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AALL Calls for No-fee Public Access to PACER

Posted on March 09, 2009
Reprinted from AALL's Washington Blawg (with permission): Sen. Lieberman Requests Answers from the Judicial Conference on Compliance with Court Provisions of the E-Government Act of 2002 On January 27, 2009, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT), Chairman of the Homeland Security and...

Required Reading on Academic Freedom

Posted on March 09, 2009
For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom by Matthew Finkin (Illinois) and Robert Post (Yale) (Yale UP, April 21, 2009) is "certainly the best and clearest analysis ... on the theory and practice of academic freedom. It should...

Tools for Change: CALI's Annual Conference

Posted on March 09, 2009
19th Annual Conference for Law School ComputingThursday to Saturday, June 18 - 20 2009University of Colorado Law School, Boulder CO. Registration and hotel information here. A preliminary agenda will be available around May 15th. Sessions that have been accepted so...

Are Antiquated State Laws Fueling the Foreclosure Crisis?

Posted on March 09, 2009
A new report from the National Consumer Law Center entitled ""Foreclosing A Dream: State Laws Deprive Homeowners of Basic Protections," identifies some of the most antiquated state law provisions, which are "tilted against homeowners" and acting as a little-understood factor...

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Teach Legal Research in China!

Posted on March 08, 2009
Since 2000, the Overseas Young Chinese Forum (OYCF) has awarded fellowships to overseas scholars, professionals, and doctoral students to teach short courses in various fields---including law---at mainland Chinese universities. [Note: you need not be Chinese or fluent in Chinese to...

A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America's Promise

Posted on March 08, 2009
A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America's Promise (FY10 Budget Overview Document) is now available from the U.S. Government Printing Office. This document provides a description of the Obama Administration's fiscal policies and major budgetary initiatives...

The Economic Crisis and the Fiscal Crisis: 2009 and Beyond

Posted on March 07, 2009
New research report from the Urban Institute:"With the economy mired in the deepest recession in decades a drop in economic activity that has been compounded by continuing mortgage defaults, a historic decline in housing prices, falling equity values, illiquid credit...

All-Time Top Ten Ig Nobel Awards

Posted on March 06, 2009
The Ig Nobels at the Annals of Improbable Research have looked back at 18 years of the prizes to bring you their 10 favorite Ig Nobels of all time. [JH]

LII Launches VoxPopuLII Blog

Posted on March 06, 2009
LII has just launched its inaugural post on VoxPopuLII. The purpose of VoxPopuLII is to essentially cross-pollinate good ideas, create connections, and encourage dialogue. Tom Bruce notes that there are a lot of people working on a wide variety of...

Friday Fun: Wait Two Seconds, Wait Two Seconds (Before You Swipe Your Card)

Posted on March 06, 2009
Some examples of law library etiquette from the 2008 NYU Law Revue (or another example of what happens after the staff leaves). [JH]

Datasets: Displaying, Preserving, and Citing to Them with Dataverse

Posted on March 06, 2009
The IQSS Dataverse Network is a free software platform for the displaying, citing, and archiving of social science research data. Dataverse was developed at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. One may store data on the IQSS...

Memos from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel Indicate Major Legal Errors

Posted on March 06, 2009
Several legal memorandums issued by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel point a number of major legal errors committed by Bush administration lawyers during the formulation of its early counterterrorism policies. Here are the memoranda (issued on March 2nd,...

Metadata Not a Public Record Under Arizona's Public Records Act

Posted on March 06, 2009
David Hricik (Mercer) reposts on an Arizona public employment case where the plaintiff was denied his request for metadata associated with his employment records. The plaintiff believed his records had been altered after creation or had been "back dated...

Web Design Matters: Ten Essentials for Any Library site

Posted on March 06, 2009
Thinking about redesigning the library website. Check out Brian Mathews article in Library Journal entitled "Web Design Matters: Ten essentials for any library site". Mathews focuses on "elements that will update your web site's appearance, improve its functionality, and make...