Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
A New Jersey appellate court found that a prohibition against “Googling” potential jurors to gain additional information about them was unreasonable. Read more at Legal Blog Watch.
FantasySCOTUS.net is a new fantasy league that allows you to compete against your friends, colleagues, and adversaries to determine who has the greatest ability to predict the outcome of Supreme Court cases. The site is the brainchild of Josh Blackman, recent George Mason law grad and “big Supreme Court nerd.” The Rules are simple, say …
As I posted earlier this month, the American Association of Law Libraries Computing Services Special Interest Section is sponsoring the Web 2.0 Challenge again this summer. The Challenge is five-week online course that will introduce law librarians to social software and how to use it in their libraries. It will begin just after the AALL …
More news from Bruce Hoesly at the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau: The LRB has added an archive of superseded Administrative Code pages that were replaced between Register 1 (1956) and Register 541 (2001). Not all pages replaced in that time period are included. As the Register numbers become lower, the amount of archived code in …
There has been a lot of buzz the last several days about two new search engines – Bing, from Microsoft, and Google Squared. Bing Here’s a good description of Bing from SearchEngineWatch More than just a rebranding of Live Search, Microsoft is repositioning Bing as a “decision engine,” with a goal “to provide customers with …
I recently received word that the ProQuest Newsstand will no longer be available via Badgerlink after June 30, 2009. Badgerlink, which is available free to all Wisconsin residents thanks to funding from the DPI, is a collection of several subscription databases containing articles from thousands of newspaper and periodical titles, image files, and other reference …
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the creation of WisBlawg. Thanks to my faithful readers. I hope that you’ve enjoyed reading the blog as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it. (Image from Flickr)
TED has produced this very interesting talk on why people cheat. Fascinating viewing, especially for legal professionals whose work involves studying and predicting human behavior. Here’s a synopsis from the Mental Floss Blog: Today I bring you a truly fascinating talk about irrationality and cheating. Dan Ariely was a burn patient, with burns over 70% …
WSLL @ Your Service, the newsletter of the Wisconsin State Law Library, reports that “LexisOne recently doubled the number of years’ worth of free case law on its website – from five years to ten. Users can search by keyword or citation, or browse by year. As before, U.S. Supreme Court cases are available for …
Law Librarians: Are you interested in learning about applications like blogs, wikis, and Second Life, but don’t have a lot of time? Take the AALL Computing Services-SIS Web 2.0 Challenge! The Web 2.0 Challenge — a free, comprehensive, and interactive online course — will use hands-on exercises to introduce law librarians to many kinds of …