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Legal research and Internet news and information with an emphasis on Wisconsin.
Author: Bonnie Shucha is head of reference at the University of Wisconsin Law Library.
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Recent Posts from WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library
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Refworks Now Supports Bluebook Citation Style
I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but it seems that Refworks now supports the Bluebook citation style. It must not have been too long ago since it's not even showing up yet on the…
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Wisconsin Legislative Session Wrap-up
From today's Wheeler Report: The Assembly adjourned about 3:45 a.m. today, ending the floor sessions scheduled for 2009. Regular sessions will resume January 19, 2010. However, legislative leaders are expected to call lawmakers back to…
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LRB Launches WI Legislative Oral History Project
The Legislative Reference Bureau has begun work on the Wisconsin Legislative Oral History Project. The project will include recorded interviews with former members of the Wisconsin Legislature, conducted by John Powell, the former Capitol reporter…
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ISP Legal Department Contact Info
"Need to subpoena Facebook or Gmail? If you do, then you'll need to know where to serve the subpoena." Jon Groth's Wisconsin Personal Injury Weblog points to a useful site called SEARCH which contains contact…
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Jotwell Highlights Best New Legal Scholarship
Jotwell is a new online law journal from "leading academics and practitioners providing short reviews of recent scholarship related to the law that the reviewer likes and thinks deserves a wide audience." Jotwell, short for…
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AZ Sup Ct - Metadata in Public Records Subject to Disclosure
From Wired Magazine: Arizona's Supreme Court, in a surprising but welcome ruling, has declared that electronic metadata is part of the public record under state law, in a case involving an Arizona police officer who…
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New FTC Guidelines to Affect Bloggers' Product Endorcements
Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission approved final revisions to the guidance it gives to advertisers on how to keep their endorsement and testimonial ads in line with the Section 5 of the FTC…
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Latest UW Law School Faculty Scholarship
Here's the latest batch of faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Coping with Uncertainty: The Role of Contracts in Russian Industry During the Transition to the Market…
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Wisconsin Innocence Project Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Saturday's Wisconsin State Journal has a wonderful front page article about the tenth anniversary celebration of the UW Law School's Wisconsin Innocence Project. Twelve prisoners have been freed by the Wisconsin Innocence Project. Six of…
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CorporationWiki Visualizes Corporate Relationships
In her Wisconsin Law Journal blog, Bev Butula discusses CorporationWiki, a web site for company research. The website allows the researcher to search businesses in over 25 states. It also supports an index to browse…