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Are Rank-and-File Librarians Sitting on the Fence Over the Google Book Settlement?

Posted on August 28, 2009
According to a Publishers Weekly survey as reported by Norman Oder in the Library Journal, the answer is yes. 29% of librarians support the Google Book Settlement. 21.5% oppose it. 37% are unsure. On the publishing industry and Authors Guild...

New Website Offers Documentation on the Palestinian Occupation

Posted on August 28, 2009
The Israel Law Resource Center focus on civil rights, human rights and international law within Israel occupied territories. The site offers primary source materials, including laws, regulations, military orders, and court rulings. The Center also offers study guides on various...

U.S. lags behind several countries in Internet speed

Posted on August 28, 2009
Despite being the country that invented drag racing and speed dating, a new report by the Communication Workers of America shows that download speed in America is slower than at least 27 other countries. The 2009 speedmatters.org survey also reveals....

Is Your Weekend Yard Sale Violating the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008?

Posted on August 28, 2009
It is if you are selling recalled products! From the US Consumer Product Safety Commission website: Selling recalled products is now unlawful. The law sets strict limits for lead in paint and for lead content. Additionally, three types of phthalates....

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Google Books to Support EPUB Format for Public Domain Titles

Posted on August 28, 2009
Google will offer more than one million public domain titles for download in the EPUB format, a free open format supported by a wide variety of readers and applications. The new Sony reader can take advantage of the format. Google...

Ted Kennedy, 1932 - 2009: The Passion of My Life Speech

Posted on August 27, 2009
Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy died late Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts after a long battle with brain cancer. He was 77. Long-time champion of civil and voting rights whose endorsement of Barack Obama remains a political debt....

Where Are the "Academic Lawyers"?

Posted on August 27, 2009
I guess Judge Posner and I have one thing in common (though it's certainly not IQ scores). We're both "old school" about law school and by that I mean the legal academy is or at least was the place where,...

Computer and Internet Industries Earn Highest Marks, Legal Profession and Banking Rank Near the Bottom in Latest Gallup Poll

Posted on August 27, 2009
In its annual Work and Education poll, Gallup asks Americans to rate each of 25 major businesses and industries as positive, negative, or neutral. This year's update, conducted Aug. 6-9, found that the computer industry ranks the highest with a...

Ethical Considerations for the Law Review Submission Process

Posted on August 27, 2009
Maryland law prof David Gray has been mulling over the "normative issues germane to the process for placing articles in law reviews" and offers his opinion on Concurring Opinions with the following caveat: My sense is that this is touchy...

Healthcare Insurance Reform, the Back of the Napkin Explanation by Dan Roam

Posted on August 27, 2009
With debunked claims still popping up in town hall meetings about health care reform, as reported recently by CNN in Rumors influencing health care debate, perhaps we need a back of the napkin explanation. Dan Roam, author of The Back...

Shedding West at Stanford Law Library

Posted on August 27, 2009
Stanford's Paul Lomio has to cut his law library budget by 15%. How? Let's start with West. On Legal Research Plus, Lomio writes "We are shedding West publications left and right (mainly because of, in my opinion, outrageous annual price...

Genachowski Says FCC Will Enforce Net Neutrality Principles

Posted on August 27, 2009
The Hill caught up with newly installed FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on Tuesday. The big news, though not very surprising, is Genachowski's statement that the agency will enforce net neutrality principles. Broadband providers are probably grumbling that they have to...

A Prelude to Assessing Our Annual Meetings: Results of LLB's Polls on the 2009 AALL Annual Meeting and Its Festivities

Posted on August 26, 2009
Here's the results of LLB's informal 5-star rating poll of the 2009 AALL Annual Meeting. Thanks to the 175 respondents who answered one or more of the questions. The findings show that the keynote speech was well-received. The average score...

First Comprehensive Analysis of the Law and Policy of Privacy on Social Network Sites

Posted on August 26, 2009
New York Law School prof James Grimmelmann's Saving Facebook has been published at 94 Iowa Law Review 1137 (2009). Using Facebook as an example, the article provides the first comprehensive analysis of the law and policy of privacy on social...

Colucci's Justice Kennedy?s Jurisprudence: The Full and Necessary Meaning of Liberty

Posted on August 26, 2009
About Frank Colucci's Justice Kennedy?s Jurisprudence: The Full and Necessary Meaning of Liberty (University Press of Kansas, September 3, 2009), Ken Kersch writes "Colucci makes a convincing case for the proposition that, far from being a seat-of-the-pants situationalist, Kennedy is...

New Sony eBook Reader Allows Library Check-Outs

Posted on August 26, 2009
Sony's new eBook reader was unveiled yesterday. The Reader Daily Edition retails for $399 and can store up to 1,000 titles. It comes with free 3G connectivity through AT&T. That last bit might be disappointing to some. Apple's iPhone also...

Another Boner from West: "Hi, my first name is Joe and I'm a law librarian"

Posted on August 26, 2009
After Monday's Westlaw bonehead move where the Company first terminated its free printer services at Puerto Rican law schools and then quickly reinstated the program after the uproar that caused (see LLB's Thomson West Starts the Academic Year Off with...

The Boulder Statement on Legal Research Education

Posted on August 25, 2009
Here's the final version of the the Boulder Statement on Legal Research Education, the product of a recent conference of legal research professionals interested in reforming legal research education. The official statement about the conference is provide below...

The 12 Facebook personalities you love to hate

Posted on August 25, 2009
CNN.com has compiled a list of the twelve types of Facebook personalities we find the most annoying. So how many do you recognize? 1. The Let-Me-Tell-You-Every-Detail-of-My-Day Bore. 2. The Self-Promoter. 3. The Friend-Padder 4. The Town Crier. 5. The TMIer...

CRS Report Identifies Issues in the U.S. Ratification Debate Over CEDAW

Posted on August 25, 2009
The U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: (CEDAW): Issues in the U.S. Ratification Debate (August 7, 2009) provides an overview of CEDAWs background, objectives, and structure, including the role of the Conventions monitoring body,...

Website Offers Advice on Legal Typography

Posted on August 25, 2009
In the mid-80s I saw an attorney drafting on a personal computer for the very first time. My first thought was "why the hell do that (!)" because the attorney, a partner, have a great secretary right outside his office...

Pro-Life Legal Writing Instructor Applicant at University of Iowa College of Law Files Suit Alleging Viewpoint Discrimination in Hiring

Posted on August 25, 2009
Teresa Wagner, an applicant for a legal writing instruction opening at the University of Iowa College of Law, has filed suit against Iowa Law's Dean, Carolyn Jones, alleging viewpoint discrimination in the College of Law's hiring. Wagner alleges in her...

Thomson West Starts the Academic Year Off with Bonehead Move: Westlaw Free Printer Access Cut Off to Puerto Rican Law School Students

Posted on August 25, 2009
Thomson West never ceases to amaze. Westlaw canceled their free printer service to Puerto Rican law schools because printer use was proportionately much higher than at other American law schools where service was not affected. Why the higher use? Probably...

Outed Blogger to Sue Google for $15M

Posted on August 25, 2009
This is a bit of an update on the soap opera that outed the anonymous blogger who had allegedly defamed model Liskula Cohen by calling her a "skank" on her blog, hosted by Google. Cohen got a judge to order...

Multitaskers Can Have, Uh, Cognitive Problems

Posted on August 25, 2009
The brain is in the news again. Not the mouse who wants to take over the world, but the one inside the head. This time the news involves the cognitive abilities of multitaskers. A series of tests show that people...

Axis of Hatred to Join Open Book Alliance in Effort to Derail Google's Book Rights Registry

Posted on August 24, 2009
Adding a little commentary to Mark Giangrande's LLB post, Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon to Oppose Google Book Settlement, the story is that former Bush speechwriter David Frum originally coined the phrase "axis of hatred" before it morphed into the "axis of...

No Backup Plan: GAO Wants More Info About NARA's Electronic Records Archives

Posted on August 24, 2009
In Electronic Records Archive: The National Archives and Records Administration's Fiscal Year 2009 Expenditure Plan (July 24, 2009) the GAO reports that NARA's plan for it's "archives of the future," the Electronic Records Archives (ERA), does not have a contingency...

University of Iowa College of Law Charged with Age Discrimination in Faculty Hiring

Posted on August 24, 2009
The National Law Journal is reporting that Donald Dobkin has filed state and federal ADEA charges alleging he was passed over for a faculty position in favor of two under-40 job applicants by the University of Iowa College of Law....

Felony Harrassment Charge Filed Under Missouri's "MySpace Suicide" Law

Posted on August 24, 2009
Courthouse News Service is reporting that Missouri prosecutors have charged Elizabeth A. Thrasher, 40, with felony harassment for allegedly posting a fake, sexually suggestive ad under the "casual encounters" section of Craigslist in an attempt to humiliate a 17-year-old girl...

Man With Guns Arrested at U. of Louisville Law Library

Posted on August 24, 2009
The University of Louisville had an incident on Friday where a former student and part-time employee was arrested at the law library after he brought two handguns and 53 rounds of ammunition on campus. Guns are not allowed on campus,...

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