The Legal Workshop is a new, free, online magazine featuring articles based on legal scholarship published in the print editions of seven participating law reviews: Stanford Law Review, New York University Law Review, Cornell Law …
Appeals Court Rules that TurnItIn Plagiarism Detection Service Does Not Violate Students' Copyrights
A recent decision from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that students’ copyrights were not violated by plagiarism detection service TurnItIn, even though the works were archived. From ars technica: The federal decision (PDF) …
Case Reversed for Allowing Wikipedia as Evidence
From the North Jersey Crime Examiner: A Bergen County [NJ] judge mistakenly let a collection company lawyer cover a gap in evidence against a credit-card holder by using a Wikipedia page, a state appeals court …
Recent UW Law School Faculty & Staff Scholarship
Recent faculty and staff scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series in SSRN: Rediscovering the Lawyer School: Curriculum Reform in Wisconsin by Keith A. Findley, University of Wisconsin Law …
Email Subscription Problems
I’ve been informed that some subscribers received the following error message this morning informing them that ” ‘University of Wisconsin Law School’ has changed.” We believe that this error was the result of some web …
Intellectual Life at the UW Law School
The University of Wisconsin Law School has created a new page entitled Intellectual Life which features the research and scholarship of the faculty and staff. On the page, you’ll find audio recordings of recent presentations, …
Law Libraries & the Economic Crisis
How is the current economic crisis affecting the law library profession? An e-newsletter from AALL President, James Duggan, shares the results from a recent survey of law library directors: Staff 23 percent of law libraries …
Google Books & its Implications for UW Madison
The Daily Cardinal has a very thorough article on the Google Books initiative and its implications for the UW Madison campus. The article discusses: staffing concerns at campus libraries copyright issues and the status of …
Are Student Government Records Subject to State's Open Record Laws?
“A group of college reporters asked Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen on Wednesday for his opinion on whether Wisconsin’s open records and meetings laws apply to University of Wisconsin System student government.” Read more at …
Wisconsin Property Assessors Manual Available Online
The complete Wisconsin Property Assessors Manual is now available online. The manual aids assessors in the interpretation of statutes related to classifying and valuing property, describes the property assessment cycle and deadlines, and defines the …