Legal Research

New Google Book Settlement Resource: The Public Index

Posted on July 30, 2009
The Public-Interest Book Search Initiative and the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School have launched The Public Index, a website to study and discuss the Google Book Search Settlement. The site features a a collection...

Katz & O'Neill's Strategies and Techniques of Law School Teaching

Posted on July 30, 2009
Strategies and Techniques of Law School Teaching: A Primer for New (and Not So New) Professors Howard E. Katz & Kevin Francis O'Neill Aspen Publishers (2009) From the product description: Strategies and Techniques of Law School Teaching is intended to...

New and Updated Research Guides on GlobaLex

Posted on July 30, 2009
New Research Guide A Guide to Qatar?s Legal System by Ahmed Aly Khedr Updated Guides Religious Legal Systems in Comparative Law: A Guide to Introductory Research by Marylin Johnson Raisch Guide to Legal Research in the Dominican Republic by Marisol...

Another Shoe Drops at DePaul: How Many More to Come?

Posted on July 30, 2009
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports posted an entry on July 22nd titled DePaul College of Law: Heading to Loss of ABA Accreditation? One colleague Brian quoted in the post suggested that the ABA would do nothing. The evidence was anecdotal,...

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FTC Proposes New Constraints on Debt Relief Marketers

Posted on July 30, 2009
The recession has spawned plenty of television and radio ads from companies offering consumer debt relief, affecting credit card and other unsecured debt. Sometimes the claims seem too good to be true. The Federal Trade Commission has filed a notice....

CRS Reports Collected at State

Posted on July 30, 2009
One of the least likely places I expected to find an extensive collection of CRS Reports is the State Department web site. The site hosts reports as late as July 2nd, 2009, and begins the archive with reports dated 2000....

Should Copyright Of Academic Works Be Abolished?

Posted on July 29, 2009
From the abstract of Should Copyright Of Academic Works Be Abolished? by Steven Shavell, Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School: The conventional rationale for copyright of written works, that copyright is needed to foster their creation, is seemingly...

Cleveland Marshall's War Crimes Research Guide

Posted on July 29, 2009
Cleveland Marshall Law Library's new War Crime Research Guide identifies basic sources for researching the legal aspects of war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity. [JH]

New Edition of Garner's Modern American Usage

Posted on July 29, 2009
The third edition of Garner's Modern American Usage (Oxford UP, July 2009) including an interesting new feature, Garner's Language-Change Index, which registers where each disputed usage in modern English falls on a five-stage continuum from nonacceptability (to the language community...

Pants Judge Loses Again in Suit Over Job

Posted on July 29, 2009
Remember the pants lawsuit where an administrative law judge sued a dry cleaners for some $50+ million for losing a pair of pants? Remember how he pursued the suit and refused to settle for way more money than the pants...

Tattooed Librarians of Texas Calendar

Posted on July 29, 2009
Texas librarians reveal their ink in calendar to help raise funds for the Texas Library Association Disaster Relief Fund. It's for a good cause. Details (yes, images) with ordering information here. [JH]

Microsoft and Yahoo Finally Tie the Search Knot

Posted on July 29, 2009
Microsoft and Yahoo finally came to a deal over search, announced today. This started some time ago when Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo for some $47 billion or so in early 2008. That led to financial turmoil for both companies....

SLA IT Division Launches Information Systems Wiki

Posted on July 28, 2009
The Information Systems Wiki includes an overview of vendor system evaluations, operating systems and security, social networking, and other useful sites, plus occasional polls including the following: What do you use for your primary operating system? [Results] What social networks...

Current Status of LexOpus

Posted on July 28, 2009
John Doyle reports on the status of LexOpus, Washington & Lee Law School's free online law review submission service: As of July 16, 2009, 367 law journals have logged-in to LexOpus to create accounts. 1327 law journals are receiving weekly...

New Law Titles from Oxford UP

Posted on July 28, 2009
Guide to Latin in International Law Aaron X. Fellmeth and Maurice Horwitz Offers a comprehensive understanding of commonly found Latin terms used in diplomacy and international law practice. New Institutions for Human Rights Protection Edited by Kevin Boyle Presents an...

IBM To Buy SPSS for $1.2B

Posted on July 28, 2009
SPSS makes the popular analytical software for statistics that is heavily usedby business and academic institutions. CNET has the story. [MG]

NASA Makes Enhanced Moon Landing Tapes Available

Posted on July 28, 2009
NASA, if one remembers, lost the original recordings of the 1969 moon landing tapes and initiated a furious search for them. The agency recently discovered that the high resolution tapes were wiped. The broadcasts that appeared on television at the...

Tweeting Spawns a Defamation Suit

Posted on July 28, 2009
It had to happen sooner or later. Someone somewhere would find something from Twitter troublesome enough to file a defamation lawsuit. The someone in this case is Horizon Group Management, of Chicago, who filed a libel lawsuit against a former...

AP's New Unauthorized Use Scheme Includes Implementation of Spyware-Like Tracker

Posted on July 27, 2009
Continuing its hard line approach to use of its content on the web, the Associated Press has announced that it is developing a news registry to protect all AP content from unauthorized use. AP's objective is to require non-AP content...

First Class All the Way: California-Irvine Sets Example on How to Launch a New Law School

Posted on July 27, 2009
After a shaky start when Erwin Chemerinsky was hired, fired, and then re-hired as dean of the University of California at Irvine School of Law in 2007, the school has proceeded to make its presence felt in the legal academy...

Clouds of Federal Tweets

Posted on July 27, 2009
Nextgov looked at a random sample of 100 tweets from 10 different government organizations to find out what "feds are talking about, 140 characters at a time" by performing word frequency analyses to generated clouds of the 40 most-used words...

GAO Has Critical Comments for NARA ERA

Posted on July 27, 2009
The Government Accountability Office has issued a report on the National Archive's Electronic Records Archive (ERA) system and plans for FY 2009. In summary, NARA could do a better job getting the archive up and getting records from the Bush...

New Google Books Game

Posted on July 27, 2009
Google is promoting Google Books with a game of questions about book content that can be answered by searching Google Books. Prizes are awarded for submitting results. The top 3 submissions per day will receive Sony Readers and the first...

Microsoft Will Ship Windows 7 With Browser Choice in Europe After All

Posted on July 27, 2009
Microsoft and the European Union seem to be closer together on a solution for including competing browsers in Windows 7 distributions in Europe. Microsoft will offer a browser ballot on start up that gives users a choice that will be...

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Newsletters Now Available Through Ozmosys

Posted on July 26, 2009
Ozmosys will monitor subscriptions and deliver to newsletter subscribers a consolidated e-mail message with links to all newly-posted content, thereby streamlining the e-mail process and reducing the total number of e-mails received. Details including list of newsletters and subscription information...

Almost $900,000 in Economic Stimulus Money Going to Elite Law Firms

Posted on July 25, 2009
"Have things gotten so bad that law firms -- even firms as prestigious and profitable as Debevoise & Paul Weiss -- need government funds?" Above The Law is reporting that Debevoise & Plimpton is receiving $432,680 and Paul Weiss $462,528...

Five Tips for Social Media Users

Posted on July 25, 2009
And they are: Social media is useless without goals Different social media sites serve different purposes ?Social media? is a misnomer People want to hire other people, not businesses Lawyers cannot afford to be left out of the loop For...

Practice and Procedure in Witch Trials

Posted on July 24, 2009
Will the Holy Grail's classic witch scene be covered in the bar exam? [JH]

Yahoo's Homepage Gets a Facelift

Posted on July 24, 2009
Earlier this week Yahoo launched its redesigned homepage. Did anyone notice? According to Search Engine Land's review, Yahoo will start random testing a new look and feel for search results that conceptually mirrors what it?s doing on the home page.....

University Presses Going Digital for Monographs: University of Chicago and Oxford

Posted on July 24, 2009
Following up on LLB's earlier post, Harvard University Press Goes Digital, The University of Chicago Press is offering over 700 titles online using Adobe's Digital Editions software. The Press currently offers three e-book licensing options: Perpetual ownership at list price,...

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