Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
A new article by Professors Keith A. Findley and Louise G. Trubek highlights the unique strengths of the clinical legal education program at the University of Wisconsin Law School. The article is entitled Clinics at Wisconsin: Comprehensive, In-Depth Pedagogy and Bottom-Up Innovation, 2021 Wisconsin Law Review 409 (2021). Abstract: The University of Wisconsin (UW) Law …
From The Third Branch (newsletter of the Wisconsin Court System): The new state budget, 2009 Act 28, includes changes in sentencing practices that go well beyond the early release provisions that received most of the media attention during the five months the budget was under consideration. Most of the provisions will become effective on October …
From the U.S. Courts Web site: The daily cost of keeping someone imprisoned in a federal Bureau of Prisons facility was $70.75 in fiscal year 2008, and $65.25 in a community correction center. By comparison, the daily cost of supervision by federal probation officers was $10.23.