Due to a planned power outage, the UW Law Library will be closed all day on Wednesday, May 18th. We will reopen as usual on Thursday, May 19th. See the campus libraries website for a list of other available campus libraries and their hours.
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Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: The Legal Struggle for Rights of Nature in the United States; More
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN.
- “The Legal Struggle for Rights of Nature in the United States” 2022 Wis. L. Rev. 133 (2022) by ALEXANDRA VALERIA HUNEEUS, UW Law School
This Article analyzes the rise and persistence of the U.S.-based nature rights movement and its engagement with social movements in the Global South and with Indigenous ideas. The story told here of
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Oldestsearch.com Retrieves Google results in Reverse Chronological Order
Looking for a blast from the past? Oldestsearch.com will retrieve Google results in reverse chronological order. beSpacific notes that “this is useful for many subjects including medical illnesses which return search results back to the 1070’s allowing you to build a more complete perspective on an illness over time.”
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WI Tax Index & Appeals Commission Decisions Available on Wisconsin.gov
I recently discovered that Wisconsin Tax Appeals Commission Rulings and Orders are now available in full text on Wisconsin.gov. The Tax Appeals Commission (TAC) is an independent state agency that was created by the Wisconsin State Legislature to hear and determine disputes between taxpayers and the Wisconsin Department of Revenue and, in some limited instances, the Department of Transportation. The TAC also resolves tax disputes in the areas of individual income, corporate income, county sales tax, cigarette use, homestead
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5th Circuit Limits Use of “Wayback Machine” Archived Content without Additional Authentication
In an opinion issued earlier this year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit placed a limitation on the use of content archived by the Internet Archive’s “Wayback Machine” without additional authentication. The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library that seeks to maintain an archive of publicly accessible web pages at various points in time.
Law.com reports on the opinion, Weinhoffer v. Davie Shoring:
The Fifth Circuit reversed, finding that the evidence [a snapshot of
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WI Law In Action Podcast: Mark Sidel on Governmental Restrictions of NGOs in China
On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, host Kris Turner interviews UW Law School’s Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, Mark Sidel on recent trends in China and elsewhere to restrict foreign investments, grants, and donations to nonprofit and philanthropic organizations.
Our conversation focuses on two recent articles by Prof. Sidel: “Overseas NGOs and Foundations and Covid in China” published in EURICS, July 2021 and “Securitizing Overseas
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U.W. Law Faculty Scholarship: The Analytical Failures of the U.S. Beef Supply Chain, Corporate Board Gatekeepers, and More
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN.
- “Dr. Pangloss as an Agricultural Economist: The Analytic Failures of the U.S. Beef Supply Chain: Issues and Challenges” Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1741 by PETER CARSTENSEN, UW Law School
In June of 2021, a group of agricultural economists delivered a set of papers concerning the market for beef cattle. This project undertaken
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New Work Offers Great Advice for Legal Scholars and Law Librarians: Telling the Story of Your Scholarship
In her recent article, Ashley Ahlbrand offers great advice for legal scholars and law librarians on Capturing Impact: Telling the Story of Your Scholarship Beyond the Citation Count. She explores the shortcomings of citation metrics in evaluating scholarly impact, then broadly examines the various forms scholarship can take, and ends with a discussion of other measures, tools, and strategies for “painting a more holistic picture of scholarly impact.”
I especially appreciated her discussion on “why we write” in
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Legal Tune Up- Free Help for Wisconsinites with Common Legal Needs
Lift Wisconsin (Legal Intervention for Transforming Wisconsin) just announced the launching of a new tool to help Wisconsinites with common legal needs.
The tool is called Legal Tune Up and it is “a mobile first web-based application that uses publicly available data (driver’s license, criminal, eviction, court, and child support records) to help people identify and address legal needs.”
Legal Tune Up is designed to help Wisconsinites identify and clear civil legal problems on their own or with help
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Google to Label Search Results as “Highly Cited”
Google has announced that it’s adding a new “highly cited” label to search results frequently linked to by other publications. Such labels will appear on “anything from an investigative article, to an interview, an announcement, a press release or a local news story, as long as other publishers indicate its relevance by linking to it.” The highly cited label is launching soon on mobile in English for the U.S. and will roll out globally in the coming weeks. For
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Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship, including Ending Manner-of-Death Testimony
Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN.
- “Ending Manner-of-Death Testimony and Other Opinion Determinations of Crime” by KEITH A. FINDLEY (UW Law) and DEAN A. STRANGThis article examines the statutory requirement that medical examiners (MEs) and coroners determine both cause and manner of death for administrative, recordkeeping, and public health purposes. It then turns to the very different purposes of the judicial process
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Getting Hacked Could Lead to Ethics Violations – Use LastPass to Secure Passwords
“Lawyers whose attorney trust accounts are cleaned out by cybercriminals should be prepared to answer to attorney-disciplinary authorities. And such a theft could result in disciplinary action for a lawyer who is careless about safeguarding client funds, ” warns the New Jersey Law Journal.
On Friday, a suit was removed to federal court in Trenton, New Jersey, in the case of an East Brunswick law firm that had more than $200,000 stolen from its trust account. It’s
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WI Law In Action Podcast: Anuj Desai on Why “Text is Not Enough” in Statutory Interpretation
On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, host Kris Turner interviews UW Law School’s William Voss-Bascom Professor Anuj Desai. Prof. Desai teaches courses in cyberlaw, the First Amendment, intellectual freedom, statutory interpretation, legislation and regulation, and copyright at both the Law School and the iSchool (Information School).
Our conversation focuses on Prof. Desai’s article “Text is Not Enough,” recently published in the Colorado Law Review. The article examines how
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Law Scholarship Posted to SSRN Enjoys a Citation Advantage
New scholarship by Rob Willey and Melanie Knapp at George Mason University School of Law finds that legal scholars who post their work to SSRN are cited more often. Their working paper, SSRN’s Impact on Citations to Legal Scholarship and How to Maximize It, is highly recommended reading for law librarians and others interested in promoting law faculty scholarly visibility.
Below is a summary of findings from Willey & Knapp and their advice for legal scholars:
- There is
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Recollection Wisconsin Documents State History through Thousands of Photos, Documents, Records, Etc.
Yesterday, the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin put on an excellent program about Recollection Wisconsin, a free web resource that brings together digital cultural heritage resources from Wisconsin libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies and shares them with the world in partnership with the Digital Public Library of America.
Speaker Andi Coffin explained that the collection contains thousands of photographs, maps, letters, diaries, oral histories, artifacts and other historical resources representing every county in Wisconsin and are
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Bloomberg Law Survey Offers Insights on Law Students’ Preparedness for Practice
A recent survey by Bloomberg Law offers insights on law students’ preparedness for practice. Bloomberg asked over 1,000 practicing attorneys, law school students, faculty, and librarians about the skills needed for practice and how well law schools prepared individuals to enter the legal profession.
Responses indicate that new attorneys would benefit from having more skills like client communications and interactions, professional writing, business development, leadership and management, and judgment and decision-making skills. Although respondents disagreed on where skills such
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