Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Two law librarians, Fred R. Shapiro from Yale and Michelle Pearse from Harvard, have recently compiled a list of The Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time. The article updates two well-known earlier studies dated 1985 and 1996. Using databases such as HeinOnline and Web of Science, the study lists the 100 most-cited legal articles …
If you’re considering writing an article for a legal publication, check out Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals. This guide, compiled by librarians from the University of Missouri at Kansas City – School of Law, contains information about submitting articles to law reviews and journals, including the methods for submitting an article, …
Would you like to know which are the top law journals in a specific area of law? Want to submit your article for publication to a law journal? Then check out the Law Journals Submissions and Ranking database from Washington & Lee School of Law.* With this deceptively powerful resource, you can retrieve a list …
I was disappointed to learn that Current Law Journal Content, from Washington and Lee Law School, ceased to be updated in May 2011. CLJC was a free service through which you could search and subscribe to current tables of contents from over a thousand law journals.
Last week, a faculty member asked me to compile a list of the 100 most cited law review articles in Constitutional law. It turned out to be much easier than I thought it would be, so I thought I’d share how I did it. In the Hein Online Law Journal Library, go to the advanced …
If you’re considering submitting a law related article for publication, see Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals, recently available via SSRN. It was prepared by Allen Rostron and Nancy Levit, both from University of Missouri at Kansas City – School of Law. The guide contains information about submitting articles to law reviews …
From Bev Butula’s Wisconsin Law Journal blog: The Marquette Law Review, in full text, is available online from its inception in 1916. The researcher is able to browse by volume or conduct a keyword search. There is a nice summary of the database available on the Marquette Faculty Blog. There is also an RSS option …
Jotwell is a new online law journal from “leading academics and practitioners providing short reviews of recent scholarship related to the law that the reviewer likes and thinks deserves a wide audience.” Jotwell, short for The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), is housed on a set of inter-linked blogs on the following subjects: Administrative …
Here’s the latest batch of faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Coping with Uncertainty: The Role of Contracts in Russian Industry During the Transition to the Market by Kathryn Hendley Risking Health: Failing to Balance Access to Essential Medicines and the Protection of Intellectual Property in Developing …
The 2009-2010 State of Wisconsin Blue Book is now available on the Legislative Reference Bureau website. Past editions of the Blue Book (1995-2008) are also available on the LRB sites. Older editions (1853-2004) have been digitized and made available by University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. From the UWDCC site: The State of Wisconsin Blue Book …