Prickly Pear Cacti in Bloom near Law School
As seen by the UW Law School. . . Prickly pear cacti in bloom near Chadbourne Hall. Photo by UW Law Library Acquisitions Assistant, Lisa Pfaff.
Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
As seen by the UW Law School. . . Prickly pear cacti in bloom near Chadbourne Hall. Photo by UW Law Library Acquisitions Assistant, Lisa Pfaff.
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 1993. For more information, see the announcement from the Law Library of Congress.
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 out the Madison Public Library Central Branch’s new Personal Archiving Lab. The Personal Archiving Lab supports the following formats: VHS …
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 Guardians of Federalism: Resisting the Federal Arbitration Act’s Encroachment on State Law by David S. Schwartz Correcting Federalism Mistakes in …
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 team behind The Indigo Book, led by Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org, separated the widely used system of citation codified in …
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. ” Since January, the NLRC blog has featured reminiscences by UW Law School Professors Marc Galanter and Stewart Macaulay. Most …
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 full press release for more information.
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 system, the mandatory eFiling rule takes effect July 1 but will be phased in gradually over the next three years. …
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 to obtain relief on behalf of “all individuals and entities who have paid fees for the use of PACER within …
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 copyright infringement “on an epic scale” by digitizing, indexing, and displaying snippets of print books in internet search results. From …