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New Law Titles from Carolina Press

Posted on April 29, 2008
Details below the fold for the following new books from Carolina Press. [JH] Seed Wars: Controversies and Cases on Plant Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property by Keith Aoki The Origins of African-American Interests in International Law by Henry J...

CRS Report on Judicial Treatment of the Second Amendment

Posted on April 29, 2008
District of Columbia v. Heller: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment (April 11, 2008) (pdf) provides an overview of prior judicial treatment of the Second Amendment, with a focus on the litigation in Heller and the potential impact of...

12 Screencasting Tools For Creating Video Tutorials

Posted on April 29, 2008
Great resource from Mashable: Ever wondered how people show you so clearly what is happening on their computer? Thanks to screencasting software, anyone can do it. Try out one of these 12 tools. Hat tip to iLibrarian. [RJ]

EPA Seeks Comments: Help Improve Access to Environmental Information

Posted on April 28, 2008
From AALL's Washington Blawg: "What kinds of information do you look for from EPA and how do you use that information? What words do you use when you search for environmental information? How would you like to receive the information...

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National Law Journal's Employment Trends Study

Posted on April 28, 2008
The National Law Journal has published a special issue on employment trends, finding to no one's surprise that higher ranked law schools send more graduates to the NLJ Top 250 law firms. Chart of Placement of Graduates from the Top...

Just Released, Scalia and Garner on the Art of Persuading Judges

Posted on April 28, 2008
Justice Scalia and Bryan Garner decided to write Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges after Garner interviewed Scalia and seven other justices about legal writing and advocacy last year. See LLB's earlier post about the videos. [JH] Making....

Best Legal Website of 2008 Competition

Posted on April 28, 2008
Recent winners of the Best Legal Website Competition 2007: carbonhouse, inc. for Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice 2006: Thomson-FindLaw for Yanowitch Law, P.A. 2005: Frost Brown Todd LLC 2004: Saturno Design LLC for Pierce Atwood - Attorneys at Law 2003:...

How Knowledge is Reshaping the Economic Life of Nations

Posted on April 28, 2008
The Work Foundation has published The Knowledge Economy: How Knowledge is Reshaping the Economic Life of Nations. The report, part of the Foundation's three-year study that will conclude in April 2009, argues that the phenomenon of the knowledge economy is...

John Palfrey, New Associate Dean, Library and Information Resources at HLS

Posted on April 28, 2008
John Palfrey has been appointed Associate Dean, Library and Information Resources and a tenured professor of law at Harvard Law School. Bios here, here and here. John's name should ring a bell. He is Executive Director of the Berkman Center...

Will Lawyers Go the Way of Travel Agents?

Posted on April 28, 2008
Maybe not. But an article in Sunday's New York Times (4/27/08) about a new web site, JDSupra.com might put one in mind of what happened to lots of small travel agencies when consumers began booking their own travel online. The...

You Choose '08 YouTube Channel Launched by Google and C-Span

Posted on April 27, 2008
From the Google Blog: Our You Choose '08 platform now features content from candidates, news organizations, and voters, and we've made it easier than ever to see where the candidates stand on each of the major issues in this election....

Fast Start for Soft Money Groups in 2008 Election

Posted on April 27, 2008
New report from the Campaign Finance Institute: "Soft money groups in the 2008 election are off to a strong start. Federally-focused 527 political organizations raised money in 2007 at a faster clip than in the comparable off year before the...

Man gets out of jail with one-word blog

Posted on April 27, 2008
Interesting story from CNN: "With a one-word cell phone message, James Karl Buck, a University of California-Berkeley grad student, told friends of his arrest. Within seconds, colleagues in the U.S. and blogger-friends in Egypt were alerted, leading to his eventual...

SOP at Abu Ghraib?

Posted on April 27, 2008
Errol Morris' new documentary, Standard Operating Procedure, was released on April 25th [Errol Morris website | Sony film site]. The accompanying book will be released on May 18th (co-authored by Philip Gourevitch)[Amazon]. In the film, Morris examines the origin of...

Shortchanging America?s Health 2008

Posted on April 26, 2008
New report from Trust for America?s Health: "Trust for America?s Health (TFAH) released a new study that finds Midwestern states receive less funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) than other states. Midwestern states receive less...

Spotlight on 2007: RAND Europe Annual Review

Posted on April 26, 2008
New report from the RAND Corporation: RAND Europe?s Spotlight on 2007 is the first year-end review of its kind for the organisation. It features the work of each of RAND Europe?s established teams as well as our emerging areas, while...

Friday Fun: Project Law School

Posted on April 25, 2008
A parody of Project Runway from the Cardozo Law Revue 2008. [JH]

New Textbooks for Legal Research and Writing Courses

Posted on April 25, 2008
McKinney's Legal Research: A Practical Guide and Self-Instructional Workbook, 5th with 2008 Computer Assisted Legal Research Package By Scott Childs and Ruth A McKinney List Price: $52.00 Publisher: West Law School (American Casebook Series)(March 2008) ISBN: 031418502X Format: Softbound Book...

The Law and Politics Book Review's Fiction Issue

Posted on April 25, 2008
The Law and Politics Book Review has published a special issue devoted to fiction. The issue reviews twenty-two American, British, and European novels from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Including some unexpected novels, this is a good checklist for...

What Can You (Legally) Take From the Web?

Posted on April 25, 2008
Interesting post from IEEE Spectrum describing how copyright applies to bloggers and webmasters. Check it out! See also: Legal Consequences of Co-Blogging: "The decision to blog collaboratively can have significant legal consequences for the co-bloggers...

A Survey of University Cost Containment Practices

Posted on April 25, 2008
Cost Containment: A Survey of Current Practices at America?s State Colleges and Universities is a new report from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities: "Member institutions of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities are witnessing measurable...

The Web Development Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet

Posted on April 25, 2008
Check out Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sheets by VirtualHosting's Jessica Hupp. The list is broken down into the follow categories: General cheat sheet lists Client-side cheat sheet for CSS, HTML, etc. Server-Side cheat sheets for PHP, Python,...

Senate Passes Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

Posted on April 25, 2008
Yesterday, the Senate passed S. 358, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) [Thomas Resources], approving by unanimous consent an amended version of H.R. 493 [Thomas Resources], which passed the House April 25, 2007 by a vote of 420-3. The House...

NISO's A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding

Posted on April 24, 2008
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has issued SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (pdf) as part of its Recommended Practice series (NISO-RP-7-2008). The SERU document codifies best practices and offers publishers and librarians the opportunity to save both the...

Monitoring and Managing Corporate Reputations Online

Posted on April 24, 2008
Interesting post from Mashable: Andy Beal, co-author of Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online (book information below the fold) and CEO of online reputation monitoring tool Trackur, outlines ten tactics that could prevent your company suffering its own online...

Professional Reading: From Sovereignty to Jurisdiction in the Early Republic

Posted on April 24, 2008
Alison Lacroix (Chicago) has posted The New Wheel in the Federal Machine: From Sovereignty to Jurisdiction in the Early Republic in SSRN. Here's the abstract: The years between 1787 and 1802 witnessed a transformation in American federal theory: from the...

2008 Law School Summer Boot Camp for Students of Color

Posted on April 24, 2008
The Summer Boot Camp is an online distance learning program designed to provide that intense preparation for law students of color. The Boot Camp teachs students to study effectively for law school, introduces students to the writing, thinking and test-taking...

Supreme Court Inc.

Posted on April 24, 2008
Interesting article from the New York Times Magazine: "How the nation?s highest court became increasingly receptive to the arguments of American business." Check it out! [RJ]

Will Google Remain Evil?

Posted on April 23, 2008
Yes, if the Company gets its way at its annual shareholder meeting on May 8, 2008. Why? Because Google has recommended a no vote against a shareholder resolution for the creation of a board-level advisory committee on human rights. [the...

Directory of Online Canadian Federal Government Databases

Posted on April 23, 2008
The Directory of Online Canadian Federal Government Databases (2008) is the 4th edition of the bibliography of online Canadian federal government databases. This current edition lists 488 databases publicly accessible on Government of Canada Web sites...

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