University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Legal Publications

Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: The Anatomy of Cancel Culture; The First French BIT; Taxpayers’ Tax Election Regrets; The International Law Origins of Compact Theory: A Critique of Bellia & Clark on Federalism; and Transparency, Accountability, and Influence in the International Investment Law System

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Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. The Anatomy of Cancel Culture 2 Journal of Free Speech Law 205 (2022) by FRANCISKA COLEMAN, UW Law School In this paper, I undertake a qualitative exploration of how social regulation of speech works in …

Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Impeachment and the Rule of Law: It’s Complicated; The Original Meaning of Enumerated Powers; Saving Democracy, State by State?; and Gender, Race, and Judicial Power

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Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Impeachment and the Rule of Law: It’s Complicated Forthcoming in Flinders, Huq, Monaghan, eds., Impeachment in Comparative Practice (Routledge, 202_) by JOHN K. M. OHNESORGE, UW Law School This chapter explores impeachment and the Rule …

UW Law School Launches New Peer-Reviewed, Journal of American Constitutional History

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Last week, the University of Wisconsin Law School launched the new Journal of American Constitutional History, a peer-reviewed, web-based journal publishing high-quality scholarship on U.S. constitutional history. JACH welcomes articles from the disciplines of law, history, or political science that focus on historical questions touching on the American Constitution or constitutional development, or that contain a substantial element of …

Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: The Tax-Invisible Labor Problem: Care, Work, Kinship, and Income Security Programs in the IRC; The Future of Civil Society Research in China, Hong Kong and Vietnam; Modified Textualism in Wisconsin: A Case Study; Beyond Perfect- Reforming the Economic Analysis of Public Policy; Chapter Eight- Technology and the Law: The Automobile; Foreword: Willard Hurt’s Unpublished Manuscript on Law, Technology, and Regulation; and Structuring Techlaw

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Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “The Tax-Invisible Labor Problem: Care, Work, Kinship, and Income Security Programs in the IRC” 102 B.U. L. Rev. (2022, forthcoming) by NYAMAGAGA GONDWE, UW Law School Since the mid-1990s, American financial assistance programs have increasingly …

Pros & Cons of a Law Faculty Scholarly Impact Ranking using SSRN Downloads

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Yesterday, I blogged about new scholarship by Rob Willey, Melanie Knapp, and Ashley Matthews at George Mason University Law Library that explores how and why women are frequently underrepresented in law scholarly impact rankings and suggests alternative metrics to mitigate the imbalance. Toward the end of the paper, the authors consider the merits of a …

New Scholarship Explores Underrepresentation of Women in Law Scholarly Impact Rankings & Proposes Alternative Metric

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Several studies have found that women tend to publish less frequently than men.  However, research also shows that, per publication, women tend to be cited at the same or higher rates than men. New scholarship by Rob Willey, Melanie Knapp, and Ashley Matthews of George Mason University Law Library explores how and why women are frequently …

Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Countering the New Election Subversion: The Democracy Principle and the Role of State Courts; Reliance; and Law and Public Policy: What Is It, Skills of Practitioners and Researchers, Research Designs and Methods, Law School Courses

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Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “Countering the New Election Subversion: The Democracy Principle and the Role of State Courts” Wis. L. Rev. (2022, forthcoming) by Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Columbia Law School, and MIRIAM SEIFTER, UW Law School Among the threats to …

Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Weaponizing Fear; Colonialism, Foreign Investment and Property Rights Reconsidered; Pathology Logics; and Regulating Social Media in the Free-Speech Ecosystem

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Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “Weaponizing Fear” Yale Law Journal Forum (2022, forthcoming) by S. LISA WASHINGTON, UW Law School In a letter dated February 22, 2022, Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed the commissioner of the Texas Department of Family …

UW Law Publishes Long-Lost “Technology & the Law: The Automobile” Manuscript by J. Willard Hurst, the Father of Modern Legal History

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Twenty-five years after his death, the Wisconsin Law Review has published a long-lost manuscript by Professor J. Willard Hurst, beloved UW Law School professor, renowned scholar, and one of the great originators of modern legal history and law and society scholarship.  It is believed that the work entitled, “Technology and the Law: The Automobile,” was …

Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: The Legal Struggle for Rights of Nature in the United States; The Canon of Nature Rights; Progressivism in the Active Free Enterprise State: Fluidity, Fragmentation, and Stability: A Case Study in Law and Public Policy

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Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “The Legal Struggle for Rights of Nature in the United States” 2022 Wis. L. Rev. 133 (2022) by ALEXANDRA VALERIA HUNEEUS, UW Law School This Article analyzes the rise and persistence of the U.S.-based nature …