Category: Legal Publications

I was very pleased to share that Legal Research in Wisconsin, 2nd edition is finally available. The authors are Ted Potter (main author), Jane Colwin, Mary Koshollek, and UW Law Library’s own Bill Ebbott and Sunil Rao. Here’s the abstract from Hein: This new edition continues to offer a comprehensive reference tool about legal research …

I was doing some research in HeinOnline this afternoon and was surprised to find that they now have an article citator. When viewing an article, there is a link to “Articles That Cite This Article” at the very top. Nice. According to the HeinOnline Weblog, this feature was added in May.

Earlier this month, the New York Times ran an interesting article about how SSRN rankings have affected legal academia. Social Science Research Network [is] an increasingly influential site that now offers nearly 150,000 full-text documents for downloading… the texts include pens

Earlier this month, the Harvard Law School faculty unanimously voted to make each faculty member’s scholarly articles available online for free, making HLS the first law school to commit to a mandatory open access policy. From the press release: Under the new policy, HLS will make articles authored by faculty members available in an online …

About a week ago, the Wisconsin Law Journal unveiled a new Web site. Besides a sleek new look, WLJ has introduced some sweet new features including several new blogs and a handful of RSS feeds. In his introductory post, Managing Editor, Tony Anderson explains: New features will include a variety of blogs touching on a …

The ABA Journal has recently redesigned their web site. According to a post in the ABA TechShow blog, there are three main features: Law News Now: “The latest legal news stories, hand selected by our lawyer-journalists. It’s updated continuously every business day.” The Blawg Directory: “More than 1,000 blogs written by lawyers who are experts …