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Voting OPEN for Day in the Life Photo Contest

Posted on April 14, 2008
Ready... Set... VOTE!!! The voting web site for the Day in the Life of the Law Library Community Photo Contest is now LIVE and ready for you to cast your ballots at http://www.aallnet.org/dayinlife/finals/default.asp. Voting remains open for one week until...

Celebrate National Library Week, April 13-19, 2008

Posted on April 14, 2008
From the ALA: "First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries...

Fun for Library Week

Posted on April 14, 2008
Cincinnati Community Press relays how the Campbell County Public Library is using a Wii bowling game challenge for area seniors. The article quite correctly lauds the benefits of Wii activity for the elderly or disabled as it allows bowling without...

Public Attitudes Toward the War in Iraq: 2003-2008

Posted on April 13, 2008
New report from the Pew Research Center: "Five years after the start of the conflict in Iraq, many public evaluations of the situation in Iraq have turned more positive. But there has been no turnaround in the public?s opinion about...

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Immigration: A Campaign Primer

Posted on April 13, 2008
Katherine Mangan interviewed several immigration scholars on immigration policy and the positions of the major presidential candidates for the Chronicle of Higher Education. The following questions were posed to Michael Olivas (Houston), Doug Massey (Princeton), Kris Kobach (UMKC) and Kevin...

War Powers Resources from the Law Library of Congress

Posted on April 13, 2008
The Law Library of Congress is proud to present four constitutional law items focusing on War Powers. The three articles and one statement to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary are available in their entirety in PDF. Louis Fisher, "Thomas...

Sandra Day O'Connor on Saving Our Courts

Posted on April 12, 2008
Interesting article by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in Parade.com. [RJ]

CREW Report Detailing Senators' Use of Positions to Benefit Family Members

Posted on April 12, 2008
The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has released its first-ever analysis of the misuse of power by all members of the Senate to financially benefit their family members. The analysis covers the 2002, 2004 and 2006 election...

Friday Fun: A 1L Student's Ode to His Law Library

Posted on April 11, 2008
Well, he'll escape from the library soon enough...in 5 or 6 or 7 years from now. Hat tip to Legal Writing Prof Blog. [JH]

Help Lawrence Lessig and Joe Trippi Change Congress

Posted on April 11, 2008
Volunteer watchdogs needed for Lessig-Trippi project, Change Congress. Change Congress is a movement to build support for basic reform in how our government functions. Using our tools, both candidates and citizens can pledge their support for basic changes to reduce...

New Free Business Search Engine from Northern Light

Posted on April 11, 2008
Northern Light Search provides access to "business and industry news from thousands of hand-selected business news sites, leading business publications, industry authority blogs, regional newspapers, and national news sources." Formerly fee-based, a retooled free SE will offically launch in mid-April...

Internet Crime Report: The Top Scams of 2007

Posted on April 11, 2008
New report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation: "According to the 2007 Internet Crime Report, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 206,884 complaints of crimes perpetrated over the Internet during 2007. Of the complaints received, more than 90,000 were...

Alan Dershowitz: The Advocate and Scholar as Jew; the Jew as Advocate and Scholar

Posted on April 11, 2008
Martin Belsky (Akron) has posted his interesting think piece on controversal law prof Alan Dershowitz. Check out Alan Dershowitz: The Advocate and Scholar as Jew; the Jew as Advocate and Scholar in SSRN. Here's the abstract: Professor Dershowitz has melded...

Susan Westerberg Prager Named Sixth Executive Director of AALS

Posted on April 11, 2008
Former UCLA Law School Dean Susan Westerberg Prager has been named Executive Director and CEO of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Prager will become the sixth Executive Director of the AALS since its founding in 1900. Her appointment...

"The Science of Search"

Posted on April 11, 2008
That's the title of this Legal Technology News article comparing e-discovery keyword searches against legal research keyword searches. The notion that lawyers are unqualified per se to concoct keyword searches is likely to shake some sensibilities. Lawyers believe themselves adept...

Access Denied, Definitive Analysis of Global Internet Filtering Policies

Posted on April 10, 2008
Access Denied provides the definitive analysis of government justifications for denying their own people access to some information and also documents global Internet filtering practices on a country-by-country basis. This is timely and important. --Jonathan Aronson, Annenberg School for Communication,...

Professional Reading: Use of Legal Scholarship by Judges

Posted on April 10, 2008
Much has been made recently of the charge by federal judges that law reviews have become all-but-irrelevant to contemporary judicial decisionmaking, and that, as Second Circuit Judge Robert Sack put it, even when judges do use law reviews today, they...

Torres and Guymon's Bar Exam/Bar Admission Annotated Bibliography

Posted on April 10, 2008
Arturo Torres, Associate Dean of Law Library and Computing, at Texas Tech School of Law and Texas Tech 2L Bryan J. Guymon have published an annotated bibliography of leading articles written about the bar examination and/or admission to the bar....

New Law Titles from Cambridge UP

Posted on April 10, 2008
War and the Law of Nations by Stephen C. Neff A history of war, from an international law perspective, from Roman times to the present. Fiscal Challenges by Elizabeth Garrett, Elizabeth A. Graddy, and Howell E. Jackson Explores the problems...

Webcast of Randall Kennedy Discussing His Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal

Posted on April 10, 2008
Harvard law prof Randall Kennedy discussed his new book, Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal, at a recent HLS event. To view the event's archived website, go to the School's press release. [JH] Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal by...

Keys to Personnel Management

Posted on April 10, 2008
Two different takes today on how to encourage positive development in the workplace. Marie Newman at OOTJ posts on the need to nuture the professional growth of lawyers (and librarians), and provides the text of a recent NY Lawyer article...

A Tale of Two Attorneys

Posted on April 10, 2008
Legal Blog Watch is all over this NY Law Journal article with two different takes on a three year study of work-life balance of New York attorneys. From the article: The committee's report, adopted unanimously by the Bar's House of...

Professional Reading: Turning Static Pathfinders Into Dynamic Online Resources

Posted on April 09, 2008
Demonstrating my utter lack of imagination, I led the charge for converting print-based subject guides and pathfinders into quasi-static web pages at the University of Cincinnati Law Library a couple of years ago. At the time I was thinking that...

Cybercrime Legislation: 27 Country Profiles

Posted on April 09, 2008
The cybercrime national legislation profiles have been prepared within the framework of the Council of Europe?s Project on Cybercrime for sharing information on cybercrime legislation and assessing the current state of implementation of the Convention on Cybercrime under national legislation...

Just Released, New Book on Alternative Careers for Information Professionals

Posted on April 09, 2008
What's the Alternative? Career Options for Librarians and Info Pros by Rachel Singer Gordon List Price: $35.00 Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Information Today, Inc. (April 8, 2008) ISBN-10: 1573873330 ISBN-13: 978-1573873338 Book Description: As the global information economy grows, librarians...

Bryan Garner's Video Interviews of SCOTUS Justices on Brief Writing, Oral Advocacy and More

Posted on April 09, 2008
Interesting videos highlighted in recent article from Legal Times: "They are raw and unvarnished, like what might happen if you turned a videocam on yourself in your garage and started talking. But the collection of videos on LawProse.org were shot...

Ohio Law School Rankings, 2000-2009

Posted on April 09, 2008
Law school competition in the Buckeye State is pretty fierce. Nine schools in Ohio are competing for law students, law faculty, and law librarians: Akron, Capital, Case Western, Cincinnati, Cleveland-Marshall, Dayton, Ohio Northern, OSU-Moritz and Toledo...

The Perfect Library Only Needs 110 98 Books

Posted on April 09, 2008
From classics and sci-fi to poetry and biographies, The Telegraph lists 110 titles for the perfect library. If you don't want any children's books in your library, the title counts can be reduced by 10. Under the heading, "Books That...

Passing of a Giant, Igor I. Kavass

Posted on April 09, 2008
Roy Mersky (Texas) reports that Igor Kavass passed away Sunday. An expert on international and comparative legal research, Igor Kavass served as Director of law libraries at Vanderbilt, Duke, Northwestern and Alabama. He was born in Riga, Latvia in 1932...

DOJ's Immigration Court Practice Manual

Posted on April 08, 2008
The DOJ Office of the Chief Immigration Judge has released of the Immigration Court Practice Manual (pdf), which sets forth uniform procedures, recommendations, and requirements for practice before the Immigration Courts. The Practice Manual's requirements are binding on the parties...

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