Legal Research

New Law Titles from Yale UP

Posted on June 24, 2009
A Right to Discriminate? How the Case of Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale Warped the Law of Free Association By Andrew Koppelman and Tobias Barrington Wolff From the blurb: The book demonstrates that the ?right? to discriminate has...

Staring at Glowing Rectangles

Posted on June 24, 2009
A new report published this week by researchers at Stanford University suggests that Americans spend the vast majority of each day staring at, interacting with, and deriving satisfaction from glowing rectangles. Details at 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At...

Europe Issues New Privacy Rules for Social Networks

Posted on June 24, 2009
The European Union has issued guidelines for how social social networks protect the privacy of their members. European data collection is governed under the Article 29 Data Working Party. European privacy rules tend to be stricter than those in the...

Ezra Rosser: A normal human being trapped in a law faculty body

Posted on June 24, 2009
In On Becoming "Professor": A Semi-Serious Look in the Mirror, 36 Fl. St. Univ. L. Rev. 215 (2009), [SSRN], Ezra Rosser, WCL Assistant Professor of Law and co-editor of Poverty Law Prof Blog, promises to "say something about legal academia"...

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2.0 Challenge Assistance

Posted on June 24, 2009
I am one of the librarians assisting in preparing the materials for the AALL CS-SIS 2.0 Challenge this year (blogged here on Law Librarian Blog) and ask that if you use Flickr in your Law Library that you leave a...

The Amended Google-Michigan Agreement: Jonathan Band's Guide to the Perplexed

Posted on June 23, 2009
Following up on his A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries and the Google Library Project Settlement, the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of College and Research Libraries have released Jonathan Band's A Guide for...

Recent Website Reviews on InSITE

Posted on June 23, 2009
Law librarians at Cornell search the Internet for potentially useful websites, select the most valuable ones, and provide commentary twice a month via the Cornell Law Library's current awareness service, InSITE. If you aren't already subscribing to InSITE's RSS feed...

A Handful of Practice Area Blogs by Lawyers

Posted on June 23, 2009
Military Veteran Attorney Blog http://www.militaryveteranattorney.com http://www.militaryveteranattorney.com/index.xml Provides insight on veteran law news, cases and opinions in Michigan. Published by Serafini, Michalowski, Derkacz & Associates, PC. Products Liability and Injury Lawyer Blog http://www...

Opening: Reference and Research Services Librarian, Univ. of Richmond Law Library

Posted on June 23, 2009
Reference and Research Services Librarian William Taylor Muse Law Library University of Richmond School of Law Responsibilities: This full-time position will provide reference and research services and instruction for faculty, students and other library users (including one evening per week...

Robert C. Post Appointed Yale Law School Dean

Posted on June 23, 2009
Robert C. Post has been appointed the Dean and Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, effective July 1, 2009. Here's the press release. [JH]

Amazon eBook Download Confusion

Posted on June 23, 2009
Amazon's practices in regard to download policy for books to their Kindle device and their iPhone app seems all over the place. One one hand, there is a policy for unlimited downloads to a Kindle device. Some customers have had...

Supreme Court Action Yesterday

Posted on June 23, 2009
I had hoped to get this post out yesterday. We've been dealing with some, cough, cough, business here at DePaul that is an unfortunate distraction, even at my level of employment. Nonetheless, we are getting close to the end of...

Honesty Not the Best Policy at DePaul: Law Dean Fired for Disclosing Required Information to ABA Accreditation Committee; Associate Dean Resigns in Protest

Posted on June 22, 2009
DePaul Law's Associate Dean for Research, Scholarship & Faculty Development Resigns Last Friday, Stephen Siegel, Distinguished Research Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research, Scholarship & Faculty Development at DePaul resigned his associate deanship, "effective when the expected announcement...

New Edition of Wojcik's Introduction to Legal English for Lawyers and Law Students Who Speak English as a Second Language Published

Posted on June 22, 2009
The International Law Institute of Washington D.C. has published the third edition of Introduction to Legal English: An Introduction to Legal Terminology, Reasoning, and Writing in Plain English by Mark Wojcik, John Marshall Law School (Chicago) professor and co-editor of...

States Facing Declining Personal Income Tax Receipts

Posted on June 22, 2009
As state governments race to prepare new budgets by July 1st, Stateline.org staff writer Pamela M. Prah surveys findings from recent reports about declining personal income tax revenue at the state level. Public law libraries dependent on state funding take...

Opening: Associate Dean for Law Library Services & Information Technology, NKU Chase College of Law

Posted on June 22, 2009
Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law is seeking a dynamic, forward thinking individual to fill a vacancy in the following position: Associate Dean for Law Library Services & Information Technology. The Associate Dean for Law Library Services & Information...

Interim Dean of DePaul Law Appointed

Posted on June 22, 2009
Following up on LLB's earlier post about the DePaul fiasco, Provost Helmut Epp announced today that Illinois Appellate Court Judge Warren D. Wolfson has been named interim dean of the DePaul University College of Law. Judge Wolfson will assume the...

New Interface for Google's Book Search Engine

Posted on June 22, 2009
Google's book search engine has a new interface that adds a number of useful features including: New toolbar option to embed a preview in websites or blogs, a lot like the embed tag used to share YouTube videos Better search...

X Games Circa 1899

Posted on June 21, 2009
This Thomas Edison produced clip was shot in 1899, and might be the first recording of bike stunts. [JH]

Working the Saturday Shift at the Old Law Library?

Posted on June 20, 2009
Having trouble staying awake at the Reference Desk? Then you need to go to Kuku Kloc, the online alarm clock webpage. Set the time of your alarm clock and select the alarm sound. Your choices: cockerel, classic clock, electronic, Slayer...

LOC to Archive All Sotomayor Confirmation Tweets

Posted on June 19, 2009
The "official" Library of Congress announcement was a tweet: "LOC will capture tweets on #sotomayor for its web archives on the Sotomayor nomination." [JH]

Are America's Manslaughter Laws Too Vague?

Posted on June 19, 2009
From the Onion. [JH] Political Talk Show Host Suddenly Very Interested In Manslaughter Law Loopholes

New Articles and Updated Research Guides on GlobaLex

Posted on June 19, 2009
Luxembourg: Description of the Legal System and Legal Research by Nicolas Henckes REGARD SUR LE SYSTEME JURIDIQUE ET JUDICIAIRE DU NIGER par Bello Mahamadou Boubacar Updated Research Guides Philippine Legal Research by Milagros Santos-Ong Researching the United Nations: Finding the...

From Institutional Repositories to Electronic Libraries

Posted on June 19, 2009
In The End of Institutional Repositories & the Beginning of Social Academic Research Service: An Enhanced Role For Libraries (LLRX), Stuart Basefsky advocates broadening the concept of institutional repositories (IRs) to serve as full-fledged electronic libraries and documents how they...

CRS Report - The 2009 Influenza A(H1N1) Outbreak: Selected Legal Issues

Posted on June 19, 2009
From the summary of The 2009 Influenza A(H1N1) Outbreak: Selected Legal Issues (May 6, 2009) available on OpenCRS: Recent human cases of infection with a novel influenza A(H1N1) virus have been identified both internationally and in the United States...

Openings: 4 Professional Librarian Positions at UC-Irvine Law Library

Posted on June 19, 2009
The University of California, Irvine School of Law ? which will open its doors on August 24, 2009 to an inaugural class of 65 students ? has three new positions available in the Law Library: a Faculty Services Librarian, a...

Blind Taste Testing Search Engines

Posted on June 19, 2009
No patrons with quizzical looks on their faces approaching the reference desk? Nothing else to do? Then take a break and perform some "blind taste testing" search engine exercises using a couple of new resources Phil Bradley recently spotted: Blind...

CS-SIS Web 2.0 Challenge 2009

Posted on June 19, 2009
The CS-SIS is rolling out their Web 2.0 Challenge again this summer, a fantastic opportunity to learn about and play with new technologies that can be implemented in any kind of law library. The official announcement is below: Announcing the...

LOC Investigators Want Their Guns Back

Posted on June 19, 2009
Investigators at the Library of Congress want their guns back. The Office of Inspector General has complained in his semi-annual report to Congress that not having guns impedes investigations. The office had the power to carry guns for at least...

Using Social Media to Track Events in Iran

Posted on June 19, 2009
Yesterday, I was watching CNN report on the events surrounding the elections in Iran. They were relying on social media sites, especially Twitter, to get real time information due to the limited coverage permitted by the Iranian government. As you...

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