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Lieberman Urges Better Public Access To CRS Reports

Posted on March 27, 2009
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., urged the new Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee to help foster greater public access to the expert reports produced by the Congressional Research Service. In a letter to Rules...

Law and Justice with Antonin Scalia

Posted on March 27, 2009
National Review Online has posted a 5 part series with Justice Scalia discussing his his "career, his family, his opinions, his faith, his colleagues, his legacy, and the fate of the Constitution." [RJ]

Free & Low Cost Legal Research Guide

Posted on March 26, 2009
Georgetown Law's Free & Low Cost Legal Research Guide is one of the best I've seen. It's a must-have for library users who do not have access to Lexis or Westlaw because the guide lays out resource options in an...

2008 Moot Court Rankings

Posted on March 26, 2009
80 moot court teams have been ranked by Brian Koppen based on their performances in 2008 moot court competitions. First place goes to South Texas. Some comments here and here. [JH]

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Call for Papers: RuleML Symposium

Posted on March 26, 2009
A call for papers has been issued for the Third International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability (RuleML) to be held Nov. 5-7, 2009, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Abstract submission deadline is June 9. The committee welcomes submissions on ?applications...

Deadline for SR-SIS Alan Holoch Memorial Grant Applications in April 15

Posted on March 26, 2009
The Alan Holoch Memorial Grant Committee is now taking applications for the 2009 AALL annual meeting. The Alan Holoch Memorial Grant is available to help SR-SIS members defray the cost of travel or registration for the AALL Annual Meeting in...

Cardozo Law Students Launch Website to Aid Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Posted on March 26, 2009
Cardozo Advocates for Kids, a student organization at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, has launched a website to aid victims of childhood sexual abuse and be a resource in the national grassroots movement to eliminate the statutes of limitations...

Economic Downturn Hits Volokh Conspiracy

Posted on March 26, 2009
Oh no, the economy has hit one of the most popular and award winning law professor blogs in the blogosphere. See Layoffs at the Volokh Conspiracy. Here at the Law Professor Blogs Network, we too have had to tighten our...

Law Prof's Jury Room Activities Lead to Overturned Verdict

Posted on March 25, 2009
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that the defendant in a slip-and-fall case was deprived of a fair trial in part because the jury foreman, a Seton Hall law professor, influenced the verdict by explaining legal concepts to his...

Grimmelmann on Google Book Settlement

Posted on March 25, 2009
Professor James Grimmelmann of New York Law School recommends in a new article that the proposed Google Book settlement agreement be modified before court approval, and that the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission regulate the resulting transaction...

Text-Mining Case Law

Posted on March 25, 2009
Noting that LexisNexis and Westlaw search technology is some 30 years old and does not use more recent text-mining technologies from computational linguistics such as information extraction, Dr. Adam Zachary Wyner contrasts them to more modern text-mining tools in this...

LSAT 2.0?

Posted on March 25, 2009
Berkeley Professors Marjorie M. Shultz (Law, retired) and Sheldon Zedeck (Psychology) have come up with a test that may be better at predicting lawyer performance that the LSAT. It should be noted that the Law School Admissions Council helped finance...

Opening: Assistant Director of Public Services and Legal Research, Pacific McGeorge School of Law

Posted on March 25, 2009
Pacific McGeorge School of Law's Gordon D. Schaber Law Library seeks an enthusiastic candidate to be our next Assistant Director of Public Services and Legal Research. The Assistant Director of Public Services and Legal Research is responsible for coordinating and...

Public Access to Court Records Lecture

Posted on March 24, 2009
A video of Stephen Schultze?s February 2009 lecture, ?Selling the Law: The Business of Public Access to Court Records,? is now available. Schultze is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Here is an...

Profiling Social Networks by Analyzing User Tagging Behavior

Posted on March 24, 2009
Can an analysis of the tagging data of users serve as a useful metric to profile social networks? According to Ying Ding, Elin K. Jacob, James Caverlee, Michael Fried and Zhixiong Zhang the answer is a qualified "yes." In Profiling...

Do This First: Cost Saving Tips for LexisNexis and Westlaw

Posted on March 24, 2009
Sue Altmeyer, Electronic Services Librarian at Cleveland-Marshall and LLB contributing editor, has put together some great cost saving tips for Lexis and Westlaw on the Cleveland-Marshall blog. I doubt She would mind one bit if law firm librarians scraped the...

IRS Releases 2008 Data Book

Posted on March 24, 2009
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released the 2008 IRS Data Book, which is an annual snapshot of IRS activities for a given fiscal year. The report describes activities conducted by the IRS from Oct. 1, 2007, to Sept. 30,...

Opening: Information Technology Specialist (Library Systems Admin.), Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

Posted on March 24, 2009
This position is located in the Office of Court Administration, Appellate Court & Circuit Administration Division. The incumbent of this position serves as the Integrated Library System (ILS) product administrator and provides national leadership for the ILS...

Amazon Gets Evil About Using Kindle to Read Non-Amazon Purchased Mobi-coded Books

Posted on March 24, 2009
Igor Skochinsky wrote a script that takes a Kindle serial number and translates it into the corresponding Mobi device ID so that any legally purchased Modi-coded book could be read on a Kindle. He posted a guide at mobileread.com that...

DOJ Resources for United States v. Bernard L. Madoff

Posted on March 23, 2009
Following up an earlier LLB post, the U.S. Justice Department has put together an excellent resource page with links to PDFs of court documents from the high-profile United States v. Bernard L. Madoff criminal case. [RJ]

Records of the State Ratifying Conventions as a Source of Original Intent: A Concise Guide

Posted on March 23, 2009
Gregory E. Maggs (George Washington Univ. Law School) has followed up on his guide to the Federalist Papers, 87 B.U. L. REV. 801 (2007) with A Concise Guide to the Records of the State Ratifying Conventions as a Source of...

Webinar: Tools for Classroom Podcasting

Posted on March 23, 2009
CALI's Executive Director, John Mayer, runs through podcasting in the classroom and Classcaster, CALI's free (to CALI member schools) podcasting/blogging system. [RJ]

Opening: Evening Reference Librarian, Judge Kathryn J. DuFour Law Library

Posted on March 23, 2009
The Judge Kathryn J. DuFour Law Library is seeking candidates for the position of Evening Reference Librarian. The Evening Reference Librarian reports directly to the Associate Director and Head of Public Services, and, together with the Reference staff, provides reference...

RIPS-SIS 2009 Teach-In Kit Now Available

Posted on March 23, 2009
The Research Instruction and Patron Services Special Interest Section (RIPS-SIS) has released the 2009 National Legal Research Teach-In Kit. Compilied and edited by Gail A. Partin and David E. Lehmann, the Kit includes games, handouts and guides, exercies and Powerpoint...

ABA Vetting Judicial Nominees Again

Posted on March 23, 2009
The ABA has resumed its role of vetting judicial nominees before the president nominates them, reversing a decision made eight years ago under President George W. Bush. See Tony Mauro's story, ABA President on Its New (Old) Role in Judicial...

Morris L. Cohen Fellowship in American Legal Bibliography & History

Posted on March 23, 2009
Do you (1) have a project involving legal history and bibliography, especially American legal history and bibliography; (2) need to use Harvard Law Library's special collections; and (3) seek money to go there to research? Then consider this newly created...

CIA Releases Six Declassified Vietnam Histories

Posted on March 22, 2009
The CIA has released six declassified histories volumes that describe the CIA's role in Indochina during the Vietnam War. These histories written by Thomas L. Ahern, Jr., are based on extensive research in CIA records and on oral history interviews...

How to Know When to Fire Your Financial Adviser!

Posted on March 21, 2009
Brett Arends, from the Wall Street Journal has put together a top ten list of tips to indicate when it's time to part ways with your financial guru. My favorites: Won't return your calls! Hides behind jargon! Tries to bully...

Friday Fun: Joe in a Book

Posted on March 20, 2009
3Ls teach 1Ls how to sneak coffee into the Cardozo Law Library. Is coffee really not allowed? Isn't denial of coffee in the law library a human rights violation? [JH]

Articles & Conference Papers on Legal Information Systems Research: Indexed in ACM Portal

Posted on March 20, 2009
New conference papers and articles on legal information systems research are indexed and abstracted in ACM Portal?s Guide to Computing Literature. Preprints are also available. One may search using the subject term ?Law?, or search by keyword in the box...

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