Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
This afternoon, I had the pleasure of attending an excellent presentation on The Life Cycle of Scholarship Marketing, jointly presented by the UW Law School External Affairs Office and our Law Library. The session was cleverly organized around the following themes: Birth and childhood Research and literature review Prepping for discoverability Submissions to journals Teenage …
For the last few years, I’ve been following the issue of legal citation metrics and scholarly impact and visibility very closely. I’m pleased to share that my new paper entitled, Representing Law Faculty Scholarly Impact: Strategies for Improving Citation Metrics and Promoting Scholarly Visibility is now available via SSRN. I will be presenting the paper …
Last Friday, I attended an excellent CLE program on Ethics & Professionalism in Virtual Legal Environments – Judicial Perspectives sponsored by the UW Law School, Continuing Legal Education. Judge Jason Rossell (Kenosha County Circuit Court) and Judge John Anderson (Bayfield County Circuit Court) discussed how the move to virtual courtrooms has affected courtroom decorum and …
Last week, the UW Law School hosted a symposium on the Bhopal Disaster, which killed thousands of people in the Bhopal region of India, left a long legal trail, and is still controversial to this day. As a part of that symposium, the UW Law Library, in conjunction with faculty members Mitra Sharafi, Sumudu Atapattu …
The UW Law School has announced the 5th annual outreach workshop series on the theme Global Legal Issues and Wisconsin. The workshops explore the legal and policy implications of global legal issues on Wisconsin. This year’s workshops focus on: renewable energy, global health law, and emerging economies. See the detailed descriptions for more information. The …
The University of Wisconsin Law School is sponsoring a forum this evening on “The Role of Organized Labor in a Democracy.” It will be held Wednesday, March 30, 2011 from 6-8 pm in the Godfrey and Kahn Hall (Law School Room 2260). The forum is open to students, the legal and academic communities, and the …
UW-Madison is sponsoring a capstone event to bring the campus and community together around the important questions regarding race, research involving human subjects and the business of commercializing human-derived biomaterials raised in the book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Co-sponsored by the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, UW Law School, the UW-Madison …
Next month, the University of Wisconsin Law School and the Institute for Legal Studies is hosting conference for faculty, staff, law students, and visiting scholars entitled Legal Education Reform after Carnegie: Bringing Law-in-Action into the Law School Classroom. The conference will be held October 22-23, 2010. Intellectual Overview: This conference takes its impetus from a …
Milwaukee Public Library will be hosting a program presented by the U.S. Patent and Trade Office on Researching Patent and Trademark Information. The program will cover: Overview of Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Trade Secrets / Making the Best Use of the USPTO Website Conducting a Patent Search, Step by Step Invention Promotion Firms: How to …
The UW Law School Global Legal Studies Center, the UW-Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, and the International Practice Section of the State Bar are co-sponsoring three workshops on Current Issues in International Law: Implications for Wisconsin The workshops are free for attorneys, policy makers, state agency personnel, civil society groups, students …