Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Professor Mathias Siems of Durham Law School in the UK has recently conducted an interesting analysis of which legal articles generate the most attention on SSRN. His article is entitled, Legal Research in Search of Attention: A Quantitative Assessment. From the abstract: Based on a sample of 1107 papers of SSRN’s Legal Scholarship Network, this …
A collaborative group of librarians from the Library of Congress, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Internet Archive, and several other archives and universities have teamed up on a project to preserve public United States Government websites at the end of the current presidential administration ending January 20, 2017. In this collaboration, the partners will structure and …
If you haven’t yet heard about Harvard’s Caselaw Access Project to digitize millions of pages of case law and make it freely available online, check out this story in Bostonomix. “We want the law, as expressed in court decisions, to be as widely distributed and as available as possible online to promote access to justice …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Servants of Two Masters? The Feigned Hysteria over Activist-Paid Directors by Yaron Nili The ‘New Insiders’: Rethinking Independent Directors’ Tenure by Yaron Nili Mapping the Ecology of China’s Corporate Legal Sector: Globalization and …
Thanks to UW Law School Professor Elizabeth Mertz for alerting me that a new two-volume book series on New Legal Realism is available from Cambridge University Press. Numerous UW Law School professors were involved in the project. The first volume, The New Legal Realism, Volume I: Translating Law-and-Society for Today’s Legal Practice, is co-edited by …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Institutionalizing Essentialism: Mechanisms of Intersectional Subordination Within the LGBT Movement by Gwendolyn Leachman Islamic Constitutionalism: Not Secular. Not Theocratic. Not Impossible by Asifa Quraishi-Landes What We Know and Need to Know About Civil …
The UW Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, in collaboration with Absolutely Art, is sponsoring a discussion on copyright issues for artists on Tuesday, June 28th, from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. The discussion will be followed by a reception showcasing five talented local artists. Featured artists include: Doug Hoffman, Jesy Grose, The Moxie League, Dane Arts …
As seen by the UW Law School. . . Prickly pear cacti in bloom near Chadbourne Hall. Photo by UW Law Library Acquisitions Assistant, Lisa Pfaff.
The Law Library of Congress has recently released a full collection of historical volumes of the Federal Register online. The collection begins with the first Federal Register in 1936 and contains all daily volumes through 1993. For more information, see the announcement from the Law Library of Congress.
Do you have a collection of analog materials (like home movies, video tapes, audio cassettes) or paper documents (photographs, etc.) that you’d like to digitize but don’t have the equipment to do so? Then check out the Madison Public Library Central Branch’s new Personal Archiving Lab. The Personal Archiving Lab supports the following formats: VHS …