New scholarship by Rob Willey and Melanie Knapp at George Mason University School of Law finds that legal scholars who post their work to SSRN are cited more often. Their working paper, SSRN’s Impact on …
Month: February 2022
Recollection Wisconsin Documents State History through Thousands of Photos, Documents, Records, Etc.
Yesterday, the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin put on an excellent program about Recollection Wisconsin, a free web resource that brings together digital cultural heritage resources from Wisconsin libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies and …
Bloomberg Law Survey Offers Insights on Law Students’ Preparedness for Practice
A recent survey by Bloomberg Law offers insights on law students’ preparedness for practice. Bloomberg asked over 1,000 practicing attorneys, law school students, faculty, and librarians about the skills needed for practice and how well …
USPTO Launches New, Free Patent Public Search Tool
This week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced the release of a new Patent Public Search tool that provides more convenient, remote, and robust full-text searching of all U.S. patents and published patent …
Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: The Gravitational Force of Future Decisions, A Commentary on Treanor’s ‘Dishonest Scrivener,’ Gender Favoritism Among Criminal Prosecutors, Compassionate Release & Decarceration, & Innovative Law Courses at UW Law
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “The Gravitational Force of Future Decisions” Forthcoming in Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (Oxford UP) …