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Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Posted on September 18, 2008
Reviews published in the September 8th, 2008 issue of InSITE: Chesapeake Project: Legal Information Archive Civil Rights Oral History Interviews ESCR-Net: International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights FedSpending.org

Opening: Reference Librarian, John Marshall Law School Library

Posted on September 18, 2008
The Louis L. Biro Law Library is seeking an energetic candidate for a new, full-time Reference Librarian position. The Reference Librarian will be an important member of the reference team, which provides excellent reference, research, and instructional services to John...

Scalia Disses Former Employer, University of Chicago Law School

Posted on September 18, 2008
University of Chicago Law School ? where Justice Scalia once taught ? has lost its edge and gone liberal. In his words: "I don't think the University of Chicago is what it was in my time. I would not recommend...

The Best and Worst Law Firm Websites

Posted on September 18, 2008
If you compare "the top 250 law firm Web sites against another 250 corporate or financial services firms of similar size, [you would find] that as a whole, the law firm group would lag behind in terms of the depth...

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Hacked Email Account: Was Palin Conducting Official State Business Using Personal Yahoo Email Account?

Posted on September 18, 2008
The Washington Post is reporting that hackers accessed Palin's personal Yahoo email account and published some of her emails on Wikileaks. The hackers claim their objective was to expose her use of a personal account to conduct government business. According...

Legislative Histories of Selected U.S. Laws on the Internet

Posted on September 17, 2008
New From LLSDC: "The Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. (http://www.llsdc.org) is pleased to announce a considerable expansion of a publication on its Legislative Source Book entitled "Legislative Histories of Selected U.S. Laws on the Internet" (http://www...

Want to Return to Law Librarianship?

Posted on September 17, 2008
Perhaps AALL chapters could model a professional re-entry program after one launched by American University Washington College of Law for lawyers. While this is a six-day program with individual coaching sessions, one for law librarians need not be as long...

Is Net Neutrality Essential to Protect Consumers and Promote Innovation?

Posted on September 17, 2008
No, according to Christopher S. Yoo (Pennsylvania). In Network Neutrality, Consumers, and Innovation [NELLCO] Professor Yoo critiques claims that mandating network neutrality is essential to protect consumers and to promote innovation on the Internet...

Google Promises to Delete Private Data After 9 Months

Posted on September 17, 2008
From the Official Google Blog: "We're announcing a new logs retention policy: we'll anonymize IP addresses on our server logs after 9 months. We're significantly shortening our previous 18-month retention policy to address regulatory concerns and to take another step...

Opening: Librarian for Emerging Technologies, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale University

Posted on September 17, 2008
The Lillian Goldman Law Library, with a collection of over one million volumes and volume equivalents, houses one of the world's finest collections of printed legal materials. The Law Library serves the students, faculty, and staff of a research-oriented law...

Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.org Sued by State of California

Posted on September 17, 2008
One of our favorite public access activists Carl Malamud is being sued for copyright infringement by the State of California for posting the California Code of Regulations on Public.Resource.org. "We exercise our copyright to benefit the people of California," Linda...

Kudos to Steven Luther

Posted on September 17, 2008
Washington University in St. Louis School of Law student Steven Luther is the $10,000 Grand Prize winner of Access Group's One Less Worry video contest for his "I Don't Know What I'll Do This Summer" video. The video takes the...

Digital Resources for Constitution Day

Posted on September 17, 2008
221 years ago today the final draft of the Constitution was signed by 39 delegates. The document was then sent to the states for ratification, and went into effect on June 21, 1788 when New Hampshire became the ninth state...

Impersonating a Lawyer

Posted on September 17, 2008
Many law librarians have to dance the "I'm not your lawyer but I might use this resource" dance when doing reference. And as a licensed attorney I feel the need to specifically include that statement all to often with some...

Newton Minow and Fred Cates on Government Data Mining and Its Risks

Posted on September 16, 2008
In Government Data Mining [SSRN], Newton Minow and Fred Cates examine the technological and geopolitical factors that have raised and complicated government data mining practices, and helped to render existing law inadequate. The article describes legal and other issues posed...

Let's Nominate AALL's Washington Blawg One of the 10 Blogs to Read in 2009

Posted on September 16, 2008
The good folks at LISNews want to know which blogs should be the 10 blogs to read in 2009. Their goal again this year is 10 blogs that, when followed as a group, paint a complete picture of what's going...

GlobaLex Legal Research Guides, September 2008

Posted on September 16, 2008
GlobaLex has published several updated research guides this month: Forced Evictions and Disability Rights in Africa by Buhle Angelo Dube One Country, Two Systems? of Legal Research: A Brief Guide to Finding the Law of China?s Hong Kong Special Administrative...

Civil Rights Cases Declines Dramatically

Posted on September 16, 2008
The number of civil rights cases filed in U.S. district courts declined nearly 20 percent between 2003 and 2006, according to a new report from the Justice Department?s Bureau of Justice Statistics. The report, Civil Rights Complaints in U.S. District...

Help Keep D-Lib Magazine Open

Posted on September 16, 2008
Help keep D-Lib Magazine an open access publication by taking their survey. The editors will be seeking advertising income to fund operations and need to profile their readers for potential advertisers. [JH]

World-Changing Web Projects?

Posted on September 16, 2008
Donny Shaw's (Open Congress) blog post identifies 20 web project proposals and live services that could change the world, maybe. Here's two of the web projects: Social Actions aggregates peer-to-peer social change campaigns so that individuals, organizations, and third-party developers...

Would Publius Be a Spammer?

Posted on September 16, 2008
The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down the state?s anti-spam law for violating the First Amendment because it bars anonymous transmission of political, religious and other speech protected by the First Amendment and fails to limit its restrictions to fraudulent...

Congress Sends New Federal Rule of Evidence 502 to President

Posted on September 15, 2008
Congress has sent to President Bush new Federal Rule of Evidence 502, S. 2450 [Thomas | Open Congress] which applies to the inadvertent disclosure in discovery of information protected by the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine. From Senate Report 110-264:...

Why Public Libraries Close

Posted on September 15, 2008
When the former occupants of the old courthouse moved to the new courthouse last year they left behind the Worcester branch of the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Library. Now, the Trial Court Law Library has found a new home across...

CREW Sues to Keep Cheney Papers Open to the Public

Posted on September 15, 2008
Last week, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) "introduced itself to Vice President Dick Cheney with a lawsuit" challenging Cheney, the Office of the Vice President, the archivist and the National Archives and Records Administration's decision to exclude...

August Edition of the AALL's Washington E-Bulletin

Posted on September 15, 2008
As the end of the 110th Congress quickly approaches, find out which bills we?re tracking and why we need you to take action now to help the Law Library of Congress. Plus, learn about recent chapter news and read summaries...

Reminder: AALL/Wolters Kluwer Research Grant Applications Due Nov. 3

Posted on September 15, 2008
The AALL Research & Publications Committee is accepting applications through Monday, November 3, 2008, for research grants from the AALL/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Grants Program, totaling up to $5,000. [Grant application and Guidelines] Grants will be awarded and announced...

Most Productive Not-Top 50 Law School Faculties

Posted on September 15, 2008
Roger Williams University School of Law has produced a scholarly productivity study for law schools ranking outside the US News Top 50 using articles published in "top journals" over a 15-year period, 1993-2008. On a per capita basis, the top...

FackCheck on Internet Claims and Rumors About Palin

Posted on September 15, 2008
FactCheck.org (the a nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate") has posted a piece on Gov. Palin dispelling several internet claims and rumors including: Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn?t cut it at...

Leaving Iraq Without Leaving Iraq in Chaos

Posted on September 14, 2008
Determining the right course for the Iraq war has become a polarizing issue during the presidential campaign. According to How to Leave a Stable Iraq, with the right strategy in place the United States will eventually be able to draw...

Undoing Bush: Shutting Down the Gitmo Detention Center by the End of the Next President's First Year in Office

Posted on September 14, 2008
SCOTUS have been undoing some of the Bush administration's rejection of the rule of law. Both presidential hopefuls, Senators McCain and Obama, have vowed to do more by closing Guantanamo Bay's detention center as president. But how and when? Neither...

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