Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Voting, Spending, and the Right to Participate by Robert Yablon State Judges as Guardians of Federalism: Resisting the Federal Arbitration Act’s Encroachment on State Law by David S. Schwartz Correcting Federalism Mistakes in …
A free alternative to The Bluebook legal citation guide is now available. The Indigo Book, formerly called “Baby Blue,” is available online without charge in PDF or HTML. To make legal citation more accessible, the team behind The Indigo Book, led by Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org, separated the widely used system of citation codified in …
New Legal Realism Conversations is a website devoted to the Law-and-Society movement approach to interdisciplinary legal studies: “We believe that all of the social sciences have a contribution to make to our understanding of law. ” Since January, the NLRC blog has featured reminiscences by UW Law School Professors Marc Galanter and Stewart Macaulay. Most …
According to a recent press release, the University of Wisconsin–Madison smoke-free policy has been updated to include language prohibiting electronic smoking devices such as e-cigarettes. The policy will go into effect on May 1st. See the full press release for more information.
Last month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court approved a new rule requiring mandatory electronic filing statewide. (Wis. Stat. § 801.18) According to a recent edition of The Third Branch, the quarterly newsletter of the Wisconsin court system, the mandatory eFiling rule takes effect July 1 but will be phased in gradually over the next three years. …
From Robert Ambrogi’s Law Sites: A class action lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court in Washington, D.C., challenges the fees charged by PACER, the federal courts’ online court records system, as excessive. The lawsuit seeks to obtain relief on behalf of “all individuals and entities who have paid fees for the use of PACER within …
According to the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, the Supreme Court has denied cert to Authors Guild, et al. v. Google, Inc., in which the Authors Guild and individual writers argued that Google engaged in copyright infringement “on an epic scale” by digitizing, indexing, and displaying snippets of print books in internet search results. From …
Have you ever been asked to complete and electronically submit a fillable PDF form only to find that you couldn’t save it after you’d finished completing it? That all you could do was print it, then have to snail mail, fax, or scan it back in? Or maybe you’re the one who created a form …
Here is the latest faculty and staff scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Decentering the Consuming Self: Personalized Medicine, Science, and the Market for Lemons by Shubha Ghosh Constitutional Lawyers and the Inter-American Court’s Varied Authority by Alexandra Valeria Huneeus The University of Wisconsin Law …
Stats and data about any aspect of the legal world have often been notoriously difficult to track down. I know that when I am asked a question about stats at the reference desk, I always prepare myself for what could be a difficult search. That sigh of relief you are hearing is from law librarians …