Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
2009 Wisconsin Act 220, which prohibits electronic text messaging and electronic mail messaging while driving, takes effect Dec 1, 2010. Specifically, the Act creates s. 346.89(3), which states: “No person may drive, as defined in s. 343.305(1)(b), any motor vehicle while composing or sending an electronic text message or an electronic mail message.” Violators are …
The Special Committee on Review of Records Access of Circuit Court Documents met this past Thursday, Nov. 4th. The video and audio of this meeting are available via Wisconsin Eye. Memorandum, reports and documents mentioned during the meeting are available on the Special Committee’s page on the Legislative Council’s website. The Chair, Rep. Kelda Helen …
The Milwaukee Public Library has recently acquired the Digital Sanborn Atlases which contains very detailed, large-scale maps of Wisconsin towns and cities from 1867-1970. The maps were created by the Sanborn Map Company for fire insurance purposes. They detail buildings and their construction materials and were used to assess potential risk from fire and other …
One of my favorite games is called Origins. It’s a trivia game about the origins of customs, cliches, inventions, words and superstitions. Why do we say “break a leg” to wish someone good luck? Or why might we say someone is “mad as a hatter”? Mental Floss had a post the other day on the …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. High Seas Shipwreck Pits Treasure Hunters Against a Sovereign Nation: The Black Swan Case by Kim Alderman, University of Wisconsin Law School Understanding Failure: Examiners and the Bankruptcy Reorganization of Large Public Companies by Jonathan C. Lipson, …
The Government Printing Office has recently released a federated (combined) search engine for multiple databases compiled by the federal government. The new search engine called MetaLib includes reference databases, digital repositories and subject-based Web gateways. View a complete list of all current resources that can be accessed in MetaLib. For more info, see the FDLP …
This weekend, third year law students at the University of Wisconsin will honor an almost century long tradition (no one knows for sure) of the homecoming cane parade and toss. A recent article in On Wisconsin describes the tradition: When they arrive in the shadow of the Field House, students toss their canes over the …
The latest edition of InsideTrack from the Wisconsin State Bar highlights some major improvements in the search capability of Books Unbound. Books UnBound is the subscription-based online library of State Bar of Wisconsin CLE Books. The first improvement is that you can now search across the all of the Books UnBound titles in your subscription. …
This morning, Wisconsin Supreme Court voted 7-0 to keep Wisconsin’s diploma privilege in tact. The justices rejected a proposal from a group of lawyers who wanted to end the practice. Read more at the JS Online blog, Proof and Hearsay, and the Marquette Law School faculty blog.
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Legal Protection of Archaeological Remains on Public Property in the U.S. Virgin Islands by Kim Alderman, University of Wisconsin Law School Controlling Creditor Opportunism by Jonathan C. Lipson, University of Wisconsin Law School Bella’s Case: Parsi Identity …