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Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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In response to the Wisconsin Legislative Council’s decision to remove publications more than five years old from their Web site, the UW Law Library contacted the WLC and offered to host the documents on our Web site. WLC has accepted our offer and has provided us with the electronic publications back to 1996. We are …
The Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal will be hosting their 2007 Colloquium at the Law School (Lubar Commons) this Friday, February 23. This year’s colloquium, “Our Workplace, Our Home: Protecting our Families and Preserving our Dignity,” highlights two authors the journal will be publishing this year. The first speaker, Jill Maxwell of Brooklyn Law School, will …
The Second Line Blog is the official blog for the American Association of Law Libraries’ (AALL) 2007 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. It features current announcements, news, photos, informal reports from conference goers, and all sorts of important items of interest. Both a RSS feed and email subscription are available. If you wish to contribute …
The Wisconsin International Law Journal announces the 2007 Symposium open to all UW students, faculty and the legal community Islamic Law in a Globalized World: Implications for Contemporary Finance Law Friday, March 2, 2007 9:00 am -5:00 pm Godfrey and Kahn Hall (Room 2260) University of Wisconsin Law School Overview: Islamic law has become an …
One of my favorite sites for researching law on the Internet is American Law Sources Online (ALSO). ALSO has compiled an outstanding, well organized collection of links to freely available primary and some secondary legal resources for federal and state law. It includes case law, statutes, local ordinances, administrative code, forms, research guides, and more. …
The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau publishes Governing Wisconsin, a series of brief discussions of how government works in Wisconsin. The guides explain such things as legislative rules, the Wisconsin Idea, forms of local government, open meeting law, redistricting, due process and more.
Thanks to WI Ct of Appeals Judge Daniel Anderson for alerting me to March of the Librarians on YouTube. A parody of March of the Penguins, this mockumentary follows librarians at the ALA Midwinter conference. I especially liked the part about the male librarians with their “fabulous facial plumage,” the “tote-rollers,” and the occasional “hipster …
In contrast to Governor Doyle’s recent budget proposal, Odd Wisconsin has a bit about Wisconsin’s first budget. So, let’s see… $25 billion in 2007, for a single year’s operation of state government, works out to be $63,493,150 per day; or about $12.37 per day per person (using the U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimate of 5,536,201). …
Electronic legal research can be very expensive. Fortunately, there are a few lower cost options out there, including Loislaw and Versuslaw. There is a nice short article comparing the two in the February 2007 edition of The CRIV Sheet (which is an insert in AALL Spectrum). When looking at your research options, Loislaw and Versuslaw …