Legal Research

Presidential Fundraising in 2007 Double Amount Raised in 2003

Posted on March 07, 2008
From the Campaign Finance Institute: "The presidential candidates raised a combined total of nearly $552 million in 2007 for the 2008 primaries, according to year-end reports filed with the Federal Election Commission on January 31. This more than doubles the...

Opening: Law Librarian, State of California Court of Appeal

Posted on March 07, 2008
The State of California, Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, in Sacramento, is accepting applications for the position of Law Librarian. Under direction, performs a full range of professional library duties required to direct the personnel and programs of a...

Bank Julius Baer Moves to Withdraw Suit Against WikiLeaks

Posted on March 07, 2008
Bank Julius Baer has filed a motion to dismiss (pdf) its lawsuit against WikiLeaks. The complaint alleged that WikiLeaks published stolen documents revealing confidential information about the accounts of the bank?s clients. The New York Times is reporting that lawyers...

Librarians in the thick of the Presidential race

Posted on March 07, 2008
USAToday reports that federal archivists at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library are blocking the release of hundreds of pages of White House papers, some of which concern pardons by President Clinton. Of the papers requested under the FOIA around...

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Internet Explorer 8 Beta Now Available

Posted on March 07, 2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta can now be installed on Microsoft Windows Vista® Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista, Windows XP® Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Server® 2008 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). Gee-whiz new features include Facebook,...

Washington Blawg from AALL

Posted on March 06, 2008
Check out the new blog from the Washington Affairs Office of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). [RJ]

Children?s Rights: International and National Laws and Practices

Posted on March 06, 2008
New resources from the Law Library of Congress: "Children?s Rights examines sixteen nations, across five continents: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Nicaragua, Russia, and the United Kingdom (England and Wales)...

New Titles from Ashgate

Posted on March 06, 2008
Decisions to Imprison Court Decision-Making Inside and Outside the Law Rasmus H. Wandall $99.95 February 2008, 218 pages, Ashgate Hardback: 0 7546 7157 7 | 978-0-7546-7157-2 ? $99.95 / £55.00 Description: Rasmus Wandall uses quantitative and qualitative methods from studies...

Librarians as Mischief Makers

Posted on March 06, 2008
One characteristic of librarians I have come to admire is that we do not suffer foolishness gladly, particularly when it come to information-related topics. Another way to put this is that librarians can be viewed as "troublemakers" because they refuse...

Annual Superfund Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2007

Posted on March 06, 2008
From EPA's Office of Inspector General: "This report covers Fiscal Year 2007 Superfund activity of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Inspector General (OIG). The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 requires the OIG to annually audit...

FBI's Privacy Abuses Continued in 2006

Posted on March 06, 2008
As widely reported FBI Directory Robert Mueller informed the Senate Judiciary Committee during yesterday's hearing that the FBI's abuses of privacy continued in 2006 by inappropriately accessing private citizens' telephone records, credit reports, and Internet traffic through national security letters...

Online Companions to Law Reviews -- Fizz or Fizzle?

Posted on March 05, 2008
Online law review companions can take several forms (websites, blogs, forums, etc) for a number of purposes (publishing scholarship on topics that might not fit the editorial confines of the hardcopy review, providing a means for responses and critiques of...

Another New Legal Education Reform Blog

Posted on March 05, 2008
Hosted by the Elon University Law School, the Center for Engaged Learning in the Law Blog "is intended to contribute to the discourse on teaching and learning in law, from the inspirational to the whimsical, to the mechanical. It includes...

National Summits Help Federal Courts Prepare for Sentence Reduction Requests

Posted on March 05, 2008
From the Third Branch: "More than 600 district court judges, federal defenders, prosecutors, and probation officers gathered last month for two-day summits in Charlotte, North Carolina, and St. Louis, Missouri, to help each other prepare for a sudden increase in...

Unequal Access: Neglecting the National Voter Registration Act, 1995-2007

Posted on March 05, 2008
From press release: "As the nation prepares for the 2008 election, a new study reveals that many states are routinely failing to offer low-income Americans an opportunity to register to vote as required by the federal National Voter Registration Act....

INTELWIRE Releases FBI Documents Cited In 9/11 Commission Report

Posted on March 05, 2008
From INTELWIRE.com: "INTELWIRE has obtained more than 1,700 pages of FBI documents cited in the end notes of the Final Report of the 9/11 Commission. They reveal a wealth of new details about the hijacker's movements, possible links between the...

Law Librarian, Connecticut Judicial Branch

Posted on March 05, 2008
The Connecticut Judicial Branch is seeking a qualified individual to perform professional to advanced library duties which include providing legal reference and research guidance, instruction in database searching, and catalog and collection maintenance...

Tarlton Law Library Launches Patent and Trademark Current Awareness Services

Posted on March 04, 2008
The Tarlton Law Library has launched two new current awareness services, Current Patent Literature and Current Trademark Literature. The new services complement Tarlton?s Current Copyright Literature [RSS feed] service. The goal is to create a suite of current awareness services...

C-SPAN Congressional Chronicle

Posted on March 04, 2008
The C-SPAN Congressional Chronicle is an index to the C-SPAN video recordings of the House and Senate floor proceedings. The video recordings are matched with the text of the Congressional Record as soon as the Congressional Record is available. It...

Westbrook's Between Citizen and State: An Introduction to the Corporation

Posted on March 04, 2008
Now available in paperback. From the University at Buffalo's press release, Corporate Law as Theater: New Book Brings 'Mysterious' Social Structure to Light: Westbrook's work is a departure from traditional corporate law books, which typically use statutes, cases and other...

Beta Research Tools

Posted on March 04, 2008
CollegeDegree.com, a very useful and comprehensive online education resource site [see their directories of online law school and paralegal programs and IT schools) has published 25 Awesome Beta Research Tools from Libraries Around the World. See also their 99 Mind...

Immigration to Play Lead Role In Future U.S. Growth

Posted on March 04, 2008
New report from the Pew Research Center: "If current trends continue, the population of the United States will rise to 438 million in 2050, from 296 million in 2005, and 82% of the increase will be due to immigrants arriving...

Opening: Reference/Research Librarian, University of Houston" O?Quinn Law Library

Posted on March 04, 2008
The O?Quinn Law Library at the University of Houston Law Center seeks a highly motivated and service oriented person with drive for a Reference/Research Librarian position. Responsibilities: The duties of the reference/research librarian include: providing reference service to all patrons...

Librarians looking to move to a tropical locale?

Posted on March 04, 2008
As I am sure many law librarians look out their windows at work they see the cold, long winter. I'm writing this from central Mississippi and it is 38 degrees outside right now. For all of you who have had...

Fair Warning to Law Schools ... Deadwood Investigators Coming to Your Website

Posted on March 03, 2008
Many (most?) but not all law schools simply cannot stand to be what they are, namely run of the mill. Not as in diploma mill fashion, but just down right ordinary. Enter the marketing component of law school publications, the...

Open Minds, Open Books, Open Source

Posted on March 03, 2008
Interesting article from Inside Higher Ed: "Libraries are starting to embrace technologies developed in-house or by other universities. Will they eventually replace third-party vendors?" See also, Perceptions 2007: An International Survey of Library Automation...

New GlobaLex Articles

Posted on March 03, 2008
New legal research articles and guides from from GlobaLex: Legal Information Institutes and the Free Access to Law Movement by Graham Greenleaf Guide to Legal Research in Belarus By Nadia Shalygina Legal Research in Germany between Print and Electronic Media:...

EFF, ACLU Move to Intervene in Wikileaks Case

Posted on March 03, 2008
From the EFF press release: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California (ACLU-Northern California) has filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit where a federal...

Librarians Without Easily Granted Permission to use Without Borders

Posted on March 03, 2008
Check out the latest issue of Compass, the offical newsletter of Librarians Without Borders. Download compassjanuary20081.pdf This once small student group now numbers over 500 members. The group, however, is still too small to resist bullying from Doctors Without Borders,...

Opening: Associate Director and Head of Public Services, University of Colorado Law School Library

Posted on March 03, 2008
The William A. Wise Law Library at the University of Colorado Law School invites applications for the full-time, non-tenure track faculty position of Associate Director and Head of Public Services. The position reports to the Library Director and carries the...

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