Have you ever been puzzled by the results from a Google search? Found yourself wondering how Google connected those results to the words you typed, especially if you didn’t get exactly what you were expecting …
Responding to US News’ Decision Not to Create Scholarly Impact Ranking – Law Librarians Still Play a Key Role in Maximizing Scholarly Visibility
After raising numerous concerns from the legal academic community, Brian Leiter reports that U.S. News has decided not to produce its own scholarly impact ranking. Chief among these concerns is that the exclusion of interdisciplinary scholarship and …
UW Law Library Program on Increasing Scholarly Visibility Busts Myths about Marketing & Discoverability
Last week, our UW Law Librarians teamed up with our External Affairs team to put on a very well-received in-house program for our faculty and staff on Increasing Scholarly Visibility: Social Media & Discoverability. It …
Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: The Role of Clinical Education to Advance Social Justice, Absence or Misuse of Statistics as Contributor to Wrongful Convictions, Judges as Common-law Thinkers, Title VII is Not an Anti-Discrimination Law, Comparative Election Administration, and Overseas NGOs, Foundations and Covid in China
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “Lift as ‘The Fourth Moment’ in Wisconsin Clinical Legal Education for Social Justice” 2021 …
What’s New in the Wisconsin Guide to Citation, Tenth Edition
The State Bar of Wisconsin has recently released a revised edition of the Wisconsin Guide to Citation. The new Tenth Edition contains the following updates: Table T2 (Foreign Jurisdictions) has moved online (http://www.legalbluebook.com) with the …
Researching Local Law – Municipal & County Legislation, Tracking, & Legislative History
When researching a legal issue, local laws are an often overlooked resource. Municipal and county governments pass ordinances on a variety of topics, including administrative procedures, standards of conduct, and zoning. Although many of these …
How Does Your Garden Grow? With a Little Help from Madison Public Library’s Seed Library
Who knew that you could borrow seeds from the Madison Public Library? A lot of people, apparently. So far this year, the Madison Public Library’s Seed Library has given away nearly 2,000 seed packets, including flowers, …
Bluebook Revises Rule for Citing Cases Involving Enslaved Persons
In response to concerns raised by the Citing Slavery Project, the Bluebook has made a rare between-edition change to rule 10.7.1 on citation to cases. This change is reflected in the 2021 printing of The …
Google Will Soon Explain How It Found Search Results
Reuters reports that Google will soon show its search engine users more information about why it found the results they are shown. Users will be able to click into details such as how their result …
UW Law Library Unveils 2021 Faculty READ Poster Featuring Professor Mitra Sharafi
The UW Law Library has been creating beautiful READ Posters highlighting our amazing faculty as a part of National Library Week for the past 15 years. Thanks to Covid, this year’s poster was delayed, but …