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A Taxonomy of Legal Blogs

Posted on August 07, 2006
The blog 3L Epiphany has published A Taxonomy of Legal Blogs. This is a very useful list of law related blogs. The sheer number of legal blogs is astonishing. To list a couple of examples there are 60 blogs under...

Journals Struggle for Relevancy

Posted on August 03, 2006
There is an interesting ABA Journal article which discusses how Law Reviews are adapting to the Internet, titled: Revising Law Review: Journals Struggle for Relevance in a Field Redefined by the Internet by Terry Carter. The article can by found...

Library Values

Posted on July 31, 2006
The most valuable resource in the library may be the reference librarian behind the desk. Recent research by the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center found that patients were much more likely to find useful and accurate information if they...

The Economics of Attention

Posted on July 31, 2006
In a recent book by Richard Lanham The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information, Lanham suggests that in the future the most precious resource of the new information economy won't be information but style. There...

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Pronunciation Guide

Posted on July 21, 2006
Most of us probably see, in print, names of people or places that we don't know how to pronounce. VOA has a pronunciation guide. You can see a short list of names recently in the news here, or a longer...

A Curtain Falls on the Indian Blogosphere

Posted on July 18, 2006
India's Department of Telecommunications has ordered Indian Internet service providers to block a few handpicked Web sites. The attempt to block specific sites has apparently run afoul of the agency's directive. Millions of domestic internet users could not access some...

Open Access Law Scholarship

Posted on July 17, 2006
Many scholars are concerned that the commercialization of scholarly publishing, particularly in the sciences, serves as a barrier to progress. One proposed answer is "open access" publishing. Science Commons encourages more widespread sharing of scholarly information, including legal scholarship...

The Bioethics of Food

Posted on July 07, 2006
Two recently published books discuss the bioethics of food. Eating with Conscience: The Bioethics of Food by Michael W. Fox. Fox discusses the inner workings of the national food industry, including the treatment of animals, the use of herbicides, the...

When a Lawyer Becomes Mentally Impaired

Posted on June 29, 2006
A partner in a law firm has cause to believe that another member of the firm is mentally impaired and may not be able to competently and diligently represent his clients. In such a scenario, issues such as these may...

Presidential Signing Statements

Posted on June 28, 2006
A blue ribbon American Bar Association task task force on presidential signing statements released a report on July 24, 2006. You can read a news release here or more from the American Bar Association here. Read the American Bar Association's...

Software Attacks Pose Threat to All Electronic Voter Machines

Posted on June 28, 2006
The Brennan Center Task Force on Voting System Security at NYU School of Law has released a report and policy proposals concluding that all three of the nation's most commonly purchased electronic voting systems "have significant security and reliability vulnerabilities"...

Reading History

Posted on June 27, 2006
Nate Oman, an assistant professor at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary, has written a nice article on why he reads history. Posted by Toni Urquhart

Securities Settlement Values Skyrocket

Posted on June 23, 2006
Private securities class actions fell in 2005. PriceWaterhouseCoopers' 2005 Securities Litigation Study reports that there were 168 new filings, the lowest number in nine years. Simultaneous with this drop, the average cost of a private securities litigation settlement rose to...

Lawsuit is Filed Over Banned Book

Posted on June 22, 2006
Censorship is a cure worse than the disease. ~Howard Simon, Executive Director of the ACLU of Florida "The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida, Greater Miami Chapter today filed a lawsuit against the Miami-Dade County School Board challenging the...

Supreme Court Limits the Exclusionary Rule

Posted on June 20, 2006
"The U.S. Supreme Court limited the time-honored exclusionary rule yesterday when it held that evidence seized in a home search may still be used for trial even after police failed to "knock and announce" before entering." Hudson v. Michigan was...

Polyheme

Posted on June 20, 2006
Polyheme is a blood substitute. It has been used in clinical trials with trauma patients. While federal regulation requires the consent of subjects for clinical trials the regulation also allow a waiver of consent in certain cases which includes times...

Damages For Dented Pickup?

Posted on June 19, 2006
A possible torts exam question? Facts: A, a city employee, is given a city vehicle to use. He drives his private vehicle, a pickup truck, to work and parks it in a city lot. After a New Year's Eve party,...

Biotechnology Law and Regulation

Posted on June 16, 2006
Biotechnology Law and Regulation - The ASEAN Perspective by Sufian Jusoh and published by Cameron May surveys the law and regulations relating to biotechnology activities in the 10 member countries of ASEAN. Topics covered include biotechnology policies, access to genetic...

Congressional Votes Overriding State Laws

Posted on June 14, 2006
In the last five years, Congress has voted more than 50 times to override state laws. "Most of the preemptive federal legislation passed by the House and the Senate over the last five years falls into four general categories: (1)...

Alabama's Pick & Choose Judicial Candidates Defeated

Posted on June 09, 2006
"Four Republican candidates for the Alabama Supreme Court who claimed they could pick and choose which U.S. Supreme Court decisions they would follow?and said they were free to defy the rest?were defeated in Tuesday?s primary election. Led by Alabama Supreme...

The Wall Street Journal's Legal blog

Posted on June 09, 2006
WSJ Online has a very informative blog on law and business, and the business of law. Peter Lattman, the lead writer, came to WSJ Online from Forbes Magazine. Before becoming a journalist, Lattman worked on Wall Street and as a...

The LRA and the "Night Commuters"

Posted on June 08, 2006
During the course of the 20-year conflict in Northern Uganda, over 30,000 children have been brutally tortured and forced into years of servitude as child soldiers and sexual slaves. The rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) abducts children from their villages...

Transhumanism

Posted on June 02, 2006
The philosopher Francis Fukuyama defines transhumanism as "to liberate the human race from its biological constraints." The book Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations: Converging Technologies in Society explores the legal, ethical, political and social implications of these emerging technologies and their impact on...

GARCETTI et al. v. CEBALLOS

Posted on May 31, 2006
In a 5 to 4 vote the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday May 31st that free speech rights do not protect government employees, even whistleblowers, from punishment for comments made on the job. Read the Opinion here. Posted by Jon Lutz

The Asylum Primer

Posted on May 16, 2006
The AILA Asylum Primer by Regina Germain, a veteran asylum attorney and former Senior Legal Counselor of the Washington Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is one of the Law Library's latest print acquisitions. "AILA's Asylum Primer...

Complex Scientific Evidence

Posted on May 16, 2006
Gene therapies, gene transfers, genetic screening, and new biotechnologies will give rise to many legal disputes. The legal issues are complex. Are trial jurors prepared to deal with the complexities of these issues? An article in Judicature, Genes and Justice:...

Lake Okeechobee Dike Report

Posted on May 15, 2006
The South Florida Water Management District has released a report, found here, by three experts in dam safety and geotechnical analysis who evaluated Corps of Engineers documents concerning the structural integrity of the 140 mile-long Herbert Hoover Dike surrounding Lake...

Coming Soon: The Indian National Fruit

Posted on May 12, 2006
The month of May marks the beginning of mango season. Here in the States, we'll soon be enjoying fruit from the Asian subcontinent: The Indian wing of DHL even offers a courier service specifically for mangoes, although the United States...

Marshall v. Marshall

Posted on May 05, 2006
The United States Supreme Court, in a 9-0 opinion written by Justice Ginsburg, decided the scope and applicability of the probate exception to federal jurisdiction. "Once described by a 7th Circuit Court of Appeals judge as ?one of the most...

Which One Would You Choose?

Posted on May 04, 2006
As "Mother's Day" approaches, thoughts turn to the powerful bonds of love between mothers and their children. It is this procession of generations that unites women of all cultures and time periods in our common humanity. Children and their mothers...

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