Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Compliance Initiative will host “A New Era of Corporate Compliance: Opportunities, Risks, and Ethical Dimensions of Generative AI and Emerging Technologies” on Wednesday, September 17, from 4:00 to 6:00 PM. The program is available virtually or in person at UW Law School and qualifies for 2 CLE credits. See registration information. The program …
The University of Wisconsin Law Library is pleased to announce that the J. Willard Hurst Collection is once again available through the UW Law School Digital Repository. The collection was temporarily offline while we enhanced the metadata to improve search capabilities, providing researchers with better access to the papers and materials of the scholar generally …
The University of Wisconsin Law Library recently received a remarkable historical gift: an original April 22, 1865 Chicago Tribune newspaper documenting President Lincoln’s funeral train journey. The framed newspaper was generously donated by Tonia Neustifter, wife of the late UW Law School Professor Ralph Cagle, who passed away in 2023. This historic newspaper provides a …
This morning, received an email from Academia.edu informing me that it had created an AI-generated podcast about an article that I authored a few years ago entitled, Representing Law Faculty Scholarly Impact: Strategies for Improving Citation Metrics Accuracy and Promoting Scholarly Visibility. If you’re not familiar with Academia.edu, it’s a commercial platform for sharing academic …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series vis SSRN. Decoding the Meaning of “Any Section of the Country”: The Pabst-Blatz Saga by Peter Carstensen, University of Wisconsin Law School, American Antitrust Institute Multiracial, Interclass Democracy by Franciska Coleman, University of Wisconsin Law School Racist Voting …
People often think of generative AI tools as systems that query vast universes of training data – like asking ChatGPT to draw from its broad knowledge base trained on billions of web pages, books, and articles. These large language models can answer general questions and provide information on virtually any topic. Sort of like a …
The latest edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation is hot off the presses. Although this 22nd edition retains the same basic approach to legal citation, there are some notable changes, including one that I’m especially excited about: the addition of Tribal law citation rules. A new Rule 22 provides instructions for citing Tribal Nations …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series vis SSRN. Channels of Tax Law (Mis)Information by Emily Cauble, University of Wisconsin Law School Non-Experts’ Impressions of Informal Tax Guidance by Emily Cauble, University of Wisconsin Law School Environmental Protection in War: Beyond Humans and Nature …
The Free Law Project recently announced its intention to build a citator using AI. If successful, the emergence of an open-access, open-source legal citator would be significant to both practitioners and the public. Citators, such as Shepard’s and KeyCite, answer the foundational question of whether the case law you are using is good law, bad …
I’m so pleased to share that my colleague, Kris Turner, has been named to Library Journal’s 2025 Movers & Shakers list! Kris is the Associate Director for Public Services at the UW Law Library. The Movers & Shakers award recognizes emerging talents in the library world who are making significant contributions as both leaders and behind-the-scenes …