WisconsinEye Marks 5th Anniversary
Congrats to WisconsinEye on its fifth anniversary. WisconsinEye brings gavel-to-gavel, C-SPAN-style nonpartisan coverage of state government and politics to Wisconsin.
Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Congrats to WisconsinEye on its fifth anniversary. WisconsinEye brings gavel-to-gavel, C-SPAN-style nonpartisan coverage of state government and politics to Wisconsin.
Take a look at what life is like at UW Madison and particularly the Law School. The Law School contributed a number of posts to the #UWRightNow campaign, a collaborative multimedia project coordinated by University Communications to chronicle 24 hours at UW–Madison — midnight to midnight on Wednesday, April 18, 2012. You can see them …
My UW Law Library colleague, Jenny Zook, has recently published a very well written article in this month’s AALL Spectrum. The article entitled, Retirements in the Age of Economic Uncertainty, offers an insightful look at how librarian retirements have and have not affected retirees and law libraries.
The Wisconsin State Journal has compiled an interactive online voter guide for the spring general elections in Dane County. It allows Dane County residents to type in their address and call up a ballot with only those races that apply to their address. Then the ballot shows the candidates, their races, and their own statements …
Today’s On This Day in Wisconsin History features the passage of a bill in the Wisconsin Legislature prohibiting denial of admission to the bar on the basis of gender. Here’s more from the State Historical Society: R. Lavinia Goodell was the first woman admitted to the Wisconsin State Bar in 1897. Goodell had first applied …
My colleague Sunil Rao has published a well written book review of The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law, by Albie Sachs. It appears on the AALL Spectrum blog. From the review: In the process of conceiving this book, Justice Albie Sachs–who served on South Africa’s first Constitutional Court from 1994 until his retirement in …
I suspect that most of you know that Google Scholar offers full text federal and state court opinions. But did you know that it also offers a citator similar to (although not as extensive as) Shepards or KeyCite? This feature allows you to find significant citing decisions for a case. Google has recently announced that …
Hack College has created a useful infographic on how to use Google more effectively. It’s targeted toward students, but is helpful to anyone who uses Google – which is just about everyone, right? I found the section on the operators to be the most useful. I’ve long used quotes to search for exact phases and …
GPO Access will officially be shut down on March 16, 2012. Users will be redirected to content on FDsys for at least one year thereafter. For more info, see FDLP Desktop
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Judicial Capacity and the Substance of Constitutional Law by Andrew B. Coan, University of Wisconsin Law School Informing and Reforming the Marketplace of Ideas: The Public-Private Partnership for Data Production and the First Amendment by Shubha Ghosh, …