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MySpace

Posted on May 07, 2007
Be careful what you post to MySpace.com. Stacy Snyder was denied an education degree and teaching certificate by Millersville University in Pennsylvania due to a picture of her drinking out of a yellow Mr. Goodbar cup, and wearing a pirates...

Botanical Biodiversity Research at FSU

Posted on May 07, 2007
Assisted by an NSF grant, FSU is leading a project to create high-resolution images of 100,000 plant specimens in the Deep South Plant Specimen Imaging Project. The East Gulf Coastal Plain, stretching from west of Gainesville to New Orleans and...

Stanford Center Advocates for Fair Use on Web

Posted on May 07, 2007
npr has an interesting podcast on the Stanford Center's Fair Use Project. You can listen to it here: Posted by Jon Lutz

Ten Great Apps for the Treo Mobile Lawyer

Posted on May 04, 2007
An interesting article on the Treo 700p is on www.law.com: Ten Great Apps for the Treo Mobile Lawyer by Richard M. Georges. Here is just one of the 10 great tips, number 4: If I absolutely have to look at...

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The Woman Who Would Be President

Posted on May 04, 2007
Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President by Jill Norgren Obscured in the historical shadow by her colleague, Susan B. Anthony, Belva Lockwood became the first woman ever allowed to practice at bar of the U. S. Supreme Court...

Strategies and Techniques of Law School Teaching

Posted on May 03, 2007
An interesting article had recently been posted to SSRN: Strategies and Techniques of Law School Teaching: A Primer for New Teachers by Howard Katz and Kevin O'Neill. Abstract: Much has been written about law school teaching. In our view, the...

Disability Harassment

Posted on May 02, 2007
"Building on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, Mark C. Weber frames his examination of disability harassment on the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial environment of...

Economics of Climate Change

Posted on May 01, 2007
In late 2006 Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the [U.K.] Government Economic Service issued a comprehensive review, "The Economics of Climate Change." Stern describes his conclusions as "essentially optimistic... if we act now and act internationally." The report, along with...

Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp

Posted on April 30, 2007
The US Supreme Court ruled on April 30 that Microsoft cannot be forced to pay for patent infringement which has occurred when copies of Windows are made or installed on computers abroad. Excerpt: It is the general rule under United...

Dolphin Safe Labeling

Posted on April 30, 2007
In an opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued April 27th, the court refused to allow a relaxed standard for the "dolphin safe" tuna label. This case concerns the practice of catching yellowfin tuna...

UN Opens Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for Signature

Posted on April 26, 2007
The United Nations opened the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on March 30, 2007. The Convention is the first new human rights instrument of the 21st century. See the video of the press conference here: http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/pressconference/pc070330...

A Guide to Mooting

Posted on April 25, 2007
The Art of Argument: A Guide to Mooting is for law students who want a step-by-step guide on how to ready themselves for an international mooting competition. However, the guidance Christopher Kee gives on "the process of developing, presenting and...

Lawyer Lingo

Posted on April 17, 2007
What a lawyer means by "fact", "conclusion" and "opinion" (via Language Log) Posted by Toni Urquhart

The Physical Basis of Moral Judgments

Posted on April 03, 2007
A recent study by Michael Koenigs, et al., Damage to the Prefrontal Cortex Increases Utilitarian Moral Judgments, published in the March 21, 2007 online version of Nature, demonstrates the effect of damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex on a person's...

Internet Research, Uncensored

Posted on April 02, 2007
Computer scientists use social networking to help foreign scholars bypass their governments' Web filters. From the March 23, 2007 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Read the article here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Email paranoia?

Posted on March 30, 2007
The U.S. attorney general doesn?t send e-mails?and he?s not alone. From government to business, many powerful people are choosing not to use email. President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, CEOs and others do...

The Economics of Organ Donation

Posted on March 30, 2007
The March 23, 2007, issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education has several articles on proposed solutions to the shortage of donor organs for transplantation. The use of "spare" kidneys from living donors has increased but is nowhere near meeting...

Where was the HMS Cornwall?

Posted on March 29, 2007
The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence has released the location of the HMS Cornwall at the time 15 of its Marines were detained by Iran: "...the merchant vessel was 7.5 nautical miles south east of the Al Faw Peninsula and...

Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (2007)

Posted on March 27, 2007
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has released its Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (2007). Abstract: The Foundation's two-year study of legal education involved a comprehensive look at teaching and learning in American and Canadian...

What makes a great reference librarian?

Posted on March 20, 2007
What makes a reference librarian great? Two things are crucial: the will, which is almost an obsession, to find the right answer, and a love of helping others find the materials they need. For insight into the minds of five...

Neuroscience and Criminal Responsibility

Posted on March 15, 2007
Criminal law assumes that actors are responsible for their actions except under strictly limited circumstances, but neuroscientists are challenging this view. "The Brain on the Stand" in the New York Times magazine discusses various implications of "neurolaw" for our legal...

Ethical Eye: Animal Welfare

Posted on February 28, 2007
Animal Welfare Just how much do animals suffer? Does legislation make a difference to animal welfare and do economic factors hinder its improvement ? The treatment of animals has long been a subject of debate, yet attitudes towards animal welfare...

The Rescue of Joshua Glover

Posted on February 27, 2007
The Rescue of Joshua Glover On March 11, 1854, the people of Wisconsin prevented agents of the federal government from carrying away the fugitive slave, Joshua Glover. Assembling in mass outside the Milwaukee courthouse, they demanded that the federal officers...

The State of Play: Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds

Posted on February 15, 2007
What are the legal implications of virtual worlds, such as Second Life? Jack M. Balkin and Beth Simone Noveck examine the changing face of virtual reality and the associated legal issues in The State of Play: Law, Games, and Virtual...

The State of the World's Children 2007

Posted on February 15, 2007
UNICEF has published The State of the World's Children 2007: The State of the World's Children 2007 examines the discrimination and disempowerment women face throughout their lives - and outlines what must be done to eliminate gender discrimination and empower...

Semantic tricks in the courtroom can confuse the reasonable person

Posted on February 14, 2007
Trials are conducted under a strict set of conversational rules that are well-known to attorneys and judges but can turn out to be a confusing mire of potential tricks for even that mythical reasonable person that many of our laws...

International Laws of War

Posted on February 09, 2007
On Kenneth Anderson's Law of War and Just War Theory Blog there is an interesting post on Bargain theory versus universalism in the law of war. Excerpt: - the basic condition of the law of war - is it a...

BIID

Posted on February 09, 2007
BIID or Body Integrity Identity Disorder is according to Wikipedia "the overwhelming desire to amputate one or more healthy limbs or other parts of the body." The Leiter Reports: A Group Blog has an interesting post on the philosophical and...

Search Engine for Legal Research Guides

Posted on February 02, 2007
Cornell Law Library has a new search engine which can locate online legal research guides by subject. Legal Research Engine searches for guides in approximately 20 different authoritative websites, many of them law library sites. The guides can be a....

The Threat of Open Access

Posted on January 26, 2007
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is the creation of a group of physicians and scientists who believe that scientific and medical research (much of which is publicly funded) should be freely available to the public. They publish several free...

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