Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Law Library is pleased to announce that we have recently subscribed to a wonderful new database for federal legislative history research called ProQuest Legislative Insight. It is available to UW Madison students, faculty and staff, or to anyone who visits a campus library. Legislative Insight contains PDFs of numerous publications generated in the course …
UW Law Prof. Marc Galanter has a new book out called “Lawtalk: the Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions.” Like Galanter’s last book entitled “Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture,” this book looks like a lot of fun. WI State Journal columnist, Doug Moe, recently profiled Galanter and the new book. He writes: …
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The UW Madison Campus Libraries recently released a new mobile website at m.library.wisc.edu/s. Note that if you use a mobile device to go to our main home page URL, it will automatically redirect you to the mobile page. The mobile site defaults to a listing of current hours for the campus libraries. To search the …
From the Legal Skills Prof Blog: The Utah Legal Ethics Advisory Committee considered whether an attorney who encouraged a student to breach her agreement by doing firm-related research had committed an ethical violation. The Committee answered in the affirmative finding that an attorney’s misuse of a student’s educational Wexis access is theft of services, a …