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Sending Income to Course Book Authors Who Don't Share Your Ideological Predisposition

Posted on August 18, 2008
Should one take into account the ideology of authors and editors when choosing course books "bearing in mind that you're sending revenue their way?" See Boycotts at the Retail Level: Of Casebook Selection and Ideology. Of course this issue cuts...

No Battlefield Solution for the War on Terrorism

Posted on August 17, 2008
All terrorist groups eventually die out but not by military force. The RAND Corporation's How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida reports that most groups eventually end because (1) they joined the political process (43 percent) or (2)...

The New Arab Diplomacy: Not With the U.S. and Not Against the U.S.

Posted on August 17, 2008
New report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Arab countries are undertaking diplomatic initiatives that clearly contradict U.S. policy, because they no longer trust the U.S. capacity to contend with escalating regional crises. Even Arab countries traditionally aligned with...

Secularism and the Rule of Law in Turkey

Posted on August 17, 2008
Kathleen A. Bergin (South Texas College of Law) reflects on secularism and the rule of law in Turkey on First Amendment Law Prof Blog. While in Turkey, the Constitutional Court issued its ruling in the prosecution of Prime Minister Recep...

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A New Safety Net for Low-Income Families

Posted on August 16, 2008
New report from the Urban Institute: "During the 1990s, the federal government promised low-income families that work would pay. Parents moved into jobs in response to new welfare rules requiring work, tax credits and other work supports that boosted take-home...

World Drug Report 2008

Posted on August 16, 2008
New report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: "The World Drug Report presents comprehensive information on the illicit drug situation. It provides detailed estimates and trends on production, trafficking and consumption in the opium/heroin, coca/cocaine, cannabis and...

Friday Fun: Professor Weasel Tries to Learn Boolean Logic and Database Searching

Posted on August 15, 2008
It's time to start a new academic year and that means teaching database searching to profs and students. Professor Weasel has a bit of a problem with Boolean logic in this clip. [JH]

A Primer on Law PR 2.0

Posted on August 15, 2008
The legal public-relations firm Jaffe Associates has released a white paper on Law PR and the use of Web 2.0 technologies, and has launched the Jaffee Blog to provide attorneys and legal marketers with information about using Web 2.0 in...

E + IRAC = IREAC

Posted on August 15, 2008
Mark Wojcik's (John Marshall Law School, Chicago) explains why adding an E for "explanation" of the rule of law to IRAC will help legal writers get their point across to professors and judges in his brief Student Lawyer article, Add...

Vault's 2009 Law Firms Rankings: Prestige, Quality of Life and Diversity

Posted on August 15, 2008
Vault surveyed more than 18,800 associates at more than 167 major law firms across the country and asked them to rank firms in terms of how prestigious it would be to work for them. For Vault's quality of life rankings,...

Rising Energy Prices: Supply, Demand and Controlling "Excessive Speculation"

Posted on August 15, 2008
While most observers recognize that the fundamentals of supply and demand have contributed to record energy prices in 2008, many also believe that the price of oil and other commodities includes a "speculative premium." The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, however,...

Want to Advertise Your Law Library on a Jail or Prison Website?

Posted on August 15, 2008
Jail Media is a media company specializing in providing information about jails and prisons. For each hosted jail website (which is not the facility's official website), there is a Q & A page, plus information about life in jail provided...

NALSWD's Annual Conference Starts Today

Posted on August 15, 2008
The National Association of Law Students with Disabilities (NALSWD) is a coalition of law students dedicated to disability advocacy and the achievement of equal access, inclusion, diversity and non-discrimination in legal education and in the legal profession...

College Rankings Now a Duopoly, Forbes Publishes Its First Best 569 Colleges

Posted on August 15, 2008
The college rankings game is now a duopoly. Forbes has published its first annual ranking of America's best colleges because "for too many years, information about the quality of American higher education has been monopolized by one publication, U.S. News...

Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act Signed Into Law

Posted on August 15, 2008
With very little fanfare, President Bush signed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, H.R. 4040, into law yesterday. [Thomas Resources | Open Congress Resources]. The legislation was Congress' response to massive consumer product recalls...

Librarians' Role in Moving Articles from File Cabinets and Computers Into Harvard's Open-Access Repository

Posted on August 14, 2008
In an interview published in Harvard Library Notes, Stuart Shieber, the newly appointed Director of Harvard's Office for Scholarly Communication, discusses what?s next for Harvard's open-access repository and how librarians will play a significant role in the process...

Open Library Environment Project Intends to Design Next-Generation Library System for Academic Library Community

Posted on August 14, 2008
The goal of the Open Library Environment Project is to define requirements for an Open Library Management System built on Service Oriented Architecture based on a thoroughly re-examined model of library operations. The end product will be a design document...

Worst 2008 Writing Awards Announced

Posted on August 14, 2008
San Jose State University's 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest has announced the winners for worst writing in 2008. Garrison Spik, a 41-year-old communications director, took top honors and $250 for this: Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi...

Can (Should) White House Legal Memoranda Be Classified as State Secrets?

Posted on August 14, 2008
In Secret Documents: Why Classify Legal Memos? Louis Fisher want to know why the notorious "Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States" legal memo by John Yoo was a state secret. He writes "Although declassified [five...

How Far is the Science of Law Open to Insights from Other Disciplines?

Posted on August 14, 2008
In A Dynamic Model of Interdisciplinarity: Limits and Possibilities of Interdisciplinary Research into Law [SSRN] Bart Van Klink and Sanne Taekema (both at Tilburg) ask how far is the science of law open to insights from other disciplines? From the...

Highest Employment Rate in 20 Years: NALP's Placement Data for Class of 2007 Now Available

Posted on August 14, 2008
91.9% of the Class of 2007 for whom employment status was known were employed as of February 15, 2008 according to NALP. This rate increased for the third year in a row and was at its highest in 20 years....

A Quick Look at WestBlog

Posted on August 14, 2008
Faces of West Video Anne Ellis, West Librarian Relations senior director, narrates a behind-the-scenes video titled ?Faces of West? about Thomson West's publishing activities covering new product development, manufacturing, marketing, plus a clip featuring the library West maintains at its...

Whoever Controls Search Engines Controls the Internet

Posted on August 13, 2008
The time when search engines will replace email as the Internet's all-time killer app is near. On a typical day 60% of Internet users use email. According to a recent data memo from Pew/Internet, Search Engine Use Report (Aug. 6,...

US Trustee Costs, Court Costs, and Attorneys Fees Up, Up and Way Up Since BAPCPA Went Into Effect

Posted on August 13, 2008
The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Prevention Act of 2005 went into effect on October 17, 2005. [LLB posts] The GAO recently reported on the dollar costs associated with the Act. Check out the GAO report and and Jonathan Hayes's...

The FBI's Records Retention Destruction Plan

Posted on August 13, 2008
The FBI Records Retention Plan and Disposition Schedules sounds more like a Records Destruction Plan to Alex Heard because it allows the Bureau to discard roughly 80 percent of its files at any given time. "The FBI would have you...

Demystifying the SSRN Process for New Law Profs

Posted on August 13, 2008
Susan Duncan (Louisville) has made her Demystifying the SSRN Process: How To Make It Work for You Powerpoint available. She used it for her presentation at the Legal Writing Institute?s conference in Indianapolis in July. The Powerpoint introduces and explain...

Voting Underway for One Less Worry Scholarship Contest

Posted on August 13, 2008
Access Group's One Less Worry scholarship contest will award a $10,000 scholarship for the 2008-09 academic year to the law student whose video receives the most votes. [LLB's earlier post] Voting closes on August 22, 2008. View the videos on...

Fastcase Executives Interview on Fox Business News

Posted on August 13, 2008
Ed Walters, Fastcase CEO, and Phillip Rosenthal, Fastcase president, discuss the business of legal research and competing against Lexis Nexis in this video interview on Fox Business News. Hat tip to Christine Hall?s post to law-lib. [JH]

DeCarlous Spearman on Life as a Law Library Director

Posted on August 13, 2008
Wanted to share this Q & A with DeCarlous Spearman, law library director at Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law, found in the online Houston Chronicle (and I assume the paper version). It is nice to see a...

The Story of the Suleymania Law Library

Posted on August 13, 2008
Haider Ala Hamoudi (Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law) probably risked his life to help rebuild legal education in Iraq after the liberation-conquest-whatever of the country. Here's a glimpse at how that went: US Taxpayer Financing...

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