Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Institutionalizing Essentialism: Mechanisms of Intersectional Subordination Within the LGBT Movement by Gwendolyn Leachman Islamic Constitutionalism: Not Secular. Not Theocratic. Not Impossible by Asifa Quraishi-Landes What We Know and Need to Know About Civil …
The UW Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, in collaboration with Absolutely Art, is sponsoring a discussion on copyright issues for artists on Tuesday, June 28th, from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. The discussion will be followed by a reception showcasing five talented local artists. Featured artists include: Doug Hoffman, Jesy Grose, The Moxie League, Dane Arts …
The Law Library of Congress has recently released a full collection of historical volumes of the Federal Register online. The collection begins with the first Federal Register in 1936 and contains all daily volumes through 1993. For more information, see the announcement from the Law Library of Congress.
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Voting, Spending, and the Right to Participate by Robert Yablon State Judges as Guardians of Federalism: Resisting the Federal Arbitration Act’s Encroachment on State Law by David S. Schwartz Correcting Federalism Mistakes in …
New Legal Realism Conversations is a website devoted to the Law-and-Society movement approach to interdisciplinary legal studies: “We believe that all of the social sciences have a contribution to make to our understanding of law. ” Since January, the NLRC blog has featured reminiscences by UW Law School Professors Marc Galanter and Stewart Macaulay. Most …
Last month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court approved a new rule requiring mandatory electronic filing statewide. (Wis. Stat. § 801.18) According to a recent edition of The Third Branch, the quarterly newsletter of the Wisconsin court system, the mandatory eFiling rule takes effect July 1 but will be phased in gradually over the next three years. …
Have you ever been asked to complete and electronically submit a fillable PDF form only to find that you couldn’t save it after you’d finished completing it? That all you could do was print it, then have to snail mail, fax, or scan it back in? Or maybe you’re the one who created a form …
Here is the latest faculty and staff scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Decentering the Consuming Self: Personalized Medicine, Science, and the Market for Lemons by Shubha Ghosh Constitutional Lawyers and the Inter-American Court’s Varied Authority by Alexandra Valeria Huneeus The University of Wisconsin Law …
The Wisconsin State Bar has recently published a newly updated edition of the Wisconsin Guide to Citation. The new eighth edition reflects recent changes made to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, now in its 20th edition. New developments discussed in this edition of the Wisconsin Guide include: A new section on how to …
According to a press release by the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions , the DFI will join the state Secretary of State’s office in issuing apostilles and authentications – certificates needed to verify a document for use in a foreign country. From the release: Businesses and individuals at times need to authenticate the origin of …