Legal Research

Just Released, Zakaria's The Post-American World

Posted on May 05, 2008
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria List Price: $25.95 Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton (May 5, 2008) ISBN-10: 039306235X ISBN-13: 978-0393062359 Book Description: One of our most distinguished thinkers argues that the "rise of the rest" is the...

Books better than Movies, I Don't Think So

Posted on May 05, 2008
EW has produced yet another list for the modern generation of listers of 23 movie adaptations that fall short of their book origins. I dare say that most movies fall short of their book counterparts but as a librarian I...

Active US Hate Groups Rise to 888 in 2007, a 48% Increase Since 2000

Posted on May 04, 2008
According to Southern Poverty Law Center, the number of hate groups operating in the United States has grown to 888. That's a 5 percent increase since last year and a staggering 48 percent increase since 2000. The increase has been...

Saddam And Terrorism: Emerging Insights From Captured Iraqi Documents

Posted on May 04, 2008
From the Internet Archive: "Comprehensive military study of Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism. The report was prepared by Kevin M. Woods and James Lacey "under the Iraqi Perspectives sub task of the Joint Advanced Warfighting Program (JAWP) task order for...

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UNHCR and Google Earth Unveil Program for Humanitarian Operations

Posted on May 03, 2008
From the press release: "Representatives of the UN refugee agency and Google on Tuesday unveiled a powerful new online mapping programme that provides an up-close and multifaceted view of some of the world's major displacement crises and the humanitarian efforts...

Lincoln and his Circle

Posted on May 03, 2008
Digital Collection from the University of Rochester Libraries: "The project seeks to digitize and make available the letters to, from, and about Abraham Lincoln that are held in the collections of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at...

Deal Struck to Reinstate Pakistan Judges

Posted on May 03, 2008
The Washington Post is reporting that the coalition government of Pakistan has agreed to reinstate the country's chief justice and 60 other judges through a parliamentary resolution scheduled for May 12, 2008. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani is expected to...

Friday Fun: Law School Men of Genius

Posted on May 02, 2008
This video, a production of the Illinois Law Revue, highlights the unsung contributions of law school administrators. Hat tip to Cincinnati Law's own real law school man of genius, Paul Caron (Associate Dean of Faculty), TaxProf Blog. [JH]

Fair Use Blog Used in Legal Writing Class

Posted on May 02, 2008
The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles a blog created by Peter Friedman to supplement his legal writing class at Case Western. Check out What Is Fair Use?, an interesting topical blog for a legal writing course. Hat tip to Adjunct...

Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society

Posted on May 02, 2008
Well worth reading. Make no mistake: this is no run-of-the-mill exposé of media bias, but a sophisticated analysis of the ways and means by which lies and distortions do so well in today's fractured, cynical media world. ?Todd Gitlin, Professor...

Seven Tips for Making the Most of Your RSS Reader

Posted on May 02, 2008
Great article by Marshall Kirkpatrick from ReadWriteWeb: "RSS is a big deal, as anyone who's subscribed to even a few feeds probably knows. Once you get past just a few feeds, though, it can quickly get overwhelming. RSS can leave...

New Research Shows Teachers, Like Students, Are Re-segregating

Posted on May 02, 2008
In Desegregating Teachers (SSRN), Wendy Parker (Wake Forest) reports that based on the results of her empirical study of 157 school districts, public schools are more segregated than is commonly recognized. From the abstract of her article: [T]his Article uncovers...

Pace Law School Receives $1 Million Grant for ADR Center on Environmental Interest Disputes

Posted on May 02, 2008
From the press release: "The Pace University School of Law ... announced establishment of the Kheel Center on Resolution of Environmental Interest Disputes. The Center will provide educational programs for law students and lawyers in the techniques of discovery, fact-finding...

ABA's SafeBorrowing.com

Posted on May 02, 2008
From the site: "Consumer credit can be complicated. From the unusual legal terms to the complex mathematical formulas, understanding how credit works can be a big task. The Committee on Consumer Financial Services of the Section on Business Law of...

Friday Fun: Wrapped Up in Books

Posted on May 02, 2008
A soothing video for you from Belle and Sebastian filmed in a library with a very bookish theme. Please enjoy and try not get distracted like I did thinking, "Who is going to re-shelve all those books?" [BB]

Human Rights Watch Releases Report Detailing Government Harassment of Chinese Lawyers

Posted on May 01, 2008
From the press release: The 142-page report, Walking on Thin Ice: Control, Intimidation and Harassment of Lawyers in China, details consistent patterns of abuses against legal practitioners. These include intimidation, harassment, suspension of professional licenses, disbarment, physical assaults, and even...

Professional Reading: Search Engines, Link Analysis, and User's Web Behavior

Posted on May 01, 2008
Search Engines, Link Analysis, and User's Web Behavior: A Unifying Web Mining Approach by George Meghabghab & Abraham Kandel List Price: $169.00 Hardcover: 341 pages Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (May 2008) ISBN-10: 3540774688 ISBN-13: 978-3540774686 Book Description: This book presents...

New Law & Public Policy Titles from MIT Press

Posted on May 01, 2008
Details below the fold. [JH] Antitrust Handbook of Antitrust Economics, edited by Paolo Buccirossi Current Affairs The Road to Democracy in Iran, by Akbar Ganji Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters, by Hans Blix The Epicenter of Crisis: The New Middle East,...

Parenthood and Productivity in Law Firms

Posted on May 01, 2008
In Parenthood and Productivity: A Study of Demands, Resources and Family-Friendly Firms, 72 J. Vocational Behavior 110 (Feb. 2008), sociologists Jean Wallace & Marisa Young (Calgary) find that childless female lawyers billed more hours than childless male lawyers (and male...

Investor and Industry Perspectives on Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers

Posted on May 01, 2008
New report from the RAND Corporation: "In theory, financial professionals are relatively distinct: A broker conducts transactions in securities on behalf of others; a dealer buys and sells securities for his or her own accounts; and an investment adviser provides...

Law Day USA at 50

Posted on May 01, 2008
Fifty years ago President Eisenhower proclaimed the first Law Day a "day of national dedication to the principle of government under law" [text] following up on a suggestion by ABA President Charles S. Rhyne. See The Original Creation and Future...

2007 Wiretap Report Released

Posted on May 01, 2008
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has released the 2007 Wiretap Report which reports that state and federal judges issued a total of 2,208 orders authorizing the interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications -- a 20% increase over...

Managing Web 2.0 Deployments for e-Discovery Compliance

Posted on April 30, 2008
Pretty much all digital information is vulnerable when it comes to e-discovery requests. That includes content stored in-house on servers and local drives, plus mobile devices. IT departments can readily deal with these discovery requests but what about Web 2...

Impact of CAFA Study Finds 72 Percent Increase in Class Actions

Posted on April 30, 2008
The Impact of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 on the Federal Courts, Fourth Interim Report to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules (April 2008) (pdf) found a 72 percent increase in class action cases for comparable...

Nussbaum's Liberty of Conscience

Posted on April 30, 2008
Nussbaum?s contribution is to show vividly how the equality tradition leads the court, and the rest of us, to ask the right questions. As she understands, this is what we can ask of the law. -- Emily Bazelon, Good Faith,...

EPA Publishes Annual National Greenhouse Gas Inventory

Posted on April 30, 2008
From the press release: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the national greenhouse gas inventory, which finds that overall emissions during 2006 decreased by 1.1 percent from the previous year. The report, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and...

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Posted on April 30, 2008
Reviews published in the April 21st, 2008 issue of InSITE: IANSA: International Action Network on Small Arms Secrecy News Small Arms Survey Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society UC Berkeley Library's Congressional Research Tutorials [RJ]

2008 Essential Reference Tools Surveys

Posted on April 30, 2008
Check out Diane Kovacs' on-going reference tool surveys, including surveys for Law and Government Documents, both hosted by SurveyMonkey. Kovacs is author of The Virtual Reference Handbook (2007)(Details below the fold). [JH]

Professional Reading: The Future of the Web

Posted on April 29, 2008
The theme of the January 2008 issue of ERCIM News is the future of the web. You can download the entire issue (pdf) or view most of the articles online from links provided on the TOC page. In general, the...

The Am Law 100 Free Webinar Today at 3pm ET

Posted on April 29, 2008
American Lawyer Magazine is presenting a free webinar on the forthcoming annual edition of the Am Law 100. Aric Press, Editor-in-Chief, American Lawyer, will be the featured speaker. The Numbers and What?s Behind Them Registration Page Date: Tuesday, April 29th...

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