Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
If you are a Trekkie like me, you might be interested in Star Trek Visions of Law and Justice. From the publisher’s site: Star Trek Visions of Law and Justice weds popular media with academic inquiry, by illustrating the connection between the future world of Star Trek and today’s American and international legal systems. Editors …
Who owns the moon? Now that would have been a good Stump the Librarian question. From the Moritz Legal Information Blog: The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is a good place to start research on outer space law issues. Its International Space Law website has links to treaties, selected national laws, UN …
Give that old computer a new life. Don’t Trash Your Old PC from Law.com is a step-by-step guide on how to use an old PC as a primary or backup server. In this age of disposable everything, upgrading means “out with the old, in with the new.” But it doesn’t have to be that way. …
The LRB has put together a nice, two-page guide on the Wisconsin Idea which explores its origins, importance, and future. What is the Wisconsin Idea? From the the guide: The most commonly offered definition of the Wisconsin Idea is that “the boundaries of the University are the boundaries of the state,” which refers to the …
MissPronouncer.com is a neat little site for “learning to pronounce stuff in Wisconsin.” From place names to politicians, this site will have you speaking like a native Wisconsinite.
From Odd Wisconsin: On John Muir’s dorm room at the University of Wisconsin – Madison campus in the early 1860s: “I can vividly recall the tall clock which he made,” wrote Grace Lindsley in 1935, “and which was connected with his bed in such a way that when the time came for which he had …
Today’s Odd Wisconsin is a classic The first legislature in 1838 met in a not-quite-finished Capitol building: According to one lawmaker, “the basement story was all open, and [a] large drove of hogs had taken possession. The weather was cold, the halls were cold, our ink would freeze – so that when we could stand …
Posted to our faculty listserv: Two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 this morning, the time and date was 01:02:03 04/05/06 That won’t happen again for a thousand years.
Posted to our faculty listserv: Two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 this morning, the time and date was 01:02:03 04/05/06 That won’t happen again for a thousand years.
Yesterday, the University of Wisconsin Madison’s School of Library and Information Studies took part in the 8th Annual International Edible Books Festival. This festival invites participants to poke fun at literature, art, and food in equal measure by creating book-shaped or book-themed edible art. I regret that I couldn’t attend, but my colleague, Sue Center, …