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AALL Online Course on Web 2.0 Technologies

Posted on June 02, 2008
AALL's Computing Services SIS is offering a free online course to introduce law librarians to social software and how to use it in their libraries. Called "The Web 2.0 Challenge," the online course will take place between July 21 and...

Posner on How Judges Think

Posted on June 02, 2008
Posner Sees Need for More "Candid" U.S. Supreme Court Podcast from Bloomberg.com: "U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene from Chicago about his new book, How Judges Think, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the impact of ethanol...

New Free Podcast Series Offers Advice on Transitioning from Law School to Legal Work

Posted on June 02, 2008
Transitioning from One-L to Summer Legal Work is a series of 19 podcasts each by a different legal writing professor. The series was produced by Suffolk University Law School's Professors Gabriel Teninbaum and Kathleen Elliott Vinson. The title is a....

Professional Reading: Fair Circumvention Exceptions to the DMCA

Posted on June 02, 2008
Timothy Armstrong (Cincinnati) has posted Fair Circumvention in SSRN. Here's the abstract: Judicial decisions construing the key liability provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 1201, cluster around two incompatible poles...

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Opening: Reference Librarian, Yale Law Library

Posted on June 02, 2008
This position is a two year term appointment General Purpose: The Reference Librarian at the Lillian Goldman Law Library is responsible for significant public services tasks in a dynamic and challenging environment. The Law Library serves the faculty and students...

RSVP for AALL's Third Annual Bloggers Get Together by July 1st

Posted on June 02, 2008
It's time to mark your calendars for the AALL's Third Annual Bloggers Get Together! Time: 5-6 p.m. (We have a space at 4 p.m. if you would like to come early!) Date: Sunday, July 13th Place: The Green Dragon on...

Former Bush Press Secretary Cashes In with New Tell-All Book

Posted on June 01, 2008
Sampling of Press Coverage Politico New York Times Washington Post CNN Editor & Publisher History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided: that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder. No one, including me,...

Rethinking Counterinsurgency

Posted on June 01, 2008
New RAND Counterinsurgency Study ? Volume 5: "During the period of decolonization in Asia and Africa, the United Kingdom faced more insurgent activity than any other Western power. British government officials and military forces proved proficient at defeating or controlling...

How Ethanol Fuels the Food Crisis

Posted on May 31, 2008
Food prices are rising rapidly across the globe, threatening many of the world's poor with starvation. In this update to their May/June 2007 Foreign Affairs article, How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor, C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer argue that...

2007 Wiretap Report

Posted on May 31, 2008
New report from the U.S. Courts: "A total of 2,208 intercepts authorized by federal and state courts were completed in 2007, an increase of 20 percent compared to the number terminated in 2006. The number of applications for orders by...

Friday Fun: When the Judge says "Blow"

Posted on May 30, 2008
A judge considers holding a defense lawyer in contempt of court for being late (note his explanations and the judge's examination of them), orders a blood-alcohol test for for him because he was slurring his words, and then declares a...

Criminal Law Conversations Project

Posted on May 30, 2008
From the Cornell Law School press release: Professor Stephen P. Garvey of Cornell Law School, along with Paul Robinson of Pennsylvania Law School and Kimberly Ferzan, professor and associate dean at Rutgers School of Law-Camden, are the guiding professors in...

National Archives Creates Plan for Online Access to Founding Fathers Papers

Posted on May 30, 2008
From the press release: "Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein submitted a report, entitled The Founders Online, to the Committees on Appropriations of the U.S. Congress. This report is the National Archives response to concerns raised by the Committees...

ABA Announces 2008 Gavel Awards

Posted on May 30, 2008
The purpose of the Gavel Awards is to recognize annually eligible entries from communications media that have been exemplary in helping to foster the American public's understanding of the law and the legal system. This year's winners by category: Books:...

Best Sites for Identifying Search Engines

Posted on May 30, 2008
In Top 3 Sites for Researching Search Engines Pandia Search World profiles The Search Race, The Search Engine List, and Wikipedia's List of Search Engines. [RJ]

Opening: Reference Librarian, Southern Illinois University School of Law Library

Posted on May 30, 2008
The School of Law Library at Southern Illinois University is accepting applications for the position of Reference Librarian, a full time tenure-track library faculty position with the rank of Assistant Professor. The library staff includes six professional librarians and ten...

New CRS Report Provides Overview of the E-Government Reauthorization Act of 2007

Posted on May 30, 2008
Reauthorization of the E-Government Act: A Brief Overview (May 14, 2008)(pdf). [Thomas Resources for S. 2321]. Excerpted from the Report's summary: The occasion to consider reauthorization of the E-Government Act provides Congress the opportunity to assess the results of federal...

Science Explains Why Women Make Mountains Out of Molehills!

Posted on May 29, 2008
Read more about it at Opposite sex drives you crazy -- the causes on CNN. OK, I've been bad. The story also reports that men like chic flicks (aka romantic movies) more than they publicly admit (but not me). [JH]

Amnesty International's Report 2008: State of the World's Human Rights

Posted on May 29, 2008
From the press release: ?Injustice, inequality and impunity are the hallmarks of our world today. Governments must act now to close the yawning gap between promise and performance.? [Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, launching AI Report 2008: State...

Case Western's D.R. Jones to Head Univ. of Memphis Law Library

Posted on May 29, 2008
In August 2008, D.R. Jones will become the Associate Dean for Information Resources, Law Library Director and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. She is currently the Deputy Director of the...

New Study Ranks State High Courts

Posted on May 29, 2008
Stephen Choi (NYU), G. Mitu Gulati (Duke) and Eric Posner (Chicago) have posted Which States Have the Best (and Worst) High Courts? in SSRN. Here's the abstract: This paper ranks the high courts of the fifty states, based on their...

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Posted on May 29, 2008
Reviews published in the May 19th, 2008 issue of InSITE: Copyright Renewal Database Freedom of Information Clearinghouse Liberty & Justice for All: a Campaign of the Rights Working Group UNdata World Privacy Forum [RJ]

Opening: Associate Dean, Library and Information Services, USD Law Library

Posted on May 29, 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...

Mark Your Calendar for AALL's Continuing Education Programs

Posted on May 28, 2008
Don?t miss out on the following programs offered through Webinars and on AALLNET. Create Comprehensive Online Tutorials the Easy Way Webinar, June 4, 12-1 p.m. EDT, will highlight a comparison of several e-learning software packages. Perfect Program Proposals: A Webinar...

On the Role of Research Libraries in the Internet Age

Posted on May 28, 2008
In The Library in the New Age (New York Review of Books, June 12, 2008) Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard, argues that book digitization projects make university research libraries more...

Overview of State Legislation Related to Immigrants and Immigration

Posted on May 28, 2008
New report from the National Conference of State Legislatures: "This report provides a first look at introduced legislation in 2008 and presents selected examples of enacted laws relating to immigrants and refugees. This process of legislative tracking and reporting is...

On the Real-World Effects of the Web: O'Hara and Shadbolt's The Spy in the Coffee Machine

Posted on May 28, 2008
"Kieron O'Hara and Nigel Shadbolt have offered an engaging and thought provoking roadmap for the emerging field of Web Science. They crisply survey what lies ahead as the Web becomes ubiquitous, and they invite everyone -- not just academics and...

Opening: Director of Library and Information Services and Professor of Law, Drexel

Posted on May 28, 2008
The Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law, part of a dynamic, national research university, seeks applications for the position of Director of Library and Information Services and Professor of Law. The Director will be a tenured or tenure-track member...

Want to Make Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Your New Facebook Friend?

Posted on May 28, 2008
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has a Facebook profile (but no one knows who created it). Read more about it: New York Times and CNN. [JH]

Microsoft Shuts Down Live Search Book, Live Search Academic, and Its Digitization Projects

Posted on May 27, 2008
In a blog post dated May 23, Satya Nadella, Microsoft's Senior Vice President, Search, Portal and Advertising announced that the Company's Live Search Books and Live Search Academic sites would be taken down this week and that both projects were...

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