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Wikipedia Survey Closes Feb. 26

Posted on February 24, 2009
The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedia use among the scholarly community. Their goal is to " increase understanding of the use and opinions about Wikipedia among this group." The survey will be open until February 26 midnight...

206th Anniversary of Marbury v. Madison

Posted on February 24, 2009
Today is the 206th anniversary of Marbury v. Madison. Cliff Sloan and David McKean's The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court (PublicAffairs, March 2, 2009) provides a fresh perspective on this landmark decision...

Law Librarian Group Calls for Ending Publication of Law Reviews in Print Format

Posted on February 24, 2009
Print publication of law reviews is back in the news (see LLB's earlier post, Twenty-Five Year Decline in Law Review Subscriptions). Paul Lomio recently reported on Legal Research Plus that the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship calls...

Making the Internet Work for Class Action Litigation

Posted on February 24, 2009
In their article, Making Class Actions Work: The Untapped Potential of the Internet, Mark Herrmann, Brad Harrison and Robert Klonoff propose ways that the Internet can be used to improve class action procedure including creating a centralized website that contains...

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Call for Contributions to the 17th Annual RIPS-SIS Teach-In Kit

Posted on February 24, 2009
The 2009 RIPS Teach-In Resource Kit is coming soon! Your contributions to the 2009 Kit are currently being accepted. The RIPS-SIS sponsored National Legal Research Teach-In campaign has provided the popular Teach-In Resource Kit for many years as a formerly...

Get Ready for Ed2Go(at)AALLNET

Posted on February 24, 2009
From the AALL E-Newsletter: AALL is proud to announce it is adopting a new, powerful, state-of-the-art learning technology, which will provide a new learning gateway to all AALL members. The new Ed2Go @AALLNET site will provide members with: Online access...

AALL Day in the Life Photo Entries Due Feb. 28

Posted on February 23, 2009
You still have time to submit your photos for the AALL Day in the Life of the Law Library Community Photo Contest. Photos should be submitted in the following categories with one winner chosen from each category and one overall...

Tough Times Ahead for Law Library Budgets

Posted on February 23, 2009
On January 26th we launched a little poll on the financial situation law libraries are finding themselves in because of the dismal state of the US economy. See Is It Time for a Law Library Bailout? I would like to...

New Forensic Science Report

Posted on February 23, 2009
A report on the state of forensic science in the U.S. was released February 18 by a National Academy of Science/National Research Council committee. Links to a briefing and press release are here. The report, entitled ?Strengthening Forensic Science in...

Law Faculty Citation Rankings in the Post-Sunstein Era

Posted on February 23, 2009
Cass Sunstein, formerly a professor at Harvard, would rank first as the most cited law prof during the last four years if he had not joined the Obama Administration. So what does the post-Sunstein era of faculty citation rankings look...

Conference on Empirical Research on the Legal Profession, Tuesday March 3, 2009

Posted on February 23, 2009
Here's the details on an upcoming symposium entitled "Empirical Research on the Legal Profession: Insights from Theory and Practice" sponsored by The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession and the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics: This symposium will...

Capital Punishment Documentary in Theaters February 27th

Posted on February 22, 2009
Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead, a feature-length documentary, looks inside a most unlikely friendship ? between Robert Blecker, a New York Law School professor who is one of the country?s most impassioned crusaders for capital punishment ? and Daryl Holton,...

Archived Webcast on the Legal Implications of Guantanamo

Posted on February 21, 2009
Interesting webcast on the Legal Talk Network discussing the legal ramifications of closing GITMO. Hosted by J. Craig Williams and Attorney Aziz Huq (Deputy Director from The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law), the discussion...

AALL Launches Twitter Feeds

Posted on February 20, 2009
Here and a separate feed for the 2009 Annual Meeting here. [JH]

Friday Fun: One Giant Button Will Revolutionize Personal Computing

Posted on February 20, 2009
Have you ever felt that keyboards are standing in the way of human progress? I know I have. [JH]

Refurbishing Library Facilities

Posted on February 20, 2009
From Ashgate, Renewing our Libraries: Case Studies in Re-planning and Refurbishment (2009), edited by Michael Dewe. Here's the product description:With the wish to heighten their profile, modernize their environment and increase use, libraries in the UK have refurbished and, where...

When a Web Resource Doesn't Offer an RSS Feed

Posted on February 20, 2009
When there's no RSS feed to subscribe to on a web source WatchThatPage is helpful for receiving alerts for content changes. The service requires regislation but it is free. WatchThatPage gives you several options for how you want to monitor...

Stimulus Act's Official Website

Posted on February 20, 2009
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Pub.L. No. 111-005, has its own official website and the White House recently released eight fact sheets outlining the impact of the Act. [JH]

State Secrets Legislation

Posted on February 19, 2009
After the U.S. Justice Department on February 9 argued before the Ninth Circuit in the case of Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., Case No. 08-15693, for affirmance of the district court?s dismissal of an extraordinary rendition lawsuit on the ground...

Identify and Vote for the Most Wanted But Unavailable Government Documents?

Posted on February 19, 2009
Show Us the Data wants to know if the federal government is putting the information you need online. From the site:Are there categories of unclassified documents or data that you know exist?on paper or in government computers and databases?that would...

Medtronic Case Highlights Judicial Conflicts Control

Posted on February 19, 2009
Conflicts information systems for the federal judiciary are highlighted in the role of Senior U.S. District Judge Richard H. Kyle, District of Minnesota, in complex litigation involving Medtronic, Inc. According to a Feb. 13 Wall Street Journal report (see also...

What Caused the Financial Crisis?

Posted on February 19, 2009
This highly sought after Congressional Research Service report, Causes of the Financial Crisis, examines the various causes of the financial crisis. The report, provided by Taxpayers for Common Sense, consists of a table that summarizes very briefly some of the...

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2008 Annual Edition

Posted on February 19, 2009
The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition is now available from Digital Scholarship. It presents over 3,350 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet...

Facebook's New TOS Now History

Posted on February 18, 2009
CNN is reporting today that Facebook has canceled its new user content policy after the uproar it caused. That was quick! About the aborted changes see yesterday's New Your Times article and the following blog posts: Facebook and the Law...

Twenty-Five Year Decline in Law Review Subscriptions

Posted on February 18, 2009
In Law Review Circulation, Ross Davies (George Mason), Green Bag Almanac & Reader 2009 at 164, reports on the sad state of law review compliance with the USPS's requirement to report total paid circulation each year. His survey of the...

Foreclosure Stats from Realty Trac

Posted on February 18, 2009
RealtyTrac has released its January 2009 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, The Report shows a 10 percent decrease in forecloures from the previous month but still up 18 percent from January 2008. The report indicates that one in every 466 U.S....

Alternative Sentencing in the Federal Criminal Justice System

Posted on February 18, 2009
A new report from the United States Sentencing Commission provides an in-depth analysis of alternative sentences for federal offenders. It explains the types of alternative sentences available to sentencing courts under federal law, and the extent to which courts impose...

A Demographic Profile of Twitter Users

Posted on February 18, 2009
Pew Internet has published a demographic profile of Twitter users based on a recent survey. Eleven percent of surveyed online American adults said they use Twitter or some similar service with usage increasing to approximately 20% of online adults ages...

Malamud Linked to PACER Pilot Shut Down

Posted on February 17, 2009
Carl Malamud, founder of Public.Resource.org, instigated the massive download of documents from PACER that led to the suspension of the free PACER pilot program last September, reports John Schwartz in the February 13 New York Times. According to Schwartz, Aaron...

Judicial Elections Gone Bad ?

Posted on February 17, 2009
USAToday has an article out today that discusses how a corporate CEO heavily backed (through a intermediary) a candidate for the West Virginia Supreme Court only to have that same judge be the deciding vote on a multi-million dollar case...

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