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Shift in Harvard Curriculum

Posted on October 25, 2006
The National Law Journal, October 24, 2006, has published the article Shift in Harvard Curriculum Reflects Larger Trend Toward Global Law. Harvard Law School has announced sweeping changes in its first-year curriculum: Harvard's new course on legislation and regulation will...

From Network to Meaning

Posted on October 24, 2006
Yesterday, in the wonderful 275-seat Microsoft Auditorium of the Seattle Public Library, I listened to interactive media specialist Linda Stone discuss her current thinking on ?continuous partial attention? and the coming shift to an era where we use our attention...

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Posted on October 18, 2006
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosopohy is a free online encyclopedia of philosophy. Here is a brief desciption from the encyclopedia website: Welcome to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). From its inception, the SEP was designed so that each entry...

Remainders

Posted on October 17, 2006
In describing an intuitive process native to novel writers, the author of Invisible Writer (Johnson, 1999, p.9) quotes American master of psychological realism, Joyce Carol Oates. Somehow, without knowing what I did, without knowing, in fact, that I was doing...

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A K�nstlerroman Causes a Stir

Posted on October 10, 2006
Graphic novels are in; they?re hot. And to keep pace with a literary trend that sounds like fun, I decided to jump on the bandwagon and read one. I skipped the much acclaimed Persepolis and American Splendor, choosing instead a...

The Silencing of Ruby McCollum

Posted on October 06, 2006
The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South by Tammy Evans (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 2006). Evans is an adjunct professor of composition at the University of Miami's Bradenton campus. Silencing refutes the carefully constructed...

Digging Into the Roots of Research Ethics

Posted on September 27, 2006
There have been examples of researchers violating ethical standards to enhance their own careers. However Kelly P. Bannister, an ethnobotanist at the University of Victoria went our of her way to protect the indigenous group she researched on their use...

Online Version of The Chicago Manual of Style

Posted on September 26, 2006
Remember back when... In November 1906, a modest little book crept onto the publishing scene with a mouthful of a title. The Manual of Style: Being a Compilation of the Typographical Rules in Force at the University of Chicago Press,...

Living Speech for All

Posted on September 19, 2006
No one can love and be just who does not understand the empire of force and know how not to respect it. ~Simone Weil This single sentence from Simone Weil?s essay on the Iliad triggered James Boyd White?s unwavering interest...

Neuroeconomics

Posted on September 15, 2006
Neuroeconomics combines neuroscience, economics, and psychology to study how we make choices. Specifically it looks at the role of the brain when we make decisions, categorize risks and rewards, and interact with each other. Jedediah Purdy of Duke University School...

How Many Law Blogs?

Posted on September 13, 2006
How many law blogs are there? According to the blogs Inter alia well over 1500 and Robert Ambrogi's Lawsites maybe around 2000. Posted by Jon Lutz

National Library of Scotland to Preserve Blogs

Posted on September 12, 2006
The National Library of Scotland has decided that some new forms of digital source materials merit a spot in the library's digital collection. The websites and blogs of leading cultural figures, including writers such as JK Rowling and Alasdair Gray,...

'Snowbird' Law Practice Hits a Wall

Posted on September 11, 2006
The definition of a "temporary" practice in a state where one is not licensed may be ripe for litigation and change. Morris Ronald Gould, a Florida resident who is admitted to practice law in New York but not in Florida,...

The Future of Legal Scholarship

Posted on September 11, 2006
The Pocket Part, A Companion to The Yale Law Journal, is currently running a series of articles on The Future of Legal Scholarship. This includes submissions by Christopher Bracey, Ann Althouse, Paul Caron, Stephen Vladeck, Eugene Volokh and Jack Balkin...

The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law

Posted on September 06, 2006
Mark Herrmann, a partner at Jones Day in Cleveland, has written a clever little book for the new associate. My favorite chapter, "How to Fail as an Associate," has a highly quotable section on the need to do background reading...

Lawyers for Companion Animals

Posted on September 06, 2006
The New York Times has an article on the growth of companion animal lawyering. [...] these lawyers say they are concerned primarily with getting the legal system to acknowledge that animals have an intrinsic value beyond mere property, because of...

Legal Education Podcasting Project

Posted on September 05, 2006
During the Spring semester 2006, CALI sponsored a project to investigate the efficacy of podcasting in legal education. Faculty from various schools recorded their lectures and posted them to the CALI website. Mary McCormick was one of the participants...

Advice for Incoming Law Students

Posted on September 01, 2006
CALI's Pre-Law Blog had posted several podcasts for incoming law students: Advice for 1Ls from Prof. Douglas McFarland Preparing to Study Torts by Ron Eades Study Advice from Professors Joe Grohman and Ron Brown for 1Ls Also see my earlier...

Warning: Blogs can be hazardous to your career...

Posted on August 30, 2006
Judge Reprimands Temp Prosecutor for Blog Posts A California attorney with the firm of Keker & Van Nest, while participating in a job swap with the San Francisco DA's office, was reprimanded by the judge overseeing a misdemeanor case he...

Fired Associate Wins $1.1 Million

Posted on August 28, 2006
A former law firm associate won a $1.1 million judgment for wrongful termination and failure to accommodate his illness under California's Fair Employment and Housing Act. Warren Snider, the plaintiff, claimed he was fired after an illness caused him to...

Preparing for the Worst

Posted on August 25, 2006
As we enter the traditional peak of hurricane season, the government is here to help you. Ready.gov is the official disaster planning site of the Department of Homeland Security. (The content of this site has been criticized as inadequate by...

Advice for the Incoming Law School Class

Posted on August 22, 2006
Paul Caron of the TaxProf Blog has a great list of links to advice for the incoming law school class of 2009. It's here. And even more advice here from Concurring Opinions. Posted by Jon Lutz

Yale LJ's "Online Companion"

Posted on August 17, 2006
The Yale Law Journal has created The Pocket Part as an "online companion" to the journal. It offers short versions of articles along with reponses from practitioners and scholars. The August 2006 issue has several articles about the forthcoming federal...

Contract Drafters: Comma Placement is Very Important

Posted on August 16, 2006
Language Log offers an eye-opening example of the downside of careless comma placement. (link) Posted by Toni Urquhart

U.S. Law Schools news brief

Posted on August 15, 2006
News Releases from Law Schools Nationwide is a service of St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami. Listings are available by region or individual state, and for seven topical areas, including Achievement, Current Issues, Newsmakers, Campus Speakers, Administration, Community,...

United States ex. rel. David Franklin vs. Parke-Davis

Posted on August 15, 2006
Pharmaceutical companies spend a lot of money promoting their drugs. In 1996 an employee of Parke-Davis under the whistleblower laws filed a law suit against Parke-Davis claiming they were illegally promoting the drug Neurontin for off label uses. The Drug...

Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material

Posted on August 15, 2006
A report by the Berkman Center for Internet Study and funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on copyright and education had been released. It's titled: The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material...

The Perfect Crime

Posted on August 11, 2006
Brian Kalt, Associate Professor of Law at Michigan State College of Law, has written an interesting and provocative article, The Perfect Crime. This article was the fruit of his research on the Sixth Amendment vicinage requirement. Professor Kalt notes, "Venue...

Law Faculty Bloggers

Posted on August 10, 2006
Prof. Dan Markel has been blogging on PrawfsBlawg for a little over a year. Recently, Prof. J.B. Ruhl joined Prof. Jim Chen's Blog Jurisdynamics, where he discusses the proposition that the legal system is a complex adaptive system for which...

Cases Citing Legal Blogs

Posted on August 09, 2006
The blog 3L Epiphany has created a list of court cases that cite legal blogs. According to 3L Epiphany there are 32 citations of legal blogs from 27 different cases with 8 legal blogs being cited. You can view here....

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