Like many students, I entered law school as a voracious reader. I didn’t fear the long hours of reading ahead of me, it was already one of my favorite things to do! I read all types of books before law school: fiction, non-fict ...
Summer 2025 is almost here, and it’s a great time to think again about switching up your health and wellness routine. Here are five new suggestions to help you feel your best this summer. I've tried to gather resources that are backed by s ...
A recent case in the 10th Circuit Court has provided a much needed sigh of relief regarding access to vast tracts of public land, managed mostly by the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service. Hikers, Campers, Hunters, and Anglers have now ...
No, it is not an April Fool's Day joke - there really is an Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance! You can see for yourself in the following book of wacky laws: Kevin Underhill, The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance and other Real Laws that Human be ...
Interested in Military Resources? New on HeinOnline is military material, including the Geneva Convention and War Crimes, JAG material and the Francis Lieber Collection. Below is information on the resource, a link to the HeinOnline libr ...
What’s the deal with tariffs really? Do they work? Who bears the burden? When did they begin? There has been much debate on this subject recently, with more takes than fish in the ocean, leaving many to wonder what to really be ...
This collection from the Parker School at Columbia Law school , available on HeinOnline, is a rich repository of historical legal scholarship. You’ll find books, articles, and papers that are ideal for exploring the evolution of legal syst ...
Google Scholar is a wonderful resource for quickly finding and connecting to articles as well as case law. You can search directly by entering a citation or you can use the more typical natural language search terms that you would use with regul ...
A Bench Book is a "guide to legal procedure, intended for use by a judge." -Oxford English Dictonary A desk-book according to the OED is "a book for constant use at the desk, a handbook, vade-mecum." Today's title, Wisconsin Municipal ...
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 ...
Welcoming us back to the start of the Spring Semester is a chilly present from up north, but what exactly is a polar Vortex? The polar vortex is a large area of low pressure and cold air surrounding both of the Earth’s poles. It ALWAYS e ...
Rights of Prisoners 5th (print and on Weslaw) The Law of Probation and Parole 2d (print and on Westlaw) WI DOC Division of Community Corrections Client Handook (online) The first two of these titles in the Library's collection could ...
Yes, the Law Library is open during Winter Break, but the Hours are more limited and we will be closed Dec. 24th, Dec. 25th, Dec. 31st and Jan. 1st. During the Winter Break we are close on Saturdays and Sundays as well. Here is a link to ...
Many family fights on Thanksgiving start with politics, interestingly enough the Thanksgiving holiday date, the 4th Thursday of November, has its very own political fight just about which day it should be held on. On September 28, 1789, just ...
"Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder." -Rumi Let us have some word fun then! The book presented here contains a hodgepodge of jargon founded and forged inside the Beltway of our country. Its ...
Early voting began yesterday, October 22nd, in Wisconsin. Here are a few resources if you are interested in election law. Locate your polling place in Wisconsin here: https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/Find-My-Polling-Place In Madison, the c ...
Now that temperatures are finally falling, it’s starting to feel like autumn. With autumn comes the spookiest time of the year, and what is spookier than witches, ghosts or vampires? Each of these creepy creatures have checkered lega ...
The election is coming up in just a few weeks and as the date fast approaches it is good to be aware of several deadlines for registering to vote and for early voting. Oct. 16: Last day for online voter registration in Wisconsin Oct. 22-Nov ...
You know the drill: you log in to your Wiscmail account, you get another buzz in your pocket from your phone- you have to tap a prompt that confirms that you are you. This feature (multi-factor authentication- MFA) was rolled out to the UW-Madis ...
Welcome Back! Welcome to the Law Library Law Badgers! With the start of the fall 2024 semester, the Law Library has resumed regular hours, https://www.library.wisc.edu/law/about-law/library-hours/. Reminders: On the Law ...
Summer is around the corner and can be the perfect time to boost your well-being. Here are five tips, drawn from the governmental and professional health organizations listed below, for enjoying a fun, safe and healthy summer! : Protec ...
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