Legal Research

Is Justice Delayed Justice Denied?

Posted on December 22, 2008
On the heels of word of TN closing its Supreme Court Libraries (discussed here) news from the L.A. Times today discusses New Hampshire's decision to hold no civil or criminal jury trials in the month of February in an effort...

Cuddihy's Definitive Analysis of the Fourth Amendment

Posted on December 22, 2008
The Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure provides the bulwark for police regulation and many other government functions in the United States. One of the most controversial rights in the Bill of Rights, this amendment is also among...

Legislative Resources Online: How Does GPO Access Measure Up to Other Government Websites and Fee-Based Websites?

Posted on December 22, 2008
The GPO has conducted a comparison of legislative information available on GPO Access to that available on selected, relevant Government Web sites and non-Government sites. This analysis compares two separate source bases of Government information to what currently resides on...

Opening: Resident Librarian, Georgetown Law Library

Posted on December 22, 2008
Georgetown Law Library seeks a Resident Librarian. The Residency is a two-year program designed to attract candidates from under represented backgrounds to the challenging and rewarding profession of law librarianship. The Library Resident will have ample opportunity to work in...

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The Twelve Days of EFF

Posted on December 21, 2008
Electronic Frontier Foundation staffers have produced the Twelve Days of EFF, a music video that highlights some of EFF's accomplishments in 2008. Hat tip to Robert J. Ambrogi on Legal Blog Watch. [JH]

FBI Releases 2008-2009 Facts and Figures Report

Posted on December 20, 2008
In celebration of their centennial anniversary, the FBI has released its 2008-2009 Facts and Figures report titled Today?s FBI: Celebrating a Century of Service. This informative, 60-page pictorial reference book provides an overview of the FBI?s mission, priorities, capabilities, history,...

Tennessee Supreme Court Libraries Going Out of Business

Posted on December 19, 2008
The Tennessee Supreme Court has decided to close all three of its law libraries in an effore to save money according to the Nashville Business Journal. Combined the law libraries housed about 125,000 volumes. The closures will happen on December...

Friday Fun: Hail to the New Chief, Al Gore

Posted on December 19, 2008
Calling Bush v. Gore "a ruling made in haste," the Supreme Court has overturned its 2000 decision ... making Al Gore the 43rd president until Jan. 20, 2009. President Gore admitted that making good on his campaign promises in the...

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: The Moss Law School Rankings

Posted on December 19, 2008
Scott Moss (Colorado) offers his unique version of law school rankings. He ranks law schools by their notorious alum. Here's his methodology: Law schools accrue points by having alumni who were high public officials convicted, or simply forced to leave...

How Does the Shift from Print to Electronic Research Change Researcher Behavior and Research Outcomes?

Posted on December 19, 2008
Katrina Fischer Kuh's (Hofstra) Electronically Manufactured Law, 28 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology ___ (2008) [SSRN] employs principles of cognitive psychology to generate empirical predictions about how the shift from a print-based to an electronic research process changes researcher...

Taking Pictures to the People

Posted on December 19, 2008
LC has released its Flickr Pilot report. The report finds that the Flickr project increased awareness of the Library and its collections; sparked creative interaction with collections; provided LC staff with experience with social tagging and Web 2.0 community input;...

2008 Supplement to the U.S. Constitution

Posted on December 19, 2008
Providing analysis and Interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, as well as annotations of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, the 2008 Supplement [Senate Document 110-17] is now available from the GPO. [RJ]

BigLaw's Rapid Death Spiral

Posted on December 18, 2008
Indiana University law professor William Henderson predicts that some large law firms aren't likely to survive another year in a recent Legal Profession Prof Blog post. The collapse of Biglaw could have a significant impact on national law schools. Henderson...

Sloan's Pragmatic Approach to Nonprecedential Opinions in the Federal Appellate Courts

Posted on December 18, 2008
In If You Can?t Beat ?Em, Join ?Em: A Pragmatic Approach to Nonprecedential Opinions in the Federal Appellate Courts, 86 Neb. L. Rev. 895 (2008) [SSRN], Amy Sloan (Baltimore) advocates the creation of a new category of "overrulable" authority to...

Webcast of What Publishers Need to Know about Digitization

Posted on December 18, 2008
Liza Daly explains the ins and outs of digitization and how publishers can best utilize their options. Her talk, "What Publishers Should Know About Digitization," is an O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing presentation. Topics covered include: What's XML and...

EJIL Talk Joins the Blogosphere

Posted on December 18, 2008
The European Journal of International Law has decided to launch a blog, EJIL Talk. According to the blog's About Page, "the decision to experiment with a blog ? and an experiment it is ? was decidedly not a bandwagon effect...

Tax Law Research Presentations

Posted on December 18, 2008
By University of Oklahoma law librarians: Legal Research: Nonprofit Organizations, by Jennifer Gerrish Legislative History Sources for Federal Tax Law, by Darin Fox Tax Procedure: Online Research, by Darin Fox Hat tip to TaxProf Blog. [JH]

Google Abandoning Net Neutrality?

Posted on December 17, 2008
According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, "Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic with a proposal to create a fast lane for its own content" and this, according to the Journal, is...

Law Profs Complain About Bloated Delaware Corporate Law Opinions

Posted on December 17, 2008
Delaware corporate law opinions are too long according to Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA) and have too many footnotes according to Lawrence Cunningham (GW). Why? According to Cunningham the opinion writers are behaving in a too scholarly manner. And that creates a...

HeinOnline's List of 2008 Weekly Tips

Posted on December 17, 2008
HeinOnline has created a topical and library list of the weekly tips the Company's blog published in 2008. Topics covered: searching, citations and linking/navigation/printing. Collections covered include American Law Institute Library, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Foreign and International...

How Much Does Google Really Know About You?

Posted on December 17, 2008
More than you think according to a new book out by Greg Conti entitled "Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You?". From Gmail to Google Mobile, Conti's book discusses the vast amount of personel information you reveal from...

W3C Releases New Version of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Posted on December 17, 2008
The World Wide Web Consortium has released Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and three helpful guides to their implementation: WCAG 2.0 at a Glance How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable quick reference to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2...

Rule of Law Handbook 2008 ? A Practitioner?s Guide for Judge Advocates

Posted on December 17, 2008
New handbook from the Center for Law and Military Operations at the Library of Congress: "Focusing on operations occurring during and immediately following armed conflict, the handbook provides a framework, gleaned from practitioners, for conducting rule of law missions in...

Opening: Associate Dean for Information Resources, FIU Law

Posted on December 17, 2008
Florida International University is a diverse research university serving more than 38,000 students. Its College of Law, authorized by the Florida Legislature in 2000, opened its doors to its Inaugural Class in 2002. The law school was provisionally approved by...

A Facebook Bailout?

Posted on December 16, 2008
Check out this Fortune article. Hat tip to Mark Giangrande (DePaul), Tech Law Prof Blog. [JH]

Economy Down, Phishing Up, Way Up

Posted on December 16, 2008
The Anti-Phishing Working Group reports that phishing-related malware had an absolute boom in the second quarter of 2008. The group's analysis found a remarkable 9,529 URLs spreading phishing warez by the end of June; that's 258% higher than the number...

ABA Launches Social Networking Site

Posted on December 16, 2008
The ABA has launched Legally Minded, a site intended to combine the best of social networking features and ABA content. Check out Bob Ambrogi's review. [JH]

New GlobaLex Research Guides

Posted on December 16, 2008
GlobaLex (November/December 2008 ): European Union Travaux Preparatoires: A Guide to Tracing Working Documents by Patrick Overy Patrick Overy is Academic Support Consultant for Law and Business at the University of Exeter, and has managed the European Documentation Centre at...

E-Government Reauthorization Act Appears Dead

Posted on December 16, 2008
Congress Daily's Andrew Noyes reports that the E-Government Reauthorization Act of 2007 [Open Congress] is probably dead in the Senate for the time being because of a dispute over a new new privacy protections amendment offered by Senate Judiciary Chairman...

Magazines Added to Google Book Search

Posted on December 16, 2008
Google is bring magazine archives and current magazines online for searching on Google Books. Details on Google Blog. See Mark Giangrande's commentary about this development on Tech Law Prof Blog. [JH]

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