UW Law School Redesigns Web Site
You may have noticed that WisBlawg was unavailable late last week. It was because the Law School’s server was down to make the switch to the newly redesigned UW Law School Web site. Check it out!
Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
You may have noticed that WisBlawg was unavailable late last week. It was because the Law School’s server was down to make the switch to the newly redesigned UW Law School Web site. Check it out!
You may have noticed that WisBlawg was unavailable late last week. It was because the Law School’s server was down to make the switch to the newly redesigned UW Law School Web site. Check it out!
JS Online reports that: A Dane County judge ruled Wednesday that drafts of what may become formal bills in the Legislature do not have to be made public under the open records law, even if legislators have shared them with individuals or special-interest groups outside the Capitol. . . . In his ruling, [Circuit Judge …
If you’re an Odd Wisconsin fan like me, you’ll be interested to know that the Wisconsin Historical Society has recently published a book entitled, Odd Wisconsin: Amusing, Perplexing, and Unlikely Stories from Wisconsin’s Past. From the Web site: This unique book unearths the stories that got lost to history even though they may have made …
Did you know you could generate RSS feeds for new products from Amazon? The feeds are based on tags which users can assign to items. See, for example, the “law” tag. Notice that there is a link to a RSS feed for that tag at the bottom right. There are lots of other, more specific, …
Lisa Pfaff, our Acquisitions Assistant, snapped this lovely photo this morning of a blooming American lotus at the UW–Madison Botany Garden.
“Continuing its efforts to enhance the transparency of courtroom proceedings, the federal Judiciary is about to launch a pilot project to make digital audio recordings publicly available online,” reports The Third Branch. Five pilot project courts will begin loading the audio files into their CM/ECF systems later this summer where they will be available via …
I recently learned about Zotero, free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources, and I must say that I’m impressed. It is product of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Basically, you download a little extension for Firefox (sorry IE folks) and Zotero becomes …
WI Attorney General Van Hollen has recently issued several new opinions – two formal and one informal. They are available on the Attorney General’s web site. I created a crude RSS feed using Ponyfish. It’s not pretty, but it will send notification when there is a new opinion posted on the web site.
To encourage new users, AudioCaseFiles, a web site of downloadable MP3 files of court opinions, is available at no charge this summer. This service, which is aimed at law students, provides recordings of most of the opinions that appear in many law school first year course casebooks. Looks like there are a couple hundred so …