Legal Research

Two Resources on Supreme Court

From Cornell Law Library?s InSITE:
Interviews of United States Supreme Court Justices
http://lawprose.org/supreme_court.php

This site is put out by LawProse, a ?provider of CLE training in legal writing, editing, and drafting.? While most of the LawProse website focuses on advertising their services and training sessions, this section of the site provides video interviews with eight of the nine current Supreme Court justices, voicing their thoughts on legal writing and advocacy. The videos are available free of charge. Windows Media Player or a Mac WMV plug-in are needed to view the videos. There are also additional archived interviews from judges and lawyers across the country. Those interviews can be found under the heading "Educational Video Clips" and cover a number of different topics, but focus primarily on legal writing and related issues. This site is beneficial to lawyers and law students looking for advice on how to improve their writing skills.

From How Stuff Works blog:
How Supreme Court Appointments Work
http://people.howstuffworks.com/supreme-court-appointment.htm

In this article, we'll find out how Supreme Court justices are nominated, who is qualified to serve and how a nominee is approved. We'll also try to sort out the complicated politics that come into play when a justice is nominated.

Full post as published by LexLibris on June 27, 2008 (boomark / email).