Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Happy Birthday to the Legal Information & Technology eJournal which just concluded its fifth year. This SSRN eJournal, curated by Randy Diamond and Lee Peoples, provides a platform for the dissemination of law library scholarship. Beginning this year, the journal, which has heretofore been sponsored by the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section of the American …
Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower I’m pleased to share that my article, White Slavery in the Northwoods: Early U.S. Anti-Sex Trafficking and its Continuing Relevance to Trafficking Reform, has been accepted for publication in the William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law. It will appear in a special issue in 2016 but it’s available …
My colleague, Jenny Zook, has written a great piece on Water Law in Wisconsin for the latest Inside Track from the State Bar of Wisconsin. Here’s the abstract: The Great Lakes Region, at about 20 percent the world’s surface fresh water, stands to play an important role in the world’s global water market. Jenny Zook …
There is an interesting article on SSRN about whether including an abstract and/or table of contents in your law review article can have an impact on your scholarly influence. The authors observed that “on average both abstracts and tables of contents associate with large increases in scholarly influence. Compared to articles that use neither document …
If you’ve ever had to research an issue related to Native American law, you know how difficult locating tribal law sources can be. An article that I wrote, which was just published in Law Library Journal may help you track down those elusive tribal law materials. The article, entitled ‘Whatever Tribal Precedent There May Be’: …
National Jurist recently released their rankings of law schools for best practical training. The UW Law School placed third in the nation, receiving an “A+” for the experience it gives students. Congrats to all the hard-working faculty and staff here at the law school! It is great to see such a great group of individuals …
Here is the most recent UW Law School Faculty and Staff scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. *Agricultural Cooperatives and the Law: Obsolete Statutes in a Dynamic Economy by Peter Carstensen, University of Wisconsin Law School *Jim Jones: A Teacher, a Mentor, and an Inspiration to Law …
Here is the most recent UW Law School Faculty and Staff scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. •Fathers Behind Bars: Rethinking Child Support Policy Toward Low-Income Noncustodial Fathers and Their Families by Tonya L. Brito, University of Wisconsin Law School •On Fallibility and Finality: Why Thinking Like …
The AALL Spectrum Online has a very interesting article examining advertisements from legal periodicals and bar publications published during the Second World War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War. “Due to the scale and scope of the conflict, every aspect of civilian life was affected. The American legal system, including legal …
By Kris Turner, Reference and Technology Services Librarian Thomson Reuters has officially gotten out of print publishing for law schools. On Friday, February 2nd, the publishing wing of the legal research giant was sold to Eureka Growth Capital, a private equity firm located in Philadelphia. It seems that paper publishing is not something that Thomson …