Legal Research

US News Numerical Ranking for Tier 3 and Tier 4 Law Schools

Posted on April 02, 2008
Check out Geoffrey Rapp's post on PrawfsBlawg: US News Hacked?: Does the US News Web Site Display 3rd Tier & 4th Tier Law Schools Ranked in Order? [JH]

Academic Freedom in the Age of Permanent Warfare

Posted on April 02, 2008
The Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center at New York University's Tamiment Library is sponsoring the Academic Freedom Conference. The Conference will be held on April 3-4, 2008. Details (pdf). [JH]

Law to Prevent Behavioral Advertising on the Internet?

Posted on April 02, 2008
Law.com has the story here: Ever wonder what happens to the data generated from all that Internet surfing and all those searches conducted through search engines such as Yahoo, Google and Ask.com? Is the data destroyed after logging off? Is...

Professional Reading: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0

Posted on April 01, 2008
Check out First Monday's March 2008 special issue on Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0. Each article, IMHO, deserves your thoughtful consideration. [JH] Preface: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 by Michael Zimmer Market Ideology and the Myths of Web 2...

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2008 CALI Conference: Call for Speakers

Posted on April 01, 2008
Among the many annual conferences, CALI's is my favorite. This year's conference theme is "Transforming Legal Education." CALI Executive Diretor John Mayer writes It is time to put the divisiveness of laptops in the classroom behind us. It is time...

Where Are the US News Top 30 Law Schools of 1996 Now?

Posted on April 01, 2008
If one is interested enough to get beyond the chatter about which law schools rose or fell a couple of places in the 2009 US News ranking, one might want to ask "where are the Top 10, or 20 (or...

KM Apps in Law Firms

Posted on April 01, 2008
Check out Judith Lamont's KM World article, KM for Legal Apps: Time is Money, for some practical uses law firms are making with knowledge management applications. Hat tip to Dennis Kennedy. [JH]

A Foolproof Guide for Aspiring Law Profs and Lateral Appointment Seekers

Posted on April 01, 2008
Joining the Workforce, Law School Style. The AALS Meat Market, the teleconference call, the airport interview, the day-long masquerade ball on site for applicants deemed worthy of consideration, these are the rituals of the legal academic hiring process that are...

Not Aging Gracefully?

Posted on April 01, 2008
Are we an aging profession? I don't have any demographics to prove it but it seems like we may be. Of course my eyesight and short-term memory are both shot so I might not be seeing or remembering our younger...

Opening: Freelance Bibliographer, BNA Books

Posted on April 01, 2008
BNA Books is looking for an editor to compile, in the next several months, a one-year update to the bibliography for the ABA/BNA treatise International Labor and Employment Laws, Volume I (by approximately June 1) and to prepare the bibliography...

Solove on the Contradictory Goals of Law School Rankings

Posted on April 01, 2008
Check out Dan Solove's (George Washington) US News law school rankings commentary on Concurring Opinions. Here's a snip from his post, The Contradictory Goals of Law School Rankings: If we step back from this year's frenzy, I believe that there's...

Section 108 Study Group Report

Posted on April 01, 2008
Peter Hirtle reports on the availability of the Section 108 Study Group Report, now available online: The final report of the Section 108 Study Group, on which I have been serving for three years, has been released. You will find...

April Fool's Prank on Law Professor Blogs Network

Posted on April 01, 2008
From ContractsProf Blog: The Law Professors Blog Network (LPBN) is suing bloggers Franklin G. Snyder and Keith A. Rowley for breach of contract in connection with their blogging activities on the Commercial Law blog. ... According to the complaint, although...

Uniform Laws Commission To Study Online Authentication of Legal Materials

Posted on March 31, 2008
AALL is reporting that the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) recently approved the new Study Committee on Online Authentication of Legal Materials to investigate the issues and discuss the feasibility of a uniform law or model...

Dennis Kennedy on Competitive Intelligence

Posted on March 31, 2008
Insightful article from ABA Journal by Dennis Kennedy: "Gathering information on your client isn?t spying, and do­ing research on yourself isn?t egotism?it?s good business practice. Clients increasingly look to lawyers who know their business and industry well, and a common...

POD Publishers Outraged by Amazon's New Restrictions

Posted on March 31, 2008
"Some Print on Demand (POD) publishers are privately screaming 'Monopoly!' while others are seething with rage over startling phone conversations they're having with Amazon/BookSurge representatives. Why isn't anybody talking about it openly? Because they're afraid - very, very afraid...

Patent Failure, Patent Reform Legislation

Posted on March 31, 2008
Bessen and Meurer's Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk (Princeton UP, 2008)(book details below the fold) "is a pioneering and heroic effort to quantify the ways in which our patent system has failed to live...

Google Books Releases New API

Posted on March 31, 2008
The new API, Books Viewability, gives web developers the ability, through a set of software protocols, to locate titles on Google Book Search and automatically embed links to those books on their own sites. Details. [JH]

Opening: Research and Instructional Services Librarian, Pritzker Legal Research Center

Posted on March 31, 2008
The Pritzker Legal Research Center of Northwestern University School of Law solicits applications from highly motivated individuals for the position of Research and Instructional Services Librarian. The successful applicant will join an energetic and experienced reference department that provides the...

Lincoln Presidential Library Suits Coming to an End

Posted on March 31, 2008
After years of arguments between the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois and building contractors concerning overruns on the $145 Million project a settlement has finally been reached. According to the Chicago Tribune the nations busiest Presidential Library was...

Law Schools Flipping Out Over Falling US News Rankings

Posted on March 31, 2008
Above the Law is reporting excerpts and in some instances the full text of emails sent by law school deans to their students about their ranking decline in this year's US News Law School ranking. The schools? Iowa, Minnesota, North...

A Quick Look at PatientsLikeMe

Posted on March 30, 2008
PatientsLikeMe is a website that permits patients diagnosed with life-changing disease to share medical data and learn more about treatments, drug doses, clinical trials and symptoms of a variety of diseases. The site is establishing data-sharing partnerships with doctors, pharmaceutical...

The New Middle East

Posted on March 30, 2008
New report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: "Confrontational U.S. policy that tried to create a ?New Middle East,? but ignored the realities of the region has instead exacerbated existing conflicts and created new problems, argues a new report...

NAFTA -- Myth vs. Facts

Posted on March 29, 2008
New Fact Sheet Office of the United States Trade Representative. [RJ]

Conducting Counterinsurgency Operations: Lessons from Iraq (2003-2006)

Posted on March 29, 2008
New report from the RAND Corporation: "This research brief examines U.S. counterinsurgency (COIN) operations in Iraq from 2003 to 2006, including U.S. failure to protect Iraqi civilians; discusses implications for future conflicts; and recommends steps to improve U...

Friday Fun: Help Prevent Legal Research Stress Toy Abuse

Posted on March 28, 2008
We'll end Spring Break month with this reminder from Westlaw. This is last chance for academic law librarians to drum some legal research principles and techniques into the heads of 3Ls before they are dumped into the laps of our...

Jarmon's List of Resources for Visual Learners

Posted on March 28, 2008
Many students have higher scores for visual learning than verbal learning when they take learning style assessments. Amy Jarmon (Texas Tech) provides a list of resources for visual learners on Law School Academic Support Blog. [JH]

OSU's Douglas Whaley Reflects on the Professional Side of a Teacher's Life

Posted on March 28, 2008
An interesting thought piece from retired OSU law prof Douglas J. Whaley: Teaching Law: Thoughts on Retirement, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 1387 (2007) [Westlaw]. From the introduction: In 1982, I published an article entitled Teaching Law: Advice for the New...

The Religion Clauses in the 21st Century: Symposium Papers

Posted on March 28, 2008
From the press release: "ACS and the West Virginia Law Review are pleased to announce that papers written for ?The Religion Clauses in the 21st Century? symposium held at the West Virginia University College of Law are now available. Video...

The Charms and Challenges of Wikipedia

Posted on March 28, 2008
Check out Nicholson Baker's review of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton [our post] in the March 20, 2008 issue of The New York Review of Books. Here's a snip from The Charms of Wikipedia: In his introduction, Broughton,...

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