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Prison Libraries and the Question of Violent Books

Posted on November 18, 2010
From American Libraries:Following speculation about the contents of the prison reading list of now-convicted murderer Steven Hayes, Connecticut State Senator John Kissel (R-Enfield) hopes that prison libraries will no longer carry any books containing violent imagery...

Kentucky Bar Association Proposes Regulations for Attorney Communication on Facebook, MySpace

Posted on November 17, 2010
The Kentucky Bar Association has proposed regulations that would bring attorney communication on Facebook and MySpace within the bar association's advertising rules. See Law.com and the Louisville Courier-Journal.

The Case of the Honeymoon Killer

Posted on November 16, 2010
The Law Library of Congress has published a blog entry about the case of an American man who pled guilty to manslaughter in Australia for killing his wife on their honeymoon. Following his 18-month prison term, the state of Alabama is now seeking to extradite him and indict him for murder...

UK Legislation

Posted on November 15, 2010
The freely available site legislation.gov.uk, maintained by the UK National Archives, is the new official home for UK legislation. The site will eventually merge the content currently available in The UK Statute Law Database and the Office of Public Sector Information website...

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Wikipedia Public Policy Entries

Posted on November 12, 2010
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Wikipedia is collaborating with nine universities to increase the number of its articles on public policy issues. Public policy professors will have students contribute new articles and edit existing ones as part of their coursework...

Veterans History Project

Posted on November 11, 2010
Established ten years ago by Public Law 106-380, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress maintains the Veterans History Project, aimed at documenting the history of U.S. war veterans. The project website includes audio and video interviews, written memoirs, letters, diaries, and photographs...

WestlawNext and Bluebook

Posted on November 10, 2010
Note: WestlawNext's Copy with Reference (Standard) feature does not yield Bluebook citation form 100% of the time (at least for now). Consult the Bluebook to verify.From: Barco 2.0

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Posted on November 09, 2010
Looking for a good source of criminal justice statistics? See the Bureau of Justice Statistics for information organized by topics like crime type, corrections, victims, courts and sentencing, employment and expenditure, and law enforcement. The Bureau is a component of the Office of Justice Programs in the U...

Public Records Requests and Public Law School Clinics

Posted on November 08, 2010
A New Jersey appellate court recently released an opinion regarding the extent to which state public records law compelled Rutgers-Newark's environmental law clinic to disclose its records. The Chronicle of Higher Education has a story about the case...

NALP Findings on Law Firm Demographics

Posted on November 05, 2010
The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) recently released findings on law firm demographics showing that overall women and minority representation at law firms declined between 2009 and 2010. There was a slight increase in the percentage of women and minority partners while the percentage of women and minority associates slightly declined for the first time since NALP began compiling

Congressional Timeline

Posted on November 04, 2010
The non-profit, non-partisan Dirksen Center has created an interactive Congressional Timeline covering the 73rd (March 9, 1933) Congress through the 111th (March 10, 2009). The timeline includes descriptions of major legislation enacted as well as historical photographs...

A New Search Engine

Posted on November 03, 2010
On Monday, the startup Blekko released a beta version of a new search engine designed to filter out spam and untrustworthy sites from searches. Users can search within "slashtags" created by Blekko for information on various topics such as baseball, botany, and Buddhism...

Video Games and the First Amendment

Posted on November 02, 2010
On the day many Americans are exercising their right to vote, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument on an interesting First Amendment case. The case involves a challenge to the constitutionality of a California law prohibiting the sale or rental of violent video games to minors...

The Mindful Lawyer

Posted on November 01, 2010
Over the weekend a group of lawyers, judges, law professors, law students, and others gathered at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law for a conference entitled "The Mindful Lawyer: Practices & Prospects for Law School, Bench, and Bar." According to organizers, this was the first national conference exploring the integration of meditation and contemplative practices with legal

Texas Supreme Court Quotes Mr. Spock

Posted on October 29, 2010
Wired reports that the Texas Supreme Court made a Star Trek reference in a recent opinion. See footnote 21.From: LISNews

Legal Reference Apps

Posted on October 28, 2010
The Law Pod dot Org is offering legal reference apps for iPhone and Blackberry users. Offerings include basic versions of the federal rules of civil procedure, criminal procedure, appellate procedure, evidence, and bankruptcy, in addition to the U.S. Constitution...

Information About Amazon.com Buyers Protected

Posted on October 27, 2010
A federal judge in Seattle recently ruled that Amazon was not required to provide identifying information about online buyers and their purchases to North Carolina tax authorities seeking to collect sales and use tax. The judge based her ruling on the First Amendment...

Supreme Court Audio Recordings

Posted on October 26, 2010
Starting with its October 2010 term, the U.S. Supreme Court has begun releasing audio recordings of oral arguments at the end of each week in which arguments are held. This practice is a break from the past when audio recordings were typically unavailable until the start of the next term...

Selling Class Notes in California

Posted on October 25, 2010
NoteUtopia has been ordered to "cease and desist" by the California State University chancellor's office. The office says that the company is violating state education codes that prohibit students from selling their class notes. (Read the Sacramento Bee article)...

Belgian Parachute Tampering Case

Posted on October 22, 2010
A strange, and sad case of jealousy.

Digital Casebooks on SSRN

Posted on October 20, 2010
University of North Dakota law professor Eric Johnson has created a free, downloadable torts casebook available as a pdf on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). The casebook is basic, consisting solely of edited cases in the areas of negligence and liability related to health care...

THOMAS State Legislature Page

Posted on October 04, 2010
The folks at Law Library of Congress have added a State Legislature Page to the resources available at THOMAS. This new page displays a map with links to the legislative bodies for all fifty states, Washington, DC, and U.S. territories. This interactive map directs users to available legislative history resources at the state level...

Google Instant

Posted on October 01, 2010
Have you noticed a change this month when you put search terms into Google? Google recently changed its default search on its search engine to "Google Instant" for most web browsers. The key feature of Google Instant is its "predictive searching." Google tries to predict what you are searching for as you type in your terms...

Digital Casebooks at Harvard

Posted on September 29, 2010
Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain and his team at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society have been working to create an online casebook that is ?free, remixable and that can be used not just for a specific class, but for instructors anywhere...

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