Year: 2023

Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Impeachment and the Rule of Law: It’s Complicated; The Original Meaning of Enumerated Powers; Saving Democracy, State by State?; and Gender, Race, and Judicial Power

Posted on

Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Impeachment and the Rule of Law: It’s Complicated Forthcoming in Flinders, Huq, Monaghan, eds., Impeachment in Comparative Practice (Routledge, 202_) by JOHN K. M. OHNESORGE, UW Law School This chapter explores impeachment and the Rule …

WI Law In Action Podcast: Richard Monette on Brackeen v. Haaland & Bringing Together the Doctrines of Plenary Power, Preemption, & Trust Relationship in Federal Indian Law

Posted on

Last week, Wisconsin Law in Action from the UW Law Library welcomed Richard Monette back to the podcast (both audio and video available).  Monette is Professor of Law and Director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School.  Monette talks with host Kris Turner about Brackeen v. Haaland which …

UW Law School Launches New Peer-Reviewed, Journal of American Constitutional History

Posted on

Last week, the University of Wisconsin Law School launched the new Journal of American Constitutional History, a peer-reviewed, web-based journal publishing high-quality scholarship on U.S. constitutional history. JACH welcomes articles from the disciplines of law, history, or political science that focus on historical questions touching on the American Constitution or constitutional development, or that contain a substantial element of …

Law Students Assess Pros and Cons of ChatGPT as a Legal Research Tool

Posted on

Last week, in our first session of Advanced Legal Research at the University of Wisconsin Law school, we discussed ChatGPT as a tool for conducting legal research.  Why take the time to learn and conduct legal research if an AI can do it for you? Our students raised a lot of great points and showed …