Legal Research

Opening: Associate Director for Public Services, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law

Posted on May 09, 2008
Southern Methodist University?s Underwood Law Library is seeking candidates for its Associate Director for Public Services position. Responsibilities: The Associate Director for Public Services will coordinate the Underwood Law Library?s public services operations, including reference and circulation services; provide research...

Reflections: Does it Take a Librarian to Lead a Library

Posted on May 09, 2008
Harvard Law School recently hired John Palfrey as the new Vice Dean of Library and Information Resources (LLB post). Over at Madisonian.net, Mike Madison considers Palfrey's creds and their potential implications for the future: Does it take a librarian to...

Is HLS Really the First School?

Posted on May 09, 2008
As LLB posted previously, HLS recently announced: In a move that will disseminate faculty research and scholarship as broadly as possible, the Harvard Law School faculty unanimously voted last week to make each faculty member's scholarly articles available online for...

Congratulation to Simon Canick

Posted on May 09, 2008
Simon Canick, Associate Director for Library Services at the University of Connecticut School of Law Library, has been appointed Associate Dean for Information Resources and Assistant Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law. He will be joining the...

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UN Convention on Disabilities Ratified

Posted on May 08, 2008
From the UN Pulse: "The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities entered into force on 3 May 2008. The Convention was adopted by the General Assembly on 13 December 2006 (A/RES/61/106),...

Professional Reading: Bridging the Disabilities Accomodations Gap Between Classroom and Practice

Posted on May 08, 2008
Alexis Anderson and Norah Wylie (both Boston College Law School) have posted Beyond the ADA: How Clinics Can Assist Law Students with "Non-Visible" Disabilities to Bridge the Accommodations Gap Between Classroom and Practice (forthcoming in Clinical Law Review (Fall 2008))...

LLI Launches RSS Feeds for US Code Updates

Posted on May 08, 2008
Check it out. [JH]

New and Forthcoming Law Titles from Elsevier

Posted on May 08, 2008
Details below the fold. [JH] The IT-Digital Legal Companion: A Comprehensive Business Guide to Software, IT, Internet, Media and IP Law, by Gene Landy with assistance from Amy Mastrobattista (forthcoming June 2008) A Litigator's Guide to DNA: From the Laboratory...

Bankruptcy Filings Rebound in Calendar Year 2007

Posted on May 08, 2008
New data from the U.S. Courts: Bankruptcy filings in the federal courts rose 38 percent in calendar year 2007, according to data released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The number of bankruptcies filed in the twelve-month...

Opening: Legal Information Analyst, Law Library of Congress

Posted on May 08, 2008
Librarian (Law) (Vacancy #: 080060) GS-1410-11 ? Law Library ? $58,206.00 - $75,669.00 Opening Date: Apr 28, 2008; Closing Date: May 29, 2008 The Law Library of Congress is recruiting for a Legal Information Analyst who has appropriate education and/or...

Harvard Law School Votes for Open Access

Posted on May 08, 2008
The Harvard Law School faculty has unanimously voted to make each faculty member?s scholarly articles available online for free, making HLS the first law school to commit to open access. From the press release: Under the new policy, HLS will...

Human Rights Watch Special Focus: Beijing 2008

Posted on May 07, 2008
Check out Human Rights Watch's Beijing 2008 website, including, for example, the Agenda for Reform page: Human Rights Abuses Shadow Countdown to 2008 Beijing Games. According to Human Rights Watch, major areas for human rights reform in the Olympic run-up...

Reminder: Take The Bluebook Survey

Posted on May 07, 2008
The editors of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation are about to embark on making revisions for the forthcoming Nineteenth Edition. Please take a few minutes to fill out their survey. Surveys must be received by June 30, 2008...

Banning Laptops in the Classroom: Is it Worth the Hassles?

Posted on May 07, 2008
Law school laptop wars have been going on for a couple of years now but when Chicago Law School Dean Saul Levmore decided to cut off wireless and wired access to the Internet in April [U of C press release],...

ILTA White Paper on Unified Communications

Posted on May 07, 2008
The International Legal Technology Association has published a white paper on Unified Communications (April 2008)(pdf). Unified communications (UC) is defined as "the convergence of multiple communications technologies over an IP network. It is based on open platforms that allow new...

CRS Report: Averting Financial Crisis

Posted on May 07, 2008
New CRS report via Open CRS: "There is no precise definition of ?financial crisis,? but a common view is that disruptions in financial markets rise to the level of a crisis when the flow of credit to households and businesses...

Opening: Electronic Resources Librarian, Notre Dame Law Library

Posted on May 07, 2008
The Kresge Library of the Notre Dame Law School is seeking a talented librarian to help us establish a new position and then to be its founding occupant. We are looking for someone who understands electronic resources and is adept...

Roy M. Mersky, Dead at 82

Posted on May 07, 2008
Professor Roy M. Mersky died yesterday from complications of a recent fall. A member of the University of Texas-Austin School of Law faculty and the director of its law library since 1965, Mersky held the Harry M. Reasoner Regents Chair...

McCain Pledges More Conservative Judges Like Roberts and Alito

Posted on May 07, 2008
In a speech at Wake Forest University in North Carolina yesterday, Sen. John McCain pledged to nominate strict-constructionist judges to the federal bench. According to the McCain campaign website, "Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito will serve as...

AALL Spectrum Seeks Annual Meeting Reviewers

Posted on May 06, 2008
Publication opportunity posting from Mark Estes, AALL Spectrum Editorial Director: AALL Spectrum seeks people to write reviews of selected educational sessions at the Annual Meeting in Portland for publication in the September/October issue of Spectrum...

Survey of Library eBook Use

Posted on May 06, 2008
Primary Research Group has published Library Use of E-books, 2008-09 Edition, (ISBN 1-57440-101-7; $75.00). Data in the report are based on a survey of 75 academic, public and special libraries. Librarians detail their plans on how they plan to develop...

PriceWaterHouseCoopers Releases It's 2007 Securities Litigation Study

Posted on May 06, 2008
From the report (pdf): After a two-year decline and a sluggish start to the year, total federal class actions filed in 2007 against foreign and domestic companies increased once more, reversing the previous downturn. Not surprisingly, much of the filing...

CRS Report on Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege

Posted on May 06, 2008
The CRS Report Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege: History, Law, Practice and Recent Developments (pdf) has been updated (dated April 16, 2008). It includes an appendix listing presidential claims of executive priviledge from the Kennedy Administration through the George W...

Nominations for LWI/ALWD Blackwell Legal Writing Award Due by May 23

Posted on May 06, 2008
Previous Blackwell Award Winners 2002 Richard K. Neumann (Hofstra) 2003 Pam Lysaght (Detroit Mercy) 2004 Ralph Brill (Chicago-Kent) 2005 Mary Beth Beazley (Ohio State) 2006 Lou Sirico (Villanova) 2007 Diana V. Pratt (Wayne State) The Thomas F. Blackwell Memorial Award...

Opening: Catalog & Bibliographic Control Librarian, Florida International University Law Library

Posted on May 06, 2008
The College of Law seeks a well-qualified law librarian to work under the direction of its Director of the Law Library to build a research-caliber law school library. This position seeks an experienced librarian to grow a young law collection...

2008 Webby Awards

Posted on May 06, 2008
And the winners are: Law: OUT-LAW.COM Blog-Political: Huffington Post Blog-Cultural: PostSecret Magazine: National Geographic Newspaper: NYTimes.com Politics: FactCheck.org Community: Flickr Social Networking: Flock The Social Web Browser (Academy), Facebook (Popular Vote) Webby Person of the Year Award: Stephen Colbert Click...

Federal Media Shield Law Debate Heats Up

Posted on May 05, 2008
S. 2035, The Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 has languished since it was favorably reported to the Senate by the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 4, 2007 [Thomas Resources]. The House passed a related bill, H.R. 2102, with...

Professional Reading: Employing Interpretative Intention in Statutory Interpretation

Posted on May 05, 2008
Edward J. Imwinkelreid (UC-Davis) has posted A More Modest Proposal than 'A Common Law for the Age of Statutes': Greater Reliance in Statutory Interpretation on the Concept of Interpretative Intention (forthcoming in Albany Law Review) in SSRN. Here's the abstact:...

Comprehensive Resource on Online and Distance Learning

Posted on May 05, 2008
Online and Distance Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a significant resource on best practices in distance education edited by Dr. Lawrence A. Tomei that spans more than 4,000 pages with nearly 550 contributors. Choice magazine highly recommends this...

Slouching Toward a Study of Blogs by "Library People"

Posted on May 05, 2008
Walt Crawford, Director and Managing Editor of the PALINET Leadership Network, is considering the prospect of studying changes in blogging patterns by "library people" (not library blogs, not just professional librarians). See his Changes in Liblogs: Slouching Toward a Study...

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