In celebration of APIDA Heritage Month, the UW Law Library has created a web display celebrating the accomplishments of Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American members of the legal profession. See the UW APIDA Heritage Month site for more …
New Study Offers Tips for Increasing Law Review Article Citations
82% of law review articles have zero citations within the first five years. 82%. This grim finding is from a recent study by Rob Willey and Melanie Knapp of George Mason University Law Library who …
Google Research Sites & Tools
Here’s a list of some of the many research sites and tools available from Google: Google Advanced – https://www.google.com/advanced_search Google Alerts – https://www.google.com/alerts Google Books – https://books.google.com Google Finance – https://www.google.com/finance Google Flights – https://www.google.com/flights/ …
ScholarSift & JStor Text Analyzer Use AI to Identify Law & Multidisciplinary Articles that You Might Have Missed
ScholarSift is a new resource that legal scholars and law librarians should keep an eye on. Using artificial intelligence, it analyzes the text and citations of law journal articles to find other relevant law journal …
Virtual Symposium on Citation and the Law
The Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School is hosting a free Virtual Symposium on Citation and the Law on April 22 and 23, 2021. Registration is now open. The symposium will highlight the …
UW Law Ranked 29th Among the Nation’s Law Schools by U.S. News
From UW Law School News: U.S. News and World Report has ranked UW Law School 29th among the nation’s law schools (tied with five other schools), the magazine announced today. The school was ranked 38th last year. …
Hidden Gems: Under-appreciated UW Law Library Resources
As the calendar winds its way toward spring and the end of the semester approaches, Assistant Director for Public Services, Kris Turner recommends the following underutilized or overlooked gems to help law students finish the …
Clearbrief MS Word Add-in Uses AI to Evaluate the Strength of a Brief
Clearbrief is a new brief analysis tool that uses AI to evaluate the strength of the arguments in a brief, identifying how well each sentence is supported by the cited source. It functions as an …
Representing Law Faculty Scholarly Impact: Strategies for Improving Citation Metrics and Promoting Scholarly Visibility
For the last few years, I’ve been following the issue of legal citation metrics and scholarly impact and visibility very closely. I’m pleased to share that my new paper entitled, Representing Law Faculty Scholarly Impact: …
WI Law In Action Podcast: Anne Smith on the UW Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic
On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, we talk with Anne Smith, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Director of UW Law School’s Law & Entrepreneurship …