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Fallout from Duquesne Law Dean Sacking: What a University President Wants, A University President Is Going to Get

Posted on December 15, 2008
Is threatening to withhold a $500,000 donation to Duquesne Law School because of the dismissal of its dean enough to get the University's trustees attention? Even in our current economy, probably not, but that is what Robert Pierce Sr., a...

Thief Messes With the Wrong Librarian

Posted on December 15, 2008
Ann Arbor District Library director Josie Parker fractured her leg but she stopped a thief from stealing a collection box of money donated for her library's Family Book Club. Details. Here's the surveillance camera video of Parker pursuing the thief....

Librarians Have One of the Best Careers According to US News

Posted on December 15, 2008
US News ranks librarianship one of the best careers in their 2009 ranking. From the article: [The] effort to land a job will be well worth it if you're well suited to the profession: love the idea of helping people...

Stanford Law School Launches IP Litigation Clearinghouse

Posted on December 15, 2008
From the press release: "The Law, Science & Technology Program at Stanford Law School today launched the Stanford Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse (IPLC), a first-of-its-kind online database that offers comprehensive information about intellectual property disputes within the United States...

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Happy 217th Anniversary Bill of Rights

Posted on December 15, 2008
The Bill of Rights became effective on December 15, 1791 when Virgina ratified the Constitution's first amendments. Here's President Bush's declaration of Monday, December 15 as Bill of Rights Day. And for commentatory about that, there's no need to go...

Lessig Returning to Harvard Law School

Posted on December 15, 2008
Lawrence Lessig has been appointed to the faculty of Harvard Law School, and as the faculty director of Harvard University?s Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. Read more about it in the HLS press release. [JH]

Opening: Head of Public Services, Florida International University College of Law Library

Posted on December 15, 2008
Florida International University College of Law Library seeks an experienced Head of Public Services. The Head of Public Services will supervise the professional and support staff assigned to the public services department who are responsible for circulation, reserve, inter-library loan,...

Senate Report Blames Rumsfeld for Detainee Abuses

Posted on December 14, 2008
A bipartisan Senate report released last week says that former Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials are directly responsible for abuses of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and charges that decisions by those officials led to...

Lost in Transition: Helping You Navigate The Presidential Handover

Posted on December 14, 2008
Government Executive and the National Journal have teamed up to produce Lost in Transition: Helping You Navigate The Presidential Handover. Excellent resource to help you keep on top of all the changes occurring in the Executive Branch . [RJ]

Human Rights Center's Annual Report

Posted on December 13, 2008
The Human Rights Center, at UC Berkeley have issued their annual report for 2008. Topics include: A Disaster Foretold: Cyclone Nargis and Relief Aid in Burma When the War Ends: Priorities for Peace and Justice in Northern Uganda DNA Reunification...

Accplications for 2009 FCIL Schaffer Grants Now Being Accepted

Posted on December 12, 2008
The Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries (FCIL) is now accepting applications for the 2009 FCIL Schaffer Grant. The FCIL Schaffer Grant for the July 25-28, 2009 Annual Meeting in Washington,...

Big Three Bailout Bill Crashes in the Senate

Posted on December 12, 2008
The deal-breaking issue, failing to agree on UAW wage cuts. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said there would likely be no more Senate work this year. The Senate's action raises the likelihood that GM and Chrysler will have to...

Friday Fun: The Return of IT Support Cat

Posted on December 12, 2008
IT Support Cat decides how to handle the next call: And proceeds... [JH]

LawCite Launched by Australasian Legal Information

Posted on December 12, 2008
The Australasian Legal Information Institute have released LawCite Alpha. The free service provides access to Australian law and those of other countries whose case data is available through the Free Access to Law Movement by citation, case name, court and...

Empirical Evidence of Clerk Partisanship and Influence on SCOTUS Decision Making Presented

Posted on December 12, 2008
In 1957, late Chief Justice William Rehnquist first suggested that law clerks might be unduly influencing their Justices. Now Todd Peppers and Christopher Zorn have measured clerk partisanship empirically in Law Clerk Influence on Supreme Court Decision Making: An Empirical...

Senate Manual for the 110th Congress Now Online

Posted on December 12, 2008
GPO has released the Senate Manual for the 110th Congress, which contains the rules, orders, laws, and resolutions affecting the business of the United States Senate. Also included: Jefferson's Manual, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution of the United...

Gale Launches State Papers Online With Publication of Tudor Era Manuscripts

Posted on December 12, 2008
Gale has launched State Papers Online, 1509-1714, with the release of Part I, State Papers Domestic for the Tudor era (1509?1603). The series will be a new digital resource for the study of Early Modern Britain and Europe. State Papers...

It's Official, Blogging is Mainstream

Posted on December 11, 2008
So proclaims The Economist: "Gone ... is any sense that blogging as a technology is revolutionary, subversive or otherwise exalted, and this upsets some of its pioneers. Confirmed, however, is the idea that blogging is useful and versatile. In essence,...

Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act

Posted on December 11, 2008
Although not yet available on Thomas [H.R. 7321], you can get a sneak peak at the Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act from the House Committee on Financial Services. While only 37 pages long, they've also included a nice 2...

Duquesne Ousts Law School Dean

Posted on December 11, 2008
Duquesne Dean Donald J. Guter was given an ultimatum, resign or be fired. Guter, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral and judge advocate general who was dean of Duquesne University School of Law since Aug. 1, 2005 opted to step...

Gleick on the Authors Guild Settlement with Google

Posted on December 11, 2008
Can publishers still make money on books in light of the Authors Guild settlement? In How to Publish Without Perishing, James Gleick suggests that the publisher's product [books] has a chance at "a new life: as a physical object, and...

More Financial Crisis Resources

Posted on December 11, 2008
Source Materials. Fordham Law Library is compiling digital documents covering the 2008 financial crisis. No search engine but well organized for easy access. Note that the auto industry bailout is covered. Resources include the following: History of EESA TARP Documents...

Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond

Posted on December 11, 2008
From ReadWriteWeb: Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond, May 2008 Update View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: wellington 2008)

Crash Course in Copyright

Posted on December 11, 2008
For those who would like a refresher on "fair use", check out Cheryl Maddox's latest article in Library Journal entitled Reference BackTalk: Crash Course in Copyright. Maddox reviews 4 sites The four web sites that "should help you keep abreast...

Indiana-Bloomington Receives $35 Million Donation

Posted on December 10, 2008
The soon-to-be branded Indiana University Michael Maurer School of Law in Bloomington recently received $35 million dollar donation from Michael Maurer. The gift, the largest in the law school?s history to come from a single donor, will fund an undetermined...

60th Anniversary of the Most Translated Document in the World

Posted on December 10, 2008
Today is the 60th anniversary of the "most translated document" in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records -- the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. And hat tip to Mark Wojcik (John Marshall, Chicago), International Law Prof Blog,...

U.S. Code coming to HeinOnline

Posted on December 10, 2008
In a most recent blog post HeinOnline announced they would be providing the U.S. Code to customers at no additional charge. Personally, Hein is one of my favorites for online resources and this makes them become even more of an...

Google Alerts Version 2.0

Posted on December 10, 2008
Google Alerts, finally a useful tool. Google Alerts now provides delivery options. In addition to email, you can choose to have your alerts sent to you by RSS feeds to your feedreader of choice. Google also now allows you to...

Theory and Practice in Legal Education: Alfieri's Critique of the Carnegie Foundation Report

Posted on December 10, 2008
Anthony Alfieri (Miami) examines the theory/practice dichotomy in legal education through the prism of the Carnegie Foundation's Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law in his provocative Against Practice [SSRN], 107 Michigan Law Review ___ (April 2009)...

Committee Against Torture Report

Posted on December 10, 2008
The Committee Against Torture (CAT) has issued it's report on its 39th and 40th session. The report covers the various activities of CAT as well as several discussions related to reports submitted by various government entities. [RJ]

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