Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Earlier this week, plans were announced for a statue in honor of civil rights activist Vel Phillips on the Wisconsin State Capitol square at the corner of West Main and South Carroll streets. Phillips was the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin Law School and to be elected to a …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Reconsidering the Constitution’s Preamble: the Words that Made Us U.S. by David S. Schwartz, UW Law SchoolThe Preamble to the U.S. Constitution is wrongly dismissed by conventional doctrine as a purely symbolic or stylistic flourish …
Next week, November 5th and 6th, the Wisconsin Law Review will host a Symposium on the newly completed, Restatement of the Law of American Indians. This Restatement cements the foundational principles of American Indian law. Topics include federal/tribal relations, state/tribal relations, tribal jurisdiction and authority, and Indian Country business law. The Restatement of the Law …
An excellent new article by Karen L. Wallace & Rebecca Lutkenhaus, Professors of Law Librarianship at Drake University Law School takes a deep dive into the practice and implications of ranking law faculty scholarly impact. In their article, “Measuring Scholarly Impact in Law,” forthcoming in the Widener Law Review, the authors argue that “although the U.S. …
If you’re a Badgerlink user, take note that the URL has changed to https://badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov. The old URLs badgerlink.net and badgerlink.org no longer work. If you’re not a Badgerlink user, what are you waiting for? Badgerlink is a collection of amazing resources available for free to all state residents via Wisconsin’s libraries through funding from the …
Legal blogs and law firm websites can be great sources of legal insight and current awareness, especially on local issues. However, this content is easy to miss if you’re not a subscriber. Fortunately, there are a couple of useful tools to help you find this content: WisLawNOW is a syndicated network of Wisconsin legal bloggers …
On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, host Kris Turner interviews Professor S. Lisa Washington, the 2021-22 William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prof. Washington previously worked as a public defender in New York City, defending clients in family court. She also …
As a legal historian, I’m a big fan of Hein’s Session Law Library which contains the session laws of all 50 U.S. states as well as Canada, Australia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and the D.C. Register. All states are current within 60 days of the printed publication, and all states are available back to inception. This …
Update 10/15/21 from the Free Law Project: The financial disclosure database is now available to all. Included in the database are: Over 250,000 pages of financial records dating from 2003-2020, with complete coverage of every judge, justice, and magistrate between 2011 and 2018. Over 1.5 million investment records. Around 12,000 sources of income outside of …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Gerrylaundering by Robert Yablon, UW Law School This Article introduces the concept of “gerrylaundering” to describe mapmakers’ efforts to lock-in their favorable position by preserving key elements of the existing map. Gerrylaundering and gerrymandering …