Legal Research

Online Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913

Posted on June 13, 2008
From the site: "The Old Bailey Proceedings Online makes available a fully searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913, and of the Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts, 1690 to 1772. It allows...

New Report Shows Rising Special Interest Pressure on Midwest Courts

Posted on June 13, 2008
New report from Justice at Stake: "A new report from Justice at Stake, The New Politics of Judicial Elections in the Great Lake States, 2000-2008, shows how the Midwest has become America?s leading judicial elections battleground. Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio,...

Bibliography of Selected Securities Arbitration Resources

Posted on June 13, 2008
The Bibliography of Selected Securities Arbitration Resources: 1997-2007, 76 U. Cin. L. Rev. 599 (2008) [Westlaw] focuses on materials pertinent to customers' disputes published 1997-2007 and is intended to update the bibliography appearing at 62 Brook...

Opening: Faculty Services Librarian and Assistant Professor, St. Mary's University Law Library

Posted on June 13, 2008
We?re pleased to announce the position of Faculty Services Librarian/Assistant Professor at St. Mary?s University School of Law. This is a University tenure-track faculty position reporting directly to the law library director. The position is open immediately...

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Law School Advice from CBS Sports Columnist

Posted on June 13, 2008
Clay "I didn't even buy books my last year of law school" Travis, a columnist for CBS Sports, offer his advice on how to pick a law school, including the following suggestions: Go sit in the law school library for...

Professional Reading: Seto on Book Burning

Posted on June 12, 2008
Theodore Seto (Loyola Law School, Los Angeles) has posted Is Book-Burning Bad? in SSRN. Here's the abstract for this very interesting article. We commonly assert that we should be good and should not be bad. But we also say that...

Homeland Security Digital Library Now Available to Federal Depository Libraries

Posted on June 12, 2008
From the announcement: GPO and the Naval Postgraduate School are pleased to announce their recent partnership to provide access to the Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL). HSDL is a database of over 50,000 non-classified Presidential directives, policy and national strategy...

Two North Carolina Law Schools Receive ABA's Provisional Accreditation

Posted on June 12, 2008
Elon University School of Law in Greensboro [Press Release] and Charlotte School of Law in Charlotte [Press Release] have received provisional approval from the American Bar Association, raising to an even 200 the number of ABA-approved law schools nationwide...

Adding Recommender Input to OPACs Using BibTip

Posted on June 12, 2008
In Adding Value to the Library Catalog by Implementing a Recommendation System (D-Lib Magazine, May/June 2008), Dr. Michael Mönnich, Karlsruhe University Library, Head of Collection and Cataloging Department, and Marcus Spiering, Karlsruhe University Library, IT Services, describe the recommender system...

Openings: Florida A & M University College of Law Library, Orlando

Posted on June 12, 2008
Three Positions: Law Library Director, Cataloging Librarian/Instructor Librarian, and Electronic Services/Reference Librarian Application Deadline for All Positions: June 17, 2008 Download application (pdf). All applications must be mailed to Florida A & M University, Office of Human Resources, 211 Foote-Hilyer...

Facebook for Academic Law Libraries

Posted on June 12, 2008
A academic law library Facebook page will not replace library websites or even library blogs but if your content is portable a Facebook destination might be a useful additional way to communicate with law school students. In About Facebook; Change...

Proposals Outlined in ABA Special Committee Reports on Accreditation Standards Could Lead to Significant Reforms in Legal Education

Posted on June 11, 2008
The ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has released two special committee reports that could be influential in reforming legal education in the US, namely, Interim Report of the Outcome Measures Committee and Report of the...

Professional Reading: Explaining the Relationship between Internet Use and Interpersonal Trust

Posted on June 11, 2008
Christopher E. Beaudoin has published Explaining the Relationship between Internet Use and Interpersonal Trust: Taking into Account Motivation and Information Overload in 13 Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 550?568 (2008). Here's the abstract: Although a growing body of empirical research has...

New Articles on GlobaLex (May/June 2008)

Posted on June 11, 2008
New articles and research guides published by GlobaLex: Introduction to Public International Law Research by Vicenç Feliú Transitional Justice in Africa: The Experience with Truth Commissions by Charles Manga Fombad Alternative Dispute Resolution in Pakistan by Salman Ravala Researching Haitian...

Topical Blog Directories Masquerading as Blog Rankings: Criminal Justice and Law School Blogs

Posted on June 11, 2008
Producers of Criminal Justice Degrees Guide and College Degree websites have realized that if they create selected topical blog directories and call them "Top [insert number] Blogs" their websites will get more visitors than if they call them what they...

Opening: Associate Dean for Library and Information Services, University of San Diego School of Law Library

Posted on June 11, 2008
The University of San Diego School of Law invites applications and nominations for the position of Associate Dean, Library and Information Services. This is a faculty tenure / tenure track position reporting directly to the law school dean. Responsibilities: Duties...

User 927, a Play Inspired by a Real-Life Online Search Log

Posted on June 11, 2008
User 927 opened on June 6th at the St. Stephen's Theatre in Philadelphia. CNN claims it is the world's first play based on a search log and it probably is but I wouldn't put it past some LIS students to...

Tracking Net Neutrality Bills in Congress

Posted on June 10, 2008
The Congress Gossip Blog (OpenCongress) predicts that one of the following three Net Neutrality bills will probably be voted on before the current session of Congress ends. The three bills represent three very different ways of enacting net neutrality protections...

Online 50-State Open Government Guide

Posted on June 10, 2008
Published by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, The Open Government Guide is a online compendium of information on every state's open records and open meetings laws. Each state's section is arranged according to a standard outline, making...

Professional Reading: A Brief Historiography of Judicial Review

Posted on June 10, 2008
Mary Sarah Bilder, (Boston College Law School) has deposited Idea or Practice: A Brief Historiography of Judicial Review (forthcoming, 20 Journal of Policy History, 6 (2008)) in NELLCO. Here's the abstract for this very interesting article: Judicial review may be...

New ABA Books

Posted on June 10, 2008
Disability Discrimination Law, Evidence and Testimony: A Comprehensive Reference Manual for Lawyers, Judges and Disability Professionals by John W. Parry J.D. Description: Disability Discrimination Law, Evidence and Testimony explains and analyzes key aspects of disability discrimination law from several different...

Opening: Reference Librarian, Tarlton Law Library

Posted on June 10, 2008
The Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications and nominations for the position of reference librarian. Tarlton supports the scholarship and teaching activities of a faculty whose interests range across disciplines and whose research often...

Legal Scholarship Blog Survey

Posted on June 10, 2008
Launched in August 2007, the Legal Scholarship Blog would like to hear from you about how you use the blog and what improvements you would like to suggest. Please take the blog editors' survey. [RJ]

McAfee Identifies Most Dangerous Web Domains to Search and Surf

Posted on June 09, 2008
The second annual McAfee Mapping the Mal Web report (pdf) on the riskiest and safest places on the Web reveals that 19.2% of all Web sites ending in the ".hk" domain pose a security threat to Web users. China (.cn)...

Are You "LinkedIn"?

Posted on June 09, 2008
Previously on LLB, we reported that Abbie Mulvihill launched a Law Librarians LinkedIn Group. It now has over 120 members. Here's is a custom Google SE to search for LinkedIn groups and displayed below is a list illustrating the sorts...

Professional Reading: A Hard Day's Night: Hierarchy, History & Happiness in Legal Education

Posted on June 09, 2008
Michael L. Rustad (Suffork) and Thomas H. Koenig (Northeastern) have posted A Hard Day's Night: Hierarchy, History & Happiness in Legal Education, 58 Syracuse Law Review 261 (2008), in SSRN. Here's the abstract for this very interesting article: This Article...

Reaction to Lessig's Orphan Works Proposal

Posted on June 09, 2008
Check out Stanford law prof Larry Lessig's New York Times op-ed piece on Congress?s proposed solution for Orphan Works, H.R.5889, the Orphan Works Act of 2008 [Thomas Resources]. Criticial of the bill, Lessig offers an alternative. Public Knowledge's Gigi Sohn...

Opening: Associate Law Library Director, Southern Illinois University School of Law Library

Posted on June 09, 2008
The School of Law Library at Southern Illinois University is accepting applications for the position of Associate Law Library Director, a full time tenure-track library faculty position with the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor (Law Library)...

Vanity, Thy Name is SSRN Download Rankings

Posted on June 09, 2008
The New York Times' Noam Cohen on SSRN download rankings silliness: First came the Amazon book rankings, and word leaked out that perhaps some vaunted writers spent more time than you would think checking how popular they were, hour by...

Primers on the Energy Crisis of 2008

Posted on June 08, 2008
The price of crude oil has doubled over the past year, from $65 for a barrel in June 2007 to $130 a barrel now. With no end in sight, CNN and Fortune have recently published special reports on this energy...

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