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Dennis Kennedy's 2010 Blawggies

Posted on December 28, 2010
Few have been as close a watcher of law blogging developments for so long as Dennis Kennedy has. His first Blawggie awards was published in December 2004. Over the years, awards categories have changed to reflect the changing landscape of...

Command and Control at DePaul University: Is DePaul Law's New Dean a Glutton for Punishment?

Posted on December 28, 2010
"Announcing the new Dean three days before Xmas when no one is around actually is *Not* normal......but that's what DePaul University has done," wrote Chicago Law prof Brian Leiter about the timing of the announcement that Gregory Mark, Vice Dean,...

Addressing U.S. National Interests in Cyberspace Security

Posted on December 27, 2010
"The United States? overriding national interest in cyberspace is to preserve and extend the Internet as a tool for economic efficiency at home and as a facilitator for economic exchange internationally. The current level of criminal activity, espionage, and preparation...

Ralph Nader, Really? Congressional Hearing on the Espionage Act and the Legal and Constitutional Issues Raised by WikiLeaks

Posted on December 27, 2010
On December 16, 2010, the House Committee on the Judiciary conducted a hearing on the Espionage Act and the legal and constitutional issues raised by WikiLeaks. The link to the video webcast is available of this page. The witness list...

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Opening: Law Librarian, Supreme Court of Nevada

Posted on December 27, 2010
Under the general direction of the justices of the Supreme Court, the Law Librarian administers and manages the law library. The Law Librarian performs highly responsible administrative and legal research functions in directing professional level law library service to the...

20 Gadgets, Gizmos (Including Some Former Christmas Gifts), Services and Products That Became Obsolete During the Last Decade

Posted on December 26, 2010
See HuffPostTech's look back at the things that have become obsolete. And what did you open under the Christmas tree that will become just as obsolete in a couple of years? [JH]

Raising the Bar for "Publisher's Staff" Content After Rudovsky? On some really bad decisions made by West and its many and varied consequences for not being "proud" of publishing a "sham" pocket part

Posted on December 22, 2010
As I am sure many recall, in Rudovsky v. West Publishing Corp.(U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, No. 09-cv-000727-JF), the authors of Pennsylvania Criminal Procedure -- Law, Commentary and Forms, law profs David Rudovsky (Pennsylvania) and Leonard...

CRS on DADT

Posted on December 22, 2010
With President Obama signing the legislation repealing the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, it's noted that there are two recent Congressional Research Service reports on DADT. The first is "Don't Ask, Don't Tell": The Law and Military Policy on...

Stanford Law Launching Major Study of the Legal Profession: Too Late for the ABA Current Review of Accreditation Standards

Posted on December 21, 2010
Stanford Law School recently announced that it has launched a comprehensive empirical study of the state of the legal profession supported by financial support from the Sidley Austin Foundation. Excerpts the press release: The objective of the multi-year study is...

In the "New Normal" of Institutional Buyers' Diet, Protein Content Matters

Posted on December 21, 2010
Check out the video posted on 3 Geeks here. Greg Lambert writes "this video ... lays out where we seem to be with client vs. vendor relations right now. Bad economies, bad relations, and unrealistic expectations (on both sides) lead...

FCC Adopts Basic Net Neutrality Rules

Posted on December 21, 2010
The FCC voted 3-2 today to implement so-called net neutrality rules for the Internet. The rules were resisted by industry and their political allies as unnecessary while public advocacy grounds were disappointed that they did not go far enough in...

The Problem of the One and the Many: On Taking Giant Steps Forward Like LAW.GOV and the National Digital Library Initiative Recently Announced by the Berkman Center

Posted on December 20, 2010
"I don?t want to minimize [the] problems [of creating a national digitial library], but I think we should approach them with a can-do spirit. After all, we have acquired a great deal of experience with digitization. Every research library has...

Montana Considering How To Handle Privacy In Family Law Cases

Posted on December 20, 2010
The Montana Supreme Court is considering revamping privacy rules that would limit the amount of sensitive personal information contained in documents filed in family law cases. Private information can include social security numbers, dates of birth, financial account numbers, medical...

Passing of a Giant: Morris L. Cohen, 1927-2010

Posted on December 20, 2010
Morris Cohen, one of the most influential law librarians of the 20th century, died Saturday. His funeral will be held today. Former AALL President (1970-71), Cohen was Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School...

Pew Internet Survey on Internet Use in Higher-Income Households

Posted on December 19, 2010
Pew Internet reports that higher-income internet users are the most active participants in a range of online activities, when compared with those who have less income. From the report: 93% of higher-income users use email 80% access news online 71%...

New and Updated Foreign and International Law Research Guides from GlobaLex

Posted on December 18, 2010
New Research Guides Introduction to the Norms and Institutions of the African Union by Girmachew Alemu Aneme Constitutional Law and Courts? System in the Syrian Arab Republic by Khalil Mechantaf Updated Guides A Basic Guide to International Environmental Legal Research...

Friday Fun: Brilliant! The Good Old USA According to Google Autocomplete

Posted on December 17, 2010
Mashable's Lauren Indvik writes, "Ever wonder what a map of the U.S. would look like if all of the states? names were altered to match the suggestions offered by Google?s autocomplete search algorithm? Wonder no longer." The source of this...

Outsourcing the Law Library in the Private Sector

Posted on December 17, 2010
In Outsourcing Legal Information, Karen Sawatzky wrote I tend to live in the future. I think about what it will be like when I?ve paid off all my debts, how I?m going to celebrate a significant event coming up next...

Peeing in Harvard's Lamont Library: 36 Urine-Soaked LGBT Books Result of a Clumsy Library Staffer, Not Evidence of a Hate Crime

Posted on December 17, 2010
That's the nutshell conclusion of Harvard University PD's investigation reported by The Harvard Crimson. "Though Harvard College Queer Students and Allies Co-Chair Marco Chan '11 expressed relief that the damage was the result of an accident and not a targeted...

Justice Scalia Uses an iPad, Justice Kagan a Kindle to Read Briefs

Posted on December 16, 2010
From the description provided for the below YouTube video: In this excerpt from C-SPAN's interview with Associate Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan (airing Sunday, December 19 at 6:30 p.m. ET on C-SPAN), Justice Kagan describes using an Amazon Kindle to...

What's Up With Amazon?

Posted on December 16, 2010
I don't get it. Ars Technica reports that one incest-themed fiction book was removed from the Kindle bookstore and from the archives of people who purchased it. Other reports indicated that at least three titles were removed from the store...

Sixth Circuit Rules Email Is Protected By The Fourth Amendment

Posted on December 15, 2010
The Sixth Circuit issued the most extraordinary opinion yesterday, U.S. v. Warshak. It is, apparently, the first case to declare that email, and the people who use it (virtually everybody, except teens) have a reasonable expectation of privacy in its...

Does GPO now = the Google Printing Office?

Posted on December 15, 2010
Google has been quietly capitalizing on its various library and publisher partnerships with its Google ebookstore project. In addition to its more commercial titles offered for sale at the site, it will also be offering over 1800 government publications from...

Comprehensive Law SaaS (or how the IT Cloud will be coming from the Other Side of the International Date Line)

Posted on December 15, 2010
In a recent guest blog post on 3 Geeks, The End of Corporate IT, Ryan McClead wrote "I have seen the future and there is no IT. Oh, there will be people called IT personnel and there will be external...

"There Is a Special Place in Hell" for Legal Vendor Price Gouging: What's Your Favorite Example?

Posted on December 14, 2010
Recently a commentator to this LLB post wrote "There is a special place in hell for charging that much money." He was referring to West's $800 charge for three volumes of the ALR Later Case Service for ALR 2d. "There...

Another Sign of the Times in the Shed West Era: Need Used Shelving?

Posted on December 14, 2010
If you do, contact Laurie Miller, Pierce County Law Library, Tacoma, WA or me ... I've got 100s a couple of thousand linear feet. [JH]

Supreme Court Action Today

Posted on December 13, 2010
There are two cases out of the Supreme Court today. The more interesting of the two is the case they didn't actually decide, which is Costco Wholesale Corporation v. Omega, S.A. (08-1423). That case involved the sale of gray market...

Judge Holds Health Care Purchase Mandate Unconsitutional

Posted on December 13, 2010
The federal judge in Richmond overseeing Virginia's challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act declared the individual mandate provision unconstitutional. The provision, he says, exceeds the powers of Congress under The commerce Clause and implicates the Tenth Amendment...

Lobbying to Reform ABA's Placement Data Reporting Requirements

Posted on December 13, 2010
Today and tomorrow the ABA Questionnaire Committee will be conducting meetings on the timely and controversial topic of the collection and reporting of placement data. Thanks to Brian Leiter's Law School Reports blog post last week, USD Law Dean Kevin...

Tackling the App Publishing Question

Posted on December 12, 2010
Quoting from the lead paragraph from Publishers Weekly's How Publishers Are Tackling the App Question: Are apps marketing devices for authors and books, or a new revenue stream? This is just one of many questions publishers are asking as they...

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