Legal Research

Third Circuit Rules Temple Sexual Harassment Policy Unconstitutional

Posted on August 22, 2008
Colleges may be forced to rethink their sexual harassment policies after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Temple University's now-abandoned policy unconstitutional. According to a recent article in the Chronicle, the decision "may make it harder...

It's Official, You Can Now Find a Crowdsourced Answer for Every Legal Question on the Internet

Posted on August 22, 2008
My proof, a video answering the question "Are tattoos and piercings allowed in Jewish law?" Note well, a comment to the video disputes part of the answer provided. Tattoos may be lawful. [JH] Are Tattoos and Piercings Allowed in Jewish...

LLB on Fantasy Football, a Friday Fun Special Feature

Posted on August 22, 2008
As a fantasy football junkie, the dog days of summer can mean only one thing. DRAFT TIME! There is nothing more crucial to your fantasy success than a proper draft. ESPN, FOX Sports, SI and even Mashable have put together...

US News 2009 Rankings of Universities and Colleges Now Online

Posted on August 22, 2008
U.S. News & World Report has released its rankings of US universities and colleges best-ing the Forbes ranking in comprehensiveness by some 800-plus IHEs. See LLB post College Rankings Now a Duopoly, Forbes Publishes Its First Best 569 Colleges. Front...

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Scholars Perspectives: Impact of Digitized Collections on Learning and Teaching

Posted on August 21, 2008
Rare books, archives and other materials play a critical role in both teaching and research. In a recent RLG symposium on digital collections, participants stressed the importance of custodians to ?work with faculty to understand current research methods and materials;...

Student Tendencies to Self-handicap in Law School

Posted on August 21, 2008
Self-handicapping is a set of behavioral strategies employed before a performance that permits the individual to avoid receiving information that threatens self-esteem. Catherine Ross Dunham (Elon University School of Law) reports her findings on self-handicapping law school student behavior in...

Houdek's History of AALL

Posted on August 21, 2008
What happened between AALL's first meeting in 1906 and its 2006 annual meeting? Read Frank Houdek's First Century: One Hundred Years of AALL History, 1906-2005 (Hein, 2008) to find out. Only $95.00! That's almost a buck per year covered. [JH]

More Best Search Engines You Probably May Not Have Heard Of

Posted on August 21, 2008
Scouring the web for information can be a tall order, especially when you?re treading in unfamiliar waters. Heather Johnson, from BestCollegesOnline.com, has put together a list of 50 Awesome Search Engines Every Librarian Should Know About. My personal favorites: Get...

Attention Loyal Lawyer2Lawyer Listeners

Posted on August 21, 2008
For its upcoming third anniversary show, Lawyer2Lawyer is looking for guests. Bob Ambrogi, co-host of this always interesting legal affairs podcast, explains, "we'd like to learn more about the people who listen, whatever their backgrounds and wherever in the world...

Congress Wants to Eliminate 4.5 Billion Personal Complaints

Posted on August 21, 2008
How? Congressman Sam Graves of Missouri introduced H.Con.Res. 404 on July 31, 2008 because he had nothing else to do, I guess. The resolution calls for officially declaring the day before Thanksgiving ?Complaint Free Wednesday." [Open Congress Resources][JH] H...

How Safe Is Your Web Browser?

Posted on August 20, 2008
Over 600 million Internet users at risk worldwide due to not running the latest most secure browser version according to a new report by researchers at ETH. In Understanding the Web browser threat: Examination of vulnerable online Web browser populations...

NCPL Bibliography on the Law of Nonprofit Organizations

Posted on August 20, 2008
I cannot tell how long the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law's bibliography of domestic and international English language secondary sources has been online, but based on the design of the web page, it looks like it was started...

Social Networking Attorneys: Usage Stats and Tips

Posted on August 20, 2008
Jury Selection Using Social Networking Sites Attorneys are turning to various social networking sites looking for any bit of information that might aid in process of selecting or removing jurors. ?As more and more information on people becomes available on...

Incorporating Wikipedia in Instructional Programs

Posted on August 20, 2008
As librarians grapple with how to incorporate non-traditional electronic resources into their curriculum, students are often left wondering why certain resources, which have become mainstays of their research, are often overlooked or dismissed as irrelevant...

Worst Web Glitches of 2008 (so far)

Posted on August 20, 2008
"Web 2.0 is in no way a synonym for 'reliable'" writes Webware's Rafe Needleman. See his timeline of the 10 Worst Web glitches of 2008 (so far). My favorite, Cuil: "Google scientist leaves Google, builds competitive search engine. At launch,...

OMG, or How Not to Do a Website Featuring Law School Students

Posted on August 20, 2008
There's still a couple of months left in 2008, but there's no need to wait to hand out the award for worst new website development in the legal academy. It goes to the NYU Law Experience in both the overall...

Who Represented the Fortune 100 in 2007?

Posted on August 19, 2008
To find out which law firms represented the Fortune 100 last year, Law.com researched public records for information on five different practice areas: corporate transactions, commercial law and contracts litigation, labor and employment litigation, torts/negligence litigation and intellectual property...

Step Up or Step Aside

Posted on August 19, 2008
71% of our poll's participants have made it clear that senior librarians eligible for retirement do not have a moral obligation to make room for younger ones by retiring during a weak job market. Half of those respondents believe "life...

Thurgood Marshall's Legacy

Posted on August 19, 2008
Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954. That event was the climax of Laurence Fishburne's one-man show, Thurgood, which was performed at the Booth...

Save the Date for Singularity Web Conference

Posted on August 19, 2008
Singularity may be the largest online web conference in the world when it takes place. Organized by Aral Balkan, a self-described Internet junkie whose blog is a must-read for all Internet junkies, the plans call for an online conference involving...

Got Scanners?

Posted on August 19, 2008
GPO envisions a cooperative, mutually beneficial relationship with a private or public sector participant(s) for the digitization of legacy materials that were distributed through the Federal Depository Library Program. The estimated size of the collection is approximately 2...

Take Collection Development Survey for HeinOnline Content

Posted on August 19, 2008
Hein is looking for feedback on the delivery of upcoming HeinOnline content and has opened this brief Collection Development Survey. Take a minute to contribute. Hat tip to Legal Research Plus for calling attention to Galen L. Fletcher's Federal Government...

AALS: "It will be possible for someone to attend any part of the [annual] meeting without setting foot in the Hyatt"

Posted on August 19, 2008
As previously reported at The Proposed AALS Meeting Boycott: Much Ado About Something, But What?, some law school groups wanted to boycott the January 2009 AALS annual meeting because the owner of one of the two meeting sites was a...

Blogs from Self-Help Legal Publisher Nolo

Posted on August 18, 2008
Not only is Nolo diving into blogging in a big way by supporting blogs for authors of Nolo self-help law titles (listed below), the publisher is underscoring its business model with Nolo.com editor Rich Stim's What Price Justice? [Feed] (focuses...

Human Rights Watch Evaluates ICC Operations

Posted on August 18, 2008
In March 2003 the first 18 judges of the International Criminal Court's bench were sworn in. The ICC prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, took office in June 2003 and the ICC got down to the business investigating human rights violations and prosecuting...

Open Source Licenses Held Enforceable

Posted on August 18, 2008
In Jacobsen v. Katzer (No. 2008-1001, Aug 13, 2008), the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit reversed a lower court's ruling that copyright protection is not available for software distributed free-of-charge under an open source license. At issue,...

Use of Social Media Reaching Critical Mass

Posted on August 18, 2008
Over 50% of US adults use text messaging, blogging and other types of social media to regularly. 85% of adults in the all-important 18-34 age group rely on one or more Web 2.0 platforms to stay in touch with others...

U.S. Not Fully Prepared for Large-Scale, Coordinated Cyberattacks

Posted on August 18, 2008
Hostilities between Georgia and Russia extended beyond the physical battlefield to include cyberwarfare. Hackers mounted coordinated assaults on Georgian government, media, banking and transportation sites in the weeks before Russian troops invaded. See Cyberwarfare Escalates Between Georgia, Russia...

Most Worthless Law School Classes

Posted on August 18, 2008
According to Above the Law's Sophist the "classes worth sleeping through" are: Property Constitutional Law Torts Tax According to ALT readers they are: Professional Responsibility International Law Conflicts of Law Space Law [JH]

A Kierkegaardian Leap of Faith in Social Media: Does a Critical Remark About Opinions Expressed By a Commenter or Blogger On Another Blog Constitute Bullying?

Posted on August 18, 2008
Online Surveys & Market Research Online Surveys & Market Research In the context of the threatened AALS annual meeting boycott [LLB post: The Proposed AALS Meeting Boycott: Much Ado About Something, But What?], a comment to a Legal Ethics Forum...

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