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 …
Year: 2021
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 …
Two Law Scholars Join UW Law Faculty: Nate Atkinson (Business Law) & Stephanie Holmes Didwania (Criminal Justice)
The University of Wisconsin Law School is thrilled to welcome two new faculty members: Nate Atkinson is an assistant professor whose research focuses on the fields of corporate misconduct, contract law, and social choice theory. As …
HeinOnline Enhances Subject Searching with New PathFinder – But Still Has a Few Bumps
HeinOnline recently introduced a new feature called PathFinder that offers more robust subject searching. PathFinder is a multi-level subject taxonomy in which broad research concepts are divided into increasingly granular levels. Both text and graphical …
Google’s “About This Result” Panel Offers Insight into your Search Results
Have you ever been puzzled by the results from a Google search? Found yourself wondering how Google connected those results to the words you typed, especially if you didn’t get exactly what you were expecting …
Responding to US News’ Decision Not to Create Scholarly Impact Ranking – Law Librarians Still Play a Key Role in Maximizing Scholarly Visibility
After raising numerous concerns from the legal academic community, Brian Leiter reports that U.S. News has decided not to produce its own scholarly impact ranking. Chief among these concerns is that the exclusion of interdisciplinary scholarship and …
UW Law Library Program on Increasing Scholarly Visibility Busts Myths about Marketing & Discoverability
Last week, our UW Law Librarians teamed up with our External Affairs team to put on a very well-received in-house program for our faculty and staff on Increasing Scholarly Visibility: Social Media & Discoverability. It …
Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: The Role of Clinical Education to Advance Social Justice, Absence or Misuse of Statistics as Contributor to Wrongful Convictions, Judges as Common-law Thinkers, Title VII is Not an Anti-Discrimination Law, Comparative Election Administration, and Overseas NGOs, Foundations and Covid in China
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “Lift as ‘The Fourth Moment’ in Wisconsin Clinical Legal Education for Social Justice” 2021 …
What’s New in the Wisconsin Guide to Citation, Tenth Edition
The State Bar of Wisconsin has recently released a revised edition of the Wisconsin Guide to Citation. The new Tenth Edition contains the following updates: Table T2 (Foreign Jurisdictions) has moved online (http://www.legalbluebook.com) with the …
Researching Local Law – Municipal & County Legislation, Tracking, & Legislative History
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 …