Legal Research

Hoeflich Launches The Legal Antiquarian Blog

Posted on March 12, 2008
Michael H. Hoeflich, the John H. & John M. Kane Professor of Law and former dean of the University of Kansas School of Law, is an internationally recognized authority on legal history, Roman law, and the history of the legal...

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Posted on March 12, 2008
Reviews published in the February 25, 2008 issue of InSITE: Iraq: the War Card Legacy Tobacco Documents Library Lincoln and His Circle OAKList Database State of Public School Integration [RJ]

Georgetown Law Conference on Sexual Orientation and Military Preparedness

Posted on March 12, 2008
Since 1990, many U.S. allies have allowed gay and lesbian individuals to serve openly in their militaries. This is the first international conference to examine the effects of these policy changes on military preparedness. Sexual Orientation and Military Preparedness: An...

National Conference of Law Reviews Starts Today

Posted on March 12, 2008
Hosted by St. Thomas University School of Law this year [press release], the National Conference of Law Reviews "brings together law review editors from more than 100 law review journals across the nation to learn from leaders in the legal...

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Opening: Reference/Electronic Services Librarian, Pace Law Library

Posted on March 12, 2008
Pace Law Library invites applications for the position of reference/electronic services librarian. This position is full time, and reports to the Head of Reference Services. Responsibilities include: Providing reference service to members of the Pace community Providing research services to...

$100 Million Donation to NYC Public Library

Posted on March 12, 2008
Wall Street financier Stephen A. Schwarzman has pledged $100 million dollars to the NYC Public Library which will rename its main Manhattan building after him. Schwarzman's donation is the first step in a $1 billion dollar plan to expand and...

PACER Recycling Page

Posted on March 11, 2008
Check out Public.Resource.org's PACER recycling page. There you can can provide free access to your old PACER court documents as well as access other PACER documents that have been uploaded. Very nice. [RJ]

Check Out LII Announce Blog

Posted on March 11, 2008
From the hardworking crew who produce Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute (LII) comes LII Announce, a blog which according to its about page will consist of "announcements, featured content, and the occasional bizarre legal information factoid from the LII...

Gavel to Gavel on Judicial Recusal

Posted on March 11, 2008
Interesting article from Gavel to Gavel: "While every state judicial system has rules and canons with respect to judicial recusal, legislatures in the last several sessions also examined whether to impose by statute recusal requirements."

Web 2.0 and Privacy

Posted on March 11, 2008
Legal experts again raised their concerns that the rise of Web 2.0 has come at the expense of individual privacy. This time at the Legal Futures Conference; read more about it on c|net: To be anonymous or not to be,...

Sources of the History of the American Law of Lawyering

Posted on March 11, 2008
Sources of the History of the American Law of Lawyering Edited by Michael H. Hoeflich List Price: $49.95 Paperback: 668 pages Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. (January 1, 2008) ISBN-10: 158477861X ISBN-13: 978-1584778615 Description: The professional behavior of lawyers was...

Opening: Research and Instructional Services Librarian, Northern Illinois University College of Law Library

Posted on March 11, 2008
Northern Illinois University Law Library is seeking applications for the position of Research and Instructional Services Librarian. POSITION: Research and Instructional Services Librarian ACADEMIC RANK: Assistant Professor in the Law Library QUALIFICATIONS: REQUIRED: Master?s degree in library science from an...

Timetable of Recent Political Sex Scandals

Posted on March 11, 2008
In conjunction with its coverage of the "Client 9" scandal involving NY Governor Eliot Spitzer, CNN has published this timetable of recent political sex scandals starting with Bill Clinton, of course. [JH]

Sanity and the Second Amendment

Posted on March 10, 2008
Interesting op-ed by Professor Laurence Tribe from WSJ.com. For a complete set of court filings (including backgroud & analysis), check out SCOTUSwiki's DC v. Heller page. [RJ]

New StatPack, Including First Justice Agreement Stats

Posted on March 10, 2008
Another excellent resource from SCOTUSblog: "A new StatPack is available for download here. It has three new inclusions from the last edition: Justice Agreement, Decisions by Final Vote, and a new chart we?re calling ?Frequency in the Majority? (thanks go...

Professional Reading: Why States Need an International Law for Information Operations

Posted on March 10, 2008
uncan Hollis' (Temple) Why States Need an International Law for Information Operations, 11 Lewis & Clark Law Review 1023 (2007) assesses the ways in which international law applies to information operations. This interesting article can be downloaded from SSRN using...

Just Released, L. Patrick Gray's In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate

Posted on March 10, 2008
In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate by L. Patrick Gray & Ed Gray List Price: $26.00 Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Times Books (March 4, 2008) ISBN-10: 0805082565 ISBN-13: 978-0805082562 Book Description: The last untold story of...

Senate Judiciary Committee Clears Bill Authorizing Cameras in Federal Courtrooms

Posted on March 10, 2008
From the National Law Journal: "The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation authorizing the chief judges of federal district and appellate courts to permit cameras in courtrooms. The so-called Sunshine in the Courtroom Act would allow photographing, electronic recording, broadcasting or...

Opening: Reference Librarian, University of Illinois College of Law Library

Posted on March 10, 2008
The University of Illinois College of Law invites applications for the position of Reference Librarian, a full-time academic, tenure-track faculty appointment with the rank of Assistant Professor of Library Administration. This position reports to the Head of Public Services of...

Vatican Updates Its List of Mortal Sins; Fails to Specify Their Punishments

Posted on March 10, 2008
The new mortal sins include taking or dealing in drugs, polluting the environment, and engaging in "manipulative" genetic science, The Times of London reports. Also new to the list are paedophilia, abortion, and social injustices that cause poverty or "the...

Parker's Institutional Repositories and the Principle of Open Access: Changing the Way We Think About Legal Scholarship

Posted on March 10, 2008
Kudos to Carol Parker, Law Library Director and Assistant Professor of Law at New Mexico, and a contributing editor for Law Librarian Blog. Carol's article, Institutional Repositories and the Principle of Open Access: Changing the Way We Think About Legal...

Iraq: The War Card

Posted on March 09, 2008
From the Center for Public Integrity: "Leading up to the five-year anniversary of the Iraq war, the Center for Public Integrity has released the first analysis of its kind, "Iraq ? The War Card: Orchestrated Deception on the Path to...

The U.S. Military Index

Posted on March 09, 2008
New resource from Foreign Policy: "In an exclusive new index, Foreign Policy and the Center for a New American Security surveyed more than 3,400 active and retired officers at the highest levels of command about the state of the U.S....

The Religious Landscape of the United States

Posted on March 08, 2008
New report from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life: "With unprecedented precision, a new Pew Forum survey details the religious affiliation of the American public and quantifies the remarkable dynamism taking place in the U.S. religious marketplace...

McCain?s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out

Posted on March 08, 2008
Interesting article from the NY Times: Mr. McCain?s likely nomination as the Republican candidate for president and the happenstance of his birth in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 are reviving a musty debate that has surfaced periodically since the...

Keeping Authorized Torture Techniques Off the Internet, Bush Vetoes H.R. 2082

Posted on March 08, 2008
In his radio address to the nation today, President Bush said he vetoed the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2008 (H.R. 2082) because it was wrong to ban practices that have a proven record of keeping America safe. Those practices...

Friday Fun: Google Maps, the Creepy Video

Posted on March 07, 2008
Hat tip to Google Blogoscoped. [JH]

Photo Contest Now Underway: Insanity at My Library

Posted on March 07, 2008
Do you have a picture that perfectly illustrates the insanity that takes place at a library? Maybe it's the book drop that was destroyed by a firecracker, the librarian who never matches his socks, or the library that is completely...

Professional Reading: Increasing Ethnic Diversity in LIS

Posted on March 07, 2008
Check out Kyung?Sun Kim and Sei?Ching Joanna Sin's Increasing Ethnic Diversity in LIS: Strategies Suggested by Librarians of Color, 78 The Library Quarterly 153-177 (April 2008) [web page for April issue] [JH]

2d Circuit Hears Appeal of Student Disciplined for Using Vulgar Slang in Blog Post

Posted on March 07, 2008
What! A Connecticut high school student used vulgar slang to describe her school's cancellation of an event in a blog post that was sent from her personal computer while at home and the school barred her from serving on the...

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