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The Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Posted on June 08, 2008
The Congressional Research Service recently produced The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: History, Perspectives, and Issues (May 15, 2008)(pdf). Here's the summary: Congress authorized the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA, P...

Who Will Rule the New Internet?

Posted on June 07, 2008
Google, Facebook or Apple. Apple? Read more about it in Time. [JH]

Commission on Growth and Development Releases Landmark Study of World's 13 Fastest-Growing Economies

Posted on June 07, 2008
The Commission on Growth and Development has released its final report, The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development (pdf) which looks at how developing countries can achieve fast sustained and equitable growth. According to the Commission, fast...

Friday Fun: It's Only a TV Court!

Posted on June 06, 2008
Ouch, Judge Milian gives a University of Miami law student a piece of her mind on the People's Court. [JH]

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Course Project Products Privacy Complaint Against Facebook

Posted on June 06, 2008
The law students at the University of Ottawa?s Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic analyzed Facebook?s policies and practices in a course last winter, identifying specific practices that may violate the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act...

The Role of Blogs in Public Debate: A Case Study of the Alito Nomination

Posted on June 06, 2008
Check out New Mediated Deliberation: Blog and Press Coverage of the Alito Nomination by Michael Xenos 13 Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 485 (2008). Here's the abstract: This study explores the implications of political weblogs for theories of mediated public deliberation...

Lipton's Personality Rights Paradigm for Personal Domain Name Disputes

Posted on June 06, 2008
Jacqueline Lipton (Case Western Reserve Law School) has posted Celebrity in Cyberspace: A Personality Rights Paradigm for Personal Domain Name Disputes, forthcoming in the Washington & Lee Law Review, in SSRN. Here is the abstract. When the Oscar-winning actress, Julia...

Litigation Could Redefine "Business Methods" Software Patents

Posted on June 06, 2008
Interesting story from CNet.com: "About a decade ago, a federal appeals court issued a ruling that prompted thousands of new applications for patents on so-called "business methods," ranging from Amazon.com's "1-click" ordering system to Priceline's auction technique for selling tickets...

Opening: Senior Cataloging Librarian, Washington University School of Law Library

Posted on June 06, 2008
Washington University School of Law Library is searching for a candidate to fill the position of Senior Cataloging Librarian. The following is a short description for this position: JOB TITLE: Assistant Law Librarian/Senior Cataloging Librarian at Washington University School of...

Do We Need 10 More Law Schools?

Posted on June 06, 2008
Read more about it in the National Law Journal article A Deluge of Law Schools. [JH]

Professional Reading: Alberto Manguel's The Library at Night

Posted on June 05, 2008
The starting point is a question. Outside theology and fantastic literature, few can doubt that the main features of our universe are its dearth of meaning and lack of discernible purpose. And yet, with bewildering optimism, we continue to assemble...

Recent Legislative Developments on Alien Smuggling

Posted on June 05, 2008
From CRS by way of OpenCRS: Alien Smuggling: Recent Legislative Developments (May 22, 2008)(pdf). Summary: The primary statutory provision proscribing alien smuggling is �274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). INA �274 proscribes a broad spectrum of activities that...

Chesapeake Project's Born-Digital Legal Information Archive Report

Posted on June 05, 2008
The Chesapeake Project has issued the first year evaluation (pdf) of the Project's two-year pilot program. From the executive summary: Archiving Activity and Numbers 2,705 digital items were harvested and archived, along with their respective preservation metadata, in the OCLC...

Libraries Unleashed

Posted on June 05, 2008
Check out this supplement from the Guardian: Topics include: Colleges, universities and the digital challenge Learning spaces Library 2.0 New business models Digitisation The new user Librarians See also: Building the 21st century library, Joint Information Systems Committee [RJ]

Opening: Reference / Educational Technology Librarian, Syracuse University College of Law Library

Posted on June 05, 2008
The Syracuse University College of Law, H. Douglas Barclay Law Library invites applications for the position of Reference/Educational Technology Librarian. Responsibilities: As a member of the reference team, take a leading role in the instructional initiatives of the library...

Abbie Mulvihill Launches Law Librarians LinkedIn Group

Posted on June 05, 2008
From Abbie's blog, AbsTracked: "I have just set up a Law Librarians group at LinkedIn. If you are a law librarian with a LinkedIn profile, all you have to do is click on this link to join." Great! [JH]

New Law Library planned for Barkley Law

Posted on June 05, 2008
Alben W. Barkley School of Law, formerly called American Justice School of Law, whose troubles this blog mentioned here and here attempts to stabilize itself and as part of its future plans to build a new $3.8M law library. Hopefully,...

LLB Poll: Why Go to AALL's Annual Meeting

Posted on June 04, 2008
Opinion Polls & Market Research

Free Citators Available from Public Domain Legal Search Engines

Posted on June 04, 2008
Check out Bonnie Shucha's (Wisconsin) review of new citators now available from AltLaw & PreCYdent. I agree with her assessment completely. These services "just aren't proven yet. What is the depth of coverage? Will it pick up all the important...

New Law, Public Policy and Current Affairs Titles from Yale UP

Posted on June 04, 2008
Details below the fold. [JH] Law Free Speech and Human Dignity by Steven J. Heyman We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law by Alexander Tsesis "Complicity with Evil:" The United Nations in the Age of Modern...

Senate Hearings on the Future of the Internet

Posted on June 04, 2008
Hearing from the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Majority Statements: Daniel K. Inouye Minority Statements: Ted Stevens Witnesses Opening Remarks Panel 1 The Honorable Kevin J. Martin, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission Panel 2 Ms...

Opening: Head of Reference, Fordham Law Library

Posted on June 04, 2008
Fordham University Law School's Kissam Law Library seeks a dynamic, forward-looking lawyer-librarian to serve as its Head of Reference. We need someone who is excited about playing a leading role in serving the research needs of an excellent student body...

Thomson West Launches Redesigned Website

Posted on June 04, 2008
Check out Thomson West's redesigned website. Great new look, much easier to navigate. Home Sitemap Shop for Books & CD-ROMs Tools for Organizations Resources for Practice Centers Research & Technical Knowledge Base Librarian Resource Center [JH]

Harvard UP Launches Open Access, Peer-Reviewed Legal Journal

Posted on June 04, 2008
Harvard University Press has unveiled its plan to publish the open access, peer-reviewed Journal of Legal Analysis. Hat tip to Geen Koo (CALI), Law School Innovation. [JH]

Emory Names Yale's Mark Engsberg New Law Library Director

Posted on June 03, 2008
Mark Engsberg has been appointed Law Library Director and Associate Professor of Law at Emory, beginning this August. Mark has been at Yale for eight years, where he is currently Head of Reference. He also has served as editor of...

Al-Ani's The Trial of Saddam Hussein

Posted on June 03, 2008
Highly recommended international law collections. Detailed table of contents below the fold. [JH] The Trial of Saddam Hussein by Dr. Abdul-Haq Al-Ani List Price: $21.95 Paperback: 421 pages Publisher: Clarity Press (May 1, 2008) ISBN-10: 0932863582 ISBN-13: 978-0932863584 Synopsis: The...

Professional Reading: Did Langdell (and Ames) Get it Right?

Posted on June 03, 2008
What's interesting and fairly unique about this analysis of the casebook method is that the author is a qualified educational psychologist. All too often, similar critiques published in the legal literature are performed by amateur law school pedagogists...

The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices

Posted on June 03, 2008
Produced by Primary Research Group, The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices presents data from 90 libraries ? corporate, legal, college, public, state, and non-profit libraries ? about their database licensing practices. More than half of the participating libraries are...

Opening: Principal Law Librarian, Maine State Legislature

Posted on June 03, 2008
The Maine Legislature?s State Law and Legislative Reference Library, a nonpartisan staff office of the Legislative Council, is seeking a full-time Principal Law Librarian to assist the Director in overall library management. This position is responsible for public services within...

Kudos to Kane County Law Library's NancyLee Browne

Posted on June 03, 2008
Kane County Law Library's (Illinois) NancyLee Browne will receive the Support Staff Award from the DuPage Library System today. The award notes Browne?s effort in spearheading two events unique in Illinois. They are the Boy Scout Law Merit Badge Day....

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