This afternoon, I had the pleasure of attending an excellent presentation on The Life Cycle of Scholarship Marketing, jointly presented by the UW Law School External Affairs Office and our Law Library. The session was …
Exploring Legal Research Resources Makes WisBar’s “5 Tips to Excel as a New Lawyer”
Christopher Shattuck, Law Practice Assistance Manager at the State Bar of Wisconsin has compiled a useful list of tips for law school grads looking to maximize their experiences as new lawyers. They are: Do Not …
Free Basic Photoshop Coming Soon
According to The Verge, a free basic version of Photoshop (image editing tool) is coming soon: Adobe has started testing a free-to-use version of Photoshop on the web and plans to open the service up …
UW Law Names Prof. Bernadette Atuahene as Inaugural James E. Jones Chair
UW Law School has named Bernadette Atuahene as the inaugural James E. Jones Chair. The endowed faculty chair honors the late Professor James E. Jones Jr. ’56, who was a trailblazing labor lawyer, civil rights activist, prolific scholar, …
Judicial Conference Endorses Making PACER Searching Free to All Non-commercial Users
Free federal court records are now one step closer: The federal judiciary’s policymaking body has endorsed a proposal to make federal court records searches via the PACER electronic database free to non-commercial users. According to a …
UW Law Publishes Long-Lost “Technology & the Law: The Automobile” Manuscript by J. Willard Hurst, the Father of Modern Legal History
Twenty-five years after his death, the Wisconsin Law Review has published a long-lost manuscript by Professor J. Willard Hurst, beloved UW Law School professor, renowned scholar, and one of the great originators of modern legal …
UW Law Library Closed Wednesday, May 18th
Due to a planned power outage, the UW Law Library will be closed all day on Wednesday, May 18th. We will reopen as usual on Thursday, May 19th. See the campus libraries website for a …
WI Attorneys Can Now Earn CLE Credit for Tribal Court Pro Bono Appointments
The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently approved an amendment to Supreme Court Rule (SCR) 31.01 (11) to allow tribal courts to appoint attorneys to provide pro bono legal services, and to permit the attorney to claim …
Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: The Legal Struggle for Rights of Nature in the United States; The Canon of Nature Rights; Progressivism in the Active Free Enterprise State: Fluidity, Fragmentation, and Stability: A Case Study in Law and Public Policy
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. “The Legal Struggle for Rights of Nature in the United States” 2022 Wis. L. Rev. …
Oldestsearch.com Retrieves Google results in Reverse Chronological Order
Looking for a blast from the past? Oldestsearch.com will retrieve Google results in reverse chronological order. beSpacific notes that “this is useful for many subjects including medical illnesses which return search results back to the …