Current day international law is a product of centuries of diplomacy, international relations, state practices, and war. If you are researching the development of international law in the 19th and 20th centuries, or perhaps attempting to ...
Treatises & Databases on Family Law There are several national and state specific family law treatises available in the library. Many familiar books on family law are now online on the major legal databases. Lexis fo ...
There's nothing like a good American Law Report (ALR) to get your research going! Whether it be for legal research in a client matter or a term paper, the American Law Reports will give you a sound start to your research. First appearing ...
Are you bummed that Valentine's Day has already passed? Are those flowers already wilting? Well, the Law Library can't quite help with that, but perhaps we can fill a legal research void with PowerNotes! PowerNotes is a great new tool that ...
The U.S. News & World Report’s statistical survey ranking the 188 law schools in the U.S. has long been a tool utilized by prospective law students, law schools, and the legal profession. Yet in recent months, more and more schools hav ...
If you are looking for quick and easy way to find foreign cases or statutes online, check out the World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) . The law library offers many access points for foreign and international legal information, but wha ...
Welcome back to the Law Library Law Badgers! With the start of both the New Year and the new semester, the Law Library has resumed regular hours, https://www.library.wisc.edu/law/about-law/library-hours/. Reminders: On the Law ...
Hello Law Students! It's that season again--FINALS! Those winter wonderland of exams that top off the fall semester. Would you like a brief rest from your studies and the opportunity to learn how to locate old exams and study ...
If you have a broad research question in international law, (e.g. the historical development of international asylum law), the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (online) is an excellent starting point.The database is organized ...
As we begin to head for the finish line of a busy fall semester, there's no time like the present to remind everyone of how the Law Library's space and services are here to support you as you wrap up your memos, study for your finals, and genera ...
The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg will be featured on a U.S. Forever stamp in 2023 - the first Supreme Court justice to grace our postage since 2003 (Thurgood Marshall). She is also the first female justice to be featured on a stamp ( ...
RESOURCES TO BEGIN RESEARCHING WISCONSIN LAW When starting legal research, it's best to begin with secondary sources that will lead you to primary law on your issue. Listed below are just a few valuable resources on Wisconsin law ...
Are you looking for guidance on how to create a citation or a video practice tutorial on Bluebook citations? Listed below are books, tutorials and research guides on Bluebooking. Remember, you can also come to the Reference Des ...
"The more comfortable you are, the better you will be." This can be true for many things, but in this case, I'm quoting a recent National Jurist article focusing on legal technology. I am hard-pressed to think of a better situation in which thi ...
Hello Law Badgers both new and old- welcome to the Fall ‘22 semester! Whether you’re a returning Badger or brand new, we’re guessing that you’ve already done some exploring of the Law Library physical space- we&rsquo ...
The snow has (mostly) melted. Birds are singing. The Law Library is currently limited to law students and legal researchers. It must be spring in Wisconsin! Like most people, I get a little antsy at this time of year. Finals are approaching, t ...
It’s Opening Day for baseball! If you’re a fan like me, you watched the lock out with trepidation, speculating whether this day would ever come. As a strident White Sox fan, I still remember the heartbreak of the 1994 st ...
With the war in Ukraine more than one month old, you may be looking for sources that discuss the conflict--its history, causes and consequences--in some depth. To that end, below is a selective list of online materials and recent books held in t ...