UW Law School has named Bernadette Atuahene as the inaugural James E. Jones Chair. The endowed faculty chair honors the late Professor James E. Jones Jr. ’56, who was a trailblazing labor lawyer, civil rights activist, prolific scholar, …
Judicial Conference Endorses Making PACER Searching Free to All Non-commercial Users
Free federal court records are now one step closer: The federal judiciary’s policymaking body has endorsed a proposal to make federal court records searches via the PACER electronic database free to non-commercial users. According to a …
UW Law Publishes Long-Lost “Technology & the Law: The Automobile” Manuscript by J. Willard Hurst, the Father of Modern Legal History
Twenty-five years after his death, the Wisconsin Law Review has published a long-lost manuscript by Professor J. Willard Hurst, beloved UW Law School professor, renowned scholar, and one of the great originators of modern legal …
UW Law Library Closed Wednesday, May 18th
Due to a planned power outage, the UW Law Library will be closed all day on Wednesday, May 18th. We will reopen as usual on Thursday, May 19th. See the campus libraries website for a …
WI Attorneys Can Now Earn CLE Credit for Tribal Court Pro Bono Appointments
The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently approved an amendment to Supreme Court Rule (SCR) 31.01 (11) to allow tribal courts to appoint attorneys to provide pro bono legal services, and to permit the attorney to claim …
Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: The Legal Struggle for Rights of Nature in the United States; The Canon of Nature Rights; Progressivism in the Active Free Enterprise State: Fluidity, Fragmentation, and Stability: A Case Study in Law and Public Policy
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. …
Oldestsearch.com Retrieves Google results in Reverse Chronological Order
Looking for a blast from the past? Oldestsearch.com will retrieve Google results in reverse chronological order. beSpacific notes that “this is useful for many subjects including medical illnesses which return search results back to the …
WI Tax Index & Appeals Commission Decisions Available on Wisconsin.gov
I recently discovered that Wisconsin Tax Appeals Commission Rulings and Orders are now available in full text on Wisconsin.gov. The Tax Appeals Commission (TAC) is an independent state agency that was created by the Wisconsin …
5th Circuit Limits Use of “Wayback Machine” Archived Content without Additional Authentication
In an opinion issued earlier this year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit placed a limitation on the use of content archived by the Internet Archive’s “Wayback Machine” without additional authentication. The …
WI Law In Action Podcast: Mark Sidel on Governmental Restrictions of NGOs in China
On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, host Kris Turner interviews UW Law School’s Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, Mark Sidel on recent trends …