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Has Michigan Law Invented a New Gaming Technique for US News Rankings?

Posted on September 29, 2008
Apparently so, the recently announced Wolverine Scholars Program allows Michigan undergrads with a minimum 3.80 GPA to apply to Michigan's law school without taking the LSAT. What's the benefit? No LSAT scores to report to US News while the minimum...

Opening: Digital Information Librarian, Texas Tech University Law Library

Posted on September 29, 2008
POSITION TITLE: Digital Information Librarian COMPANY/INSTITUTION: Texas Tech University Law Library SHORT DESCRIPTION: The primary duties of the Librarian are to develop, maintain, organize, and add to the library?s growing information base and repositories in all formats for the law...

FIRE Sale on Capital Hill Visualized: Wall Street's Bought and Paid-For Politicians Now the Ones Responsible for Solving the Financial Industry Crisis

Posted on September 28, 2008
Why is Wall Street at the center of the current crisis? Because the finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) industries are the single largest sector?by far?of all the major economic and interest groupings that give campaign contributions to federal politicians...

Violent Crimes in the Nation Decreases According to FBI Crime Statistics

Posted on September 28, 2008
After steadily increasing for straight years, the estimated number of violent crimes in the U.S. has slightly declined from 2006. In Crime in the United States 2007, the FBI presents a statistical compilation of offense and arrest data as reported...

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How U of C is Barack Obama?

Posted on September 27, 2008
While political pundits debate whether a former Law School lecturer is too University of Chicago to be president of the United States, the U of C focuses on?what else??what it means to be U of C in Elemental Obama. Go...

The Legal Side of the Lehman Brothers Collapse

Posted on September 27, 2008
Excellent podcast from Legal Talk Network: "The largest bankruptcy case in U.S. history is playing out before us with the fall of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., creating chaos in the financial community. Join co-hosts and Law.com bloggers, J. Craig Williams...

The Brain as Public Entity

Posted on September 26, 2008
Several weeks ago I took an MRI to prove once again to my wife that I really do have an occasionally functioning brain. So Fastcase's recent blog post grabbed my attention. The use of new neuroscience technologies has created a...

On Being Open: CNET Profiles Carl Malamud, iLibrarian Interviews Jimmy Wales

Posted on September 26, 2008
Carl Malamud on Open Government Data. Check out CNET's profile of Carl Malamud in Tech activist takes on governments over 'copyrighted' laws. See also PublicResource.org's statement of open government data principles which guides his efforts and the great Lego animation...

Friday Fun: It's Professor Wikipedia!

Posted on September 26, 2008
It's Professor Wikipedia complete with off-topic associations and real-time crowdsourcing by students in the lecture hall. Hat tip to LLB's co-editor, Ron Jones (Cincinnati). [JH]

Does Congress Need a Law Clerkship Program?

Posted on September 26, 2008
Yale Law School student Dakota S. Rudesill thinks Congress does in Keepers of the U.S. Code: the Case for a Congressional Clerkship Program [NELLCO] ("For the first time in the legal literature, I here set out the full case for...

Google Book Search Offers Embedded Previews

Posted on September 26, 2008
From the official announcement: ?We?re launching a set of free tools that allow retailers, publishers, and anyone with a web site to embed books from the Google Book Search index. We are also providing new ways for these sites to...

A Quick Look at Knetwit

Posted on September 26, 2008
The goal of Knetwit is to provide campus-wide note-taking services by combining familiar Web 2.0 features such as user profiles, file sharing and online communities. Students join the site for free and can post their notes, papers and other assignments...

Opening: Associate Law Librarian, University of Oregon Law Library

Posted on September 26, 2008
The John E. Jaqua Law Library at the University of Oregon seeks an innovative and energetic Associate Law Librarian, a full time non-tenure track library faculty position. The Jaqua Law Library maintains over 350,000 volumes and volume equivalents in print,...

Stakeholder Analysis of Governing Documents for Virtual Worlds

Posted on September 25, 2008
Virtual worlds are governed not only by the source code used to develop the world, but also by civil code documents that establish a governance structure that constrains the interactions of users of the virtual world and regulates relationships among...

New Book Examines the Dark Side of the Rule of Law

Posted on September 25, 2008
Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) dares to ask the paradoxical question - is the Rule of Law itself illegal? The authors, Ugo Mattei (Hastings and Turin) and Laura Nader (Berkeley) expose global examples of plunder:...

RIAA Litigation One Massive PR Campaign to Strike Fear in the Hearts of Would-be Downloaders

Posted on September 25, 2008
RIAA, the lobbying group for the world's big four music companies, Sony BMG, Universal Music, EMI and Warner Music, admits that its massive litigation campaign that now includes more than 30,000 lawsuits targeting alleged copyright scofflaws on peer-to-peer networks including...

Will the WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry Work?

Posted on September 25, 2008
OCLC launched the Copyright Evidence Registry six-month pilot program on July 1 to test the concept and functionality. Users can search the Copyright Evidence Registry to find information about a book, learn what others have said about its copyright status,...

Opening: Associate Director for Library Services University of Connecticut School of Law Library

Posted on September 25, 2008
The University of Connecticut School of Law is seeking candidates for the position of Associate Director for Library Services. The School of Law is located in the Hartford?s West End neighborhood, on a collegiate Gothic campus that has been called...

President Signs ADA Amendments Act of 2008

Posted on September 25, 2008
President Bush signed S 3406, ADA Amendments Act of 2008, into law on September 25, 2008. [Thomas | Open Congress]. Superseding the Supreme Court's holdings in Sutton v. United Air Lines, Inc., 527 U.S. 471 (1999) and Toyota Motor Manufacturing,...

A Legal Technology Guide That's Actually Useful

Posted on September 25, 2008
Published annually by the ABA, the 2008 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide is actually useful for its intended audience. How often can you say that about law tech guides! This one provides current information and recommendations on computers,...

Presidential Debates Start Tomorrow

Posted on September 25, 2008
First presidential debate: Friday, September 26 University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS Second presidential debate: Tuesday, October 7 Belmont University, Nashville, TN Third presidential debate: Wednesday, October 15 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY Some of us are old enough to remember when...

India's first e-Law Library opens

Posted on September 25, 2008
For a taste of international news this morning we note that India now has its first e-law library with practitioners on the subcontinent recognizing and responding to the need for technology based legal research. This venture was made possible by...

Clay Shirky on It's Not Information Overload, It's Filter Failure

Posted on September 24, 2008
Clay Shirky is the kind of guy you would like to sit in a bar with discussing Internet developments over a few pints of Guinness because you will come away with new ideas and a fresh perspective on the evolution...

Top 10 Government Agencies Websites

Posted on September 24, 2008
Government Computer News has put together a top 10 list of agency websites that are putting the power of the Web to work by providing not just information, but services to their constituents. Here's who made the cut: National Library...

The Power of Precedent and Dissenting Opinions

Posted on September 24, 2008
To what extent are the Supreme Court, Congress, and the executive branch constrained by precedent? To what extent should they be? Taking up a topic long overdue for comprehensive treatment in The Power of Precedent (Oxford UP, 2008), Michael Gerhardt...

Should States Create Specialized Courts for Complex Commercial and Business Litigation?

Posted on September 24, 2008
Given that business entities play a significant role in our economy and society and their prevalence and influence justify the dedication of resources to their development and problems at all levels of government and the legal profession, should states create...

Opening: Librarian for Research and Bibliographic Instruction, Washburn University School of Law Library

Posted on September 24, 2008
Washburn University School of Law Library is seeking an energetic and experienced law librarian for the position of Librarian for Research and Bibliographic Instruction. The successful candidate will, among other duties, teach law school courses in specialized legal research; make...

What are the Odds of Plaintiffs Winning Employment Discrimination Lawsuits?

Posted on September 24, 2008
Kevin Clermont and Steward Schwab's Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs in Federal Court: From Bad to Worse? reveals that, based on data from 1979 to 2006, plaintiffs who brought employment discrimination suits in federal district courts prevailed only 15 percent of the...

Rep. Frank to LC's Billington: Do the Right Thing

Posted on September 24, 2008
In 2005, Diane Schroer (formerly David Schroer), a former Army Special Forces commander, was offered a terrorism research analyst position with LC's Congressional Research Service but was later denied the position when she announced her plans to live as a...

Stop the Presses for this Expose, Greta Van Susteren Calls Law School Grades a Fraud

Posted on September 24, 2008
This is newsworthy? Hat tip to Legal Watch Blog and TaxProf Blog who think so. Shocking, OMG, shocking. [JH]

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