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By Andis Kaulins

We have gone through our links on the LawPundit law blogroll to update URLs and to provide selected recent information about those linked websites or blogs. This posting covers Links on the LawPundit Main Page : (2) (e) The Law Blogroll - E:

e-comm is a German language blog out of Austria by Dr. Hans Peter Lehofer of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration concerning Austrian and European law relating to electronic communications networks and services ("Blog zum österreichischen und europäischen Recht der elektronischen Kommunikationsnetze und -dienste"). At his home page, the blog author quotes Samuel Butler in English: "In law, nothing is certain except the expense."

E-Commerce Law by Jonathan D. Frieden is focused on "Discussing News, Trends, and Legal Issues Affecting Internet Businesses". E-Commerce Law Briefs are provided every Friday afternoon.

E|Laws (Tecnología y Derecho) is a blawg in Argentina in Spanish on law, technology and communications.

ElbeBlawg (in German) alerts us to an interesting new concept, beck-blog DIE EXPERTEN, a law blog by German inter alia legal publisher C.H. Beck which presents blog postings by legal experts. The blog is still in "beta" but looks good.

eLegal Canton is a Canadian blog by David Canton, "a business lawyer and trade-mark agent with a practice focusing on technology issues and technology companies." He has a recent posting on what looks like an effective solution to domain tasting.

The Election Law Blawg of Rick Hasen of Loyola Law School in discussing voter fraud refers to Hasen's recent Stanford Law Review article on The Untimely Death of Bush v. Gore (.pdf), where he makes the following statements in his Conclusion to that article:

"The 2000 election debacle brought well-deserved attention to the serious problems plaguing our election system. Bush v. Gore divided the country at that time, but many hoped that the case and surrounding controversy could spur meaningful reforms to fix serious election administration problems. The case and the Florida controversy have not directly led to meaningful election reform. States and legislatures, aided by congressional funding, have taken steps to improve voting technology, though the transitions to new technologies and election administration incompetence have colored what would otherwise be success on the technology side.

But on the side of reforming elections to create fairer and nonpartisan rules, it appears the country has learned the wrong lessons from the Florida debacle and Bush v. Gore. Election administration has become more, not less, partisan. Public confidence in election administration, especially among African-Americans, is at troubling and embarrassingly low levels. Elections more frequently result in litigation than before 2000. And the courts, especially the Supreme Court, have not been careful in addressing election administration claims. The result is likely to be further contentiousness and growing voter distrust of the system by which we cast and count votes for the foreseeable future.

Now more than ever, the country needs to learn the right lessons from Bush v. Gore. But it appears Bush v. Gore?s moment has passed from public consciousness, replaced instead by partisan recriminations and retrenchment."

The Embassy Law blog is
"related to diplomatic and consular law as well as international organization law, with a focus on sovereignty and immunities, from a Washington, DC, practitioner's view."
Take a look at the posting on Global Impact of U.S. Decision in which
"In an unprecedented FSIA ruling, a U.S. federal court authorized a private party to seek the disclosure of all U.S. assets owned by a foreign government. The ruling was made on January 18, 2008 in the matter Jenny Rubin, et al. v. The Islamic Republic of Iran, et. al., Case No. 03-cv-9370.

Empirical Legal Studies is intended on "Bringing Methods to Our Madness" and refers to a paper which purports to indicate that firearm ownership in a country is statistically correlated to freedom and prosperity. Christopher Zorn refers to a David Kopel posting on Volokh about a new paper Kopel and coauthor Howard Nemerov have written on the topic. We ourselves are supporters of firearm ownership by citizens as a right anchored in the U.S. Constitution, but this does not mean that guns should not be registered or be available for sale to lunatics, nor does it mean that private persons should own rapid-fire weapons or be able to park their private tanks in their back yard. There is a sensible limit.

Ernie the Attorney features the slogan "Faith Humor Curiosity" and his most recent posting concerns Debating Mac vs. PC in the Legal Environment. We definitely agree with his observations that Windows Vista has many flaws.

EU Law Blog "is a web log about European Union law for students, academics, practitioners and anyone else who may be interested in it". A recent posting alerts us to the fact that the European Commission has just published its 2007 General Report on the Activities of the European Union.

Full post as published by LawPundit on February 28, 2008 (boomark / email).