Legal Research

Omar Khadr Video Round-up

Posted on July 16, 2008
Following up on our earlier post, First Guantanamo Bay Interrogation Video Released, check out Lawrence Gridin's recent Law is Cool post, Omar Khadr Video Round-up. Among the videos provided in the post is a short clip showing an excerpt from...

Cost Effective Legal Research Advice for New Associates and Law Clerks

Posted on July 16, 2008
A recent semi-serious LLB Poll posed the question: what will be the first thing law firm librarians tell summer associates this year? 74.7% responded with "Lexis/Westlaw costs MONEY!" By now, the truth of that advice, the consequences of not realizing...

Professional Reading: America's First Jim Crow Law School Library

Posted on July 15, 2008
Ernesto Longa's (University of New Mexico School of Law Library) award winning article, A History of America's First Jim Crow Law School Library and Staff, has been published at 7 Conn. Pub. Int. L.J. 77 (2007)[Westlaw]. In it Longa provides...

Congratulations to Mark Wojcik

Posted on July 15, 2008
Mark Wojcik (Professor of Law and Director of the Global Legal Studies Program at John Marshall Law School (Chicago)) has been appointed the ABA's Alternate Observer to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. Mark co-edits International Law Prof Blog...

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A Quick Look at Speechology

Posted on July 15, 2008
From the site: "Speechology archives key political speeches ? debates, speeches, campaign ads, etc. ? and lets you critique our leaders? words. Live television won?t tell you who?s being dishonest. Speechology will." You can browse by politician or video sets...

Openings: Two Positions, Los Angeles County Law Library

Posted on July 15, 2008
The Los Angeles County Law Library (LACLL) is seeking qualified candidates for Senior Librarian - Branch Manager and Librarian - Reference and Research. LACLL offers an excellent benefit package. To apply, send resume, cover letter, and names, addresses, and phone...

CRL and Readex Partner to Create the World Newspaper Archive

Posted on July 15, 2008
Readex and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) have announced that they will create the world's largest, fully searchable digital archive of international newspapers. The World Newspaper Archive will provide researchers unprecedented access to historical newspapers published outside the United...

First Guantanamo Bay Interrogation Video Released

Posted on July 15, 2008
Filmed secretly through a ventilation shaft, the video shows a 16-year-old Canadian citizen, Omar Khadr, being questioned by Canadian Security Intelligence Service agents in 2003 about events leading up to his capture by US forces. The teenage was accused of...

Just Released, Bhagwati's Termites in the Trading System Critiques the Use of PTAs

Posted on July 14, 2008
Termites in the Trading System How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade Jagdish Bhagwati List Price: $24.95 Hardcover: 160 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (July 14, 2008) ISBN-10: 0195331656 ISBN-13: 978-0195331653 From the blurb: Writing with his customary wit, panache,...

Information Overload Research Group Is Holding Its First Annual Conference Tomorrow

Posted on July 14, 2008
A typical information worker who sits at a computer all day turns to his e-mail program more than 50 times and uses instant messaging 77 times, according to a study by RescueTime. The company also found that on average the...

Linda Greenhouse Reflects on Her New York Times Career

Posted on July 14, 2008
After nearly 30 years covering the Supreme Court for the New York Times, Linda Greenhouse is retiring. She reflected on her distinguished career in yesterday's New York Times: 2,691 Decisions. Her next gig, Journalist-in-Residence at Yale Law School [Yale press...

Free Aspatore Titles to AALL Attendees

Posted on July 14, 2008
Stop by the West Print/CD booth to pick up your copies. Details on WestBlog. [JH]

Mediterranean Union Officially Launched

Posted on July 14, 2008
Heads of state from 43 countries launched the Mediterranean Union in Paris on Sunday. [Joint Declaration of the Paris Summit for the Mediterranean (July 13, 2008)]. Officially, the new body is called the "Barcelona Process: Union of the Mediterranean" in...

Kudos to Thompson Hine's Barbara Silbersack

Posted on July 14, 2008
Barbara Silbersack, associate director of library operations at Thompson Hine LLP, was recently elected to the board of trustees of the Cincinnati Law Library Association. She is the first non-lawyer to serve as a trustee since the association began in...

Ensuring Access to Justice for Detainees in the War on Terror

Posted on July 13, 2008
Webcast from the 2008 ACS National Convention: "This panel focused on who should be detained and where, what should happen to the detainees currently being held at Guantanamo, and how detainees should be treated. It included discussion of the rules...

The New Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Presidential Politics

Posted on July 13, 2008
On July 10 2008, President Bush signed H.R. 6304, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, into law, Public Law No. 110-261. [President's Signing Statement] [Thomas Resources | OpenCongress Resources | FAS Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Resources] Presidential contenders Sen...

Bugliosi's New Book Argues that Bush Is Criminally Responsible for the Deaths of American Soldiers in Iraq

Posted on July 13, 2008
Listen to an audio clip of Vincent Bugliosi explaining why he felt compelled to write The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder and how he sincerely feels that the United States was led into war on unsubstantiated grounds by...

OHCHR Report of Activities 2007

Posted on July 12, 2008
From the UN Pluse: "The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has released the report for its activites for 2007 (full-text, pdf ). The report reviews the work of the Commission in 2007, documenting the many activities...

FBI Releases Preliminary Annual Crime Statistics for 2007

Posted on July 12, 2008
From the press release: "According to the FBI's Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, the nation experienced a 1.4 percent decrease in the number of violent crimes and a 2.1 percent decline in the number of property crimes for 2007 compared...

Evaluating the Potential for a Recession in 2008

Posted on July 12, 2008
Recent CRS Report (via Open CRS): "The U.S. economy has faced some bad news lately. The housing boom has come to an abrupt halt, and housing sales and house building have been falling at double digit rates. Problems in housing...

Natural-Born Citizenship: McCain?s Eligibility to be President is an Issue Again

Posted on July 12, 2008
According to Jack Chin (Arizona) a largely overlooked 1937 statute calls John McCain?s eligibility to be president into question (again) because he is not a natural-born citizen. The law conferred citizenship on children of American parents born in the Canal...

Friday Fun: Best Robot Love Stories

Posted on July 11, 2008
From Wall-E to Weird Science, here's a slide show of the best robot love stories according to Wired's Jenna Wortham. [JH]

Crowdsourcing SCOTUS for Quality Control

Posted on July 11, 2008
After recent highly publicized SCOTUS mistakes, the Right Coast's Tom Smith has offered up an interesting quality control suggestion, using social media to crowdsource draft SCOTUS opinions before finalizing them. About Smith's suggestion, Legal Blog Watch writes "I'd bet that...

EPA Issues Business Guide to Climate Partnership Programs

Posted on July 11, 2008
The EPA's A Business Guide to U.S. EPA Climate Partnership Programs, profiles "35 EPA climate-change related partnership programs, as well as a handy table so companies can look up programs most appropriate for their industry and business objectives. Each program...

Ranking Moot Court Programs

Posted on July 11, 2008
Best Moot Court Programs ranks the Top 53 law school moot court programs. Here's the top 10. 1. UC-Hastings 2. Washington University 3. Georgetown 4. Chicago-Kent 5. South Texas 6. Brooklyn Georgia 8. Lewis & Clark 9. American 10. George...

10 Ways to Search Wikipedia

Posted on July 11, 2008
Great article from ReadWriteWeb: "Wikipedia, which turned 7 this year, is a source of information for 683 million visitors every year. A poster child for user-generated content, Wikipedia has grown from its first year in which just 12 articles were...

Cost Analysis of Using DNA in the Investigation of High-Volume Crimes

Posted on July 11, 2008
DNA Field Experiment: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the Use of DNA in the Investigation of High-Volume Crimes is a new report from the Urban Institute: "The study compared traditional crime solving to biological evidence techniques in hundreds of cases where biological...

Opening: Reference and Student Services Librarian, Oklahoma City University Law Library

Posted on July 11, 2008
Oklahoma City University is ideally located in a growing metro area with a low cost of living. The Oklahoma City University Law School provides a dynamic atmosphere and proudly supports the Center on Alternative Dispute Resolution, the Center for the...

Opening: Digital Information Management Librarian, Texas Tech Law Library

Posted on July 11, 2008
Texas Tech Law Library has an exciting opening for a Digital Information Management Librarian. (Please see the position description that follows.) While you are running from committee meeting to educational session to the exhibit hall, please take the time to...

Is Google Casting Aside the Library Community?

Posted on July 11, 2008
Check out what Steven Cohen (a senior librarian at Law Library Management Inc.) has to say in How Google Used Librarians?and Got Away With It and the Chronicle's Librarians Accuse Google of Using and Discarding Them. [JH]

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