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Month: September 2022

State Bar of Wisconsin Updates Books UnBound Interface

Posted on September 19, 2022

State Bar of Wisconsin recently launched an improved interface for their Books UnBound online digital library.  The collection includes State Bar treatises, aka “the brown binders,” the Wisconsin Attorney’s Desk Reference, Wisconsin Judicial Benchbooks, and …

Posted in Data & Databases, eBooks

Tools for Tracking Federal and Wisconsin Lobbying

Posted on September 15, 2022

Over $52 million was spent on lobbying in Wisconsin in 2021. Nationally, total lobbying spending amounted to a whopping $3.73 billion.  You can follow the money with these tools. Lobbying in Wisconsin from the Wisconsin …

Posted in Data & Databases, Legislation & Regs

Pros & Cons of a Law Faculty Scholarly Impact Ranking using SSRN Downloads

Posted on September 8, 2022

Yesterday, I blogged about new scholarship by Rob Willey, Melanie Knapp, and Ashley Matthews at George Mason University Law Library that explores how and why women are frequently underrepresented in law scholarly impact rankings and …

Posted in Legal Publications, Scholarly Visibility

New Scholarship Explores Underrepresentation of Women in Law Scholarly Impact Rankings & Proposes Alternative Metric

Posted on September 7, 2022

Several studies have found that women tend to publish less frequently than men.  However, research also shows that, per publication, women tend to be cited at the same or higher rates than men. New scholarship by …

Posted in Legal Publications, Scholarly Visibility

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