Legal Research

Opening: Assistant Professor / Research and Public Services Librarian, University of Nevada Law Library

Posted on December 04, 2008
The Wiener-Rogers Law Library at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Boyd School of Law invites applications for the position of assistant professor / research and public services librarian. The Wiener-Rogers Law Library supports the research, instruction, and public services...

AALL 2009 Election Results

Posted on December 03, 2008
The results of the AALL 2009 elections are in. LLB would like to congratulate: Vice President/President-Elect (July 2009 - July 2010):Joyce Manna Janto Executive Board (July 2009 - July 2012): Marcus L. Hochstetler & Janet McKinney [RJ]

Ending ALR Course with Law Library, the Hip Hop Version

Posted on December 03, 2008
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AALL's Day in Life Photo Contest Is Underway

Posted on December 03, 2008
Enter your digital or print photographs by February 28, 2009, in any of the following six categories: Librarians as Information Evaluators and Managers Librarians as Expert Researchers Librarians as Teachers and Trainers Librarians as Trailblazers in New Technology The Artistry...

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Get Tomorrow's Federal Regs Today

Posted on December 03, 2008
The Office of the Federal Register has created the Public Inspection Desk to provide online access to materials that will be published in the Federal Register. You can download typescript copies in PDF. Many federal agencies have been doing this...

What Don't We Know About the Bailout?

Posted on December 03, 2008
OpenTheGovernment.org has put together a nice page documenting the lack of transparency with regards to the financial bailout. Shockingly, What Don't We Know About The Bailout, draws mainly from news sources with very few official government publications...

Avoiding IT Project Disasters

Posted on December 03, 2008
According to Norm V. Brown, there are 11 ?Laws of IT Physics.? These ?laws? highlight hidden pitfalls the hurt many IT projects and help explain why some projects succeed while others fail. Planning is a continuous process, not a one-time...

Grade "Reform" in a Down Labor Market: Get Your Free 0.1 Point at USC Law

Posted on December 02, 2008
Above the Law is reporting that USC Law is proposing to tweak the School's grading curve by setting the average grade in each first-year course at 3.3 rather than at 3.2. The effect of this proposed change would be to...

Voting Underway for the 2008 ABA Journal Blawg 100

Posted on December 02, 2008
The editors of the ABA Journal have selected 100 law blogs for the Journal's second annual blog award contest. Voting in ten categories ends Jan. 2, 2009. Yes, it is a popularity contest but this one has the backing of...

Google: The Open Access Ideal and Compliance with Foreign Laws

Posted on December 02, 2008
In Google?s Gatekeepers, a New York Times Magazine feature article, Jeffrey Rosen (George Washington) examines Google's attempts to provide open access to online content while complying with the demands of governments interested in censoring that content...

First Books on Heller Published

Posted on December 02, 2008
This summer the Supreme Court had its first opportunity in seven decades to decide a question at the heart of one of America's most impassioned debates: Do Americans have the right to possess guns? Two new books now present a...

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Posted on December 02, 2008
Reviews published in the November 17th, 2008 issue of InSITE: Audiovisual Library of International Law FARAdb: Foreign Agent Registration Act Database Nuremberg Trials and Their Legacy Women's Environment & Development Organization

December Issue of AALL Spectrum Online

Posted on December 01, 2008
The December issue of AALL Spectrum is available online. This month?s articles feature: how to use online collaborative tools for long-distance teamwork a call for photographers for the 2009 Day in the Life photo contest why setting legal research benchmarks...

Can Your Blog Give Your Boss Clues to What Projects Should Be Assigned to You?

Posted on December 01, 2008
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment is a personality test employers use as a means to sort out the workforce into productive assignments best suited to individual strengths and weaknesses. It has also been used in modified form to select juries...

Is It a Federal Crime to Violate a Web Site's TOS?

Posted on December 01, 2008
In light of the recent verdict in the Lori Drew case, one of Drew's attorneys, Orin Kerr has established new Terms of Use for the Volokh Conspiracy, where he blogs. Of course merely viewing the Volokh Conspiracy's new TOS does...

Court Grants Concord Law Student Permission to Take Massachusetts Bar Exam

Posted on December 01, 2008
In Mitchell v. Board of Bar Examiners, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that Ross E. Mitchell is entitled to a waiver of the state's rule that bar exam applicants must be graduates of accredited law schools. Writing for the...

Professional Reading: Problems with Current English-Spanish Legal Dictionaries

Posted on December 01, 2008
R. De Groot (University of Maastricht) and Conrad Van Laer (University of Maastricht) has deposited The Quality of Legal Dictionaries: An Assessment in SSRN. From the abstract: "In this article, the quality of the different bilingual legal dictionaries between the...

ALL-SIS Faculty Services Committee Invites You to Join the Faculty Services Discussion List

Posted on December 01, 2008
The ALL-SIS Faculty Services Committee invites you to join the Faculty Services Discussion List on AALLNET. We will begin a discussion on ?Blurring the Lines of Traditional Library Service? on December 3, 2008. The discussion will begin at 10:00 AM...

A 21st Century Right-to-Know Agenda

Posted on November 30, 2008
The 21st Century Right to Know project, coordinated by OMB Watch, has issued some 70 recommendations to the Obama administration and Congress. The recommendations emphasize the need to move the federal government's information policies into the 21st century by adopting...

New Member Pictorial Directory: 111th Congress Now Available

Posted on November 29, 2008
New from GPO: "Published biennially by the Joint Committee on Printing of the U.S. Congress, the Congressional Pictorial Directory provides a color photograph of each member of the House of Representatives and the Senate. It also includes information about a...

Friday Fun: "Anything read in the library must stay in the library."

Posted on November 28, 2008
In The Library Chronicles [website], a rogue librarian runs an underground library. Here's the trailer: [JH]

Public Records Law in Ohio

Posted on November 28, 2008
The Ohio Legislative Service Commission has just issued a report on retrievial of public records in Ohio. In, Public Records Law in Ohio the LSC describes what a public record is, procedures regarding public records requests, and the retention of...

Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio

Posted on November 28, 2008
The Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio 1912 are now accessible and searchable through the Ohio Supreme Court?s Web site. ?The interest in these documents goes beyond law school students at Cleveland State University...

Thanksgiving Proclamations

Posted on November 27, 2008
The First Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1676 Congressional Proclamation of Thanksgiving, 1782 President George Washington's General Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789 President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation Establishing Thanksgiving Day, 1863 For additional information about the history of Thanksgivings, see Thanksgiving Timeline, 1541-2001, compiled by...

15-30 Minutes to Boot Up Work Computers Basis for Frivolous(?) Employee Lawsuits

Posted on November 26, 2008
The National Law Journal is reporting that several companies are being sued by their employees because they are not being paid for the the 15- to 30-minute time it takes to boot up their computers at the start of each...

Friday Fun on Wednesday: It's 10 Minutes to Closing Time

Posted on November 26, 2008
A policy is a policy is a policy (and don't we all feel this way today?). [JH]

The Presidential Signing Statements Controversy and Its Implications for Library Professionals

Posted on November 26, 2008
Two years out of library school and I-Wei Wang (Reference Librarian, Berkeley) was presenting her Lexis/Nexis Call for Paper Award winning paper at AALL's 2008 annual meeting. A revised version of the paper, Schoolhouse Rock Is No Longer Enough: The....

Money Wins Congressional Elections

Posted on November 26, 2008
Stating the obvious, the Center for Responsive Politics found that in 93 percent of House of Representatives races and 94 percent of Senate races the candidate who spent the most money ended up winning. Details. [JH]

Solomon on Civil Recourse Theory and Tort Law

Posted on November 26, 2008
Jason Solomon (Georgia) has posted Equal Accountability Through Tort Law on SSRN. Here's the abstract: The traditional conception of tort law as individual justice has been revived in recent years, particularly through the idea of "corrective justice...

1L Survival Wiki

Posted on November 26, 2008
Check out the How to Survive Your First Year of Law School wiki. Hat tip to Sue Liemer (SIU), Legal Writing Prof Blog. [JH]

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