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Short Introductions

Posted on January 25, 2007
Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction by Raymond Wacks This lively and accessible introduction to the social, moral, and cultural foundations of law takes a broad scope-- spanning philosophy, law, politics, and economics, and discussing a range of topics...

Key Role of Law Student - Faculty Interaction

Posted on January 19, 2007
"Engaging Legal Education: Moving Beyond the Status Quo," the 2006 report on the Law School Survey of Student Engagement is available on the LSSSE website. Among the report's findings: student-faculty interaction (including discussing ideas outside of class and getting prompt...

Client-Centered Legal Education

Posted on January 19, 2007
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has issued a report urging law schools to revise the curriculum to place more emphasis on working with clients and on social and ethical issues, according to an article in the January...

The Power, Possibilities, and Pitfalls for Law Professor Blogs

Posted on January 10, 2007
An interesting article, Scholarship in Action: The Power, Possibilities, and Pitfalls for Law Professor Blogs by Douglas A Berman has been posted to SSRN. Here's the abstract: At the heart of the debate over law blogs as legal scholarship are...

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Code: Version 2.0

Posted on January 09, 2007
Lawrence Lessig has updated his "minor classic" Code: Version 2.0. Here's a description from Amazon.com. The "alarming and impassioned"* book on how the Internet is redefining constitutional law, now reissued as the first popular book revised online by its readers...

The Kosher Phone

Posted on January 02, 2007
Is a kosher phone possible? Almost it would seem, that is, until a rather large company allegedly slipped up, or "went behind the rabbis' back and switched the texting functions back on." The Kosher Phone defined: "A so-called 'plain vanilla'...

Castles in the Air

Posted on December 20, 2006
With the burgeoning popularity of online roleplaying in the virtual societies of Second Life, Ultima, Entropia Universe, World of Warcraft and others, there is money to be made, and not just in Linden Dollars (the currency of Second Life). Where...

Fair Use Roundtable Discussion

Posted on December 18, 2006
The Library of Congress Section 108 Study Group will hold a roundtable discussion in Chicago on January 31, 2007. The discussion will focus on the exceptions and limitations applicable to libraries and archives under the Copyright Act. Posted by Faye...

eDiscovery Costs

Posted on December 18, 2006
Forrester Research predicts that eDiscovery technology spending will jump from $1.4 billion in 2006 to more than $4.8 billion in 2011. As enterprises struggle to create electronic discovery systems, the need for records management will create significant market growth...

Google Patent Search

Posted on December 18, 2006
Google has added a patent search. Try it here. Google patent search help is available here. And Google advanced patent search is here. Posted by Jon Lutz

The United Nations News Centre

Posted on December 15, 2006
Visit the UN News Centre at http://www.un.org/News/ for the latest UN statements and briefings, news conferences by the Secretary-General, and news by region. Be sure to check out News Focus, the latest news on a particular topic such as combating...

Electronic Discovery: Not So Scary?

Posted on December 13, 2006
While the concepts underlying the new FRCP electronic discovery rules are simple, they represent a fundamental, complicated change in the actual practice of discovery. Dennis Kennedy, a lawyer and expert on the application of technology in the practice of law,...

DOJ's New Charging Guidelines in Corporate Fraud Prosecutions

Posted on December 12, 2006
Paul J. McNulty, Deputy Attorney General, issued new charging guidelines in corporate fraud prosecutions today. Under the old guidelines (the "Thompson Memorandum"), a federal prosecutor, as part of assessing whether a corporation cooperated with a government investigation, could look at...

Battle Looms Over EPA Library Closure

Posted on December 12, 2006
From the Humanities and Social Sciences Net Online: BATTLE LOOMS OVER EPA LIBRARY CLOSURE The battle in Washington is escalating over a move by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to close its nationwide network of scientific libraries. EPA began...

Organizational Structure of Large Law Firms

Posted on December 11, 2006
The Law Blog at the Wall Street Journal, which is viewable without a subscription although its links are not, posted an interview on December 7 with James B. Rebitzer and Lowell J. Taylor, authors of "When Knowledge Is an Asset:...

Citing to Wikipedia

Posted on December 07, 2006
I was recently asked whether law students should cite to Wikipedia in academic papers. The answer is No. Wikipedia itself says: ?Because Wikipedia is an on-going work to which in principle anybody can contribute, it differs from a paper-based reference...

3D JD

Posted on December 01, 2006
Standford Law school has announced a new model for legal education, which is changing the law degree program into a three dimensional program. News.LawReader.com has a short article on the subject. Here's an excerpt: STANFORD, Calif.?(BUSINESS WIRE)?Stanford Law School today...

How do blogs change legal education?

Posted on November 30, 2006
There is an interesting discussion on the blog Balkinization on the topic of how blogs change legal education. Read it here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Tenzin Tsundue

Posted on November 30, 2006
Ask me where I'm from and I won't have an answer. I feel I never really belonged anywhere. Never really had a home. I was born in Manali, but my parents live in Karnataka. Finishing my schooling in two different...

Law of War

Posted on November 21, 2006
The online version of the Jurist has recently published two op-eds on the laws of war by Geoffrey S. Corn. They are: When the Law of War Becomes Over-lawyered and For the Sake of Warriors: Accepting the Limits of the...

Geneva Conventions

Posted on November 21, 2006
The Geneva Conventions a Reference Guide can be found on the Society of Professional Journalists web site. This includes both commentary and texts of the Geneva Conventions. It can be found here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Early Supreme Court Decision Dates

Posted on November 16, 2006
Sometimes it's hard to determine the exact date of early Supreme Court decisions, because the date of the decision doesn't appear below the case name in the first 107 volumes of the U.S. Reports. But now there is a list...

Law School Curriculum: What is technology's role?

Posted on November 14, 2006
There's an interesting article in the November 8, 2006 National Law Journal, The Law School Curriculum: What is technology's role? Here's an excerpt: Professor Charles Nesson, a pioneer in the use of technology in legal education and a founder of...

The "You Scratch My Back and I'll Scratch Yours" Business Model

Posted on November 09, 2006
How Some Firms in India Succeed by Bypassing Entrenched Financial and Legal Systems And how things such as fictitious road repairs are getting a second look under the Right to Information Act (2005). Posted by Toni Urquhart

Law Blogs Creating Ethics Problem

Posted on November 08, 2006
There may be as many as 2000 law blogs which discuss topics from bioethics, to legal theory, to environmental law and everything in between, but an ethical problem has arisen as to how much of the content is speech and...

Germline Patents

Posted on November 03, 2006
The blog, Biolaw: Law and the Life Sciences, has an interesting post on a recent European Patent that includes a method of gender selecting for sperm. Biolaw points out that the patent not only applies to this method, but in...

Law School Curriculum

Posted on November 02, 2006
Stanford Law School Dean Larry Kramer has a long post in the Blog Law School Innovation on the topic of law school curriculum: Ask any law school graduate what was the most significant intellectual experience he or she had in...

McGruff Goes Cyber to Stop Crime

Posted on November 01, 2006
Eveyone's favorite crime dog is making special appearances throughout New York City to take a bite out of cybercrime! McGruff's website lists tips for adults and children alike in a series of tip sheets aimed at adult computers users, homes...

Baffling Bookhouse

Posted on October 31, 2006
Turkmenistan has no private or foreign media, and the internet is inaccessible for most people. (via BBC) Yet now the country has 'The House of Free Creativity,' a baffling book-shaped building "devoted to press freedom." Hmm... Spookier things have happened...

Beijing's Bankruptcy Laws

Posted on October 26, 2006
The Wall Street Journal Online, October 17, 2006, has an interesting article on China's new bankruptcy law titled, Beijing's Bankruptcy Law. Enacted in August by China's legislature, the National People's Congress, it comes into force next June 1. A formal...

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