Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting the constitutional right to vote for women. In honor of the anniversary, the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress launched a traveling exhibit tracing the movement that not only secured passage of the 19th …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Constructing Separate and Unequal Courtrooms by Ion Meyn, University of Wisconsin Law School Labeling Violence by Cecelia M. Klingele, University of Wisconsin Law School Making Sense of Risk by Cecelia M. Klingele, University of Wisconsin Law School The …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. On the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) by Richard Bilder, University of Wisconsin Law School A New Federalism for Indian Tribes: The Relationship Between the United States and Tribes in Light of our Federalism and …
Following the resumption of in-person instruction, the Law Library will reopen on Monday, September 28. Contact askuwlaw@law.wisc.edu for questions or assistance.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” With these words, …
The UW Law Library recently received an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries grant to improve access to tribal laws. A recent news article from the UW Madison Libraries features our Digital Publication of Tribal Laws Pilot Project. From the article, University of Wisconsin–Madison Law Library: Empowering Libraries: The …
Following the announcement that campus has paused in-person classes for two weeks, the UW Law Library will be closed from Thursday, September 10 through Friday, September 25. However, our library staff will remain available for research and instructional support. Contact askuwlaw@law.wisc.edu for assistance.
Have you ever tried to contact a specific person at a business or other organization but didn’t know their email address? Tracking down individual email addresses can be difficult, but there are a few tricks of the trade that can help. A recent LLRX article offers some good advice. Do a Google search for the …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. The Incoherent Justification for Naked Restraints of Competition: What the Dental Self-Regulation Cases Tell Us About the Cavities in Antitrust Law by Peter Carstensen Flipping the Script on Brady by Ion Meyn Mixing Legal Systems in the British …
If you’ve been following the new US News Scholarly Impact Ranking, you know that the exclusion of books and interdisciplinary works has been a major concern for many law scholars. Last February, I posted about how Hein’s Integration with ORCID might help resolve that problem. In that post, I explained that Hein was developing processes to …