In a surprise announcement yesterday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released new guidance that starting in 2026, any publications and supporting data resulting from federally funded research must be openly accessible on the day it’s published.
Here’s more from Ars Technica:
The US government is likely to be the world’s largest funder of scientific research… Yet, for decades, the scientific publishing system was set up so that the government (much less the people
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New Positions for Liz Manriquez and BJ Ramsay in the UW Law Library
Two members of the UW Law Library staff have recently taken on new positions with expanded responsibilities.
Liz Manriquez, formerly Scholarly Communications and Reference Librarian, is now Head of Reference and Scholarly Support. In this new position, Liz will lead our team of reference librarians in providing research support, manage the Law School Digital Repository, and continue to assist law faculty and staff with the distribution and visibility of their scholarship.
BJ Ramsay, formerly Evening/Weekend Circulation
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Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Countering the New Election Subversion: The Democracy Principle and the Role of State Courts; Reliance; and Law and Public Policy: What Is It, Skills of Practitioners and Researchers, Research Designs and Methods, Law School Courses
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN.
- “Countering the New Election Subversion: The Democracy Principle and the Role of State Courts” Wis. L. Rev. (2022, forthcoming) by Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Columbia Law School, and MIRIAM SEIFTER, UW Law School
Among the threats to American democracy, the most serious may also be the most banal: that future elections will be compromised by quiet changes to
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Three Sources on the Respect for and Availability of Tribal Law
Today, in the United States, there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes. These sovereign Nations produce thousands of statutes, regulations, and judicial opinions each year. However, there is a lot of uncertainty and misunderstanding regarding the respect for and availability of tribal law. I recently encountered three resources that offer some insight.
- Matthew Fletcher, MSU professor of law and leading scholar and contributor to the field of Indian Law, recently posted a piece on SSRN entitled, Reflections
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New, Easier Way to Make Federal Court Documents Freely Available via RECAP
If you routinely access federal dockets and court documents, you may already know that you can get some documents free from the RECAP Archive, a database of millions of PACER documents and dockets maintained by the Free Law Project. These documents are “donated” by users who purchase them on PACER, then automatically send them to the RECAP archive by means of free browser extensions.
Now there is another new way to add PACER documents to RECAP:
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Researching Municipal Ordinances in Wisconsin and Beyond
Unlike federal and state law which is widely available, municipal law can be difficult to track down. In Wisconsin alone, there are 585 municipal (city and village) governments and 1,265 town governments and the availability and amount of information available from each varies greatly. Fortunately, there is a guide to searching municipal law in the latest InsideTrack from the State Bar of Wisconsin.
The guide, by law librarian, Emily Gellings, covers sources of municipal ordinances, including the excellent
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Law Library of Congress Releases Collection of Research Reports Offering Comparative Analysis of Foreign & International Law since the 1940s
Those of you who follow federal legislation may be familiar with CRS Reports. The Congressional Research Service is a non-partisan legislative branch agency, housed inside the Library of Congress, that provides comprehensive analysis on issues that may come before Congress. Although created for Congress, these reports can be tremendously insightful on matters of federal policy to attorneys and others.
But you may not be aware that the Law Library of Congress also prepares research reports on legal
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National Tribal Trial College Gives Indigenous Advocates the Skills to Work in Tribal Courts
Last month, the University of WI Law School hosted a weeklong legal boot camp culminating the National Tribal Trial College’s Certificate in Tribal Court Legal Advocacy. This free, 6-month, skill-building course empowers laypersons to practice law in Tribal Courts across the United States.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
The National Trial Tribal College condenses three years of law school into a 20-week online curriculum with students, most of whom are Native women…
Unlike state and federal courts,
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Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Weaponizing Fear; Colonialism, Foreign Investment and Property Rights Reconsidered; Pathology Logics; and Regulating Social Media in the Free-Speech Ecosystem
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN.
- “Weaponizing Fear” Yale Law Journal Forum (2022, forthcoming) by S. LISA WASHINGTON, UW Law School
In a letter dated February 22, 2022, Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed the commissioner of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) “to conduct a prompt and thorough investigation of any reported instances” of what he calls “abusive sex
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Partnering with other Law School Units to Promote Law Faculty Scholarly Visibility
This afternoon, I had the pleasure of attending an excellent presentation on The Life Cycle of Scholarship Marketing, jointly presented by the UW Law School External Affairs Office and our Law Library. The session was cleverly organized around the following themes:
- Birth and childhood
- Research and literature review
- Prepping for discoverability
- Submissions to journals
- Teenage years
- Positioning and posting your newly published work
- Getting the word out
- Maturity and growing up
- Being an expert
- Sharing the news
- Golden years
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Free Basic Photoshop Coming Soon
According to The Verge, a free basic version of Photoshop (image editing tool) is coming soon:
Adobe has started testing a free-to-use version of Photoshop on the web and plans to open the service up to everyone as a way to introduce more users to the app….
Adobe describes the service as “freemium” and eventually plans to gate off some features that will be exclusive to paying subscribers. Enough tools will be freely available to perform what Adobe
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Exploring Legal Research Resources Makes WisBar’s “5 Tips to Excel as a New Lawyer”
Christopher Shattuck, Law Practice Assistance Manager at the State Bar of Wisconsin has compiled a useful list of tips for law school grads looking to maximize their experiences as new lawyers. They are:
- Do Not Be Afraid to Ask Questions
- Maximize Your Networking
- Boost Your Experience by Volunteering
- Attend to Your Own Wellness
- Explore Resources for Legal Research
All excellent tips, but I was especially pleased to see that exploring legal research tools made the list. Shattuck recommends several of
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UW Law Names Prof. Bernadette Atuahene as Inaugural James E. Jones Chair
UW Law School has named Bernadette Atuahene as the inaugural James E. Jones Chair. The endowed faculty chair honors the late Professor James E. Jones Jr. ’56, who was a trailblazing labor lawyer, civil rights activist, prolific scholar, and committed professor. In 1969, he became the Law School’s first African American faculty member and, in 1973, founded UW Law’s William H. Hastie Teaching Fellowship. The James E. Jones Chair is UW-Madison’s first fully funded
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Judicial Conference Endorses Making PACER Searching Free to All Non-commercial Users
Free federal court records are now one step closer: The federal judiciary’s policymaking body has endorsed a proposal to make federal court records searches via the PACER electronic database free to non-commercial users. According to a newly released report, the Judicial Conference of the United States has endorsed “making all searches free of charge for all non-commercial users of any future new modernized case management, electronic filing, and public access systems implemented by the judiciary.”
According to Reuters and
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UW Law Publishes Long-Lost “Technology & the Law: The Automobile” Manuscript by J. Willard Hurst, the Father of Modern Legal History
Twenty-five years after his death, the Wisconsin Law Review has published a long-lost manuscript by Professor J. Willard Hurst, beloved UW Law School professor, renowned scholar, and one of the great originators of modern legal history and law and society scholarship. It is believed that the work entitled, “Technology and the Law: The Automobile,” was written in the early 1950s as one of several chapters intended as a supplement to his successful book, The Growth of American Law.
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WI Attorneys Can Now Earn CLE Credit for Tribal Court Pro Bono Appointments
The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently approved an amendment to Supreme Court Rule (SCR) 31.01 (11) to allow tribal courts to appoint attorneys to provide pro bono legal services, and to permit the attorney to claim continuing legal education credits in lieu of monetary payments. Effective April 20, 2022, Wisconsin attorneys who accept appointments from state, federal, and now tribal courts without fee or expectation of a fee for persons of limited means can request CLE credit for their service.
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