Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
A team from Texas Tech University School of Law has recently released a very interesting study entitled, Will I Pass the Bar Exam?: Predicting Student Success Using LSAT Scores and Law School Performance. Here’s the abstract: Texas Tech University School of Law has undertaken a statistical analysis of its recent alumni, comparing their performance in …
Professor Mathias Siems of Durham Law School in the UK has recently conducted an interesting analysis of which legal articles generate the most attention on SSRN. His article is entitled, Legal Research in Search of Attention: A Quantitative Assessment. From the abstract: Based on a sample of 1107 papers of SSRN’s Legal Scholarship Network, this …
A collaborative group of librarians from the Library of Congress, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Internet Archive, and several other archives and universities have teamed up on a project to preserve public United States Government websites at the end of the current presidential administration ending January 20, 2017. In this collaboration, the partners will structure and …
If you haven’t yet heard about Harvard’s Caselaw Access Project to digitize millions of pages of case law and make it freely available online, check out this story in Bostonomix. “We want the law, as expressed in court decisions, to be as widely distributed and as available as possible online to promote access to justice …