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My Second & Third (Final) Weeks Teaching Legal Research in China

Posted on July 08, 2009
[Please refer to my March 8 and May 18 LLB posts for background.] I meant to post about these things right after they happened in late May, but I was too busy teaching then to do so. And I've been...

Last Will of Michael Joseph Jackson

Posted on July 07, 2009
Copy of the King of Pop's last will is available here. Hat tip to Texas Tech law prof and Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog editor Gerry Beyer. [JH]

Can Universities Require Open Access of Faculty-Produced Scholarship?

Posted on July 07, 2009
Probably not. "There is no such thing as a mandate on faculty," writes Stuart M. Shieber, Director of Harvard's Office for Scholarly Communication. Shieber continues "I am not saying that university open-access policies can?t be successful. But success has to...

Law School Not Golden Ticket to Secure Employment: Univ. of Miami Law Urges Incoming Students to Consider Deferring Their Admission Until 2010

Posted on July 07, 2009
Law Firm Layoffs and Employment Prospects In a New York Times commentary, Another View: In Praise of Law Firm Layoffs, Dan Slater, the former writer of The Wall Street Journal Law Blog, argues that layoffs at law firms are the...

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How to Fend Off the Summer Doldrums, Count Mouse Clicks

Posted on July 07, 2009
Mouse click rankings for SSRN downloads covering US News law schools ranked from 23 to 100 by Bridget Crawford can be found on Feminist Law Professors (why starting with 23?) and "since it's the boring dog days of summer, and...

Villanova Law Dean Resignation Due to Prostitution Link

Posted on July 07, 2009
The Philadelphia Business Journal is reporting that former Dean Mark Sargent who resigned on June 29th will not return to the faculty. Sargent is linked as a customer to a prostitution ring and is part of an investigation by the...

2009 Mid-Year Law Firm Layoff Review: 10,000-plus Attorneys and Staff

Posted on July 07, 2009
2009 will go down in history as the worst year for law firm layoffs. According to Law Shucks's mid-year review, 125 major law firms have announced or had confirmed layoffs. The combined total is 10,723 people, 4,015 of which are...

Never Say Anything Nice About Someone and Predicting SSNs

Posted on July 07, 2009
The pitfalls of social networking sites seem to be mostly confined to photos of underage drinking or some other type of embarrassing or illegal conduct. Youthful indiscretions, as politicians would say, when justifying something most people find offensive...

Congratulations to AALL Award Recipients

Posted on July 06, 2009
The Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award: Patrick E. Kehoe, American University and Elizabeth Ann Puckett, University of Georgia School of Law The Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award: William H. Manz, Rittenburg Law Library, St. John's University School of Law,...

Best Practices for Government Libraries, 2009 Edition

Posted on July 06, 2009
Best Practices for Government Libraries, 2009: Change: Managing It, Surviving It, and Thriving On It, is a LexisNexis-produced 181 page compilation of 60 articles and other submissions provided by more than 50 contributors from librarians in government agencies, courts, and...

User-Centered Strategic Planning for Court Libraries in Catalonia

Posted on July 06, 2009
The creation of a charter of court library service goals is described by Ivet Adell Duch and her colleagues of the Xarxa de Biblioteques Judicials de Catalunya del Departament de Just�cia, in ?The Service Charter of the Network of Court...

Amazon Says "No" to Collecting Sales Tax by Closing Affiliate Accounts

Posted on July 06, 2009
Amazon has decided to end its business relationships with North Carolina and Rhode Island marketing affiliates by closing their accounts because both states have passed laws that require collection of sales taxes if in-state online-marketing affiliates get a sales commission...

Oldest Known Bible Digitized

Posted on July 06, 2009
CNN and others are reporting that the world's oldest known Christian Bible has been digitized and is available online. The Codex Sinaiticus presented particular problems for archivists as the physical pages were scattered across four locations. The Bible's pages originated...

Missing Items from US Archive, Found Item in UK Archive

Posted on July 06, 2009
The National Archives reports that dozens of historical documents have gone missing from the national archives. Larry Margasak from the Associated Press indicates that the the items were stolen by researchers or Archives employees,while others disappeared without a trace...

GM's Asset Sale Approved

Posted on July 06, 2009
Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber gave GM the go-ahead late Sunday night to sell its most-prized assets -- including the Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC brands -- to a new government-backed company. Text of opinion here. [JH]

Commentary from Around the Web on SCOTUS Nominee Sonia Sotomayor

Posted on July 05, 2009
The National Law Journal has published a compilation of news and commentary from around the Web on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Hat tip to Mitchell Rubinstein, Adjunct Law Prof Blog. [JH]

Why Do States Fail?

Posted on July 04, 2009
As we celebrate the founding of our country and our civil rights and liberties this Fourth of July, perhaps we also ought to reflect on why states fail. Which failed states are global security threats and which are simply tragedies...

A Delightful Short Film that Has Absolutely Nothing to Do with Law Librarianship

Posted on July 03, 2009
Little man, the way girls are is a story about a boy and his homework, and his attempt to understand girls. [JH]

Thomson West Launches Do Justice and Between Cases

Posted on July 03, 2009
Thomson West has launched Do Justice, a pro bono outreach initiative to support law firm pro bono activities. The Company has also launched Between Cases, a new online resource for displaced legal associates seeking employment and networking opportunities...

The Obama Administration?s Proposal to Reform the U.S. Financial Regulatory System

Posted on July 03, 2009
CCH has issued a white paper, The Obama Administration?s Proposal to Reform the U.S. Financial Regulatory System. Written by CCH Principal Securities Law Analyst Jim Hamilton, the white paper identifies the proposal as the most sweeping and fundamental regulatory reform...

Entries for Access Group's Video Scholarship Contest for Law Students Due July 15th

Posted on July 03, 2009
Access Group has launched another video scholarship contest for law students this year. Entitled ?My Inspiration,? law students are asked to create a video that describes what motivated them to go to law school. The grand prize is a $10,000...

Lyons' Recommendations for Free Access to PACER Without Compromising Privacy and Security Interests

Posted on July 02, 2009
In Free PACER: Balancing access and privacy, Susan Lyons (Rutgers University (Newark) Law School Library) presents an excellent analysis of the issues resulting in the Administrative Office of the United States Courts' (AOUSC) abrupt suspension of the PACER pilot program...

June, the Month Chinese Censors Stopped Taking Their Medication

Posted on July 02, 2009
In a recent post on Internet censorship in China, Rebecca MacKinnon writes that June was "the month the censors stopped taking their medication." From her review of recent developments: Most of China's educated, largely apolitical, internet-connected urbanites have until now...

Merit Selection or Election of State Court Judges?

Posted on July 02, 2009
Running for Judge: The Rising Political, Financial, and Legal Stakes of Judicial Elections (NYU Press, July 1, 2009) examines the increasingly contentious judicial elections over the last twenty-five years by providing a timely, insightful analysis of judicial elections...

Opening: Law Librarian - Research Services, USC

Posted on July 02, 2009
The Gabriel and Matilda Barnett Information Technology Center and The Asa V. Call Law Library at the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law has an opening for Law Librarian - Research Services The USC Law Library's primary...

JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool

Posted on July 02, 2009
JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT) allows you to compare bilbiographic and full text databases. There are sfour main functions on the site: Compare Journal Title Lists Compare key features of database platforms Compare e-Book platforms Compare charts and statistice...

OUP USA Head Endorses Google Book Deal

Posted on July 02, 2009
The head of Oxford University Press USA calls the Google Book Settlement flawed but necessary. Tim Barton published his essay on the settlement in the Chronicle of Higher Education on June 29th. One of the compelling reasons for embracing the...

A Day to Celebrate

Posted on July 02, 2009
The Writer?s Almanac reports that today is the anniversary of the founding of the first circulating library: It was on this day in 1731 that Ben Franklin founded the first circulating library, a forerunner to the now ubiquitous free public...

Lawyer denied bar admission due to large student loans

Posted on July 02, 2009
The New York Times reported that a panel of N.Y. State Appellate judges denied bar admission to law grad Robert Bowman, despite receiving the requisite recommendation from the state's committee that reviews bar applications. According to the Times, the judges...

Bad Legal Research or Faulty Legal Ethics? Or does it matter...

Posted on July 02, 2009
Attorney General Eric Holder and the office of professional responsibility is investigating the use of harsh interrogation techniques authorized by the Senate Judiciary Committee based on advice provided by Attorneys Jay Bybee (now a judge for the 9th circuit) and...

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