Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
From LegalMatch Law Blog: Lawyers frequently have to explain to clients the myriad reasons why their cases didn’t go as expected. In any given civil or criminal case, there are usually a range of legal factors to consider, many beyond the control of the parties. But what about non-legal factors? A new study published in …
Books UnBound, the database of online CLE Books from the State Bar of Wisconsin, has added some new features recently. My favorite new feature is the ability to search across your entire Books UnBound library from the home page. You can also now access Books UnBound from your mobile device. Other features include the ability …
The Wisconsin Law Journal has a thoughtful article on the challenges facing new UW Law School Dean, Margaret Raymond – specifically the issues of economics and autonomy.
Margaret Raymond has been named dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School. See the press release for more info.
Access to the appellate briefs and appendices in the Wisconsin Briefs database has been brought to you by the successful and collaborative effort of the staff at the State Law Library, who generates the scanned images, and the staff at the UW Law Library, who host this database on their website. Due to the adoption …