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What's Your Google Reputation

Posted on November 15, 2007
Be careful what you post on the web. Having damaging information online might be a deal breaker when applying for a job. A recent report indicated that 83% of job recruiters used search engines to learn about job candidates, while...

Reporters without Borders

Posted on November 09, 2007
A recent press release from Reporters without Borders ranks countries for press freedom. Iceland scores the highest while Eritrea is last at 169th place. The US is in 48th place according to this report. Read the whole report here. Posted...

Trial Techniques in a Visual Culture

Posted on November 09, 2007
New York Law School has created the Visual Persuasion Project to explore the effect of "visual rhetoric" on the representation of legal issues and to train students in more effective advocacy using visual technologies. In the Neuroethics and Law blog,...

10 Ways a Lawyer Can Benefit from Working with a Professsional Coach

Posted on November 06, 2007
From the Blog Lawyer Information this post on how lawyers can benefit from having a professional coach. Here's an excerpt: Coaching is a collaborative process that is focused and results oriented. A Professional Coach can help lawyers overcome challenges, increase...

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The Billable Hour

Posted on November 05, 2007
A small Boston law firm has banned the billable hour and refuses to take clients who want to pay by the hour. This is discussed in a recent Boston Globe article. An excerpt is below: But the Shepherd Law Group...

Training Law Students for Real-Life Careers

Posted on November 02, 2007
A recent New York Time's article discusses curriculum reform in Law Schools. Here's a quote from the article: For years, law students have focused on judicial opinions, explaining why a case was decided in a particular way. But many lawyers...

Knights Templar Exonerated

Posted on October 25, 2007
A press conference is planned for today in Vatican City to introduce the newly published Processus Contra Templarios, an exclusive facsimile edition of the Chinon Parchment, dated August 17-20, 1308. "Misfiled" in the Vatican Secret Archives for over 700 years...

Play Ball!

Posted on October 23, 2007
As the Rocks & Sox gear up for the 2007 World Series this week, our hearts and minds turn to baseball. For books to answer all of your questions regarding baseball and the law, browse the Research Center's collection at...

Path to Legal Academia

Posted on October 22, 2007
This is a good review of a Harvard lunch time presentation by Prof. Daryl Levinson to students interested in entering legal academia. An excerpt: Instead of fancy grades, clerkships, and practical experience, the modern credential of choice for law school...

Magic and the Law

Posted on October 03, 2007
Can magicians keep others from replicating a trick or illusion that they've developed? Or keep others from divulging the secrets behind the illusion that make it marketable? Magicians have an uneasy relationship with Intellectual Property Law. Copyright Law can protect...

Virtue Jurisprudence

Posted on September 26, 2007
A new book titled Virtue Jurisprudence by Colin Farrelly and Lawrence Solum has just been published. Here's the publisher's description: In moral theory, virtue ethics offers a third way - an alternative to the deontological and consequentialist approaches that dominated...

"Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal"

Posted on September 20, 2007
Author and "beyond organic" farming educator Joel Salatin recently visited North Florida, sparking local interest in his newly published book "Everything I Want to Do is Illegal." Expanding on his 2003 article in Acres (the national journal of sustainable agriculture),...

Blackwater USA - Legal Status

Posted on September 19, 2007
The legal status in Iraq of security firms such as Blackwater is an interesting question. The laws of the US probably don't apply, since they are not members of the military military laws don't apply and due to Order #17...

California bans mandatory RFID implants of employees

Posted on September 18, 2007
California has banned employers from mandating RFID implants in their employees. Read the bill here. Read a good overview of the issue here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Is There Anything Good About Men?

Posted on September 06, 2007
This is the title of a thought-provoking address given at the American Psychological Association by FSU's own Dr. Roy Baumeister. Dr. Baumeister focuses on how culture exploits men and women in different ways, and how this influences behavior. (He also...

Lawsuit filed by Human Rights USA against Yahoo - Jailed Chinese Journalist joins lawsuit

Posted on August 31, 2007
In April of 2007 the World Organization for Human Rights USA filed a law suit against Yahoo for complicity in sharing identification information of internet users with Chinese authorities. Two Chinese journalists are serving 10 year prison sentences for publishing...

NYPD's Report on Terror

Posted on August 17, 2007
Time.com's article on Homegrown Terror notes that "the most sophisticated government analysis of the homegrown terrorism threat to be made public in the United States came out this week, and it didn't come from Washington ? not from the FBI,...

Law Professor Blogger Census 2007

Posted on August 01, 2007
Daniel Solove on Concurring Opinions has posted his now annual Law Professor Blogger Census. This census reports on how many law professor bloggers there are, their breakdown by gender, which schools have the most bloggers, what proportion of bloggers are...

American Legal Ethics Library

Posted on July 12, 2007
Cornell's Law School's Legal Information Institute has created a digital library containing the codes or rules setting standards for the professional conduct of lawyers. It also includes commentary on the law governing lawyers. It is organized on a state to...

Foxes, Hedgehogs, and the Legal Academy

Posted on July 11, 2007
There is an interesting blog post by Lawrence Solum in the Legal Theory Blog titled Foxes, Hedgehogs, and the Legal Academy. The thread was started by Belle Lettre on whether, for an academic career, it's better to be a fox...

College and University Ranking Systems

Posted on July 10, 2007
The Institute for Higher Education Policy has published a report: College and University Ranking Systems: Global Perspectives and American Challenges. Supported by Lumina Foundation for Education, this new report by the Institute for Higher Education Policy highlights the ongoing global...

Law Schools also Ranked by Blogs Now

Posted on June 29, 2007
In the Wall Street Journal Online there is an interesting article Law Schools also Ranked by Blogs Now by Amir Efrati. The article discusses alternatives to the U.S. News & World Reports law school rankings. Posted by Jon Lutz

Law Schools Unlikely to Boycott Magazine Rankings

Posted on June 28, 2007
The New York Times in the recently published article Some Colleges to Drop Out of U.S. News Rankings reported that dozens of liberal arts schools are no longer participating in the U.S. News and World Report college rankings. The commitment,...

The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority

Posted on June 27, 2007
An interesting article, The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority by Michael Jensen, is in the June 15th, 2007 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. The article discusses the impact of the Web 3.0 standard on academic publishing. It's available...

Court Protects Email from Secret Government Searches

Posted on June 19, 2007
Over the last 20 years, the government has routinely used the federal Stored Communications Act (SCA) to secretly obtain stored email from email service providers without a warrant. But a ruling yesterday found that the SCA violates the Fourth Amendment...

Trafficking in Persons Report 2007

Posted on June 13, 2007
Trafficking in persons is a modern-day form of slavery, a new type of global slave trade. Perpetrators prey on the most weak among us, primarily women and children, for profit and gain. They lure victims into involuntary servitude and sexual...

Legal Digital Audio Content

Posted on June 08, 2007
AudioCaseFiles describes itself as the leader in AudioCaseFiles. From their website: AudioCaseFiles provides law school students with digital audio recordings of the legal opinions they read to learn the law (patent pending). The company was founded on the principle that...

Tracking Immigration Enforcement

Posted on May 29, 2007
With Congress making new efforts to pass comprehensive immigration reform, researchers have raised questions about the enforcement of the existing law. The TRAC (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse) Immigration Project has analyzed records and produced reports on many aspects of enforcement...

The One-Stop Animal Law Shop

Posted on May 10, 2007
Kudos to the Michigan State University College of Law! They've created a terrific Website dedicated to current and historical Animal Law, both in the United States and around the world. Federal and state statutes, and over 700 full-text cases are...

Obstacles to Career Advancement for Women Lawyers

Posted on May 08, 2007
A study by the MIT Workplace Center of the career paths of women lawyers in large Massachusetts firms 2001-2005 indicates that family responsibilities still form a major obstacle to advancement. While firms may not hesitate to hire women, the time...

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