Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Next month the UW Madison is hosting a free program called Putting the Wisconsin Idea Online. The program will highlight how campus researchers have used the Web to fulfill the Wisconsin Idea by making their research available not only throughout Wisconsin, but all over the world. When: 19 October 2010, 9am – 4pm Where: Memorial …
Today’s New York Times offers a very interesting look at the political and administrative decisions behind President Obama’s visit to the UW Madison campus yesterday, as well as the logistical details.
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Historic, Comparative and Evolutionary Analysis of Tax Systems by Allison Christians, University of Wisconsin Law School The Law of Global Space: Rethinking the Legalization of World Politics by David M. Trubek, University of Wisconsin Law School and …
The Wisconsin Law Journal recently launched a website redesign. The layout is very clean and attractive and offers lots of web 2.0 features such as alerts, RSS feeds, Twitter and Facebook feeds and more. One thing to note, however: If you previously subscribed to any of the WLJ RSS feeds, you’ll need to resubscribe now …
Starting in January 2011, Wisconsin legislative proposals (bills, amendments, and resolutions) will display a graphic code called a “matrix code” that contains a URL, or hyperlink. From the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau: With an Internet-connected cell phone, you can scan the matrix code to display an associated Web page. If the proposal has been introduced, …
Next month, the University of Wisconsin Law School and the Institute for Legal Studies is hosting conference for faculty, staff, law students, and visiting scholars entitled Legal Education Reform after Carnegie: Bringing Law-in-Action into the Law School Classroom. The conference will be held October 22-23, 2010. Intellectual Overview: This conference takes its impetus from a …
From Wisconsin InfoLink: BadgerLink — the state’s online full-text library collections — now has access to five years of complete PDF pages from more than 250 Wisconsin newspapers, dailies and weeklies…. The collection goes back to March 2005 and will continue to grow as current editions are added to the database. There is a 60-day …
A New Jersey appellate court found that a prohibition against “Googling” potential jurors to gain additional information about them was unreasonable. Read more at Legal Blog Watch.
The State Bar reports that the Wisconsin Department of Justice website now offers access to information about Wisconsin Public Records Law. The site includes: Attorney General Opinions on Public Records Issues Sample Public Records Documents Other Public Records Resources
In the September edition of WSLL @ Your Service, there is a useful Tech Tip in Brief by Heidi Yelk. She highlights a free tool called PDF X-Change which allows you to fill in the blanks for any PDF form. See the full tip for more.