Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Stimulus Watch has compiled a list of Wisconsin’s municipal “shovel-ready” projects for which mayors have requested federal stimulus funding. Click on a project to read (and add to) its description and vote on whether you believe it is critical or not. Thanks to my colleague, Vicky Coulter, for the tip
Wisconsin State Bar members are invited to attend free webinars from Fastcase explaining this new member benefit. Fastcase offers free, unlimited access to a comprehensive 50-state and federal case-law database including coverage of federal appellate and bankruptcy courts; the U.S. Supreme Court, and access to Wisconsin statutes, the Administrative Code, Supreme Court rules, the Constitution, …
“In a repeat performance of one of the most popular college pranks ever, this week Lady Liberty once again appeared to rise from Lake Mendota with torch aloft, thanks to the Wisconsin Hoofers, UW–Madison’s outdoor recreation club.” From: Ideas & Discoveries (UW–Madison)
State Bar of Wisconsin President, Diane S. Diel, has issued a statement opposing the potential taxation of legal services. Source: The Wheeler Report
In celebration of its 25th year, the Harper’s Index-12,058 lines spanning 300 issues-is now open to all for searching and browsing, with more than one thousand linked categories. Slaw explains that “Harper’s Index is a collection of information set out in single lines as if it were statistical data and in a way that is …
Anyone needing to do research on the University of Wisconsin might be interested in a new collection from the UW Digital Collections Center, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents Collection. This collection consists of the digitized minutes of the meetings of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents from 1921-1991. The 70-year scope of …
The New York Times has an interesting article about Carl Malamud’s attempt to gather district court records from PACER and make they freely available on the Web. Those courts, with the help of the Government Printing Office, had opened a free trial of Pacer at 17 libraries around the country. Mr. Malamud urged fellow activists …
Yesterday Bill Gratsch, founder of Blawg.com, posted some highlights of an interview with me. Bonnie Shucha, the Head of Reference at the UW Law Library, recently answered a few of my questions about what law librarians in particular can do to run their libraries in the 21st century and what it is like to host …
The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society is hosting a symposium entitled Gender and Criminal Justice: The Impact of Gender in Criminal Law from Legislation through Incarceration. The event will be held on Saturday, March 7th, 2009 from 10am-4pm at the University of Wisconsin Law School (Lubar Commons- Room 7200, 975 Bascom Mall, Madison, …
SSRN has recently unveiled a new e-journal titled Legal Information & Technology. It includes working papers, forthcoming articles, and recently published articles in all areas of legal information and law librarianship. Interested readers can subscribe to receive the ejournal. According to an article in the Academic Law Library Special Interest Section newsletter, co-editors Randy Diamond …