Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The UW Law Library is proud to announce the launch of our new podcast, Wisconsin Law in Action. In this podcast, law librarians interview UW Law School faculty about their latest research and scholarship. New interviews, typically about 11-13 minutes in length, will be posted monthly. In our first interview, Yaron Nili, Assistant Professor at …
Notice anything new? Both the UW Law Library website and blog, WisBlawg, are featuring a fresh new look this fall. They offer a cleaner, more mobile-friendly design that more closely aligns with the UW Madison campus and Law School sites. Credit for the redesign goes to our Reference & Technology Librarian, Emma Babler with advice …
On the topic of assessing law journal publication offers — There is a very interesting article recently available on SSRN that examines the relationship between a school’s prestige and the citation impact factor of its flagship journals. To investigate whether ranking translates into impact, the authors analyze historical data from American law journal’s impact-factor (using Washington & Lee’s rankings) and the US …
Last week, Google enhanced discoverability of podcast content. Simply add the word “podcast” to your search and Google search will show you playable episodes alongside your other search results. We’ll surface these episodes based on Google’s understanding of what’s being talked about on a podcast, so you can find even more relevant information about a topic …
Carol Hassler of Wisconsin State Law Library has put together a very helpful guide on finding older legal materials in the latest edition of InsideTrack. She provides tips on locating archived: Laws & Regulations Agency Opinions Court Opinions Court Rules Archived Websites Book Editions
For some interesting observations about the 2018-19 Wisconsin Supreme Court term, check out the latest SCOWstats post. It analyzes the number of decisions filed and polarization within the court and offers some speculation about the 2019-20 term.
HeinOnline, a database of laws, law journals, and other legal texts, recently added a new feature called “Explore this Author” to author profiles. It allows readers to visualize how an author’s scholarship connects with the scholarly community. Look for the “Explore this Author” link at the top left of the author’s profile. Users will be redirected to an …
Congratulations to the Wisconsin Historical Society for receiving a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to digitize citizen petitions submitted to the Wisconsin Legislature between 1836 and 1890. Here’s more information about the project from WHS: The project will arrange, describe, preserve and make the petitions digitally available to the public. When the grant …
The journal Nature has an interesting piece on public domain advocate, Carl Malamud’s project to “build a gigantic store of text and images extracted from 73 million journal articles” for data analysis. No one will be allowed to read or download work from the repository, because that would breach publishers’ copyright. Instead, Malamud envisages, researchers could crawl …
PrawfsBlawg has an excellent interview with Professor Miriam Seifter on UW Law’s William H. Hastie Fellowship Program. “The Hastie Fellowship is an academic fellowship program aimed to help prepare candidates for the law teaching market. The program is named in honor of William H. Hastie, who was a renowned lawyer, teacher, judge, and civil rights advocate who, among …