Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
I’ve been informed that some subscribers received the following error message this morning informing them that ” ‘University of Wisconsin Law School’ has changed.” We believe that this error was the result of some web server maintenance that the Law School IT staff performed last night. Everything should now be fixed. If you continue to …
Happy National Library Week! Stop by the UW Law Library this week and help us celebrate. For our celebration this year, we’ve put together a number of activities including games, displays, and faculty/staff READ posters. READ Posters This year’s posters feature, Louis Butler, Justice in Residence, and the Law School IT Team, Eric Giefer, Darryl …
Wisconsin Radio Network reports that “a public hearing Tuesday from the Legislature’s Committee on Personal Privacy took up a bill that would require employers to annually notify their workers of email monitoring.” The bill in question is Assembly Bill 30. From the article: “An instructor of computer networking at Madison Area Technical College spoke in …
Latest faculty and staff scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN: Northeast Asian Development and the Problem of Rights: Challenges for a New Developmental State by John K.M. Ohnesorge, University of Wisconsin Law School Toward a New Paradigm of Criminal Justice: How the Innocence Movement Merges Crime …
If you follow Althouse, you probably know that the UW Law professor recently became engaged to a man she met through her blog. The New York Times shares the story of their unique courtship.
The New York Times has an interesting editorial on the economic downturn and its implications for the legal profession – and they aren’t all bad, according to the author. The downturn will probably rein in [first year] salaries at the high end. Top firms are already under pressure to lower the $160,000 starting salary; one …
Jane Pribek of the Wisconsin Law Journal offers some advice for Cost-effective Ways to Meet CLE Requirements. See for example, programs offered by the Wisconsin State Law Library, Marquette University Law School and the American Bar Association. Other CLE providers are mentioned in the article.
Earlier this week, the Law Library of Congress released an archive of legal blawgs dating back to 2007. The collection includes more than 100 blogs categorized by topic covering a broad cross section of legal topics. According to Infotoday Blog, the library plans to increase that number to 200 by the end of 2009. This …
Despite the downturn in the economy, or perhaps because of it, applications at Wisconsin’s law schools are high for 2009. According to WisBar, “applications for the entering class of 2009 are up 5
Do you know why Wisconsin is referred to as the Badger State? Mental Floss explains this and other “Curious, Bizarre & Storied State Symbols.” … The Badger State title originally refers not to Bucky, nor to the savage beast itself, but to lead miners in the 1820s and 30s. These miners moved from prospect to …