Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Earlier today, 27 News’ Wake Up Wisconsin aired a story about the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 13th amendment. The UW Law School’s own “Freeing of the Slaves” mural by John Steuart Curry is prominently featured. For more information about the Curry mural, see the UW Law Library website.
One of the UW Law School’s clinics is making news, this time on WPR. The Law and Entrepreneurship clinic helped out over 300 clients in the past year, navigating tricky issues involving beginning new businesses. For more details and an interview with Anne Smith, check out WPR’s page on the L&E clinic here.
Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower According to research conducted by Boston College Law professor Mary Sarah Bilder,* “James Madison likely replaced several sheets of his notes chronicling the constitutional convention to distance himself from his own statements that later became controversial,” notes the ABA …
Post written by Eric Taylor, Evening Reference Librarian: The 2015-2016 edition of the Wisconsin Blue Book is now available on the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau website. What is the Wisconsin Blue Book? The State of Wisconsin Blue Book remains the primary one-volume reference source about the state, documenting the organization of the state’s three branches …
Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower I’m pleased to share that my article, White Slavery in the Northwoods: Early U.S. Anti-Sex Trafficking and its Continuing Relevance to Trafficking Reform, has been accepted for publication in the William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law. It will appear in a special issue in 2016 but it’s available …
Good news for all you Hein-heads out there (I am certainly one of them). Hein Online recently added a great new feature to their interface where you can email a link to a Hein PDF…and anybody can access it, whether they are authenticated by Hein or not. Granted the link will expire after 7 …
Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Yesterday, a U.S. District Court for the Central District of California judge ruled that the long-claimed copyright in the song, “Happy Birthday” is invalid. From the New York Times: The decision, by Judge George H. King of United States District Court in Los Angeles, is a blow …
Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower According to a press release from ProQuest, “the full text of its scholarly content – including journals and working papers – is now indexed in Google Scholar, enabling Google Scholar users to seamlessly discover and access their library’s ProQuest collections.” Here’s more: The collaboration …
Today the Ninth Circuit Court ruled in favor of Stephanie Lenz in a Fair Use case that may have long-reaching consequences. In 2007, Lenz posted a 29 second video to Youtube of her baby dancing and bouncing to the Prince song “Let’s Go Crazy”. Universal, at the time the owner of the copyright on …
Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Rebecca S. Trammell, Law Library Director of Stetson University College of Law has recently completed a dissertation on Technology & Legal Research: What Is Taught & What Is Used in the Practice of Law. Using data from three sources (the 2013 ALWD Survey; a review of syllabi; and the 2014 law …