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Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Posted on October 13, 2008
Reviews published in the October 6th, 2008 issue of InSITE: FOIAnet: Freedom of Information Advocates Network Revolving Door Tax Fraud Alerts Worldwatch Institute

Brookings Judicial Issues Forum on the 2008-09 U.S. Supreme Court Term

Posted on October 13, 2008
The constitutionality of a key Voting Rights Act provision, the FCC?s ban on broadcasting ?dirty words" and many other cases are on the docket for the U.S. Supreme Court's 2008-09 term. The Brookings Judicial Issues Forum hosted a panel discussion...

Opening: Research and Bibliographic Instruction Librarian, Washburn University School of Law Library

Posted on October 13, 2008
Washburn University School of Law Library is seeking an energetic and experienced law librarian for the position of Librarian for Research and Bibliographic Instruction. The successful candidate will, among other duties, teach law school courses in specialized legal research; make...

100 Days Left, Will Bush Quietly Fade into the Long Texas Night

Posted on October 12, 2008
Check out the AP story and iConflict's Last 100 Days blog post. [JH]

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Ohio Secretary of State Must Verify Voter Registrations

Posted on October 12, 2008
As election day nears, the prospect of voter fraud rears it's ugly head again in the state of Ohio. In late September, the Ohio Republican party filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking a retraction of the Ohio's Secretary...

New Fact Sheets from the State Department

Posted on October 11, 2008
The U.S. Department of State has issued a flurry of fact sheets including: Financing for Development U.S. Commitment to the Millennium Development Goals Promoting Food Security Worldwide: A U.S. Commitment United Nations Management Reform The Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

ALA Launches Redesigned Website

Posted on October 10, 2008
ALA has executed a major redo of its website. Check out the new features. [JH]

Closing the First Week of the SCOTUS Term

Posted on October 10, 2008
Opening week of the SCOTUS term isn't as interesting and as the final week when the Court issues its last batch of decisions just before taking the summer off. So it took awhile to find something to close the first...

Friday Fun: Defendant Pleads for His Freedom in This Classic Monty Python Court Sketch

Posted on October 10, 2008
It's a "bloody parking offense!" And is a good illustration of what not to do in moot court. [JH]

Will SSRN Ever Crowdsource Its Digital Depository Like Amazon?

Posted on October 10, 2008
Have you noticed that SSRN has some really exciting new features like simple submissions, a "more intuitive, user-friendly" sign-in "modeled after commonly used websites and forms," and redesigned author and abstract pages? You can also export SSRN paper cites into...

Is the US Supreme Court's Legal Influence Waning?

Posted on October 10, 2008
The New York Times American Exception series examines commonplace aspects of the American justice system that are virtually unique in the world. In a recent installment, Adam Liptak reports on the Supreme Court's fading influence worldwide. A Blow to the...

TS-SIS Awards Committee Seeking Nominations for the Renee D. Chapman Award

Posted on October 10, 2008
The Renee D. Chapman Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Technical Services Law Librarianship is presented at AALL's annual meeting to an individual or group in recognition of achievement in an area of technical services, for services to the Association,...

September Edition of AALL's Washington E-Bulletin

Posted on October 10, 2008
The September Edition of the Washington E-bulletin is now online. Highlights include: New York Times on the Loss of Federal Electronic Government Information Senate Subcommittee Addresses Secrecy and the Rule of Law House Oversight Subcommittee Holds Hearing on FOIA Ombudsman...

Nominations for the LPSS Marta Lange/CQ Press Award Due by December 5, 2008

Posted on October 09, 2008
The annual Marta Lange/CQ Press Award recognizes an academic or law librarian who, through research, service to the profession, or other creative activity, makes distinguished contributions to bibliography and information service in law or political science...

Does Anyone Understand the Financial Industry Bailout Act?

Posted on October 09, 2008
Apparently the ABA doesn't. The National Law Journal is reporting that the Association has asked Carlton Fields to draft a "white paper" on what the bailout plans means. The analysis will be completed this week by Carlton Fields partner Sandra...

Is the Palin E-Mail Hack Indictment Legally Flawed?

Posted on October 09, 2008
According to WSJ's Law Blog, David Kernell, the 20 year-old son of Mike Kernell, chairman of Tennessee?s House Government Operations Committee pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he hacking into Sarah Palin?s Yahoo email account yesterday. See LLB's earlier...

ELS: More Garbage In, More Garbage Out

Posted on October 09, 2008
Empirical legal studies has become the fasting growing research trend in legal scholarly circles these last few years. Will it fall into the dustbin of scholarly fads that get law profs tenure but have no other consequences like critical legal...

Survey of Library Innovators Exposes Profession's Pressure Points

Posted on October 09, 2008
In What We Need Chrystie Hill and Meredith Farkas survey examines the challenges many librarians face as they look for innovative ways to serve our constituents. The survey examined 300 LJ's Movers & Shakers recognized between 2002 and 2007. Time,...

Google's Project 10^100

Posted on October 09, 2008
To mark Google's 10th anniversary, the search engine giant has launched Project 10^100, a call for the best ideas that can change the world by helping as many people as possible. Google has set aside $10 million to help fund...

Law Professor Blogs Network Launches Native American Law and Clinicial Law Blogs

Posted on October 09, 2008
Last month, the Law Professor Blogs Network launched two new blogs: Native American Law Blog is edited by Timothy Pleasant and Deena DeGenova (both are Concord Law School profs). Note, for example, the blog's recent post, Native American law research...

Opening: Human Rights Archivist, University of Texas Libraries, Austin

Posted on October 09, 2008
The Human Rights Archivist is responsible for planning and coordinating the work of the University of Texas Libraries program for the collection and preservation of analog and digital archives and manuscript collections that document human rights conflict worldwide, and for...

It's International Professional Legal Management Week

Posted on October 08, 2008
Promoted by the Association of Legal Professionals and co-sponsored by related associations like AALL, the objectives of the Professional Legal Management Week, Oct. 6-10, 2008 are to provide awareness, understanding and education about the legal management profession, and to increase...

The Key Word is Thinking: Google-Generation Law Students Get Search Logic Lecture from CJ Roberts

Posted on October 08, 2008
Chief Justice John Roberts has issued a warning to law students -- do not rely unthinkingly on Internet sources for legal research. To illustrate his point, CJ Roberts criticized the use of simple word searches to find "precedents" that have...

Is the Orphan Works Bill Dead?

Posted on October 08, 2008
Yup. Public Knowledge's co-founder Gigi Sohn gives a a blow-by-blow account in her very interesting post, The Orphan Works Bill: "Wait Til Next Year!" [JH]

HeinOnine Introduces Drill-Down Citation Indexing and Linking to It's Law Journal Library

Posted on October 08, 2008
HeinOnline is introducing a new feature to help researchers assess the relative influence of law review articles based on citation frequency. Start with a topic search in the law journal library. Results will display the number of times each retrieved...

New on LLRX.com

Posted on October 08, 2008
From LLRX: LLRX Book Review by Heather A. Phillips - We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age The Government Domain: Political Fact-Checking Websites, by Peggy Garvin Researching Medical Literature...

AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers

Posted on October 08, 2008
The AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee is soliciting articles in three categories: Open Division: For active and retired AALL members and law librarians with five or more years of professional experience. Papers are due by March 2, 2009; New Members...

Opening: Cataloging Librarian, George Washington University Law Library

Posted on October 08, 2008
The Jacob Burns Law Library is reopening its search for a cataloging librarian with foreign language skills to perform original descriptive and subject cataloging, and to edit shared cataloging copy for older legal materials in a variety of foreign languages...

Who is Downloading Podcasts?

Posted on October 07, 2008
A recent Pew Internet Project Data memo reports that 19% of all Internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they could listen to it or view it later. This most recent percentage is up from 12% in Pew...

SCOTUS Retirement Watch and Likely Picks By President Obama or President McCain

Posted on October 07, 2008
Who's going to retire? Who's on the short list of likely SCOTUS nominees by President Obama or President McCain? Check out the ABA Journal and Washington Post for details. [JH]

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