Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
My colleague Sunil Rao has published a well written book review of The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law, by Albie Sachs. It appears on the AALL Spectrum blog. From the review: In the process of conceiving this book, Justice Albie Sachs–who served on South Africa’s first Constitutional Court from 1994 until his retirement in …
I suspect that most of you know that Google Scholar offers full text federal and state court opinions. But did you know that it also offers a citator similar to (although not as extensive as) Shepards or KeyCite? This feature allows you to find significant citing decisions for a case. Google has recently announced that …
Hack College has created a useful infographic on how to use Google more effectively. It’s targeted toward students, but is helpful to anyone who uses Google – which is just about everyone, right? I found the section on the operators to be the most useful. I’ve long used quotes to search for exact phases and …
GPO Access will officially be shut down on March 16, 2012. Users will be redirected to content on FDsys for at least one year thereafter. For more info, see FDLP Desktop
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Judicial Capacity and the Substance of Constitutional Law by Andrew B. Coan, University of Wisconsin Law School Informing and Reforming the Marketplace of Ideas: The Public-Private Partnership for Data Production and the First Amendment by Shubha Ghosh, …
The Law Library is pleased to announce that we have recently subscribed to a wonderful new database for federal legislative history research called ProQuest Legislative Insight. It is available to UW Madison students, faculty and staff, or to anyone who visits a campus library. Legislative Insight contains PDFs of numerous publications generated in the course …
UW Law Prof. Marc Galanter has a new book out called “Lawtalk: the Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions.” Like Galanter’s last book entitled “Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture,” this book looks like a lot of fun. WI State Journal columnist, Doug Moe, recently profiled Galanter and the new book. He writes: …
Want a clean printout without all the extra ads, navigation bars, and headers? There is a free tool called CleanPrint that can help. You install it on your browser and it strips all of the extra stuff and just lets you print the main content of the page. CleanPrint is compatible with IE8+, Firefox 3.5+, …
The UW Madison Campus Libraries recently released a new mobile website at m.library.wisc.edu/s. Note that if you use a mobile device to go to our main home page URL, it will automatically redirect you to the mobile page. The mobile site defaults to a listing of current hours for the campus libraries. To search the …
From the Legal Skills Prof Blog: The Utah Legal Ethics Advisory Committee considered whether an attorney who encouraged a student to breach her agreement by doing firm-related research had committed an ethical violation. The Committee answered in the affirmative finding that an attorney’s misuse of a student’s educational Wexis access is theft of services, a …