Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
In her Wisconsin Law Journal blog, Bev Butula discusses a useful service called BillFinder which “helps you find any bill eligible for consideration in the current calendar year using either keywords and phrases or bill numbers.” As Bev notes, BillFinder is particularly useful when looking for similar legislation being considered by more than one state. …
The Third Branch newsletter from the Wisconsin court system has several interesting articles: Committee to study impact of allowing unpublished opinion cites Courts welcome 13 new judges; four incumbents re-elected over challenger
Update 11/18/2010: Note that Legal Information Center has changed offices in the Student Activity Center. See the updated information below. The URL has also been corrected. ——————– The Legal Information Center (LIC) has moved to a new location in the Student Activity Center at University Square. The LIC offers free legal information and referrals to …
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the creation of WisBlawg. Thanks to my faithful readers. I hope that you’ve enjoyed reading the blog as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it. (Image from Flickr)
Open Jurist is a new (I think) database of free US Supreme Court and Federal Appellate opinions. It joins a number of other sites which offer federal opinions, such as Altlaw, PreCYdent, Public Library of Law, Justia and FindACase. However, the coverage for Open Jurist extends farther back in time than do the others. It …
The UW Law School now has a Twitter feed. Marquette University Law School has a feed as well. For a list of other law schools on Twitter, see the Social Media Law Student.
WiLS (Wisconsin Library Services) has recently announced a new Digitization on Demand service. This service will provide complete digital copies of works from UW Madison Memorial Library’s Special Collections and the Mills Music library that are within public domain. Works will be scanned in their entirety for a library patron to use at their point …
Zotero, a wonderful free resource for collecting, managing and citing sources, recently announced a major upgrade to version 2.0. “Most important among the new features is the long-anticipated ability to collaborate in groups and group libraries,” according to their post entitled Zotero 2.0 Mothership Lands. ReadWriteWeb has done a nice job of explaining the new …
NPR has a very interesting interview with Matthew Pearl, author of The Last Dickens. The story centers around the 19th century U.S. copyright laws which did not protect foreign authors, such as Charles Dickens. As a result, literary thieves called “bookaneers” would wait at the docks for new manuscripts to arrive from overseas, “ready to …
For several years now, I’ve maintained a list of Law Library Blogs on the UW Law Library web server. I’m pleased to share that this list of blogs written by law librarians or law library associations is now available on the new AALL Computing Services Special Interest Section wiki. In the course of the migration, …