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Coursecasting, Podcasting & Webcasting: New tools for law schools

Posted on November 07, 2005
Since mid-September, American University Washington College of Law has podcast or webcast classes and all law school events. As of November 3, there were 14,641 MP3 hits, with 13,395 of these since September 17th. For more on coursecasting, see Lectures...

New Fed Chief

Posted on November 04, 2005
What can we learn about the likely policies of prospective Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke from the way he manages his own money? Plenty! Read about it here. Posted by Trisha Simonds

Documents in the News - Pandemic Influenza

Posted on November 03, 2005
US HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan. The United States Department of Health and Human Services has released its "HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan." The Washington Post says that the plan "mentions only briefly the option of forcibly detaining infected people during a...

Doctors Without Borders

Posted on November 02, 2005
Voices from the field: a surgical nurse setting up a trauma center in Haiti; an American doctor fighting to save severely malnourished children in Niger; a nurse from Colorado providing support to survivors of sexual violence in Liberia; a Somali...

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Documents in the News

Posted on November 02, 2005
The President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform has issued its Final Report. Today's Wall Street Journal has an article by Robert G. Matthews, "Tax Overhaul Proposal Gets Lukewarm Welcome," which, if you are part of the FSU community, you...

US Constitution: Analysis & Interpretation

Posted on November 01, 2005
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has released the 2002 Edition of and 2004 Supplement to The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis & Interpretation, prepared by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. The text, available in...

Hurricane Katrina Litigation

Posted on October 31, 2005
On October 17, 2005, Maples & Kirwan filed suit on behalf of Rocco and Thomas Tommaseo (1:05-cv-01119-SGB) in the Federal Court of Claims against the United States, alleging that the Army Corps of Engineers' creation of the Mississippi River Gulf...

New Tutorial for International Legal Research

Posted on October 27, 2005
Students of international law wanting to develop their legal research skills will want to visit International Legal Research Tutorial, a new online tutorial developed by two law librarians from University of California, Berkeley and Duke University. "This tutorial is designed...

Illegal Beings

Posted on October 25, 2005
One day human cloning may be possible, and once so, there will be no way of stopping this technology. People--infertile couples and others--will choose to use cloning even if it breaks the law. The Island, a provocative movie that makes...

Lawyers in Blogland

Posted on October 24, 2005
Florida lawyers are joining the blogging bandwagon, and they're finding that it enhances their work. See Lawyers in Blogland in The Florida Bar News October 15, 2005 issue. Posted by Faye Jones

Genetic Privacy

Posted on October 21, 2005
In 2003 Iceland's Supreme Court ruled in a controversial case that had to do with the development of a genealogical database of the Icelandic population, a genetic database of DNA sequence and other information produced from blood samples and most...

MS Word Help

Posted on October 20, 2005
For help with Microsoft Word, there is an online guide here. The guide covers basic word features such as: setting margins, adding bullets, modifying autocorrect settings, adding symbols, adding a watermark, adding pagination including x of y numbering, footnotes and...

Publishers sue Google

Posted on October 20, 2005
A group of publishers sued Google yesterday, alleging that Google's Print Library Project violates federal copyright law. Posted by Mary McCormick

New Bankruptcy Law

Posted on October 17, 2005
The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 takes effect today. There is a great deal of information about this act, including a redline summary showing changes from the previous law (here) as well as other bankruptcy news,...

Child Offenders Sentenced to Life

Posted on October 14, 2005
A new report published jointly this week by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watc h finds that 2.225 child offenders have been tried as adults and sentenced to life in prison. The report, The Rest of Their Lives: Life without...

Leak of Identity of CIA Operative Valerie Plame

Posted on October 14, 2005
Federal Prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, is in the final stage of his investigation into the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame. The grand jury will be ending its session on October 28th. To access documents and reports related to this case,...

more on Healthcare Whistleblowing and Ethics

Posted on October 13, 2005
An interesting article online here, discussing healthcare whistleblowing and virtue ethics. Practical virtue ethics: health care whistleblowing and portable digital technology From the Abstract: The authors examine whether healthcare whistleblowing should be considered central to any medical ethics emphasising professional...

RSS

Posted on October 12, 2005
Really Simple Syndication RSS is a format for syndicating news or any other content that can be broken into discreet parts. Many news sites or other content sites provide an RSS feed. The RSS feed will 'push' content to the...

"Intelligent Design" in Public Schools

Posted on October 12, 2005
In December 2004 eleven parents filed suit against the Dover (Pennsylvania) Area School Board in federal district court after the school board established a policy that biology teachers must read a statement about Intelligent Design at the beginning of the...

Trial of Saddam Hussein

Posted on October 11, 2005
The trial of Saddam Hussein will begin on October 19, 2005. The Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law has launched 'Grotian Moment: The Saddam Hussein Trial Blog'. The blog features key documents,....

Is There Life After Rankings?

Posted on October 10, 2005
An article in Atlantic Monthly explores the ranking system of American institutions of higher learning, with a focus on the U.S. News and World Report's ranking system. Atlantic Monthly November 2005 Posted by Jon Lutz

Freakonomics

Posted on October 07, 2005
"Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime?...

TCNY: Not a Matter of Settled Law

Posted on October 07, 2005
The New Yorker has released its entire archives in an eight-DVD set. Every article and cartoon that the magazine has published in the last 80 years--this is material covering over 4,000 issues--has been condensed into this one volume. (Here's a...

FSU Classical Music

Posted on October 05, 2005
FSU's Warren D. Allen Music Library has a campus-wide classical music subscription. It is not, alas, yet available via off-campus access. Posted by Mary McCormick

State of the World's Mothers 2005

Posted on October 05, 2005
Mothers are the first teachers of the next generation, yet in many developing countries there are barriers to the education of the young girls who will become those mothers. Poverty, cultural norms and religious customs can discourage girls from learning...

Baseball - spectator injuries - limited duty rule

Posted on October 03, 2005
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that while a baseball fan assumes a risk of injury, ?[o]nce the fan has disengaged him--or herself from the activity on the field and has left the stands, that individual is no longer...

Breaking Silence

Posted on September 29, 2005
Richard Alan White's Breaking Silence: The Case That Changed the Face of Human Rights tells the story of Joelito Fil�rtiga, of his brutal torture and murder, and the demand for justice sought by his father. It documents the landmark legal...

Just Words

Posted on September 27, 2005
John M. Conley and William M. O'Barr have published the second edition of Just Words: Law, Language, and Power, in which they "tackle the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power; focusing on what has become the central...

Free and Fee Based Appellate Briefs

Posted on September 26, 2005
Michael Whiteman, Associate Dean for Law, Library Services & Information Technology, Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, has posted "Free and Fee Based Appellate Court Briefs Online" at LLRX (Law Library Resource Exchange, LLC). Posted by Mary McCormick

Intelligent Design

Posted on September 23, 2005
A federal judge in Pennsylvania will hear arguments Monday September 26 in a lawsuit that could establish how students are taught science for years to come. The case is Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District. Here is a copy of...

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