As seen by the UW Law School. . . Prickly pear cacti in bloom near Chadbourne Hall. Photo by UW Law Library Acquisitions Assistant, Lisa Pfaff.
Year: 2016
Historic Federal Register Volumes Now Freely Available Online
The Law Library of Congress has recently released a full collection of historical volumes of the Federal Register online. The collection begins with the first Federal Register in 1936 and contains all daily volumes through …
Digitize Your Old Photos, Home Movies, Etc. at Madison Public Library
Do you have a collection of analog materials (like home movies, video tapes, audio cassettes) or paper documents (photographs, etc.) that you’d like to digitize but don’t have the equipment to do so? Then check …
Recent UW Law School Faculty Scholarship
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Voting, Spending, and the Right to Participate by Robert Yablon State Judges as …
The Indigo Book – a Free Legal Citation Guide Based on the Bluebook
A free alternative to The Bluebook legal citation guide is now available. The Indigo Book, formerly called “Baby Blue,” is available online without charge in PDF or HTML. To make legal citation more accessible, the …
New Legal Realism Blog Features Reminiscences by UW Law's Galanter & Macaulay
New Legal Realism Conversations is a website devoted to the Law-and-Society movement approach to interdisciplinary legal studies: “We believe that all of the social sciences have a contribution to make to our understanding of law. …
UW Madison Bans E-Cigarettes
According to a recent press release, the University of Wisconsin–Madison smoke-free policy has been updated to include language prohibiting electronic smoking devices such as e-cigarettes. The policy will go into effect on May 1st. See the …
Implementation of Mandatory eFiling in Wisconsin
Last month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court approved a new rule requiring mandatory electronic filing statewide. (Wis. Stat. § 801.18) According to a recent edition of The Third Branch, the quarterly newsletter of the Wisconsin court …
Federal Court to Consider whether PACER Fees are Excessive
From Robert Ambrogi’s Law Sites: A class action lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court in Washington, D.C., challenges the fees charged by PACER, the federal courts’ online court records system, as excessive. The lawsuit seeks …
Article: High Court Won’t Hear Copyright Challenge to Google Books
According to the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, the Supreme Court has denied cert to Authors Guild, et al. v. Google, Inc., in which the Authors Guild and individual writers argued that Google engaged in …