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Will China's Charter 08 Emerge as a Blueprint for Political Change?
Posted on January 04, 2009Signed by over three hundred prominent Chinese citizens, China's Charter 08 calls for an end to some of its essential features of China current political system, including one-party rule, and their replacement with a system based on human rights, equality,...
Female Athletes Sue to End Gender Discrimination in Ski Jumping at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics
Posted on January 03, 2009Ski jumping is the last Winter Olympics sport closed to women. So Lindsey Van, holder of the distance record at the ski jumping site for the 2010 games, and nine other women from six countries are suing to remove the...
Just Released, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America
Posted on January 02, 2009In What Comes Naturally (Oxford UP, December 2008), Peggy Pascoe demonstrates how U.S. miscegenation laws were enacted and applied not just in the South but throughout most of the country, in the West, the North, and the Midwest. Beginning in...
Kudos to Scott Frey and John Doyle
Posted on January 02, 2009Scott Frey (Reference Librarian, Western State University) and John Doyle (Associate Law Librarian, Washington and Lee University) have been awarded Wolters Kluwer Law & Business grants. Scott was awarded $1,500 for his project "A Search Engine for Law-Related Public Domain...
Law Librarian Blog Turns Four Years Old Today!
Posted on January 01, 2009Today is the fourth anniversary of the first post published on Law Librarian Blog. Ron Jones and I would like to thank our great team of contributing editors, current and past, for all their help and most of all our...
FindLaw's List of the Top 10 Legal Issues
Posted on December 30, 2008The list was compiled from FindLaw?s most visited legal topics, the top consumer legal questions on FindLaw Answers and the most searched lawyers on FindLaw. ? Home Foreclosure & Renter?s Rights ? Politics & Obama ? Voters Rights ? Digital...
James Kent, Joseph Story and the Quest for Authoritative Reasoning
Posted on December 30, 2008Daniel Hulsebosch (NYU) has posted to NELLCO, Debating the Transformation of American Law: James Kent, Joseph Story, and the Legacy of the Revolution. In the essay, he demonstrates that although Kent and Joseph Story agreed about the desirability of a...
Should Law Schools Add Legislation Course to the 1L Curriculum?
Posted on December 30, 2008On Oct. 6, 2006, Harvard announced that it was adding a legislation and regulation course to its 1L curriculum. Ethan Leib (Hastings) commented on the development and its early critics on PrawfsBlawg. He has now published Adding Legislation Courses to...
Symeonides Updates Private International Law and Conflict of Laws Bibliographies
Posted on December 30, 2008Symeon C. Symeonides, Dean & Professor of Law, Willamette University College of Law, has posted the following two useful bibliographies on SSRN. Private International Law Bibliography 2007-08: U.S. and Foreign Sources in English Conflict of Laws Bibliography: U...
Solove's List of Notable 2008 Books on Information Privacy
Posted on December 29, 2008With brief annotations here. [JH]
What is the most important technology policy book of 2008?
Posted on December 29, 2008Take the poll at The Technology Liberation Front. [JH]
Dennis Kennedy's 2008 Blawggie Award Winners Announced
Posted on December 29, 2008Here's Dennis Kennedy's 2008 Blawggie Award winners by category. 1. Best Overall Law-Related Blog - SLAW 2. The Marty Schwimmer Best Practice-Specific Legal Blog - Evan Brown's Internet Cases 3. Best Law Practice Management Blog - Bruce MacEwen's Adam Smith,...
First Full-Length Biography of Judge Wisdom Published
Posted on December 29, 2008John Minor Wisdom is one the least publicly recognized heroes of the US civil rights movement despite having written many of the landmark decisions instrumental in desegregating the American South. That has changed now. By writing Champion of Civil Rights:...
Report on the Privileges or Immunities Clause
Posted on December 29, 2008The Constitutional Accountability Center has released The Gem of the Constitution: The Text and History of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by David H. Gans and Douglas T. Kendall. The report, according to the announcement, "tells...
Closing Guantánamo Bay
Posted on December 28, 2008The Boston Review website now features a forum on the prospects and problems of closing Guantánamo Bay. In the lead article, David Cole, Nation legal affairs correspondent and Georgetown law professor, argues for a surprisingly middle of the road position,...
Service By Facebook
Posted on December 27, 2008And now for something completely different... Carolyn Elefant reports that Australia's supreme court allowed lawyers from the Canberra-based firm Meyer Vandenberg to serve defendants with a default judgement via Facebook, after being satisfied that the profiles the lawyers had found...
GAO and GPO Reach Agreement on Hosting GAO Reports and GAO Comptroller General Decisions
Posted on December 26, 2008The GPO and the GAO have reached an agreement where GAO will now provide public access to the GAO Reports and GAO Comptroller General Decisions databases from its website. The GPO will maintain archives of both databases, but no new...
From Content Consumers to Content Creators
Posted on December 26, 2008In his D-Lib Magazine article (November/December 2008), Social Annotations in Digital Library Collections, Rich Gazan describes a case study in which social annotations were integrated with digital items in a question and answer site because digital libraries must recast users...
Free Access to the English Reports, 1220-1873
Posted on December 26, 2008The Commonwealth Legal Information Institute is now providing free access to the English Reports (1220-1873). CommonLII aims to provide one central Internet location from which it is possible to search - for free - core legal information from all Commonwealth...
IPv6 101
Posted on December 24, 2008Judi Hasson's provides a brief non-technical overview of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) which will expand the Internet with new coding, ways to transmit data and provide more web addresses, many, many more web addresses. Using 32-bit addresses, the current...
Florida State Senator Disses Dewey, "little old librarians" and LC
Posted on December 23, 2008The Tampa Tribune reports this wisdom from a local state senator who thinks the Dewey Decimal System is "anachronistic," "costly", "ridiculous" and "just plain frustrating." She also wants to ban Seinfeld. H/T to Montana's Fritz Snyder and his library staff...
Friday Fun on Tuesday: Up on the Housetop: The Risks for Santa
Posted on December 23, 2008Check out the 25th Podcast episode of King County Law Library?s SideBar entitled: Up on the Housetop: The Risks for Santa. In it Santa finds out about the potential liabilities and risks he might encounter during his annual trip. [JH]
Pew/Internet Releases The Future of the Internet III Report
Posted on December 23, 2008The Pew Internet & American Life Project that asked respondents to assess predictions about technology and its roles in the year 2020. Here's the key findings: The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most...
American Tort Reform Foundation Releases Judicial Hellholes 2008/2009 Report
Posted on December 23, 2008Judicial Hellholes, according to the American Tort Reform Association are "places where judges systematically apply laws and court procedures in an inequitable manner, generally against defendants in civil lawsuits." In its seventh annual report, ATRF shines its brightest spotlight on...
Release of CJ Rehnquist Papers Delayed
Posted on December 22, 2008On the Blog of Legal Times, Tony Mauro reports that the Hoover Institution Archives has announced that the release of the second installment of papers in the collection of the late chief Justice William Rehnquist has been postponed. The papers...
Shorty Awards Nominations Due By December 31
Posted on December 22, 2008The Shorty Awards honor the world's top Twitterers. You can nominate as many people for as many categories as you'd like until midnight December 31st. You can check out the top nominees in the Law category here. [JH]
CALI's ELangdell: Share Course Materials and Edit Cases
Posted on December 22, 2008CALI's eLangdell project offers faculty a new way to create and share course materials. Materials can be shared with colleagues worldwide, institution-wide or with students taking a class. According to their site, "With eLangdell, teachers don't have to publish an...
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