Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
So counterfeit Bluebooks are a thing. According to the editors of the authentic Bluebook, some counterfeit books are being sold on online marketplaces, including Amazon and Alibris. Many of these books contain errors and inconsistencies. The editors encourage buyers to proceed with caution if purchasing a Bluebook from online marketplaces and are working with Amazon …
By Eric Taylor, Evening Reference Librarian For ages, people have been putting together books of lists. Librarians love to catalog books making lists. Merchant marines make manifests. In fact, there is probably a list for everything. In the present book, A Book of Legal Lists (1997), the author Bernard Schwartz tackles the law. Here there is a list for …
Brand new for your reading leisure! This delightful book takes you way behind the scenes of the Supreme Court, and spotlights the culinary traditions that have been a part of the institution since its first session in 1790. From cover to cover readers will be rewarded with recipes, wonderful photos, and stories brimming with history. …
A free alternative to The Bluebook legal citation guide is now available. The Indigo Book, formerly called “Baby Blue,” is available online without charge in PDF or HTML. To make legal citation more accessible, the team behind The Indigo Book, led by Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org, separated the widely used system of citation codified in …
According to the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, the Supreme Court has denied cert to Authors Guild, et al. v. Google, Inc., in which the Authors Guild and individual writers argued that Google engaged in copyright infringement “on an epic scale” by digitizing, indexing, and displaying snippets of print books in internet search results. From …
The Dane County Bar Association has announced publication of its book, “Lawyers Who Shaped Dane County: The History of the Practice of Law in the Madison Area.” From the DCBA website: This 140 page hardcover book sketches the development of Dane County and the significant changes in the practice of law here, from Madison’s first …
From Bev Butula’s Wisconsin Law Journal blog: The Milwaukee Public Library announced today that they now provide an online version of “Foundations in Wisconsin.” Many attorneys who work with nonprofits are very familiar with this directory published by Marquette University. Information available includes details on officers and directors of the foundation, number and amounts of …
NPR has a very interesting interview with Matthew Pearl, author of The Last Dickens. The story centers around the 19th century U.S. copyright laws which did not protect foreign authors, such as Charles Dickens. As a result, literary thieves called “bookaneers” would wait at the docks for new manuscripts to arrive from overseas, “ready to …