Legal Research

Friday Fun: How Not To Conduct a Reference Interview

Posted on February 08, 2008
Six MLIS students created this puppet show to illustrate what not to do at a reference interview. [JH]

The Leading Public Policy Research Organizations in the World, 2007

Posted on February 08, 2008
From the Foreign Policy Research Institute: "Gone are the days when a think tank could operate with the motto ?research it, write it and they will find it?. Today, think tanks must be lean, mean, policy machines. The report that...

Maloy's America's Supreme Court: An Unfinished Symphony

Posted on February 08, 2008
America's Supreme Court: An Unfinished Symphony by Richard, H.W. Maloy List Price: $39.95 Paperback: 262 pages Publisher: Vandeplas Publishing; 1st edition (2007) ISBN-10: 1600420230 ISBN-13: 978-1600420238 Product Description: In Professor Maloy s latest book, America s Supreme Court: An Unfinished...

Investor and Industry Perspectives on Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers

Posted on February 08, 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...

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My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven

Posted on February 08, 2008
From the Library of Congress Blog: "If you?re reading this, then chances are you already know about Web 2.0. Even if you don?t know the term itself, you?re one of millions worldwide who are actively creating, sharing or benefiting from...

Professional Reading: The Next Frontier for Network Neutrality

Posted on February 07, 2008
Paul Weiser's (Colorado) The Next Frontier for Network Neutrality, 60 Administrative Law Review __ (2008)(forthcoming) is available from SSRN. Here's the abstract: The challenge for policymakers evaluating calls to institute some form of network neutrality regulation is to bring reasoned...

AALL Scholarship Applications Due April 1

Posted on February 07, 2008
Visit the AALL Scholarships page on AALLNET for complete information, instructions, and applications. General Educational Scholarships, supported by AALL and the LexisNexis John R. Johnson Memorial Scholarship Fund: Graduate Library School Scholarships, for students with JD degrees or for students...

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Posted on February 07, 2008
Reviews published in the January 28, 2008 issue of InSITE: BlackBoxVoting.org Blawg Search ELS Bibliography IRC: International Rescue Committee RJ&L Religious Liberty Archive [RJ]

Universal Affordable Broadband for All Americans

Posted on February 07, 2008
Report from the Benton Foundation: "Benton Foundation releases Universal Affordable Broadband for All Americans, a report and roadmap for making broadband access as universal as telephones are today. The report calls for an aggressive new approach, a national broadband strategy,...

What if the Machine Stopped

Posted on February 07, 2008
Recently a major undersea cable failure in the Mediterranean brought down Internet services in much of Asia, the Middle East and northern Africa. What if the failure was permanent? Would civilization as we know it come to a grinding halt...

USLaw Launches Blog Directory and Search Engine

Posted on February 06, 2008
USLaw.com tracks 1,000-plus law blogs including over 40 that cover law libraries and legal research. Check out the Law Blog Directory. [JH]

The Google Generation and Emerging Web Behavior

Posted on February 06, 2008
More on the "Google generation" from Pandia Search Engine News: "Internet technology develops at a dizzying speed. Insight into new and emerging Web behavior is crucial in order to make sense of the latest developments and contribute to the development...

A Pocket Guide to the Classified Information Procedures Act

Posted on February 06, 2008
Keeping Government Secrets: A Pocket Guide for Judges on the State-Secrets Privilege, the Classified Information Procedures Act, and Court Security Officers is available from the Federal Judicial Center: "Most federal judges come into contact with classified information infrequently, if at...

New Cambridge UP Press Titles in Law

Posted on February 06, 2008
Regulating Vice Jim Leitzel Regulating Vice provides a new, interdisciplinary lens for examining vice policy. Common Law Theory Douglas E. Edlin Experts analyze the common law through three of its classic themes: rules, reasoning, and constitutionalism...

Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

Posted on February 06, 2008
From the press release: "Racial and ethnic minorities tend to receive lower-quality health care than whites do, even when insurance status, income, age, and severity of conditions are comparable, says a new report from the National Academies' Institute of Medicine...

President's Budget of the U. S. Government, FY 2009

Posted on February 06, 2008
New from GPO: "Issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a...

Bringing Trials to your Desktop

Posted on February 05, 2008
Here's something not typically seen in most library budgets today, but may become the line-item of the future. CourtroomLive is a new product that provides live and on-demand video coverage of noteworthy trails, directly to your computer. From the homepage:...

What's Wrong With an Objective Bar Passage Standard for Law School Accreditation?

Posted on February 05, 2008
Check out Gary Rosin's (South Texas) Reports and Comments on Proposed ABA Interpretation 301-6 on SSRN. Here's the abstract: The ABA Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar has proposed to add Interpretation 301-6 of its Standards and...

Endorsements 2008

Posted on February 05, 2008
The Hill's Endorsements '08 is a running tally of members of the US Senate and House of Representatives who have publicly committed to 2008 presidential hopefuls -- Obama, Clinton, Romney, McCann, Huckabee and Paul. Wonder how much this list will...

Some Evidence for the Assimilation of Blogs into the Structure of Legal Literature

Posted on February 05, 2008
Why Cite to Blogs? There are a number of reasons to cite to blogs. Ones usually identified are factual assertions, crediting/criticizing ideas, and using a blog post as supporting authority but one largely overlooked reason is the role blogs play...

Professional Reading: Judicial Elections and the Making of American Tort Law

Posted on February 05, 2008
Check out Jed H. Shugerman (Harvard Law School) interesting Fear, Filters, and Fidelity: Judicial Elections and the Making of American Tort Law (NELLCO). Here's the abstract: The received wisdom is that American judges rejected strict liability through the nineteenth and...

New Companion Website to Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law

Posted on February 05, 2008
The Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, a peer-evaluated, faculty-student journal published semi-annually by The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law has launched an online companion website, OSJCL Amici: Views From the Field. Hosting timely commentaries from crim law...

Democracy Charade Undermines Human Rights

Posted on February 05, 2008
In its World Report 2008 [PDF | Website], Human Rights Watch argues that established democracies are accepting flawed election results for political expediency, placing human rights at risk worldwide. "By allowing autocrats to pose as democrats, without demanding they uphold...

2008 Index of Economic Freedom

Posted on February 05, 2008
From the press release: "The economies of North and South America earned an average economic freedom score of 61.6, slightly ahead of the world average (60.3), according to the 2008 "Index of Economic Freedom," published annually by The Wall Street...

Beware Kentucky Librarians

Posted on February 05, 2008
Kentucky librarians save the day with quick thinking and aggressive confrontations in this entertaining sentencing case from the Sixth Circuit. While the opinion's author seems to be quite taken with the fact that the bed sheet used by the would-be...

Shenon's The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation

Posted on February 04, 2008
According to Philip Shenon, New York Times reporter and author of The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, Philip Zelikow, the September 11 commission's executive director, sought to intimidate staff to avoid damaging findings for President Bush...

Global E-Government Survey 2008

Posted on February 04, 2008
From E-Government to Connected Governance "The UN E-Government Survey 2008: From E-Government to Connected Governance assesses the e-government readiness of the 192 Member States of the UN according to a quantitative composite index of e-readiness based on website assessment, telecommunication...

LC Report Urges Libraries to Update Cataloging Strategies

Posted on February 04, 2008
Interesting article from the Chronicle: "Libraries need to share records more with one another, make greater use of the Web, and bring more attention to their special collections, according to a report released this month by the Library of Congress.....

Suffolk Law School Unveils iTunes U

Posted on February 04, 2008
According to the press release, the Suffolk University Law School iTunes U site includes podcasts on how to write a legal memorandum and mp3 files of Dean of Admissions Gail Ellis responding to the most frequently asked questions of prospective...

Report to Congress on Stalking and Domestic Violence, 2005 Through 2006

Posted on February 04, 2008
From the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women: "The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA), Pub. L. No.106-386, requires that ?The Attorney General shall submit to Congress an annual report, beginning one year after the date...

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