Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
WisconsinEye, the statewide public affairs network that broadcasts Wisconsin capitol proceedings, will stop event coverage on December 15 due to lack of funding, according to a statement on their website. Their archive of more than 30,000 hours of footage will also go offline. Impact on Government Transparency and Legal Research For legal practitioners conducting legislative …
A new statue honoring Vel Phillips, a pioneering figure in Wisconsin’s legal and political history, will be unveiled at the Wisconsin State Capitol on July 27, 2024, at 5 p.m. This monument marks a significant milestone as the first commemoration of a Black leader on the Capitol grounds. Vel Phillips, who graduated from the University …
In an effort to address the problem of online misinformation, Google is now providing “about this image” information in Google image search results. This information will include when the image was first indexed by Google, which website it may have first appeared on, and where else it has appeared online, such as on social media. …
To rank well in most legal scholarship ranking systems which count “all-time citations,” scholars must have thirty to forty years of nearly continuous scholarly output. This leads to an undercounting of women and other time-limited groups and prevents existing rankings from surfacing the current top scholars according to Rob Willey, Melanie Knapp, and Ashley Matthews …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Spillover Tax Precedent 2021 Wis. L. Rev. 657 (2021) by SUSANNAH CAMIC TAHK, UW Law School We know that pro se litigants often lose. However, we know almost nothing about the circumstances in which they …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. The Anatomy of Cancel Culture 2 Journal of Free Speech Law 205 (2022) by FRANCISKA COLEMAN, UW Law School In this paper, I undertake a qualitative exploration of how social regulation of speech works in …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “The Tax-Invisible Labor Problem: Care, Work, Kinship, and Income Security Programs in the IRC” 102 B.U. L. Rev. (2022, forthcoming) by NYAMAGAGA GONDWE, UW Law School Since the mid-1990s, American financial assistance programs have increasingly …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “Countering the New Election Subversion: The Democracy Principle and the Role of State Courts” Wis. L. Rev. (2022, forthcoming) by Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Columbia Law School, and MIRIAM SEIFTER, UW Law School Among the threats to …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “Weaponizing Fear” Yale Law Journal Forum (2022, forthcoming) by S. LISA WASHINGTON, UW Law School In a letter dated February 22, 2022, Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed the commissioner of the Texas Department of Family …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “The Legal Struggle for Rights of Nature in the United States” 2022 Wis. L. Rev. 133 (2022) by ALEXANDRA VALERIA HUNEEUS, UW Law School This Article analyzes the rise and persistence of the U.S.-based nature …