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  2. Year: 2021
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Month: July 2021

Researching Local Law – Municipal & County Legislation, Tracking, & Legislative History

Posted on July 30, 2021

When researching a legal issue, local laws are an often overlooked resource.  Municipal and county governments pass ordinances on a variety of topics, including administrative procedures, standards of conduct, and zoning.  Although many of these …

Posted in Legislation & Regs

How Does Your Garden Grow? With a Little Help from Madison Public Library’s Seed Library

Posted on July 28, 2021

Who knew that you could borrow seeds from the Madison Public Library?  A lot of people, apparently.  So far this year, the Madison Public Library’s Seed Library has given away nearly 2,000 seed packets, including flowers, …

Posted in Libraries & Librarians, Life

Bluebook Revises Rule for Citing Cases Involving Enslaved Persons

Posted on July 26, 2021

In response to concerns raised by the Citing Slavery Project, the Bluebook has made a rare between-edition change to rule 10.7.1 on citation to cases.  This change is reflected in the 2021 printing of The …

Posted in Uncategorized

Google Will Soon Explain How It Found Search Results

Posted on July 23, 2021

Reuters reports that Google will soon show its search engine users more information about why it found the results they are shown.  Users will be able to click into details such as how their result …

Posted in Search Engines

UW Law Library Unveils 2021 Faculty READ Poster Featuring Professor Mitra Sharafi

Posted on July 19, 2021

The UW Law Library has been creating beautiful READ Posters highlighting our amazing faculty as a part of National Library Week for the past 15 years.  Thanks to Covid, this year’s poster was delayed, but …

Posted in Libraries & Librarians, UW Law School

WI Law In Action Podcast: Sumudu Atapattu on a Holistic and Intersectional Approach to Environmental Justice

Posted on July 14, 2021

On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, host Emma Babler interviews Sumudu Atapattu, Director of the Research Centers at UW Law School.  Atapattu discusses discusses her …

Posted in Podcasts, UW Law School

Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Clinical Education at WI, Race-Based Remedies in Criminal Law, the Federalist Constitution, and the NCAA in the Supreme Court

Posted on July 6, 2021

Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “Clinics at Wisconsin: Comprehensive, In-Depth Pedagogy and Bottom-Up Innovation” 2021 Wisconsin Law Review 409 …

Posted in Legal Publications, UW Law School

Wisconsin Expands eFiling to Appellate Courts

Posted on July 2, 2021

As of July 1, electronic filing is mandatory for attorneys who practice in the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.  The Wisconsin Supreme Court will launch an eFiling pilot program on a select set of cases by …

Posted in Courts

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