Legal Research

Friday Fun: The Law Phone

Posted on October 17, 2008
You've seen the ads for the iPhone, now Professor C. Steven Bradford of the University of Nebraska College of Law brings you the L-phone! (mp3). [JH]

The Future of the Legal Coursebook

Posted on October 17, 2008
A workshop at Seattle University School of Law that discussed alternatives to the heavy printed legal casebooks has generated a lot of press coverage, including an excellent article in the Chronicle, the National Law Journal, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Due Processors:...

Check out the UN on YouTube

Posted on October 17, 2008
United Nations Television has launched a channel on YouTube. The channel broadcasts programmes from the 21st Century and UN in Action television series. [RJ]

CRS Report on Federal Tort Reform Legislation

Posted on October 17, 2008
In, Federal Tort Reform Legislation: Constitutionality and Summaries of Selected Statutes, the Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS) considers the constitutionality of federal tort reform legislation, such as the products liability and medical malpractice reform proposals that have been introduced for...

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Opening: Instructional / Reference Librarian, CUNY School of Law Library

Posted on October 17, 2008
We are currently seeking at least one, but possibly two enthusiastic, energetic candidates dependent on funding, who are willing to be an integral part of the library management team at CUNY School of Law. The successful candidate will be joining...

The 2008 Plaintiffs' Hot List

Posted on October 16, 2008
The seventh annual Plaintiffs' Hot List (sub. req.) is the National Law Journal's "unscientific survey" of the litigation scene since the summer of 2007. The list is based on reader nominations of exemplary firms that devote at least half of...

EDUCAUSE's Core Data Service Report on Campus IT Environments, 2007

Posted on October 16, 2008
EDUCAUSE has released its Core Data Service Report on Campus IT Environments covering fiscal year 2007. 1,016 campuses had completed the Core Data Service (CDS) survey. Responding institutions were 58% public and 42% private. The large response pool for the...

The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Online

Posted on October 16, 2008
The online edition of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Encyclopedia is adding new material quarterly and is expected to reaching completion in 2010. The online edition will include search functionality and click-through cross references to other Encyclopedia...

On Justifying Punishment

Posted on October 16, 2008
Kevin M. Carlsmith (Colgate University Psychology Department) has posted On Justifying Punishment: The Discrepancy between Words and Actions on SSRN. The article reveals a discrepancy between the actual and stated motives for punishment based on survey data...

Barriers to Justice: Examining Equal Pay for Equal Work

Posted on October 16, 2008
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing entitled "Barriers to Justice: Examining Equal Pay for Equal Work" that examined how federal courts treat employment discrimination cases. Reacting to the forthcoming article from the Harvard Law & Policy Review...

Opening: Director of Information Technologies, University of California, Irvine, School of Law

Posted on October 16, 2008
The School of Law at The University of California, Irvine, is searching for a Director of Information Technologies. Under the general direction of the Associate Dean for Library and Information Services, the Director of Information Technologies is responsible for the...

Remix or Pirate Culture

Posted on October 15, 2008
Larry Lessig's Wall Street Journal article, In Defense of Piracy, calls for "reject[ing] the notion that Internet culture must oppose profit, or that profit must destroy Internet culture. But real change will be necessary if this is to be our...

Who Should Teach LRW?

Posted on October 15, 2008
According to Hillel Levin (Georgia), "whatever the model, LRW instructors need to have some basic practice experience. They don't all need to have been litigators, despite the fact that LRW programs usually focus on the litigation context; indeed, given that...

Hakia: Help Us Guide Web Searchers to Credible Websites

Posted on October 15, 2008
From the press release: "Semantic search engine hakia announced an open call to librarians and information professionals to participate in a new program to unlock credible and free Web resources to Web searchers. Currently, hakia is generating credibility-stamped results for...

Electronic Resources from the United Nations

Posted on October 15, 2008
For the legal researcher focusing on international law, the UN has put together a fine collection of digital resources including: Yearbook of the United Nations (1946-2005): The Yearbook is the principal reference work of the United Nations and provides a...

And the Best Reason to Stop Banning Laptops in the Classroom Is...

Posted on October 15, 2008
In a very thoughtful post, Amy Jarmon, Assistant Dean for Academic Success Programs at Texas Tech, observes that "the banning of laptops is vogue right now, but the consequences for students with disabilities (and different learning styles for that matter)...

What is the Congressional Record?

Posted on October 15, 2008
For those of who offer instructional classes on federal legislative histories, check out LexisNexis's white paper entitled "What is the Congressional Record?". The paper provides a concise overview of the Record as well as a selected annotated bibliography...

Opening: Director of the Tarlton Law Library, Texas

Posted on October 15, 2008
The University of Texas School of Law invites nominations and applications to become the Director of the Tarlton Law Library, Jamail Center for Legal Research. The Tarlton Law Library is one of the leading law libraries in the world. It...

PACER Pilot Program Suspended at Federal Depository Libraries

Posted on October 14, 2008
In October 2008, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts and the Government Printing Office (GPO) undertook a pilot to provide free public access to federal court records through PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records] at 17 federal...

Illinois Law to Admit Fighting Illini Students With 3.0 GPAs Without Taking the LSAT

Posted on October 14, 2008
Following Michigan's lead, Illinois' College of Law is offering an Early Admission Program for Illinois college students that allows the students to bypass the LSAT. Like Michigan, the benefit to the school is no LSAT scores to report to US...

President Signs PRO-IP Act

Posted on October 14, 2008
President Bush signed the RIAA-backed Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act of 2008, S. 3325, yesterday [Thomas Resources | Open Congress]. See the White House Fact Sheet: Protecting American Innovation and LLB's earlier post, A Great Day...

SEC Releases Enforcement Manual

Posted on October 14, 2008
The SEC's Office of Chief Counsel has released the latest version of its "Red Book," the Enforcement Manual (Oct. 6, 2008) designed to be a reference for the staff in the SEC Division of Enforcement in the investigation of potential...

Systemic Banking Crises: A New Database

Posted on October 14, 2008
International Monetary Fund has released a new database on the timing of systemic banking crises and policy responses to resolve them. The database covers the universe of systemic banking crises for the period 1970-2007, with detailed data on crisis containment...

FindLaw Adds Case Law Feeds for Federal and State Courts, and Practice-Areas

Posted on October 14, 2008
FindLaw has added RSS feeds for case summaries from the Supreme Court, the federal circuit courts and state appellate courts in California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, New York and Texas. It has also introduced practice-area feeds that provide case summaries for...

Roy Mersky Oral History Now Available

Posted on October 14, 2008
From the announcement for Roy M. Mersky: An Oral History Interview (Tarlton Law Library Oral History Series No. 9, 2008) 75 pages. $25. Roy M. Mersky (b. 1925 - d. 2008) was the director of the law library and a...

Opening: Reference Librarian, Emory University Law Library

Posted on October 14, 2008
The Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library at Emory University School of Law is seeking an enthusiastic, innovative and service-oriented professional to join our team as Assistant Law Librarian for Reference. This is a full-time position, available immediately...

LLB's Taking Care of Law School Business Award Goes to ...

Posted on October 13, 2008
When Minnesota's Assistant Dean of Students, Erin Keyes, signed on for one of those invisible administer gigs that keep law schools running, I doubt she thougth she would be writing emails to students about smelly lockers like this snippet from...

Searching for a Legal Moore's Law

Posted on October 13, 2008
According to Paul Lippe in Welcome to the Future: In Search of a Legal Moore's Law (The AmLaw Daily), "if lawyers could, over the next year, agree on some standard of performance that was reasonably defined and agreed upon, and...

LC Thomas Implements Persistent URLs

Posted on October 13, 2008
You can now create persistent URLs for legislative resources on Thomas using LC's Legislative Handles syntax. Thanks to this very easy to use service, it will now be easy to type in legislative links to bibliographies, reference guides, emails, blogs,...

FHFA Releases New Mortgage Metrics Report

Posted on October 13, 2008
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released its first Mortgage Metrics Report. From the press release: "The report presents key performance data on 30.4 million first lien residential mortgages with outstanding balances totaling $4.4 trillion serviced on behalf of Fannie...

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