Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
ELLE Decor has featured the University of Wisconsin Law School Library as one of The 50 Best Libraries In The United States. A lovely photo of our Habush, Habush, and Rottier Reading Room is included in the piece.
Thanks to UW Law School Professor Elizabeth Mertz for alerting me that a new two-volume book series on New Legal Realism is available from Cambridge University Press. Numerous UW Law School professors were involved in the project. The first volume, The New Legal Realism, Volume I: Translating Law-and-Society for Today’s Legal Practice, is co-edited by …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Institutionalizing Essentialism: Mechanisms of Intersectional Subordination Within the LGBT Movement by Gwendolyn Leachman Islamic Constitutionalism: Not Secular. Not Theocratic. Not Impossible by Asifa Quraishi-Landes What We Know and Need to Know About Civil …
The UW Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, in collaboration with Absolutely Art, is sponsoring a discussion on copyright issues for artists on Tuesday, June 28th, from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. The discussion will be followed by a reception showcasing five talented local artists. Featured artists include: Doug Hoffman, Jesy Grose, The Moxie League, Dane Arts …
As seen by the UW Law School. . . Prickly pear cacti in bloom near Chadbourne Hall. Photo by UW Law Library Acquisitions Assistant, Lisa Pfaff.
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Voting, Spending, and the Right to Participate by Robert Yablon State Judges as Guardians of Federalism: Resisting the Federal Arbitration Act’s Encroachment on State Law by David S. Schwartz Correcting Federalism Mistakes in …
New Legal Realism Conversations is a website devoted to the Law-and-Society movement approach to interdisciplinary legal studies: “We believe that all of the social sciences have a contribution to make to our understanding of law. ” Since January, the NLRC blog has featured reminiscences by UW Law School Professors Marc Galanter and Stewart Macaulay. Most …
Here is the latest faculty and staff scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Decentering the Consuming Self: Personalized Medicine, Science, and the Market for Lemons by Shubha Ghosh Constitutional Lawyers and the Inter-American Court’s Varied Authority by Alexandra Valeria Huneeus The University of Wisconsin Law …
Here is the latest faculty and staff scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Second-Order Participation in Administrative Law Miriam Seifter, University of Wisconsin Law School White Slavery in the Northwoods: Early U.S. Anti-Sex Trafficking and Its Continuing Relevance to Trafficking Reform Bonnie J. Shucha, University …
Earlier today, 27 News’ Wake Up Wisconsin aired a story about the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 13th amendment. The UW Law School’s own “Freeing of the Slaves” mural by John Steuart Curry is prominently featured. For more information about the Curry mural, see the UW Law Library website.