Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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 …
Looking for a good restaurant in the Madison area? Check out our map of restaurants recommended by UW Law School faculty and staff. You can access it via the Web or on a smart mobile phone. To use the mobile version, first, install the Google Maps for Mobile app on your device. It is available …
UW Law Professor, Brad Snyder is a featured commentator in the HBO Sports Documentary “The Curious Case of Curt Flood”. The documentary examines Curt Flood’s Supreme Court lawsuit against baseball’s reserve clause. Snyder’s role in the documentary is featured in today’s New York Times and Houston Chronicle. He is the author of A Well-Paid Slave: …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. How Nations Share by Allison Christians, University of Wisconsin Law School Toward a Reality-Based Constitutional Theory by Andrew B. Coan, University of Wisconsin Law School Transparent and Commercialized?: Managing the Public-Private Model for Data Production and Use …