Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The University of Wisconsin Law Library is proud to announce that three members of our team have been named to the UW Madison Pringle Award Roll of Honor: Lisa Pfaff, Scout Slava-Ross, and C.J. Ullrich. The award recognizes University Staff for their outstanding achievements. Lisa Pfaff is our Acquisitions Assistant. She is responsible for ordering most of our …
In an effort to address the problem of online misinformation, Google is now providing “about this image” information in Google image search results. This information will include when the image was first indexed by Google, which website it may have first appeared on, and where else it has appeared online, such as on social media. …
Registration is now open for the 2023 Wisconsin Law Review Symposium on Friday, November 3rd. This year’s symposium will focus on identifying national and international cases of “stategraft” which, according to USC Professor and symposium host Bernadette Atuahene, is “when state agents transfer property from persons to the state in violation of the state’s own laws …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. The Right to Amend State Constitutions Yale Law Journal Forum (forthcoming) by MIRIAM SEIFTER, UW Law School, and Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Columbia University Law School This Essay explores the people’s right to amend state constitutions, particularly …
Happy National Pro Bono Week! In celebration, the AALS Section on Pro Bono & Access to Justice has announced the inductees to the 2023 Pro Bono Honor Roll. UW Law Library is pleased that our own Eric Taylor has been named to this year’s honor roll. The Pro Bono Honor Roll acknowledges and highlights the …
The wait is over: Lexis+ AI is now available for U.S. customers. This is a big deal. In the last year, we’ve been both dazzled by how powerful tools like ChatGPT are for research and writing and frightened by the cautionary tales of AI making up answers that are too good to be true. Lexis+ …