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ABA Books RSS Feed

The ABA Web Store is now offering a RSS feed with information about new books available from the ABA. News Feed will include new titles and other Web Store information.

UW Law Library to Host Older WI Legislative Council Publications

In response to the Wisconsin Legislative Council’s decision to remove publications more than five years old from their Web site, the UW Law Library contacted the WLC and offered to host the documents on our Web site. WLC has accepted our offer and has provided us with the electronic publications back to 1996. We are …

WI Women's Law Journal Colloquium: "Our Workplace, Our Home"

The Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal will be hosting their 2007 Colloquium at the Law School (Lubar Commons) this Friday, February 23. This year’s colloquium, “Our Workplace, Our Home: Protecting our Families and Preserving our Dignity,” highlights two authors the journal will be publishing this year. The first speaker, Jill Maxwell of Brooklyn Law School, will …

WILJ Symposium: Islamic Law in a Globalized World

The Wisconsin International Law Journal announces the 2007 Symposium open to all UW students, faculty and the legal community Islamic Law in a Globalized World: Implications for Contemporary Finance Law Friday, March 2, 2007 9:00 am -5:00 pm Godfrey and Kahn Hall (Room 2260) University of Wisconsin Law School Overview: Islamic law has become an …

American Law Sources Online, An Excellent Legal Research Portal

One of my favorite sites for researching law on the Internet is American Law Sources Online (ALSO). ALSO has compiled an outstanding, well organized collection of links to freely available primary and some secondary legal resources for federal and state law. It includes case law, statutes, local ordinances, administrative code, forms, research guides, and more. …

Above the Law Looking for Law Librarian Hotties

Above the Law has launched its latest hotties contest – this time their are looking for hot law librarians. I love it. And UW Law School folks: take a look at the familiar face on the Law School Dean hotties. Source: Depraved Librarian

Introducing the Book – A Very Early Help Desk Interaction

A colleague sent me a link to this awesome YouTube video, Introducing the Book. Think early – really early – help desk. I laughed out loud.

Courts Not Using CM/ECF for Electronic Filing and Access to Court Documents

Paul Bush of Legal Dockets Online has compiled a list of the courts not using CM/ECF. CM/ECF allows courts to accept filings and provide access to filed documents over the Internet via PACER. He writes: Since CM/ECF systems have been successfully implemented throughout the U.S., some researchers incorrectly assume that all case dockets and filings …

LISZEN, a Search Engine for Library Blogs

LISZEN is a new search engine devoted just to library blogs. It’s brought to you by the good folks at Library Zen. Although I don’t envision myself using it too often, it will be useful when I want to know what librarians think of something – like a database, a vendor, a way of approaching …

Supreme Court Documentary Begins Tonight on PBS

Tune in to PBS tonight for the beginning of a four-part documentary on the Supreme Court. “It is a must-see series that takes the viewer back to the pitifully weak early days of the Court, then all the way forward to its current incarnation as a center-of-the-universe powerhouse,” writes Law.com. See the full article for …