Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
By Eric Taylor, Evening Reference Librarian The UW Law School has long been noted as a pioneer in the field of criminal justice research, reform, and practice. Professors such as Frank J. Remington, Herman Goldstein, and Marygold S. Melli led the way forward. The current issue of the American Bar Foundation’s Researching Law (Spring …
I teach an Advanced Legal Research course at the UW Law School. I always conclude with a tour of the Wisconsin State Law Library. This year, we couldn’t be there in person, but Director of Reference Services, Heidi Yelk, kindly paid our class a virtual visit. As in past years, learning about the outstanding – …
Earlier this week, in a 5 to 4 decision, the US Supreme Court held that the annotations in an official state code are ineligible for copyright protection. In Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc., the Court affirmed that the annotations to the Official Code of Georgia Annotated are not eligible for copyright protection because they were created …
This week’s Inside Track from the Wisconsin State Bar features a very interesting interview with Judge Randy Koschnick, Director of Wisconsin State Courts about how the state’s courts are responding to the Wisconsin Supreme Court order to suspended most in-person proceedings through at least April 30th – with some exceptions – and to instead conduct …
In this time of social distancing, many of us have turned to Zoom to communicate with colleagues and clients. But wouldn’t it be nice if there was a video conferencing platform that specifically met the needs of attorneys? Turns out that there is: Legaler is a secure online video chat platform that is specifically designed …
The newest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library is a conversation with Richard Monette, Professor of Law and Director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School. In the episode, Prof. Monette discusses several initiatives he is involved in, including a recent …
We are currently facing an unprecedented time here in the law library, the law school, and the world. With the new COVID-19 virus and subsequent pandemic, we have been met with new fears, new challenges, and even new methods of learning (as we’ve all moved to video conferencing and distance learning). As doctors and healthcare …
On the most recent episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, Jefferson Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Faculty Affiliate with the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Tonya L. Brito, discussed her newly published article, “The Child Support …
The UW Law School is privileged to host the UW Madison Our Shared Future heritage marker from February 24 to March 9. The marker recognizes this land as the ancestral home of the Ho-Chunk Nation and acknowledges the circumstances that led to their forced removal, and honors the Ho-Chunk Nation’s history of resistance and resilience. …
From the Free Law Project: We are happy to announce that we have compiled, collected and analyzed the complete collection of precedential federal tax opinions from the Board of Tax Appeals (1924-1942) and later the United States Tax Court (1942-). Our collection of tax cases spans two courts, nearly a century, and comprises nearly twenty-four …