Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Wisconsin State Law Library recently announced the appointment of Amy Crowder as the Wisconsin State Law Librarian. Amy has been with the library since 1994 and most recently served as Deputy Law Librarian, a position she has held since 2012. Amy has extensive professional experience in collection development and management, system administration of the …
AI-based tools to support government decisionmaking, implementation, and interaction are already at work in many federal agencies. Yet little is known about how agencies acquire, use, and oversee such AI systems. In an effort to fill these gaps, the Administrative Conference of the United States commissioned a report from researchers at Stanford University and New …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. The Giant Shadow of Corporate Gadflies by Yaron Nili, University of Wisconsin Law School and Kobi Kastiel, Tel Aviv University – Buchmann Faculty of Law, Harvard Law School, Program on Corporate Governance China’s Economic Transition …
Urban Milwaukee reports on the loss of access to the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel archives. The Encyclopedia of Milwaukee is a a Digital Humanities Project sponsored by the History Department in the College of Letters and Science at UW-Milwaukee. The growing database includes “approximately 700 entries on Milwaukee history topics ranging from arts and culture to …
On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, Assistant Professor Yaron Nili discusses his recently published article, Board Diversity by Term Limits?, coauthored with Darren Rosenblum. The article explores the connection between term limits and gender diversity on corporate boards. One of the key problems when you …
HeinOnline recently announced that it has integrated its author profiles with ORCID enabling authors of legal publications to connect their ORCID iD with their Hein author profile. If you’re following the news on US News & World Report’s new law school scholarly impact ranking, this is potentially a pretty big deal. So what’s ORCID? ORCID provides …
Earlier this week, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging the legality of fees charged by the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system. The suit, NVLSP v. U.S., was brought by three national nonprofit organizations (the National Veterans Legal Services Program, the National …
On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, Professor Keith A. Findley discusses three recent works: “The Science and Law Underlying Post-Conviction Challenges to Shaken Baby Syndrome Convictions: A Response to Professor Imwinkelried” 48 Seton Hall Law Review 1209 (2018). “Reducing Error in the Criminal Justice System” 48 Seton …
With all of the sensitive and confidential information entrusted to attorneys, data security is an essential part of doing business. In Wisconsin, attorneys have an ethical obligation to understand the importance of computer security as outlined by Wisconsin Ethics Opinion EF-15-01: Ethical Obligations of Attorneys Using Cloud Computing. It states: “A lawyer may use cloud computing …
Interested in state constitutional issues? Check out the new state constitutional electronic collection from the Rutgers Law Library. The collection contains Constitutions, Constitutional Convention records, and other related documents for the constitutions of the 50 United States. Browse documents by state or do an individual or combined search across all 50 states.