Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
If you routinely access federal dockets and court documents, you may already know that you can get some documents free from the RECAP Archive, a database of millions of PACER documents and dockets maintained by the Free Law Project. These documents are “donated” by users who purchase them on PACER, then automatically send them to the …
Unlike federal and state law which is widely available, municipal law can be difficult to track down. In Wisconsin alone, there are 585 municipal (city and village) governments and 1,265 town governments and the availability and amount of information available from each varies greatly. Fortunately, there is a guide to searching municipal law in the …
Those of you who follow federal legislation may be familiar with CRS Reports. The Congressional Research Service is a non-partisan legislative branch agency, housed inside the Library of Congress, that provides comprehensive analysis on issues that may come before Congress. Although created for Congress, these reports can be tremendously insightful on matters of federal policy …
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 …
Last month, the University of WI Law School hosted a weeklong legal boot camp culminating the National Tribal Trial College’s Certificate in Tribal Court Legal Advocacy. This free, 6-month, skill-building course empowers laypersons to practice law in Tribal Courts across the United States. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The National Trial Tribal College condenses three …
This afternoon, I had the pleasure of attending an excellent presentation on The Life Cycle of Scholarship Marketing, jointly presented by the UW Law School External Affairs Office and our Law Library. The session was cleverly organized around the following themes: Birth and childhood Research and literature review Prepping for discoverability Submissions to journals Teenage …
Christopher Shattuck, Law Practice Assistance Manager at the State Bar of Wisconsin has compiled a useful list of tips for law school grads looking to maximize their experiences as new lawyers. They are: Do Not Be Afraid to Ask Questions Maximize Your Networking Boost Your Experience by Volunteering Attend to Your Own Wellness Explore Resources …
According to The Verge, a free basic version of Photoshop (image editing tool) is coming soon: Adobe has started testing a free-to-use version of Photoshop on the web and plans to open the service up to everyone as a way to introduce more users to the app…. Adobe describes the service as “freemium” and eventually …
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, and committed professor. In 1969, he became the Law School’s first African American faculty member and, in 1973, founded UW …
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 newly released report, the Judicial Conference of the United States has endorsed “making all searches free of charge for all …