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Year: 2017

A stopgap measure for eliminating Supreme Court Link Rot

Posted on March 11, 2017

  Link Rot is a pervasive problem in the legal community – so much so that Supreme Court opinions are sometimes riddled with cites to websites that no longer exist, which undermines the entire concept …

Posted in Legal Professionals, Web

CourtListener Frees the Law

Posted on March 9, 2017

The following blog post was written by Eric Taylor, Evening Reference Librarian at the University of Wisconsin Law School Library CourtListener is a powerful new free legal research website sponsored by the non-profit Free Law …

Posted in Legal Assistance, Public Information, Research Strategies, Search Engines, Web

SEC Adopts Final Rules to Require Hyperlinks to Exhibits in Filings

Posted on March 6, 2017

This post was authored by Jenny Zook, Reference and Instructional Services Librarian at the UW Law School Library. SEC has adopted a final rule requiring public companies to include hyperlinks in their exhibit index, making …

Posted in Legal Professionals, Legislation & Regs

Making case law accessible to all

Posted on February 24, 2017

There have been some very exciting advances in the fight to make court documents more freely accessible to everyone. As many legal researchers and law librarians are aware, many legal materials can be relatively rare …

Posted in Digitization, Legal Professionals, Public Information, Web

Position Annoucement: Reference and Technology Services Librarian

Posted on January 30, 2017

The University of Wisconsin Law School Library invites applications for the position of Reference and Technology Librarian. The Reference and Technology Librarian will be responsible for promoting and implementing technology that will support faculty, students …

Posted in Legal Professionals, UW Law School

WI Historical Society Preserves Text from Scrubbed DNR & other Government Websites

Posted on January 4, 2017

Last month the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that “the state Department of Natural Resources recently scrubbed language from an agency web page on the Great Lakes that said humans and greenhouse gases are the main …

Posted in Data & Databases, Search Engines

Study Suggests that Law Clerks Influence Voting on the Supreme Court

Posted on January 3, 2017

A new study on SSRN examines whether law clerks exert any influence on voting by Supreme Court justices.  According to authors Adam Bonica, Adam Chilton, Jacob Goldin, Kyle Rozema, & Maya Sen, there is indeed …

Posted in Courts
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