Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
In an opinion issued earlier this year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit placed a limitation on the use of content archived by the Internet Archive’s “Wayback Machine” without additional authentication. The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library that seeks to maintain an archive of publicly accessible web pages at various …
On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, host Kris Turner interviews UW Law School’s Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, Mark Sidel on recent trends in China and elsewhere to restrict foreign investments, grants, and donations to nonprofit and philanthropic organizations. Our conversation focuses on …
In her recent article, Ashley Ahlbrand offers great advice for legal scholars and law librarians on Capturing Impact: Telling the Story of Your Scholarship Beyond the Citation Count. She explores the shortcomings of citation metrics in evaluating scholarly impact, then broadly examines the various forms scholarship can take, and ends with a discussion of other …
Google has announced that it’s adding a new “highly cited” label to search results frequently linked to by other publications. Such labels will appear on “anything from an investigative article, to an interview, an announcement, a press release or a local news story, as long as other publishers indicate its relevance by linking to it.” …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “Ending Manner-of-Death Testimony and Other Opinion Determinations of Crime” by KEITH A. FINDLEY (UW Law) and DEAN A. STRANGThis article examines the statutory requirement that medical examiners (MEs) and coroners determine both cause and …
“Lawyers whose attorney trust accounts are cleaned out by cybercriminals should be prepared to answer to attorney-disciplinary authorities. And such a theft could result in disciplinary action for a lawyer who is careless about safeguarding client funds, ” warns the New Jersey Law Journal. On Friday, a suit was removed to federal court in Trenton, …
On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, host Kris Turner interviews UW Law School’s William Voss-Bascom Professor Anuj Desai. Prof. Desai teaches courses in cyberlaw, the First Amendment, intellectual freedom, statutory interpretation, legislation and regulation, and copyright at both the Law School and the iSchool (Information …
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 Citations to Legal Scholarship and How to Maximize It, is highly recommended reading for law librarians and others interested in …
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 shares them with the world in partnership with the Digital Public Library of America. Speaker Andi Coffin explained that the …
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 law schools prepared individuals to enter the legal profession. Responses indicate that new attorneys would benefit from having more skills …