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2009: The Year of Hunkering Down in Legal Technology

Posted on May 26, 2009
In the ABA's Law Practice Today, Dennis Kennedy identifies eight key trends in legal technology for 2009. His forecast is grim. Kennedy writes, "I?m actually quite pessimistic about what we?ll see in legal technology, even though I?ve tried to take...

ABA TECHSHOW's 60 Sites in 60 Minutes

Posted on May 26, 2009
This year's presentation was conducted by Jim Calloway, Lincoln Mead, Laura Calloway and Barron Henley. List with links here. [JH]

President Signs Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act

Posted on May 26, 2009
President Obama signed the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009, H.R. 627, into law on May 22, 2009. [Open Congress]. The Act prohibit a creditor from increasing any annual percentage rate of interest (APR) applicable to the...

Supreme Court Overturns Long Time Police Interrogation Rule

Posted on May 26, 2009
Lost in the news of a new Supreme Court nominee is today's 5-4 ruling by the Court which overturns the rule that police may not initiate interrogation of a suspect unless the suspect's lawyer is present. The case is Montejo...

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Obama Picks Sotomayor for Supreme Court

Posted on May 26, 2009
President Obama has nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice Souter on the Supreme Court. Judge Sotomayor was on the short list of candidates assembled by pundits and the press. She was appointed to the Second Circuit in 1997 by...

Kudos to HeinOnline, Cheryl Nyberg and Carol Boast

Posted on May 26, 2009
AALL has selected HeinOnline?s Subject Compilations of State Laws Database for the 2009 AALL Best New Product Award. [Announcement] HeinOnline converted Cheryl Nyberg and Carol Boast's Subject Compilations of State Laws publication into an online, searchable database...

California Upholds Gay Marriage Ban

Posted on May 26, 2009
The California Supreme Court upheld the voter initiative on gay marriage this morning. The Court's web site appears to be overwhelmed at this point. I'll post a link to the opinion later on today as traffic calms down. [MG] Update:...

Tomorrow's Reconsidering Social Media Webcast

Posted on May 26, 2009
Topic: Reconsidering Social Media Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Time: 10am PT, San Francisco Presented by: Sam Lessin, Joshua-Michele Ross This free O'Reilly webcast will be a discussion of the deeper uncertainties surrounding society's great, headlong rush into the Social...

Ask Not Documents the Political Battles that Led to the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy

Posted on May 25, 2009
This year's Memorial Day LLB post features the trailer for Independent Lens' Ask Notwhich premieres on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 on PBS. From the description: "As wars rage in the Middle East, the U.S. military is eager for more recruits??unless...

Judicial Confirmation Network Launches SCOTUS Nominee Attack Ads

Posted on May 24, 2009
The Judicial Confirmation Network is taking aim at three potential Supreme Court nominees in attack ads posted on YouTube. See Obama?s Frontrunners where you can also vote on which of Obama's frontrunners is "the worst liberal judicial activist" and make...

Time to Debate California Sales Tax for Recreational Marijuana

Posted on May 23, 2009
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) says he is not necessarily in favor of decriminalizing marijuana, but if California allows the sale of marijuana for recreational use, the sales tax revenue (at $50-an-ounce) could raise $1.3 billion and that why it's "time...

Teenage Girl Auctions Off Her Virginity, German Tax Authorities Want Half

Posted on May 22, 2009
The Sun by way of Fox News reports that Alina Percea, 18, was paid $13,827 in cash for a weekend of sex with a middle-aged Italian businessman after auctioning her virginity online. Now, the German tax authorities want their cut....

A Sensible Approach to Punishing Copyright Violations?

Posted on May 22, 2009

Playing Musical Chairs Because SCOTUS Life Tenure is Just Too Damn Long

Posted on May 22, 2009
How can we regain the benefits of judicial independence and regular rotation on SCOTUS? In Supreme Court Justices Have It Too Good, Jack Balkin (Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale LS) suggests "a good rule of...

The 25 Most Important American Legal Thinkers

Posted on May 22, 2009
Brian Leiter (Chicago) reports on the results of his poll at The Most Important Legal Thinkers in American Law of the Past Century. Here's the top five: 1. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 2. Richard Posner 3. Ronald Dworkin 4. Ronald...

Ohio Supreme Court Justices Promote the Court's Website

Posted on May 22, 2009
According to The Salem News, Ohio Supreme Court justices pitched the Supreme Court's website recently while visiting the Columbiana County Bar Association. The site, tweeked in design with new content added, includes streaming video of oral arguments, with all oral...

Opening: Chief Law Librarian, University of Toronto Bora Laskin Law Library

Posted on May 22, 2009
The Faculty of Law is seeking a dynamic professional to lead its Law Library. Further information about the Faculty and the Library may be found at: http://www.law.utoronto.ca and http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca. RESPONSIBILITIES: Reporting to the Dean of the Faculty of Law, the...

A First, On Demand and Short-Run Book Titles Exceed Traditional Book Title Production in 2008

Posted on May 21, 2009
According to Bowker, 2008 new book title production achieved an historic development in the U.S. book publishing industry because On Demand and short-run book titles exceeded the number of traditional book titles entering the marketplace for the first time: 285,394...

UN Launches Diplomatic Conferences for Treaties Website

Posted on May 21, 2009
The UN Office of Legal Affairs has launched a website that provides access to the official records of 12 UN diplomatic conferences that were held to to negotiate and adopt treaties. The user is provided access by individual document, and...

Protecting Your Scholarship: Copyrights, Publication Agreements, and Open Access

Posted on May 21, 2009
In the legal academy it's time to publish or perish, at least it is for those profs who take their teaching responsibilities serious enough to prioritize teaching higher than writing during the academic year. Timothy Armstrong (Cincinnati) has written a...

Google and UMichigan Amend Scanning Agreement

Posted on May 21, 2009
Google and the University of Michigan have renegotiated part of its agreement where Google scans its books for available online. The recent settlement between Google and publishers has raised issues over the cost of institutional subscriptions the publishers will put...

Welcome Back M & A Law Prof Blog

Posted on May 21, 2009
After a hiatus, the Law Professor Blogs Network's M & A Law Prof Blog is online again [first post here provides background]. Edited by Brian JM Quinn (Assistant Professor of Law, Boston College Law School) with contributing editor, Michael A....

Hard Drive With Clinton Data Gone, NARA Wants It Back

Posted on May 21, 2009
Can anyone help the National Archives locate the missing hard drive with personal information for Bill Clinton's former staffers? The Archives staff had been working with the drive contents when they put it aside in October of 2008. The drive...

LSN Announces New Jersey Death Penalty Symposium Materials Available

Posted on May 21, 2009
The text of the announcement: In cooperation with Seton Hall Law School, the Stein Center for Law & Ethics - Fordham Law School, the New Jersey State Bar Association, and the Capital Punishment Committee of the New York City Bar...

PSA from LLB: OMG, Bag Up Your Dollar Bills and Send Them to the Treasury Department Now

Posted on May 21, 2009
Or to put it another way, a Friday Fun feature for folks who are taking tomorrow off to enjoy an extended (and safe) Memorial Day weekend. [JH] Treasury Department Issues Emergency Recall Of All US Dollars

On the "Twitter is the new ..." Concept

Posted on May 20, 2009
In Ten Things Twitter is Not on Seldo.com the author writes, "[this] 'Twitter is the new...' concept is central to a lot of misunderstandings of Twitter. Twitter is not the new anything. Twitter is nothing but the new Twitter: that...

DRM and Copyright Exceptions for Libraries: Empirical Assessment of Article 6(4) of the Information Society Directive

Posted on May 20, 2009
Article 6(4) of Information Society Directive made illegal the circumvention of DRM, while attempting, simultaneously, to ensure that the legal protection of DRM does not prevent certain entities (such as, libraries, the visually impaired, teachers, students and researchers) from carrying...

Running Windows 7 on a Frankenbox

Posted on May 20, 2009
Dan Giancaterino (Internet Librarian, Jenkins Law Library) reports on his experience installing and running Windows 7 on his Win7 specs-not friendly "Frankenbox" (part Compaq, part Dell desktop with 512 MB of RAM and an old Pentium 3 processor running at...

SLA Helps Unemployed Members

Posted on May 20, 2009
SLA's efforts include: New SLA membership category, which allows those making $18,000 or less to join or renew for just $35. Holding the line on conference costs, prolonging the early bird discount and, at its expiration, offering a second discount.....

Court Says No Habeas to Enemy Combatants

Posted on May 20, 2009
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled that the government can hold enemy combatants indefinitely without bringing charges. The opinion by District Judge John Bates is here. From the opinion: After careful consideration, the Court...

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