Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Congress.gov is a beta site by the Library of Congress that contains U.S. legislative information. It will eventually replace THOMAS.gov. At this point, the beta Congress.gov contains legislation from the 107th Congress (2001) to the present, member profiles from the 93rd Congress (1973) to the present, and some member profiles from the 80th through the …
From the Wisconsin State Journal: Former UW Law School Dean George Bunn, a noted nuclear arms expert and negotiator, died of spinal cancer Sunday in Palo Alto, Calif., said his son Matthew Bunn. He was 87. A more detailed obituary appears at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation site. George Bunn served at …
Stop by the Law Library this week and help us celebrate National Library Week! READ Poster View this year’s poster featuring Steve Barkan, Professor of Law and Director of the Law School Library – On display inside the library entrance on the 5th floor – View posters from previous years on our Facebook page Trivia …
2013 WI Act 5, which modifies the establishment of a publication date for acts, quietly went into effect yesterday. According to the Wisconsin Legislative Council the act does several things: Removes the authority of the Secretary of State to designate the date of publication Instead, under the Act, the date of publication of an act …
The AALL Spectrum Online has a very interesting article examining advertisements from legal periodicals and bar publications published during the Second World War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War. “Due to the scale and scope of the conflict, every aspect of civilian life was affected. The American legal system, including legal …
From the UW Madison Libraries: Love the NCAA basketball tourney, but wish it was just a little more … bookish? You’re in luck. The UW–Madison Libraries are hosting our first annual Book Madness Tournament. A brutal selection process resulted in a collection of 64 books – 8 divisions with 8 books each – going head-to-head …
The Wisconsin Film Festival will be showing Gideon’s Army, a documentary about the daily work lives of three present day public defenders, at the Marquee Theater in Union South on Thursday April 11 at 9:00p. Tickets are on sale now, $8.00 for the general public or $5.00 with a student ID. Hat tip to my …
From the Law Library Directors email list, I hope you enjoy this short video demonstrating that Paper is not Dead! It certainly made me laugh.
In preparation for a session that I’m doing for some of our Legal Research and Writing students next week, I pulled together a list of Top Ten Things Law Librarians Wish Law Students Would Know or Do. The list was first created by Betty Karweick for our Legal Research and Writing program years ago. I’ve …
By Kris Turner, Reference and Technology Services Librarian Thomson Reuters has officially gotten out of print publishing for law schools. On Friday, February 2nd, the publishing wing of the legal research giant was sold to Eureka Growth Capital, a private equity firm located in Philadelphia. It seems that paper publishing is not something that Thomson …