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Pro Bono work eligible for CLE creditFor several years now, the Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules have allowed Pro Bono work to be eligible for CLE credit. Under Chapter 31 , attorneys may claim one general CLE hour for every five hours of pro bono legal services provided in a qu ...
Library Tips: Getting your first assignment First, no one expects you to know everything, relax. Always have a pad of paper and pen on you to write down questions as well as make notes regarding the assignment. For bill tracking purpose ...
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 ...
The new 2021-2022 Wisconsin Blue Book is here! First published in 1853 as a manual for legislators, the Blue Book's mission today "is to furnish the legislature and the public with information on state officers and governmental organization ...
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 ...
The United States Supreme Court was established by the United States Constitution and the passage of the Judiciary Act of 1789, and had its first meeting on February 2, 1790. It handed down its first opinion on August 3, 1791 (West v. Barnes ). ...
We've had an unfortunate opportunity to learn more about a special area of international law in recent weeks. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, there have been reports of war crimes, and probes by the International Criminal Court in ...
It's happening again, war in Europe, and with it possible human rights violations and war crimes . In this case, Russia's invasion of Ukraine may have included intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population, a possible viola ...
Federal Civil Rules Handbook , West, 2022 Law Library Reserve Collection: KF8816 .A193 Effective Dec. 1, 2021, new rules to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (FRAP) came into force. The rules affected are Rule 3 (Appeal as a Ri ...
In celebration of Black History Month, the Law Library has compiled the following links to UW-Madison and local community events and resources: UW Law School & Library Resources UW Law Library Celelbration of Black People in Legal Com ...
We’ve recently been hearing a lot about banned books in the news. Is it Banned Books Week? (No, that is coming up: September 18-24, 2022, so plenty of time to mark your calendars!) Unfortunately, the reason why banned books have be ...
If you are researching transactional law, you'll have to develop a research stragegy to include locating information on a business, finding market data, and if it is a public company, you might want to chart the company's stock performance, and ...
Welcome to the seemingly futuristic year of 2022! Sure, it isn’t quite what we were promised in the movies, but regardless of a lack of flying cars, the Law Library does have a top-of-the-line website that pretty much transports you to a ...
The fact pattern is familiar by now: an elderly adult man with a beard and a red suit performs hundreds of thousands of counts of breaking and entering into family residences in one single night. (We’ll leave out the flying reindeer.) His ...
We end the semester on an easygoing note. Seven books on display covering great spans of history and human knowledge for your reading and visual delight. Their titles alone give away a certain wanderlust to explore unknown realms, at ...
The calendar says December 1st. Fall classes will be wrapping up soon and exams will be upon us. As always, the Law Library is here to support you and help you excel as you progress through your law school career. To that end, we've already star ...
Do you find searching the web with Google frustrating? Have you entered keywords and received off target hits, ads at the top of the list, and links to unreliable sources that you don't have time to scroll through? Are you searchin ...
Are you beginning a project involving comparative and/or historical constitutional research? HeinOnline's World Constitutions Illustrated (WCI) is a great place to start. WCI makes available the current constitution for every country in its ori ...
Facebook is in the news again recently- this time not about misinformation or whistle-blowers. This time, it’s because Facebook is no longer Facebook: it’s now Meta . (For an interesting take that this new “Metaverse ...
You’ve probably heard the term “research guide” or “libguide” in your classes, or bandied about by one of our librarians when you visited the reference desk, but do you truly understand what a fantastic tool for res ...
Stepen Breyer, The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics , Harvard University Press (2021) Law Library - New Book Shelf - Call number: KF8742 .B7279 2021 In late September, Justice Breyer was interviewed by Judy Woodruff on the PB ...
One of the most daunting forms of legal research is legislative history. What does it even mean, you ask? A legislative history is a way to collect documents that are produced by Congress as a bill is introduced, studied, and debated. That col ...
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 ...
On Thursday October 7th, in recognition of National Law Student Mental Health Awareness Day, the Law Faculty Committee on Student Wellness and the Law Library Wellbeing Committee are hosting several student activities, some of which we’d l ...
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Pos ...
Today is the first day of the Fall 2021 semester and honestly, the Law Library staff has rarely been happier to see the start of classes. After 18 months of closures, limited access, seat reservations, social distancing and remote classes, we we ...
Ursula Furi-Perry, The Little Book of Holiday Law , American Bar Association (2013) As graduation nears and summer is almost here, it's time to holiday! So, we begin with Law Day. Charles S. Rhyne, president of the ABA in 1957, promote ...
It's hard to believe that today is the last day of classes for the semester. This semester in particular has felt enormously long and yet oh-so-short. As I and other librarians have mentioned before, we've missed seeing many of you in-person ...
Research Guides are online bibliographies to key resources by topic available through the UW library system. The latest research guide by the Law Library is on Repair and Reparations for African Americans . A recent federal bill sponsored ...
No other technology may better represent the changes we've all been through in the past year than Zoom. Law firm offices and law school classrooms emptied like nobody's business a year ago in March. The whole world was literally in lockdown. Rem ...
Google has changed the way everyone researches, including legal researchers. The universal search box has become ubiquitous in nearly all databases. It’s also affected the way we fill those boxes. Natural language searchi ...
Foreign legal gazettes are one of the central sources for locating foreign law- a term that generally refers to the domestic law of any country outside of the United States. An official gazzette is a legal "newspaper" of a country that publish ...
As the calendar wends it's way towards St. Patrick's Day, we start dreaming of spring - but also of finals and papers and presentations as the semester winds down. The secret is to not stress out - there are plenty of amazing resources right her ...
*There's a famous line from a space fantasy film of some renowned, "This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope." Have you ever wished you knew someone with superpowers to help you in a desperate ...
The American Law Reports (A.L.R.) are a great place to start your research. First appearing in 1919, the title's focused articles have offered expert guidance on legions of legal topics to generations of lawyers for over a century now. E ...
Are you stuck looking for a topic for an upcoming Note or paper? State comparison surveys, or 50 state surveys, are a popular method for exploring how laws on a specific topic vary across the country. 50 state surveys can be cumberso ...
Looking for a 19th century treaty between the United States and China? Or perhaps an Obscure treaty between Great Britain and Prussia in the late 18th Century? You may want to check out HeinOnline's World Treaty Library . If there is s ...
“Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history.” Now more than ever, it is important for us to celebrate the accomplishments o ...
There are plenty of new things with the start of the 2021 spring semester. That means changes in the Library (as Jenny Zook detailed in her post last week ), but also improvements to one of the Law Library's favorite tools: PowerNotes! If y ...
Welcome law students, as the spring semester begins, the Law Library is here to help you with your research. For reference help, you can contact a librarian three ways: Email asklawref@law.wisc.edu Chat In-person by appoint ...
"Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York," is a line from Shakespeare's play, Richard III, that you may have read during an English literature lesson. That line is meant to remind us that, although we have fa ...
Jay E. Grenig, Elder Law , West (2020/2021) Law Library Reserve Collection: KFW2480 .W57 v.18 Also avail ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had huge impacts on all of our lives over the past nine months and will continue to shape our lives in the future. We’ve changed how we provide library services, teach law school classes, and how we communicate wi ...
As the calendar prepares for turkey and a turn to December, the Law Library will remains ready to support you as you begin to prep for finals. The Law Library is ready to help in a number of ways. Whether you are still on-campus or working ...
When beginning any legal research problem involving a country other than the United States, it's good to keep in mind that foreign legal systems may treat particular types of law very differently in terms of importance. For example, civil law sy ...
No one would argue against the importance of citators. They help us determine whether our law is good, distinguished, or overturned. But they do so much more! Much like the gooey cake under a rich frosting, the beauty of citato ...
For current news, legal trends, and practice tips from legal experts, check out the blog posts, newsletters, and podcasts from the library's top legal databases: Here is a link to the library's Top Law Databases : https://library.law.wisc ...
Jay E. Grenig and Daniel D. Blinka, Wisconsin Civil Rules Handbook , West (2020/2021) Law Library Reserve Collection: KFW2480 .W57 v.3B ...
As if all the other ground-shaking political and legal events weren't enough, this week also saw the start of the Confirmation Hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Many political wonks are expecting this to be a contentious debate with an el ...
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