Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From ABA Site-tation: At the end of March, Minnesota’s Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board approved a new ethics opinion addressing lawyers’ ethical obligations regarding metadata. Opinion No. 22, available in PDF format on the LPRB’s website, addresses the three primary metadata questions: what is a lawyer’s duty when sending electronic documents; what is a lawyer’s duty …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Tunnel Vision (chapter in Conviction of the Innocent: Lessons from Psychological Research) by Keith A. Findley, University of Wisconsin Law School Comparing Approaches Toward Governing Scientific Advisory Bodies on Food Safety in the United States and the …
On June 10, 11:30 a.m. EDT, American Association of Law Libraries is sponsoring a webinar with Stephen Abram entitled Interpreting the Tea Leaves: Thinking about the Future. LLAW’s own Laura La Rose of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.C. in Milwaukee is also one of the speakers. Here’s more about the webinar from AALL: The world …
The Federal Judiciary has recently redesigned their website. It incorporates a host of emerging web technologies, such as RSS, podcasts, and multimedia. Read the press release for more info.
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Case Study Research and International Tax Theory by Allison Christians, University of Wisconsin Law School Open Borders, the US Economic Espionage Act of 1996, and the Global Movement of Knowledge and People by Shubha Ghosh, University of …
From WisBar’s Inside Track: The Wisconsin Legislature has passed and sent to Gov. Doyle Senate Bill 383, a comprehensive revision of Wis. Stat. chapters 755 and 800. These chapters regulate the creation and operation of the state’s 252 municipal courts. Most changes will take effect Jan. 1, 2011. Read the full article for more information. …
A new edition of the Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation will be released next month. According to Hein, the 19th edition retains the same basic approach to legal citation established by its predecessors. The layout has been updated to make information easier to access. Some citation forms have been expanded, elaborated upon, or modified …
The Appleton Post Crescent has a nice run down of major bills passed and rejected by the Wisconsin Legislature since the beginning of the two-year session starting in January 2009. The list appears below – for a description of each, see the full article: Clean energy Failing schools Raw milk Smoking ban Texting while driving …
The Library of Congress has announced that it is archiving every public tweet made since the service went live back in 2006. Why you may ask? ars technica gives a pretty good explanation There’s been a turn toward historicism in academic circles over the last few decades, a turn that emphasizes not just official histories …
Last week I posted about the State Bar of Wisconsin’s new Books UnBound product – a subscription-based online library of State Bar of Wisconsin CLE Books (the “brown binders”). I had some concerns about the limited search capabilities but Books UnBound project coordinator, Kristin Huotari, tells me that a more advanced search is in the …