As a legal historian, I’m a big fan of Hein’s Session Law Library which contains the session laws of all 50 U.S. states as well as Canada, Australia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and the D.C. …
Month: September 2021
New Database of Federal Judicial Financial Disclosures Reveals Conflicts of Interest
Update 10/15/21 from the Free Law Project: The financial disclosure database is now available to all. Included in the database are: Over 250,000 pages of financial records dating from 2003-2020, with complete coverage of every …
Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Gerrylaundering, Indian Legal History, Injustice in the Child Welfare System, and the Development of Comparative Sociology of Law and Critical Legal Studies
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Gerrylaundering by Robert Yablon, UW Law School This Article introduces the concept of “gerrylaundering” …
Newly Updated ALWD Guide to Legal Citation Complements, Illuminates the Bluebook
If you’re a legal practitioner or scholar, you’re almost certainly familiar with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation. But you may not have heard of the ALWD Guide to Legal Citation. ALWD, from the …
LSA Statement on US News’ Rejection of Scholarly Impact Metric
Earlier today, the Law & Society Association has issued a statement on U.S. News’ decision not to proceed with its proposal to add a measure of “scholarly impact” to its law school rankings. LSA is …
Convert Text to Speech & Download as MP3 with FreeTTS
So many interesting articles, so little time to read them. Enter FreeTTS, a free online tool that creates an audio version of any text as a downloadable MP3 file so I can listen as I …
2021 Release of the WI Criminal Jury Instructions Now Available
From the Wisconsin State Law Library: The Wisconsin Criminal Jury Instructions have recently been updated, with a 2021 release approved by the Wisconsin Judicial Conference’s Criminal Jury Instructions Committee. The fifty-ninth supplement to the Criminal Jury Instructions updates the …
State Street Adult Coloring Book Captures Life on UW Campus, Downtown Madison, 2020-21
If you’re an art enthusiast, a history buff, or simply a lover of Madison, head to the Goodman South Branch of the Madison Public Library this Thursday, Sept 9th from 6-7:30 for a talk by …
In Response to Rising Need, UW Law School Launches New Eviction Defense Clinic
In response to the rising need for eviction defense, the University of Wisconsin Law School is launching a new Eviction Defense Clinic this fall. This new clinic will join five other civil, anti-poverty clinical programs …