Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
If you’re a Badgerlink user, take note that the URL has changed to https://badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov. The old URLs badgerlink.net and badgerlink.org no longer work. If you’re not a Badgerlink user, what are you waiting for? Badgerlink is a collection of amazing resources available for free to all state residents via Wisconsin’s libraries through funding from the …
Legal blogs and law firm websites can be great sources of legal insight and current awareness, especially on local issues. However, this content is easy to miss if you’re not a subscriber. Fortunately, there are a couple of useful tools to help you find this content: WisLawNOW is a syndicated network of Wisconsin legal bloggers …
On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, host Kris Turner interviews Professor S. Lisa Washington, the 2021-22 William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prof. Washington previously worked as a public defender in New York City, defending clients in family court. She also …
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. Register. All states are current within 60 days of the printed publication, and all states are available back to inception. This …
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 judge, justice, and magistrate between 2011 and 2018. Over 1.5 million investment records. Around 12,000 sources of income outside of …
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” to describe mapmakers’ efforts to lock-in their favorable position by preserving key elements of the existing map. Gerrylaundering and gerrymandering …
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 Association of Legal Writing Directors, is designed to complement the Bluebook. Whenever I have a legal citation question that the Bluebook …
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 pleased that the measure will not proceed. The Law & Society Association was concerned with the implications for our members, …
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 go about my day – on my commute, walking the dogs, doing the dishes, etc. It’s very easy to use. …
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 publication on legislative actions and judicial decisions through August 2021. The update includes revisions of twenty-nine existing jury instructions, as …