Legal Research

Electronic Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for First Responders, Second Edition

Posted on May 14, 2008
New report from the National Institute of Justice: "This guide is intended to assist State and local law enforce¬ ment and other first responders who may be responsible for preserving an electronic crime scene and for recognizing, col¬ lecting, and...

Professional Reading: Garfield Video on 50 Years of Citation Indexing and Analysis

Posted on May 14, 2008
Eugene Garfield reflects on the 50th anniversary of his citation indexing and searching work in this 11 minute interview. Topics include: how he got the original idea for citation indexing and searching what he was trying to change about the...

GAO's VAT Study Warns of Compliance Risks

Posted on May 14, 2008
GAO has released Value-Added Taxes: Lessons Learned from Other Countries on Compliance Risks, Administrative Costs, Compliance Burden, and Transition (pdf). From the summary: The experiences of our five study countries show that all VAT designs have compliance risks that generate...

Podcasting in Plain English

Posted on May 14, 2008
Another great production from CommonCraft; [RJ]

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Britain's National Archives Release UFO Files

Posted on May 14, 2008
While not directly related to law librarianship, is does speak to the power of FOIA requests and what national archives can make easily available to citizens if enough pressure is applied. Not Friday Fun, but perhaps Wednesday Whimsy. The official...

HLS's Terry Martin Appointed Interim Director at Tarlton

Posted on May 14, 2008
Terry Martin who was planning to spend a year traveling after his retirement as Henry N. Ess III Librarian and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School became effective in June will indeed be traveling soon. He will be moving...

Vote for the Top Public Intellectual

Posted on May 13, 2008
We buy their books, now we can cast our ballots in Foreign Policy's online poll. Voting closes May 15. [JH]

Improving Legal Research Instruction: Texas Tech's Certificate of Excellence in Legal Research Program

Posted on May 13, 2008
As law schools send their graduates off to practice law and their first and second year students to summer programs, many are all too often ill-equipped to perform legal research effectively. Academic law librarians can beat their chests claiming they...

Terrorism-Related Cases: Special Case-Management Challenges ? Case Studies

Posted on May 13, 2008
New study from the Federal Judicial Center: "Cases related to terrorism often pose unusual and challenging case-management issues for the courts. Evidence or arguments may be classified; witnesses or the jury may require special security measures; attorneys contacts with their...

CRS Report: China's Foreign Policy and "Soft Power" in South America, Asia, and Africa

Posted on May 13, 2008
The CRS Report, China's Foreign Policy and "Soft Power" in South America, Asia, and Africa (pdf)(April 2008) addresses the following questions: How much is China really doing in these regions, and how much do we know about its motivations? What...

Google Comes Knocking in Search of Hidden Data

Posted on May 13, 2008
Interesting article from Information Week: "Google has been testing ways to index data that is normally hidden to search engine crawlers, a change that should improve the breadth of information available through Google. The so-called "hidden Web" that Google has...

Northwestern Law Publishes Compilation of the School's Rankings

Posted on May 13, 2008
Something different on Northwestern Law's website, a compilation of the School's performance in various law school rankings. As a matter of policy under Dean Van Zandt's administration, the School supports rankings as "a source of consumer information and believe[s] they...

Opening: Technical Services Librarian, Charlotte School of Law

Posted on May 13, 2008
Charlotte School of Law (CharlotteLaw) seeks applications for an experienced Technical Services Librarian. The school is a member of The InfiLaw System, a consortium of independent law schools committed to making legal education more responsive to the realities of new...

Professional Reading: Dignity as a New Framework, Replacing the Right to Privacy

Posted on May 12, 2008
Jeremy Miller (Chapman) has posted Dignity as a New Framework, Replacing the Right to Privacy in SSRN. The article will appear at 30 Thomas Jefferson Law Review 1 (2007). Here's the abstract for this very interesting work: Privacy if not...

WILD Foundation's Handbook on International Wilderness Law and Policy

Posted on May 12, 2008
A Handbook on International Wilderness Law and Policy Edited by Cyril F. Kormos List Price: $39 408 pages WILD Foundation (March 2008) Book Description. A Handbook on International Wilderness Law and Policy, published by The WILD Foundation and Fulcrum Publishing,...

New Law Titles from the University of California Press

Posted on May 12, 2008
Details below the folod. [JH] The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All, by Peter Linebaugh The Health Care Revolution: From Medical Monopoly to Market Competition, by Carl F. Ameringer Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, (2d ed...

Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States

Posted on May 12, 2008
New report from Human Rights Watch: "Ostensibly color-blind, the US ?war on drugs? disproportionately targets urban minority neighborhoods, Human Rights Watch and The Sentencing Project said in two reports. Although whites commit more drug offenses, African Americans are arrested and...

Where Did Your Federal Dollars Go in 2006?

Posted on May 12, 2008
Two new reports from the U.S. Census Bureau: "The federal government disbursed $2.45 trillion in domestic spending in 2006, according to two reports published by the U.S. Census Bureau. That represented an 7.5 percent increase in federal spending over 2005...

Opening: Digital Information Management Librarian, Texas Tech University Law Library

Posted on May 12, 2008
Are you looking for a low cost of living, family-oriented, "Five Star Metro" to live in? But, do you also need a dynamic, growing place to work with collegial and team oriented staff? We have the ideal opportunity for you...

The Next Big Thing in Indian Business, Outsourced US Legal Work

Posted on May 12, 2008
The Washington Post recently published an article titled, U.S. Legal Work Booms in India, which characterized legal outsourcing as "the next big thing in Indian business." The article reports that in the past three years the legal outsourcing industry in...

One of First Post 9/11 Hate Crimes Murders Topic of Documentary

Posted on May 11, 2008
A Dream in Doubt [documentary's website] is an immigrant story in a world in which patriotism has morphed into murder. When Rana Singh Sodhi?s brother is killed in America?s first post-9/11 hate crime murders, he travels to Mesa, Arizona to...

Ambassador Heraldo Munoz Chronicles Iraq War Diplomacy

Posted on May 11, 2008
A Solitary War: A Diplomat's Chronicle of the Iraq War and Its Lessons by Heraldo Muñoz List Price: $16.95 Paperback: 270 pages Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing (April 15, 2008) ISBN-10: 1555916767 ISBN-13: 978-1555916763 Book Description: Beginning with a telling phone call...

Banished

Posted on May 10, 2008
From the 1860s to the 1920s, dozens of towns and counties across America violently expelled entire African American communities, forcing thousands of black families to flee their homes. A century later, these towns remain mostly white. Banished [documentary's website] tells...

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

Posted on May 10, 2008
New resource from the University of Cambridge: "This site contains Darwin's complete publications, thousands of handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue ever published; also hundreds of supplementary works: biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works and more...

Friday Fun: Digitus Impudicus

Posted on May 09, 2008
Oh, the subtleties of road rage communication. In this video clip a lawyer tackles the complexities of "sign language" in court. [JH] Meanwhile, check out Ira P. Robbins' (American University, Washington College of Law) Digitus Impudicus: The Middle Finger and...

1L Attrition Rates Range from 51 to 0 Percent

Posted on May 09, 2008
LawSchoolNumbers.com reports some shockingly high 1L attrition rates for individual law schools. Shocking to me because my gut-check says anything above 10% is way too high and 78 of the 195 listed law schools have attrition rates above 10%. Of...

LLB Poll: First Things First This Summer

Posted on May 09, 2008
Opinion Polls & Market Research

The AAUP Reports on Faculty Salaries

Posted on May 09, 2008
From the press release: "After a short-lived recovery in 2006?07, faculty salaries are lagging behind inflation again this year. Yet the salaries paid to head football coaches, presidents, and other top administrators do not seem to reflect an economic downturn...

CALI Conference Reminder

Posted on May 09, 2008
To take advantage of the CALI Conference group rate, you have to book your room at Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards by May 21st. To make reservations online go to www.innerharbormarriott.com More information about this year's CALI Conference...

Professional Reading: Teaching in Practice: Legal Writing Faculty as Expert Writing Consultants to Law Firms

Posted on May 09, 2008
Interesting article from the Boston College Law School Faculty Papers: "As experts in the pedagogy and substance of legal writing, full-time legal writing faculty who serve as writing consultants to law firms help fill an increasing need for training and...

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