Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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 21st edition of The Bluebook. This provides two benefits: (1) the material can be updated more frequently online, and (2) …
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 laws are available online through local government websites or through services such as eCode or municode, they can be difficult …
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, herbs, and produce seeds. Here’s a sampling of the seeds available at participating Madison libraries (Lakeview Library or Goodman South …
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 Bluebook Twenty-First Edition was first published in 2020. According to the Bluebook’s Noteworthy Changes to the 2021 Printing: Rule 10.7.1(d) now …
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 matched certain search terms, in order to better decide if the information is relevant. Google has been making changes to …
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 the wait was certainly worth it! This year, the poster features Professor Mitra Sharafi. Check it out below or visit …
On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, host Emma Babler interviews Sumudu Atapattu, Director of the Research Centers at UW Law School. Atapattu discusses discusses her journey from Sri Lanka to UW–Madison and her passion for environmental law. She also describes the new book that she …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “Clinics at Wisconsin: Comprehensive, In-Depth Pedagogy and Bottom-Up Innovation” 2021 Wisconsin Law Review 409 (2021) by KEITH A. FINDLEY and LOUISE G. TRUBEK, (UW Law) The University of Wisconsin Law School has been a …
As of July 1, electronic filing is mandatory for attorneys who practice in the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. The Wisconsin Supreme Court will launch an eFiling pilot program on a select set of cases by invitation. According to the Wisconsin Court System News, the appellate eFiling system has the same look and feel as the …
Maximizing the scholarly access, impact, and visibility of our faculty is a core part of our mission at the UW Law Library. Over the last few years, but especially since US News announced their new scholarly impact ranking in 2019, we developed a successful program to make faculty scholarship accessible online, improve scholarly impact, and …