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Migratory Birds and the Law

Posted on February 01, 2006
As migrating birds visit our North Florida woods and wetlands this winter, some people may question their welcome. Can wild bird populations spread the deadly Bird Flu virus worldwide? Some scientists say the spread of the virus has not been...

Pizza Law

Posted on January 30, 2006
The niche law firm of Warwick & Seltz specializes in the growing, highly lucrative area of pizza rights. Partner Royce Warwick, the area's foremost practitioner, has been described as "simply unstoppable." A member of major pizza law associations, Mr...

The Case of Mimi the Cat

Posted on January 26, 2006
After being shot at by a local villager just before sunrise, a black cat, which ?ducked and ran away,? goes missing for a couple of weeks. She returns home with a scratch on her paw. Two witnesses to the alleged...

Election Law Webpage

Posted on January 20, 2006
Election law is a timely topic as we move into 2006 and hear more about midterm congressional elections. The Moritz College of Law at OSU maintains an excellent non-partisan website, Election Law @ Moritz, here, which covers controversies about issues...

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Abuse of Trust

Posted on January 20, 2006
Tamar Frankel?s Trust and Honesty: America?s Business Culture at a Crossroad was initially entitled ?Abuse of Trust.? Frankel says she chose a different title after her research indicated: ?It is that America is becoming used to abuse of trust and...

The U.S. Supreme Court Considers Standards for Reopening Death Penalty Cases

Posted on January 13, 2006
This past Wednesday our highest court considered how to handle new evidence of innocence years after a conviction for a capital crime. The case of death row inmate Paul Gregory House marks the first time the Supreme Court has looked...

Happiness is the Home Office

Posted on January 12, 2006
Home-based legal practice is growing rapidly and today's technology is making it easier. Read more here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Berkeley Electronic Press

Posted on January 10, 2006
Our subscription to The Berkeley Electronic Press was recently expanded to full access to all materials on the website including two new law journals: International Commentary on Evidence and Muslim World Journal of Human Rights. Posted by Anne Bardolph

Integrating Psychology and Law into Instruction

Posted on January 10, 2006
Interesting article on how aspects of psychology and law can be integrated into instruction, with examples and a bibliography, here. Posted by Jon Lutz

"Alito Revealed"

Posted on January 10, 2006
The Washington Post provides a short bio of Samuel A. Alito, Jr.--a photo collection with audio. Posted by Toni Urquhart

Howard Stern Takes the First Amendment Into Orbit

Posted on December 20, 2005
In a few weeks, Howard Stern will be joining Sirius, a satellite radio company, which is "betting $500 million (and, probably, its future) on Howard; it's given him two entire channels." With the number of Stern listeners surpassing the number...

National Security Documents

Posted on December 19, 2005
The Federation of American Scientists maintains an extensive archive of federal documents relating to national security issues on their website, here. It includes information about terrorism, government intelligence, and U.S. and foreign weapons systems...

Law related RSS feeds

Posted on December 14, 2005
Here are two excellent sources for finding law related RSS feeds: The Virtual Chase blawg Posted by Jon Lutz

Firefox

Posted on December 14, 2005
Mozilla Firefox browser now supports RSS. This allows users to read RSS feeds without adding an additional program. Firefox users should upgrade to Firefox 1.5 at www.mozilla.com. Then click on Tools and then click on Extensions. At the bottom right....

Saving Newborn Lives

Posted on December 07, 2005
Each year, 4 million babies die before they are a month old. To help stem this global heartbreak, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated 60 million dollars to Save the Children's "Saving Newborn Lives" initiative. This money will...

"Happier Meals: Rethinking the Global Meat Industry"

Posted on December 06, 2005
Since the latest outbreak of avian flu began in southeast Asia, public health officials have referred to the threat as a "natural" disaster. However, avian flu, mad cow disease, and other emerging diseases that can jump from animals to humans...

ATLEASTXX( )

Posted on December 05, 2005
One of my favorite search techniques, available on both LEXIS and WESTLAW is the ATLEAST field restriction. The format, in both databases, is ATLEASTXX(YYYYY), where XX is a number and YYYYY is a search term. The search term can be...

Wex

Posted on November 30, 2005
Cornell's Legal Information Institute has redesigned their "Law About" pages into a Wikipedia-like online legal dictionary and encyclopedia named Wex. Intended for a broad audience, Wex provides brief definitions and overviews of a topic or term with relevant links to...

Polls on Westlaw

Posted on November 28, 2005
Westlaw's DIALOG database, POLL, contains a "comprehensive collection of public opinion surveys conducted in the United States by major polling firms and the news media covering the full spectrum of public interest." Selected coverage begins in 1936; full coverage begins...

International Human Rights Lexicon

Posted on November 22, 2005
The thematic approach used by a wonderful title recently acquired by the library, International Human Rights Lexicon, encourages a non-linear approach to a human rights vocabulary. Topics are arranged alphabetically, which "sidesteps the traditional categories of human rights law, to...

GlobaLex Research Guides

Posted on November 21, 2005
The New York University School of Law Hauser Global Law School Program maintains GlobaLex, a website with links to guides to researching the law in other countries. Posted by Robin Gault

Nomination of Judge Alito

Posted on November 21, 2005
The University of Michigan Law Library has set up a page of links on Judge Alito here. More information will be added when confirmation hearings begin in January. Posted by Robin Gault

Underneath Their Robes

Posted on November 18, 2005
Underneath Their Robes, an irreverent blog on the federal judiciary, was recently shut down after The New Yorker magazine revealed that the blogger was an Assistant U.S. Attorney. Underneath Their Robes, which featured judicial beauty contests, gossip and commentary, caught...

The Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography

Posted on November 09, 2005
Charles W. Bailey, Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development at the University of Houston Libraries, has posted this bibliography on his blog, DigitalKoans. The publications listed are freely available on the web and many of them focus on...

Military Commissions

Posted on November 09, 2005
The National Institute of Military Justice is a great source for information on military justice, including documents on charges for detainees, DOD directives on interrogations of detainees, law review articles, and forthcoming scholarly papers, such as David W...

'CSI Effect'

Posted on November 08, 2005
With so many CSI shows on TV, do juries now expect a 'CSI moment'? Is there a disconnect between what goes on in a real courtroom and the TV shows? On this topic Law Journal has an online panel discussion,...

Preparing for the Wave of Whistleblower Lawsuits

Posted on November 08, 2005
An increase in federal funding for health care fraud and the False Claims Act of 1999 has had an influence on the number of whistleblower law suits. Read More: DWT Health Law Advisory Bulletin Posted by Jon Lutz

Careers in Forensic Psychology

Posted on November 08, 2005
Forensic Psychology is the application of science and psychology to questions and issues related to law and the legal system. Read more: Careers in Forensic Psychology Posted by Jon Lutz

OpenDocument Format in Massachusetts

Posted on November 08, 2005
The State of Massachusetts has proposed a policy that would mandate Open Document Format be used for all office documents within government agencies. An economic stimulus bill that went before the Massachusetts Senate on November 3rd had amended text that...

World Legal Information Institute

Posted on November 08, 2005
The World Legal Information Institute offers free access to more than 500 databases from 55 countries. You can access it here. Posted by Robin Gault

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