representatives, would eliminate funding for GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys). “Kirsten Clark, the regional depository librarian at the University of Minnesota and the chair of ALA’s Government Documents Round Table, said the bill and the subsequent House report betrayed a lack of understanding of the GPO’s role as …
The University of Wisconsin Law School is proud to announce the addition of three new faculty members. Cecelia Klingele and Mark Sidel join the UW Law School faculty beginning in the Fall of 2011. Paul Secunda will join the Law School for the summer and the fall semester as Visiting Professor. For more information about …