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US News Law School Rankings: Advice for Prospective Law School Students

Posted on April 22, 2009
On The Volokh Conspiracy, David Bernstein (George Mason) offers two pieces of sound advice about the US News Law School Rankings for prospective law school students: First, there are three groups of law schools: the handful of truly "national" law...

It's Out: US News Law School Rankings Leaked Again

Posted on April 21, 2009
Looks like the US News Law School Rankings report has been leaked again: here, here, here, here, here, ... Brian Leiter (Chicago - tied in 6th place overall) has the top 40 reputational scores from academics and practitioners. Paul Caron...

AALL's Economic Outlook Survey Results Now Available

Posted on April 21, 2009
Last month, AALL conducted a survey of law library directors to understand how the current economic crisis is affecting the profession. The results, based on a respectable 34 percent response rate, are now available for download here. Here's a summary...

UC Irvine School of Law's First Entering Class

Posted on April 21, 2009
Quotes are from the UC Irvine School of Law press release, New UC Irvine School of Law Is the Most Selective of Any U.S. Law School. UC Irvine Comments "UC Irvine accepted only 110 of a total of 2,741 applicants...

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Statutory Damages in Copyright Law: A Remedy in Need of Reform

Posted on April 21, 2009
In Statutory Damages in Copyright Law: A Remedy in Need of Reform [SSRN], Pamela Samuelson and Tara Wheatland (both at UC Berkeley School of Law) observe that "courts have failed to develop a jurisprudence to guide decision-making about compensatory statutory...

New Transnational Commercial Law Website

Posted on April 21, 2009
Hat tip to Mirela Roznovschi, Reference Librarian for International and Foreign Law at New York University Law Library for calling attention to TransLex via law-lib. TransLex is a free research and codification platform for transnational commercial law that was recently...

Moderated Discussion on AALL Competencies of Law Librarianship Now Underway

Posted on April 21, 2009
The Continuing Professional Education Committee has launched a two-week moderated discussion on the AALL Competencies of Law Librarianship. Approved by the AALL Executive Board in March, 2001, the purpose is to determine whether the Competencies remain relevant or whether modifications/updates...

Should LexisNexis and Thomson West Be Worried About the Economy's Turbulence? Results of the LLB Poll

Posted on April 20, 2009
Faced with substantial budget cuts to law library collections and legal research policy changes, LLB launched an informal poll on April 13th [background] looking into what impact the current economy may have on LexisNexis and Thompson West print products and...

Meyer on Law Firm Legal Research

Posted on April 20, 2009
In law firms, new lawyers should know how to conduct cost-effective print and electronic legal research in statutory and administrative codes, caselaw, digests, and secondary legal resources, argues Patrick Meyer (Thomas Jefferson School of Law) in his new article, Law...

They're "living out the script of the ultimate start-up company story"

Posted on April 20, 2009
The WSJ's Michael Malone interviews Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams in The Twitter Revolution. On the founders' ah-hah moment: It took us a while to figure out that it really was a big deal," says Mr. Williams. It...

Is Your School Going to Win Above The Law's Inaugural Law Revue Video Contest?

Posted on April 20, 2009
There were six finalists in ATL's Inaugural Law Revue Contest 2009, listed below, and poll results are being tabulated now so check ATL for the winner. Boston University's My New Outline NYU's What Would Arthur Miller Do? NYU's The Barbri...

Opening: Access & Public Services Librarian, Texas Wesleyan

Posted on April 20, 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 [complete job description] DESCRIPTION: The Access & Public Services Librarian is responsible for providing reference services...

Kudos to Lee Peoples

Posted on April 20, 2009
Lee Peoples has been appointed Director of Oklahoma City University School of Law Library effective July 1, 2009. He will be succeeding Judy Morgan who is retiring on June 30, 2010, at the end of what will be her 23rd...

Last Chance to Vote in AALL's Day in the Life Photo Contest

Posted on April 19, 2009
The deadline for voting in AALL's Day in the Life photo contest is 8:00 a.m. Central Time, Monday, April 20, 2009. So if you haven't already votied simply log in with your AALLNET members-only e-mail and password here. Winners will...

IALL Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey

Posted on April 19, 2009
The International Association of Law Libraries's (IALL) 28th annual course on international law librarianship will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 11-15, 2009. Titled "Turkey in a Global Context: Law & Legal Information," it will examine: (1) Turkey's legal system...

Local Government Gone Wild?

Posted on April 18, 2009
The Goldwater Institute has released "A New Charter for American Cities: 10 Rights to Restrain Government and Protect Freedom." The report recommends enacting a "Local Liberty Charter" consisting of 10 judicially enforceable rights to rein-in out-of-control local governments...

Times Aren't Tough for Streetwalking Lawyers

Posted on April 17, 2009
Attention career placement counselors! [JH]

Law via the Internet Conference

Posted on April 17, 2009
A summary of the most recent "Law via the Internet" Conference, the annual meeting of legal information institutes and the "free access to law" movement, is now available on the VoxPopuLII blog. Conference panel topics included: The Right to Access...

LC Launches YouTube Channel

Posted on April 17, 2009
The Library of Congress recently launched its YouTube Channel with 70 videos. "But this is just the beginning," writes LC'sMatt Raymond. "We have made a conscious decision that we?re not just going to upload a bunch of videos and then...

Reality Check: The Impact of Legal Technology for Lawyers

Posted on April 17, 2009
Dennis Kennedy, Tom Mighell, and Adriana Linares launch the Kennedy- Mighell Report on Legal Talk Network with a podcast entitled Reality Check: The Impact of Legal Technology for Lawyers. [JH]

2008 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics

Posted on April 17, 2009
The Yearbook of Immigration Statistics is a compendium of tables that provides data on foreign nationals who, during a fiscal year, were granted lawful permanent residence (i.e., admitted as immigrants or became legal permanent residents), were admitted into the United...

The Glass Half Full or How One Law Library Succeeds on Less, Much Less

Posted on April 17, 2009
Bud Maurer and the entire staff of the Duval County (Florida) Law Library probably should be the keynote speakers at AALL this year. They have captured the magic that is needed to thrive after significant finding cutbacks while serving some...

Computational Legal Studies Blog

Posted on April 16, 2009
A new blog on the application of computation techniques to scholarly legal research, Computational Legal Studies, has been launched by Daniel Katz and Michael Bommarito, graduate students at the University of Michigan. Mr. Katz has a J.D. from the University...

Internet Crime Up 33% According to New IC3 Report

Posted on April 16, 2009
In 2008, more than $264 million was lost in 275,284 complaints, according to 2008 Internet Crime Report published by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). ?This report illustrates that sophisticated computer fraud schemes continue to flourish as financial data migrates...

Slave Trade Tribunals and the Constitutionality of International Courts

Posted on April 16, 2009
Hat tip to Mark Wojcik (John Marshall, Chicago) for calling attention to Eugene Kontrovich's (Northwestern) very interesting paper entitled The Constitutionality of International Courts: The Forgotten Precedent of Slave Trade Tribunals [SSRN] on International Law Prof Blog...

New Twitter Service for Legal Professionals

Posted on April 16, 2009
Hat tip to Cleveland-Marshall's Jan Novak and Rex Gradeless for calling attention to TweetLaw here and here. TweetLaw is a Twitter service designed specifically for legal professionals. Twitter users complete profiles, tag them by legal specialties such as "Legal Librarians"...

Yale Law School Library 2.0 Symposium

Posted on April 15, 2009
Summaries and slides of presentations at the April 4 Yale Law School Library 2.0 Symposium are available here. The panels addressed the topics "The Future of the Library," "Ethics and Politics of Library 2.0," "The Challenge of Copyright," and "Digitizing...

The Public Domain Provisions of the Google Book Settlement Examined

Posted on April 15, 2009
On LibraryLaw Blog, Peter Hirtle reviews the procedures for identifing public domain books under the Google Book Settlement and then raises important concerns about the Settlement's public domain provisions. [JH]

Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in an Information Harvesting World

Posted on April 15, 2009
Hat tip to George Washington University Law School prof and Concurring Opinions blogger Dan Solvoe for calling attention to a new collection of essays about Internet privacy, Lessons from the Identity Trials: Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society...

April 22 Webinar From AALL: Negotiation: Path to Collaboration

Posted on April 15, 2009
From the announcement: "Do you get a sinking feeling when told you?ll have to negotiate a contract? Do you feel unprepared to actually engage in a negotiation process? Attend Negotiation: Path to Collaboration on April 22, 12-1 p.m. EST, and...

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