Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
In case you missed it, the latest edition of the Bluebook has introduced a new rule on citing AI-generated content. While I agree that a rule addressing GenAI was needed, unfortunately, Rule 18.3’s approach misses the mark. University of Idaho law professor Jessica Gunder has published a thorough critique of the new rule titled “Yikes! …
New scholarship by Rob Willey and Melanie Knapp at George Mason University School of Law finds that legal scholars who post their work to SSRN are cited more often. Their working paper, SSRN’s Impact on Citations to Legal Scholarship and How to Maximize It, is highly recommended reading for law librarians and others interested in …
If you’re a legal practitioner or scholar, you’re almost certainly familiar with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation. But you may not have heard of the ALWD Guide to Legal Citation. ALWD, from the Association of Legal Writing Directors, is designed to complement the Bluebook. Whenever I have a legal citation question that the Bluebook …
The State Bar of Wisconsin has recently released a revised edition of the Wisconsin Guide to Citation. The new Tenth Edition contains the following updates: Table T2 (Foreign Jurisdictions) has moved online (http://www.legalbluebook.com) with the 21st edition of The Bluebook. This provides two benefits: (1) the material can be updated more frequently online, and (2) …
82% of law review articles have zero citations within the first five years. 82%. This grim finding is from a recent study by Rob Willey and Melanie Knapp of George Mason University Law Library who reviewed nearly 250,000 law review articles published in HeinOnline from 2015-2019. Some articles, however, are cited significantly more often. What …
The Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School is hosting a free Virtual Symposium on Citation and the Law on April 22 and 23, 2021. Registration is now open. The symposium will highlight the scholarship of law librarians and faculty interested in issues ranging from the US News and World Reports rankings for scholarly …
For the last few years, I’ve been following the issue of legal citation metrics and scholarly impact and visibility very closely. I’m pleased to share that my new paper entitled, Representing Law Faculty Scholarly Impact: Strategies for Improving Citation Metrics and Promoting Scholarly Visibility is now available via SSRN. I will be presenting the paper …
If you’ve been following the new US News Scholarly Impact Ranking, you know that the exclusion of books and interdisciplinary works has been a major concern for many law scholars. Last February, I posted about how Hein’s Integration with ORCID might help resolve that problem. In that post, I explained that Hein was developing processes to …
Last Friday, I attended a presentation by Robert Morse, Chief Data Strategist at U.S. News on law school rankings at the Texas A&M University School of Law’s virtual Conference for Associate Deans. Among many other rankings-related topics, Morse provided an update on the upcoming U.S. News law school scholarly impact ranking. Here are a few …
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 …