Legal Research

Beyond LexisNexis & Westlaw: UCLA's New Guide to Online Legal Research

Posted on April 02, 2009
UCLA has just released a new Beyond LexisNexis & Westlaw guide. It describes a wide range of online legal research resources and covers primary law, government resources, research guides, reference sources, forms, and legal news. Using the LibGuides platform, Beyond...

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Posted on April 02, 2009
Reviews published in the March 23, 2009 issue of InSITE: International Law Institute LitiLaw: Legal Article Research Portal Nixontapes.org International Law Institute http://www.ili.org/ The International Law Institute (ILI) is a private, non-profit organization that assists developing countries in creating practical...

The Open Cloud Manifesto

Posted on April 02, 2009
The text of the Open Cloud Manifesto is now officially available. As noted by Mark Giangrande (DePaul) on Tech Law Prof Blog, "it's easy to see why Microsoft and Amazon have refused to sign the document which was essentially authored...

Free Video CLE Featuring Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner

Posted on April 02, 2009
West LegalEdcenter is providing free access and free continuing legal education (CLE) credit for a one hour excerpt of an on-demand video replay of a recent program with United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia and Black?s Law Dictionary...

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Wiki Search and Encarta Are History

Posted on April 02, 2009
On Tech Law Prof Blog, Mark Giangrande (DePaul) reports on the demise of Microsoft's Encarta and Wiki Search. Too much competition? Sign of the times? [JH]

Althouse Engaged to Blog Commenter

Posted on April 02, 2009
A long-time law prof blogger has decided to marry one of the long-time commenters to her blog. Who? Well-known blog pundit Ann Althouse (Wisconsin)! She tells her story on bloogerheads.tv (video interview below) Bob Ambrogi covers the storyand observes, "if...

Shattering the Librarian Stereotype

Posted on April 01, 2009
In You Don?t Look Like a Librarian: Shattering Stereotypes and Creating Positive New Images in the Internet Age (March 2009) [book | companion site] Ruth Kneale debunks outdated preconceptions about librarians and their profession that still exist in the digital...

The Madness of Legal Scholasticism

Posted on April 01, 2009
"American legal scholarship today is dead?totally dead, deader than at any time in the past thirty years. It is more dead, vastly and exponentially more dead, than critical legal studies was ever dead during its most dead period. Nothing?s happening....

Harvard Law Library Research Tutorials on YouTube

Posted on April 01, 2009
Terri Gallego-O?Rourke, Reference Librarian and Instructional Services Coordinator, has put together a great series of short video tutorials providing expert guidance on both general research topics and statutory and legislative documents. The videos are available on the Law Library's YouTube...

AALS Request for Open Source Proposals

Posted on April 01, 2009
The announcement: AALS is requesting proposals for Open Source programs for the 2009 AALS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. Open Source sessions at the Annual Meeting are innovative programs proposed by groups of faculty members and selected by a...

Courtoons!

Posted on April 01, 2009
Here's a sample of the daily legal cartoons Cleveland-based appellate practice attorney David Mills posts on his Courtoons blog. And if you go to this page you can obtain Courtoon's widget! Hat tip to Rory Ryan (Baylor), Civil Procedure Prof...

Gmail's Autopilot Will Answer Your Email For You

Posted on April 01, 2009
Features: Keep in touch: Brand-new CADIE (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity) technology enables Autopilot to scan every one of your incoming messages and automatically send the perfect reply. Manage relationships: Impress everyone with your prompt and insightful responses to everything from...

New English-Language Law Review on China Seeks Article Submissions

Posted on March 31, 2009
I just learned that my LL.M. alma mater, Tsinghua University Law School in Beijing, China, is starting an English-language law review and seeking article submissions. Click here and here for details. Tsinghua is one of China's oldest and best universities...

TREC Legal Track Making Progress on E-Discovery Searching

Posted on March 31, 2009
The work of the Legal Track of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC Legal Track) is improving search techniques for electronic discovery, according to Jason Krause?s article, ?In Search of the Perfect Search,? ABA Journal, April 2009. Krause reports that researchers...

Law Librarian Guide to RSS Feeds

Posted on March 31, 2009
Diane Murley (Arizon State) explores the reasons that law librarians should be using RSS feeds, both for their own current awareness and to distribute information to library patrons in the latest issue of LLJ. Her article, The Power of RSS...

Why Not Harvest Citation Data Before Papers Are Published?

Posted on March 31, 2009
José H. Canós Cerdá, Eduardo Mena Nieto and Manuel Llavador Campos argue that citation analysis needs a transformation because of such important shortcomings as lack of coverage of publications, low accuracy of the citation data and costly process of harvesting...

New on LLRX.com for March 2009

Posted on March 31, 2009
From LLRX: FOIA Facts: What Now?, by Scott A. Hodes Through the Labyrinth: Real Answers on How Women Become Leaders, by Diana Philip Researching Australian Law, by Nicholas Pengelley and Sue Milne New Economy Analytics, Resources and Alerts, by Marcus...

Opening: Assistant Director of Public Services and Legal Research, Pacific McGeorge School of Law Library

Posted on March 31, 2009
The Gordon D. Schaber Law Library seeks an enthusiastic candidate to be our next Assistant Director of Public Services and Legal Research. The Assistant Director of Public Services and Legal Research is responsible for coordinating and overseeing the overall Public...

Twittermania

Posted on March 31, 2009
Nielson Wire is reporting that unique visitors to Twitter increased 1,382 percent year-over-year, from 475,000 unique visitors in February 2008 to a whopping 7 million in February 2009, making it the fastest growing site in the Member Communities category for...

Do Law Librarians Twitter? Results of the LLB Poll

Posted on March 30, 2009
Prompted by a story about Twitter use in law schools and academic law libraries, LLB launched an informal poll earlier this month to estimate Twitter use as a web communications medium by law librarians for library-related and personal reasons. The...

Vague But Exciting... Video of CERN Conference Celebrating 20th Anniversary of the Web

Posted on March 30, 2009
Twenty years ago this month, Tim Berners-Lee handed a document to his supervisor Mike Sendall entitled "Information Management: a Proposal". "Vague, but exciting" is how Sendall described it, and he gave Berners-Lee the nod to take his proposal forward...

Call for Papers: Natural Language Engineering of Legal Argumentation

Posted on March 30, 2009
A call for papers has been issued for a ?Workshop on the Natural Language Engineering of Legal Argumentation: Language, Logic, and Computation? (NaLELA), to be held June 12, 2009, at the Institute of Law and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona,...

A Nielsen Report on Social Networking?s New Global Footprint

Posted on March 30, 2009
According to Global Faces and Networked Places, two-thirds of the world?s Internet population visit a social network or blogging site. The sector now accounts for almost 10% of all internet time. Social networking and blogging has overtaken personal Email to...

The Best Academic Publishers in Law?

Posted on March 30, 2009
Brian Leiter (Chicago) is running a poll to determine which academic press publishes the highest quality legal scholarship. The poll ends March 31, 2009. [JH]

State of the News Media 2009

Posted on March 29, 2009
This year?s report , from the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism, offers a general overview of the state of journalism as well as detailed examinations of the state of eight separate sectors (newspapers, online, network television, cable television, local...

Coalition Presses the Obama Administration To End "Ideological Exclusion" in Visa Applications

Posted on March 28, 2009
More than 70 legal groups are urging the Obama Administration to end the practice of practice of ?ideological exclusion,? refusing visas to foreign scholars, writers, artists, and activists not on the basis of their actions but on the basis of...

Please Repeat the Question Because I Was Surfing the Web

Posted on March 27, 2009
Here's the 2009 NYU Law School Law Revue promotional video, addressing the most controversial issue of our time, laptop use in the classroom. Hat tip to Above the Law. [JH] Please Repeat the Question from Amanda Bakale on Vimeo

Columbia Law School Conference on the Google Books Settlement

Posted on March 27, 2009
Execellent summaries of the Conference proceedings on LibraryLaw Blog here and here. [JH]

Recent Dissertations on Legal Information Systems

Posted on March 27, 2009
We've come across the following recent dissertations on legal information systems that do yet appear to be cataloged in WorldCat: DATE: 2008 AUTHOR: Wyner, Adam Zachary TITLE: Violations and Fulfillments in the Formal Representation of Contracts PUBLISHER: King?s College London,...

Legal Planet

Posted on March 27, 2009
Legal Planet is a new environment law and policy blog launched by UC Berkeley and UCLA. Great to see law schools collaborate in the law blogoshere. [JH]

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