If you’re a legal practitioner or scholar, you’re almost certainly familiar with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation. But you may not have heard of the ALWD Guide to Legal Citation. ALWD, from the …
LSA Statement on US News’ Rejection of Scholarly Impact Metric
Earlier today, the Law & Society Association has issued a statement on U.S. News’ decision not to proceed with its proposal to add a measure of “scholarly impact” to its law school rankings. LSA is …
Convert Text to Speech & Download as MP3 with FreeTTS
So many interesting articles, so little time to read them. Enter FreeTTS, a free online tool that creates an audio version of any text as a downloadable MP3 file so I can listen as I …
2021 Release of the WI Criminal Jury Instructions Now Available
From the Wisconsin State Law Library: The Wisconsin Criminal Jury Instructions have recently been updated, with a 2021 release approved by the Wisconsin Judicial Conference’s Criminal Jury Instructions Committee. The fifty-ninth supplement to the Criminal Jury Instructions updates the …
State Street Adult Coloring Book Captures Life on UW Campus, Downtown Madison, 2020-21
If you’re an art enthusiast, a history buff, or simply a lover of Madison, head to the Goodman South Branch of the Madison Public Library this Thursday, Sept 9th from 6-7:30 for a talk by …
In Response to Rising Need, UW Law School Launches New Eviction Defense Clinic
In response to the rising need for eviction defense, the University of Wisconsin Law School is launching a new Eviction Defense Clinic this fall. This new clinic will join five other civil, anti-poverty clinical programs …
Two Law Scholars Join UW Law Faculty: Nate Atkinson (Business Law) & Stephanie Holmes Didwania (Criminal Justice)
The University of Wisconsin Law School is thrilled to welcome two new faculty members: Nate Atkinson is an assistant professor whose research focuses on the fields of corporate misconduct, contract law, and social choice theory. As …
HeinOnline Enhances Subject Searching with New PathFinder – But Still Has a Few Bumps
HeinOnline recently introduced a new feature called PathFinder that offers more robust subject searching. PathFinder is a multi-level subject taxonomy in which broad research concepts are divided into increasingly granular levels. Both text and graphical …
Google’s “About This Result” Panel Offers Insight into your Search Results
Have you ever been puzzled by the results from a Google search? Found yourself wondering how Google connected those results to the words you typed, especially if you didn’t get exactly what you were expecting …
Responding to US News’ Decision Not to Create Scholarly Impact Ranking – Law Librarians Still Play a Key Role in Maximizing Scholarly Visibility
After raising numerous concerns from the legal academic community, Brian Leiter reports that U.S. News has decided not to produce its own scholarly impact ranking. Chief among these concerns is that the exclusion of interdisciplinary scholarship and …