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Call for Papers, Deadline Extended: ICEGOV 2009

Posted on April 27, 2009
The call for papers has been extended until May 1, 2009, for the 3rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2009), to be held in Bogota, Colombia, November 10-13, 2009. The organizers especially welcome submissions "that cross...

The Final Word on PR Fodder about the US News Law School Rankings

Posted on April 27, 2009
And it comes from our good friend, Texas Wesleyan law prof and ContractsProf Blog editor, Frank Snyder: The recent U.S. News rankings are out, and apparently every law school either rose in rankings or stayed the same, according to a...

Opening: Legal Reference Librarian, Library of Congress

Posted on April 27, 2009
The Law Library of Congress seeks a legal reference librarian with education and experience (1) providing legal and legislative information services to diverse and demanding clients in a large law library or similar legal information organization; and (2) creating, organizing...

Voting for the Webby Award's People's Voice Award Ends Thursday

Posted on April 27, 2009
Almost 10,000 entries were submitted to the 13th Annual Webby Awards this year. [About the awards | List of nominees by category] Webby Award winners will be chosen by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and the People's...

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IT Support Cat's Monday Morning Help Desk Blues

Posted on April 27, 2009
For all the poor souls in IT support who are wondering how to respond to the backlog of help desk messages in "plain English" this Monday morning, IT Support Cat recommends sending the following CommonCraft videos to their clients ahead...

Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq

Posted on April 26, 2009
The Defense Department has issued it's latest quarterly report on Iraq. The report addresses the stability and security of the region as well as assessing the capabilities of the Iraqi Security Forces. According to the report "Iraq continues to make....

Readex Launches American Newspaper Archives

Posted on April 25, 2009
Readex has launched the American Newspaper Archives, an expanding online collection that will offer access to major U.S. newspapers. A part of America?s Historical Newspapers, the Archives will provide users with fully searchable digital editions of historically significant and regionally...

US News Law School Rankings Report: A Sampling of Law School Press Releases

Posted on April 24, 2009
Just a sampling (compiled at 6:30 a.m.ET today) of law school PR fodder published since yesterday's official publication of the US News Law School Rankings. [LLB post]: Arkansas: U.S. News Ranks University of Arkansas School of Law in Top Tier...

Rapping 1L Con Law Doctrine

Posted on April 24, 2009
Celebrating the winner of Above the Law's first Law Revue Video contest -- Con Luv from the 2009 Virginia Law Libel Show. About the contest results, ATL writes: Vizu [the web polling service used] gave the contest a clean bill...

Thinking Inside the Blog

Posted on April 24, 2009
Cindy Chick, Global Manager of Knowledge Systems, Latham & Watkins LLP, and LawLibTech blogger will be presenting a webinar entitled Imagining Web 2.0 in Your Organization: Thinking Inside of the Blog on Thursday, May 7 from Noon to 1:00 pm...

Reubinstein on Zeigler's How I Teach

Posted on April 24, 2009
On Adjunct Law Prof Blog, Mitchell Rubinstein (St. John's and New York Law School) reviews Donald Zeigler's (NYLS) How I Teach (2008). Rubinstein writes "when I started teaching, I was not given any reference material. Frankly, I believe that this...

Justice Granger on the Need for Lawyers and the Judiciary to Go Electronic

Posted on April 24, 2009
Over on Slaw, Simon Fodden has posted Ontario Superior Court of Justice B. T. Granger's PowerPoint presentation entitled ?The Future is Now: Improving Access to Justice: The Need for Lawyers and the Judiciary to Go Electronic.? "As you might expect...

Debunking Originalism

Posted on April 24, 2009
Fifteen months after first being made available on SSRN in December 2007, Mitchell N. Berman's (Richard Dale Endowed Chair in Law, Univ. of Texas at Austin) "Originalism is Bunk" article has now been published in the April 2009 issue of...

FDA Notices of Judgment Collection, 1906-1963

Posted on April 24, 2009
The FDA Notices of Judgment Collection is a digital archive of the published notices judgment for products seized under authority of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. The NJs are resources in themselves but also lead users to the...

Legal Blog Watch Is Looking for Guest Bloggers

Posted on April 24, 2009
Daily law blogging can be is a grind and even tireless bloggers like Bob Ambrogi and Carolyn Elefant need a day off every once in a while so Legal Blog Watch is looking for a few good guest bloggers. So...

US News Law School Rankings Oops: Data Submission or Computational Errors or Both?

Posted on April 24, 2009
US News law school ranking guru Bob Morses reports that "[i]t has come to our attention, since the law rankings were published, that a few schools might have submitted incorrect data to U.S. News. We are studying these situations very...

Ready to Play FantasyLaw with the Green Bag?

Posted on April 24, 2009
In the Green Bag Winter '09 edition (routing takes a while to get around the office, no?), editor-in-chief Ross Davies announced the pilot formation of a FantasyLaw league. Currently in the preseason testing phase (official website is not yet active),...

Spamming Twitter

Posted on April 23, 2009
Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian, Jenkins Law Library, calls attention to two different ways to spam Twitter. One's a script that can infect Twitter accounts, the other a service companies are using to generate tweets that are nothing more than ads...

It's Out: US News Law School Rankings Officially Published Today

Posted on April 23, 2009
Yesterday, the WSJ Law Blog reported that US News ranking guru Bob Morse confirmed that the leaked law school rankings report was the real deal.The US News Law Ranking Report was officially published today and is available online. [front page...

The Case Against a Fee-Based PACER

Posted on April 23, 2009
On Ars Technica, Timothy Lee presents an excellent review of recent criticisms of PACER leveled by open access advocates. [JH]

The Legal Workshop Launched by Consortium of Influential Law Reviews

Posted on April 23, 2009
The Legal Workshop is now online. It's a free magazine featuring articles based on legal scholarship published in the print editions of seven participating law reviews. Launched by the Law Reviews at Chicago, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, NYU, Northwestern and Stanford,...

Try-Before-You-Buy Software Developer Awarded $388 Million in Patent Infringment Case Against Microsoft

Posted on April 23, 2009
A jury in Rhode Island recently ruled that Microsoft had "willfully and intentionally" infringed on a patent owned by anti-piracy software developer Uniloc when Microsoft launched programs using similar software for its Windows XP and Office Products in the late...

What is CaseMap?

Posted on April 23, 2009
Haven't tried it so I don't know but Sue Altmeyer, Electronic Services Librarian at Cleveland-Marshall, does. It's a research log tool provided by LexisNexis. Sue explains that LexisNexis CaseMap allows one to create tables of the actors, documents, evidence, pleadings...

Opening: Head of Technical Services, College of William & Mary Law Library

Posted on April 23, 2009
The Wolf Law Library at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virgina has begun a search for a Head of Technical Services. The Head of Technical Services is responsible for planning, management and supervision of all technical services...

Steven Johnson Predicts That E-Books Combined With Markup and Pincites Will Lead to Social Tagging

Posted on April 22, 2009
Kindle and Google Books herald the transformation of book sales and reading, contends Steven Johnson in an engaging article in the April 20 Wall Street Journal, How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write. Johnson predicts that...

Zoho Gadgets Now Available

Posted on April 22, 2009
Zoho provides a comprehensive, extraordinarily Web-friendly suite of free online productivity and collabration apps that I tend to forget to use because Google casts such a long shadow over the market segment. The Company recently launched Zoho Gadgets to connect...

New on LLRX: Mason's Internally Displaced Persons: Guide to Legal Information Resources on the Web

Posted on April 22, 2009
In Internally Displaced Persons: Guide to Legal Information Resources on the Web, Elisa Mason highlights information resources focused on the arena of human rights and humanitarian law norms that are evolving to address the broadening scope of protection issues that...

Do We Need a More Gender-Balanced SCOTUS?

Posted on April 22, 2009
Do we need another woman justice sitting on the bench for SCOTUS to have "social legitimacy"? Or is there something more fundamental that women bring to the bench?something about the way they decide cases?that makes the need more urgent? In...

Opening: Access & Public Services Librarian, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law Library

Posted on April 22, 2009
The Dee J. Kelly Law Library at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law is re-opening its search for an Access & Public Services Librarian. DESCRIPTION: The Access & Public Services Librarian is responsible for providing reference services to the law...

Death of Sir Neil MacCormick

Posted on April 22, 2009
Sir Neil MacCormick, one of the leading philosophers of law, passed away during the first week of April. See the obituary in The Guardian. Sir Neil, retired regius professor of law at the University of Edinburgh, was a prominent scholar...

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