Three UW Law School Professors, Marc Galanter, Neil Komesar, and Jim Jones, have been the subject of tribute issues of law reviews recently.

• Jim Jones is the subject of the most recent edition of the Wisconsin Law Review, Volume 2013, no 3. For a complete list of tribute articles, see the WLR website.
• Wisconsin Law Review, volume 2013, no. 2 looks at Thirty Years of Comparative Institutional Analysis: A Celebration of Neil Komesar. A list of articles appears on the WLR website.
• The DePaul Law Review volume 62, no. 2 is a symposium issue in Celebration of the Thought of Marc Galanter. Although there is no listing of articles from that issue on their website, most of them are listed in Google Scholar.

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Last month in San Diego, a local news station reported that the District Attorney's office was beginning to use an IPad app in the courtroom. Called TrialPad, the app allows attorneys to view diagrams, pictures and other evidence from a variety of angles, giving juries a better look at their evidence. The app can also serve as a way to edit video clips, store important documents, view documents side-by-side and includes a whiteboard for note-taking. While the price is hefty for an app at $89.99, the useful aspects and real-world applications of TrialPad make it worth a look if you are wanting to add a new wrinkle to your case presentation.

The San Diego court recently banned poster boards from all cases except for murder cases, so the TrialPad app has helped fill the void of presenting exhibits that once would have been a typical poster board presentation. TrialPad is being used across the country by a variety of lawyers, including the US Attorney's Office, and can be purchased in the Apple App Store.

If you are interested in other iPad apps that can be used by legal professionals, the vast majority of which are either free or less than 10 dollars, check out the Law Library's guide to iPad legal apps. If you prefer Android tablets or smartphones, the Law Library also has an Android legal apps page. Both are updated frequently, so check back for new and useful apps.

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If you're thinking of purchasing the Black's Law Dictionary app for your mobile device but are hesitating because of the hefty $50 price tag, you'll be happy to hear that the app is on sale today only (Wed, June 5) for $26.99.

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The Christian Science Monitor reports that ReDigi, a start-up based in Massachusetts which allows users to resell digital music on their site, was told by a federal judge that producer's rights are violated by such a practice.

According to the law, e-books are considered an original version of the author's work. If you've already bought a version and then sell it to someone else, you're making an illegal copy of the original work (the text you downloaded).

By contrast, according to the law, if you sell a used print book to your friend, you're not making another copy of it, so you're not going against the author's copyright.

ReDigi plans to appeal the decision.

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The UW Law School has recently published an outstanding new issue of The Gargoyle, our alumni magazine. A very attractive online edition of the magazine is available on the Law School website.

The feature article in this current issue is about Women in Law. It highlights the careers of six UW Law School alumnae, including Senator Tammy Baldwin, Belle Case La Follette, Vel Phillips, Marygold Melli, Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, and Dean Margaret Raymond.

An interactive timeline featuring the achievements of Wisconsin's Women in Law is also available. It includes numerous interesting photos and videos.

Note that a complete, searchable archive of The Gargoyle is available on the Law School's website.

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Congress.gov is a beta site by the Library of Congress that contains U.S. legislative information. It will eventually replace THOMAS.gov.

At this point, the beta Congress.gov contains legislation from the 107th Congress (2001) to the present, member profiles from the 93rd Congress (1973) to the present, and some member profiles from the 80th through the 92nd Congresses (1947 to 1972).

For more information, see the comparison of coverage currently available via Congress.gov and THOMAS.gov.

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From the Wisconsin State Journal:

Former UW Law School Dean George Bunn, a noted nuclear arms expert and negotiator, died of spinal cancer Sunday in Palo Alto, Calif., said his son Matthew Bunn. He was 87.

A more detailed obituary appears at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation site.

George Bunn served at the UW Law School from 1969 to 1986. He was dean of the from 1972-1975.

The Bunn family has a long ties with the UW Law School. Other family members include Judge Romanzo Bunn, who served as a lecturer in the 19th century; Charles Wilson Bunn, who received his bachelors and law degrees from UW; and Charles (Bob) Bunn, a long-time member of the Law School faculty from 1934-1962.

There is an interesting article about the Bunn family in the Autumn 1969 issue of The Gargoyle.

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