From the BJS Email News service: The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) website has been redesigned and is now available at: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov. Many new features and tools have been added, and the site’s content has …
Butler Renominated for Western District Seat
The White House announced yesterday that it had renominated former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler for United Stated District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin.
Citer Looks for Legal Citations in Web Pages and Points to Content
Citer is a new tool from the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute that looks for legal citations in ordinary web pages and points to a free, full-text version of the cited source. The concept …
Assembly Passes Ban on Texting while Driving
From the Wisconsin State Journal: The Assembly overwhelmingly passed a bill Tuesday to prohibit texting while driving, and the Senate is expected to take up and pass that version of the bill. Gov. Jim Doyle …
Wisconsin's Electronics Recycling Law Now in Effect
Wisconsin’s electronics recycling legislation, signed last October, went into effect on January 1st of this year. The law, Act 50, creates an electronics recycling program for certain devices used by Wisconsin households and K-12 public …
WSLL Raises Document Delivery Fees
As of the new year, the Wisconsin State Law Library changed their document delivery fees. From WSLL @ Your Service: For well over 10 years our minimum charge for delivery by fax, mail or email …
CRS Report on the Google Library Project
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has recently compiled a report on The Google Library Project: Is Digitization for Purposes of Online Indexing Fair Use Under Copyright Law? The report offers some background of the project …
WI Sup Court to Consider Proposed Rules for E-Discovery
Next month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will hold a public hearing regarding the proposed amendments to the state’s discovery rules that specifically pertain to electronic discovery. According to the Wisconsin Lawyer The amendments are adapted …
Google Scholar Legal – What It Is and Isn't
Greg Lambert over at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog reports on his conversation with Google Scholar Chief Engineer Anurag Acharya. First of all, let me address the questions that I’m sure a lot of …
Latest UW Law School Faculty Scholarship
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Law, Politics, and Access to Essential Medicines in Developing Countries by Heinz Klug Resolving Problems Among Neighbors …