Legal Research

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Posted on May 20, 2008
Reviews published in the May 5th, 2008 issue of InSITE: GLIN: Global Legal Information Network PLoL: Public Library of Law Trade Observatory Tribal Law Journal United Nations Scholars' Workstation [RJ]

Free Webinar on Multi-Jurisdictional E-Discovery Issues Tomorrow

Posted on May 20, 2008
Crossing Borders: Managing Multi-Jurisdictional E-Discovery Matters Event Date: May 21, 2008 1:00 PM Central Daylight Time Speakers: Bob Little, VP of Marketing and Joseph Venturella, Senior VP of Legal Solutions, both affliated with RenewData Registration: webpage This free webinar will...

State Court Processing of Domestic Violence Cases

Posted on May 20, 2008
New study from the Bureau of Justice Statistics: "Examines the processing of domestic violence (DV) and non-domestic violence (non-DV) cases filed in May 2002 in 15 large urban counties. The study compares the domestic and non-domestic offenses of sexual and...

Broadcasting, Voice and Accountability

Posted on May 20, 2008
New publication from the World Bank Institute: "This book provides guidelines, tools, and real world examples to help assess and reform the enabling environment for media development that serves public interest goals. It builds on a growing awareness of the...

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Opening: Head of Reference, Fordham University Law School Library

Posted on May 20, 2008
The Fordham University Law School Library in the heart of New York City is looking for a forward-looking, energetic law library leader to head our Reference Department. Please see the attached job announcement. TITLE OF POSITION: Head of Reference DEPARTMENT:...

Success Rate of Law School Graduates on the Teaching Market

Posted on May 20, 2008
Brian Leiter (Texas) has published Success Rate of Law School Graduates on the Teaching Market 2006-2008. This new ranking study is based on data compiled by Daniel Solove (George Washington) and Larry Solum (Illinios). See also Leiter's blog post. [JH]

Professional Reading: Authors and Readers: Conceptualizing Authorship in Copyright Law

Posted on May 19, 2008
Alina Ng (Mississippi College School of Law) has deposited Authors and Readers: Conceptualizing Authorship in Copyright Law in SSRN. Here's the abstract: Copyright law recognizes authors as the first owners of copyright. However, there is paucity of literature in copyright...

International Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories

Posted on May 19, 2008
Produced by Primary Research Group, The International Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories (ISBN: 1-57440-090-8; $89.50) describes norms and benchmarks for budgets, software use, manpower needs and deployment, financing, usage, marketing and other facets of the managment of international digital repositories...

Roy Mersky, Recipient of This Year's Spirit of Law Librarianship Award

Posted on May 19, 2008
The Spirit of Law Librarianship Award Committee has announced that the late Roy M. Mersky will be honored with this year's award. Richard Leiter writes "Roy exemplified all the virtues intended to be recognized by the award. Over the years,...

Wolin's Democracy Incorporated

Posted on May 19, 2008
"For half a century, Sheldon Wolin has been one of the most distinguished and influential political theorists in the United States and a perceptive observer of the American political scene. In his magisterial latest book, Wolin shows himself at the...

2007 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics

Posted on May 19, 2008
From the Department of Homeland Security: "The Yearbook of Immigration Statistics is a compendium of tables that provides data on foreign nationals who, during a fiscal year, were granted lawful permanent residence (i.e., admitted as immigrants or became legal permanent...

Opening: Law Library Director, Wayne State University

Posted on May 19, 2008
The Wayne State University Library System is conducting a search for a Law Library Director. The Director position reports jointly to the Library System Dean and the Law School Dean. Details of the position can be found at https://www.jobs.wayne.edu, posting...

Own a Piece of "Legal History," Charlton Heston's Ten Commandments to Be Auctioned

Posted on May 19, 2008
AP is reporting that a pair of faux granite tablets that Charlton Heston cradled in the 1956 biblical epic "The Ten Commandments" is expected to fetch as much as $60,000 in an auction conducted by Profiles in History on July...

The Rise of the Muslim Terrorists

Posted on May 18, 2008
Malise Ruthven reviews the following books in his May 29, 2008 New York Review of Books article: Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-first Century by Marc Sageman Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a by Abdullahi...

Country Reports on Terrorism 2007

Posted on May 18, 2008
New report from the U.S. "U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in...

Why the Gitmo Cases Are in Disarray

Posted on May 17, 2008
A recent Time Magazine story reviews U.S. prosecution of Guantanamo inmates. [JH]

Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?

Posted on May 17, 2008
Interesting NBER paper by Gordon Dahl and Stefano DellaVigna. Here's the abstract for Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime? Laboratory experiments in psychology find that media violence increases aggression in the short run. We analyze whether media violence affects violent...

Drew Indicted for Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Violation

Posted on May 17, 2008
Lori Drew was indicted on Thursday for her alleged role in a hoax on MySpace directed at Megan Meier, a 13-year-old neighbor of Drew's who committed suicide in October 2006 after a "boy" she met on MySpace abruptly turned on...

Friday Fun: All the Law Things

Posted on May 16, 2008
Good-bye 3Ls, say "hello" to the real world. Today's Friday Fun feature was produced by the first Year associates of Drew & Napier LLC. "Say it ain't so ... nothing to fear ... change of career." Good luck to all...

Public Markup of The Transparency in Government Act of 2008

Posted on May 16, 2008
Markup, we know what the word means. It's the process by which congressional committees and other groups debate, amend and rewrite draft legislation. It's collaborative writing. Now the Sunlight Foundation has launched a special project called Public Markup for public...

Law School Graduation Season Draws a Variety of Commencement Speakers

Posted on May 16, 2008
From the National Law Journal: "This year's season of law school graduations will feature a variety of commencement speakers including ABC News co-anchor Cynthia McFadden, Newark, N.J., mayor Cory Booker, and American Bar Association president William Neukom...

Social Security Reform: Possible Effects on the Elderly Poor and Mitigation Options

Posted on May 16, 2008
New Congressional Research Service Report via OpenCRS: "Social Security has significantly reduced elderly poverty. The elderly poverty rate has fallen from 35% in 1959 to an all-time low of 9% in 2006, in large part because of Social Security. If...

Those All Powerful Law Review Student Editors (Again)

Posted on May 16, 2008
A group of anonymous law review article editors are publishing the Anonymous Articles Editor Blog. Hat tip to Adjunct Law Prof Blog. This new blog is offering "tips for law professors on how to increase their chances of getting published...

Lawyer2Lawyer Podcast on Case Law in the Public Domain

Posted on May 15, 2008
J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi discussed case law in the public domain with Professor Thomas F. Bruce, Director of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School, Carl Malamud, founder of Public.Resource.org and Andy Martens, Senior Vice President...

Emerging Issues in Academic Library Cataloging & Technical Services

Posted on May 15, 2008
Produced Primary Research Group, Emerging Issues in Academic Library Cataloging & Technical Services presents nine detailed case studies of leading university cataloging and technical service departments. It provide insights into how they are handling ten major changes facing them, including:...

Serial Entrepreneurs and the Rise of Web 2.0

Posted on May 15, 2008
Just release, Lacy's book is on my summertime reading list. [JH] Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0 by Sarah Lacy List Price: $26.00 Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Gotham (May...

Applying "Customer Strategy" for Second Generation eGovernment Services

Posted on May 15, 2008
According to a recent Deloitte Research Study, E-government has automated business, but it has not fundamentally changed the way business is done. The result is a growing gap between what citizens expect from government and what they believe they are...

Professional Reading: Michelman on Socioeconomic Rights in Constitutional Law

Posted on May 15, 2008
Check out Frank I. Michelman's (Harvard Law School) draft paper, Socioeconomic Rights in Constitutional Law: Explaining America Away. Here's the abstract: The apparent omission of a socioeconomic commitment from United States constitutional law gives rise to continuing debate...

Knight Foundation Awards Timothy Berners-Lee $350,000 for Transparency in Journalism Project

Posted on May 15, 2008
The Wall Street Journal and Mashable are reporting that the Knight Foundation Award will be given to the Media Standards Trust and the Web Science Research Initiative for the development of tools and standards to enable journalists, and those producing...

Israel at 60, a Brief Documentary History

Posted on May 14, 2008
The State of Israel was proclaimed on May 14 1948, making today its 60th anniversary. Depending on your choice of timelines, it was the successful completion of the Zionist objective expressed in the Basel Program adopted on August 30, 1897...

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