The Law Library is very pleased to report that two of our staff members have received UW Madison Library Service Awards.

Michael Morgalla, our Faculty Liaison, received the award for classified staff. Mike works with our Law School faculty on current awareness, obtaining resources across the campus, verifying citations, charging out material from special collections, and addressing basic reference questions.

Steven Weber received a student award. Steve has worked in numerous departments including reference, collections, administrative office and circulation as lead desk worker. Steve is also currently attending library school here at UW Madison.

Both Mike and Steve are tremendous assets to the Law Library and we were so pleased to see them honored with these awards.

For more information about other Library Service Award winners, see Libraries@UW-Madison.

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New faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series from the Legal Scholarship Network (SSRN).

• Do Bits Really Work? Revisiting the Empirical Link between Investment Treaties and Foreign Direct Investment Jason W. Yackee, University of Wisconsin Law School

• Wiretapping before the Wires: The Post Office and the Birth of Communications Privacy
  Anuj C. Desai, University of Wisconsin Law School

• Taxation as a Global Socio-Legal Phenomenon
  Allison Christians, University of Wisconsin Law School
  Steven Dean, Brooklyn Law School
  Diane M. Ring, Boston College - Law School
  Adam H. Rosenzweig, Washington University, St. Louis - School of Law

• The Elastic Tournament: The Second Transformation of the Big Law Firm
  Marc Galanter, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison
  William D. Henderson, Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington

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As of the first of the year, the Wisconsin Women's Law Journal is now the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society. From the announcement:

The new name is more closely aligned with the Journal's mission statement. For twenty-two years, the Journal has been seeking scholarship that, "examine[s] the intersection of law and gender with issues of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation." As the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society, we will continue to publish articles with this content, now under a more inclusive name that acknowledges the impact of gender on the legal system, without reference to one sex.

See also the announcement of their upcoming symposium, "Working From the World Up: Equality's Future" on March 14th and 15th, 2008.

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Several of the UW Law School's legal clinics/projects are featured in the latest edition of The Third Branch. They include:

• Family Law Assistance Center
• Small Claims Clinic
• Family Court Assistance Project
• Restraining Order Clinic

These programs, developed by the Dane County Bar Association and the UW Law School, are designed to assist self-represented litigants at the Dane County Courthouse.

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The latest edition of The Gargoyle, the UW Madison Law School alumni magazine, is now available online.

On a research note, I'd like to draw your attention to an article I contributed about the various library services available to UW Law School alumni and others (see page 8). This includes document delivery, databases, current awareness services, and reference assistance.

Other highlights from this Summer 2007 issue include:

• Constitutional Law in Action
  Professors Richard Monette, Heinz Klug, and Brady Williamson have used their expertise in constitutional law in a very concrete way: helping nations to create their own constitutions.

• Clinical Legal Education: It's For All Kinds of Lawyers
  Contrary to the misconception that clinical legal education always involves criminal law, the Law School's 13 clinics help students develop professionalism and skills for all fields of law.

• How I Got Here
  Professor Marygold Melli decided in eighth grade that she wanted to be a lawyer. She met -- and surmounted -- challenges all along the way from a legal profession that wasn't ready to admit women.

• A Plan Called LRAP
  Careers in public interest law can seem out of reach for graduates carrying the burden of debt that grew as they paid for their education. The Law School is building a Loan Repayment Assistance Program to help out.

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You may have noticed that WisBlawg was unavailable late last week. It was because the Law School's server was down to make the switch to the newly redesigned UW Law School Web site. Check it out!

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A new issue of the SSRN UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series was released yesterday. Articles include:

• "Renegotiations and Settlements: Dr. Pangloss' Notes on the Margins of David Campbell's Papers" by STEWART MACAULAY

• "Constitution-Making, Democracy and the Civilizing of Unreconcilable Conflict: What Might We Learn from the South African Miracle?" by HEINZ KLUG

• "New Governance & Legal Regulation: Complementarity, Rivalry, and Transformation" by DAVID M. TRUBEK and LOUISE G. TRUBEK

• "The Transformation of Statutes into Constitutional Law: How Early Post Office Policy Shaped Modern First Amendment Doctrine" by ANUJ C. DESAI

• "Hard Law & Soft Law in International Taxation" by ALLISON CHRISTIANS

• "Freedom to Provide Health Care Services within the EU: An Opportunity for a Transformative Directive" by LOUISE G. TRUBEK and TAMARA K. HERVEY (University of Sheffield - Faculty of Law)

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University of Wisconsin Law School Prof Alan J. Weisbard has started the aptly named blog, The Wise Bard. He'll be writing about "life and law and things that matter (to me): bioethics, the experience of illness, law and legal education, Jewish affairs, religion and state, contemporary culture, and, of course, politics."

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The latest edition of the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series is now available via the Legal Scholarship Network (SSRN) - Vol. 3, No. 1: March 16, 2007

Table of Contents:

- "The Business of State Supreme Courts, Revisited"
HERBERT M. KRITZER
University of Wisconsin, Madison - Department of Accounting and Information Systems
PAUL BRACE
Rice University - Department of Political Science
MELINDA GANN HALL
Michigan State University - Department of Political Science
BRENT BOYEA
University of Texas at Arlington

- "Monopolists Without Borders: The Institutional Challenge of International Antitrust in a Global Gilded Age"
D. DANIEL SOKOL
University of Wisconsin Law School

- "Can the President Read Your Mail? A Legal Analysis"
ANUJ C. DESAI
University of Wisconsin - Law School

- "Interpreting the Qur'an and the Constitution: Similarities in the Use of Text, Tradition, and Reason in Islamic and American Jurisprudence"
ASIFA QURAISHI
University of Wisconsin - Law School

- "Contracts as Organizations"
D. GORDON SMITH
University of Wisconsin Law School
BRAYDEN KING
Brigham Young University - Department of Sociology

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Steve Meili and the UW-Madison Consumer Law Clinic are featured in the latest issue of The Wisconsin Idea.

Students gain an awareness of the life situation of the clients," says Meili. "What might seem like a fairly simple legal problem is really much more complicated. It is important for students and lawyer to realize you can't compartmentalize people's problems into neat little boxes.

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The recent snow has brought out the ice sculptors on Bascom Hill. Bucky Badger stands in front of Bascom Hall and SpongeBob is right outside the Law School.

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The Wisconsin Law Journal has a nice article on UW Law profs, Stewart Macaulay and Marc Galanter, who each had an article included in the "The Canon of American Legal Thought," an anthology looking at the top 20 works in American legal thought since 1890.

From the article:

Macaulay's contribution was his 1963 article, "Non-Contractual Relations in Business," and Galanter's contribution was the 1974 essay, "Why the Haves Come out Ahead: Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change."

"We selected what we thought were the deepest and most influential essays," said Fisher, who is a professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. "The articles by Macaulay and Galanter -- both of them crucial in launching the 'Law and Society' movement -- easily fit those criteria."

Thanks to Bill Ebbott for the tip.

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If you need to visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus but could you a little help navigating your way, check out the new, interactive Campus Map.

This is the best online map I've ever seen. You can click and drag to see other parts of the map, zoom in or out, measure distance, and mouse over any building, parking lot or bus stop to get detailed info. Click on the "aerial" button at the top left to change the view to an aerial satellite image.

Do a search for "Law Library" and see it for yourself. It will zoom you to the Law School building, link you to details about the building and its departments. Click on the blue bus icon on the corner of Park and University to see which buses stop there (including the free ones). In the bus stop window, click on the route number to have the whole route displayed on the map.

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The Gargoyle, the University of Wisconsin Law School alumni magazine, is now available online. Currently, the Spring 2006 and Winter 2005 issues are available.

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There are a lot of interesting images in the University of Wisconsin Collection from the UWDC. Here is a view of Bascom Hill circa 1907. Note the old law school building half way up on the left. For a larger view, see the original from the UWDC collection (link removed - see below).

A larger photo of the old law school building (built in 1893) hangs in the Law Library on the wall leading into the Quarles and Brady Reading Room.

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Update: It appears that the link to the image from the UWDC doesn't work because I believe that the url was tied to my session. You can still see it if you do a search of the WI Collection search page and search on the term "photogravure" (What is a photogravure?)

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