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CRS on Presidential Libraries

Posted on December 11, 2010
Everything anyone would want to know about the law of presidential libraries is contained in the recent CRS report: The Presidential Libraries Act and the Establishment of Presidential Libraries (R41513, December 1, 2010). [MG]

12/10/2010: Human Rights Day Promotes Defenders Who Act to End Discrimination

Posted on December 10, 2010
The UN's annual Human Rights Day honors the General Assembly of the United Nations adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948. The theme for Human Rights Day 2010 is human rights defenders who...

'Tis the Season

Posted on December 10, 2010
This is the time of year when vendors send us cards (print or the e version), cookies, candy, and other sorts of goodies. This week, I received a very appropos card from one of my vendors. It actually was a...

Time for LAW.GOV and AALL to Better Coordinate National Inventory of Legal Materials Efforts: LAW.GOV Launches Legal Bug Tracker

Posted on December 10, 2010
The purpose of LAW.GOV's Legal Bug Tracker is to alert the Project when someone finds primary legal materials that violate one of LAW.GOV's 10 core principles. One might say this is a crowdsourcing activity that complements AALL's National Inventory of...

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Friday Fun: The Legal Research Blunders Using Westlaw

Posted on December 10, 2010
This video was created by a student taking Sarah Gotschall and Shaun Esposito's ALR class at the Univ. of Arizona College of Law. Great class assignment! In case you missed it, last week's Friday Fun featured an animated cartoon from...

(FYI WEXIS) Reminder: LawLibCon's Topic This Afternoon is the Future of Legal Information Interface Design

Posted on December 10, 2010
Rich Leiter and the LawLibCon crew will talk about the future of interface design for legal information products with Jason Wilson, Vice President, Jones McClure Publishing, Ed Walters, CEO, Fastcase, and academic law librarian and electronic services specialist, Tom Boone,...

Former WikiLeaks Members Plan to Launch Their Own Whistleblowing Site

Posted on December 10, 2010
Dissatisfied with WikiLeaks concentrating on publishing material about the US while other information was neglected, a group of former WikiLeaks members intend to take a broader approach. Their site is expected to launch later this month. The effort is headed...

Book on Leaked Cables Pulled From Amazon by Author

Posted on December 09, 2010
Another bit of weird fallout from the WikiLeaks episode is that Amazon U.K. was hosting an ebook analyzing the leaked cables. Some supporters of WikiLeaks called this hipocrisy on the part of Amazon, after that company booted WikiLeaks from its...

Political Philosophy of WikiLeak's Founder Examined

Posted on December 09, 2010
"Rethinking Conspiracy: The Political Philosophy of Julian Assange" by Northwestern Philosophy Prof Peter Ludlow is a short essay based on Ludlow's reading of Assange's writings. The text can be downloaded at Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog. [JH]

In re WikiLeaks: S. 4004, SHIELD Act, Goes After WikiLeaks; EFF Calls for Standing up Against Internet Censorship; CRS Tries to Provide Analysis without Access to Leaked Cables

Posted on December 09, 2010
Excerpts from EFF's Call to Action by Shari Steele, Join EFF in Standing up Against Internet Censorship: The debate about the wisdom of releasing secret government documents has turned into a massive attack on the right of intermediaries to publish...

Justice Kennedy: "I will look in Corpus Juris Secundum or ALR or something."

Posted on December 09, 2010
So said Justice Kennedy about "licensing" in yesterday's oral argument in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting. Link to the compete transcript at SCOTUSblog. For details and analysis, see CUNY Law's Professor of Law & University Distinguished Professor Ruthann Robson's Constitutional...

Transitioning from Industrial Production to Social Production of Content: The Failure of Traditional Premises of Copyright Law to Accommodate the Social Web

Posted on November 26, 2010
From the abstract of Niva Elkin-Koren's (University of Haifa Faculty of Law) Tailoring Copyright to Social Production [SSRN]: The prevalence of social production and the increase in User Generated Content (UGC) destabilize some of the fundamental premises of our current...

Makers of Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverages Cease Production After Receiving Warning Letters from the FTC and FDA

Posted on November 26, 2010
On Oct. 17, 2010, the FTC issued warning letters to the manufacturers of caffeinated alcoholic beverages that marketing their beverages may constitute an unfair or deceptive practice that violates the FTC Act, citing incidents ?suggesting that alcohol containing added caffeine...

Thanksgiving Proclamations

Posted on November 25, 2010
The First Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1676 Congressional Proclamation of Thanksgiving, 1782 President George Washington's General Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789 President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation Establishing Thanksgiving Day, 1863 [JH]

Thanksgiving at Plimmoth

Posted on November 25, 2010
Contemporary Accounts of the 1621 Thanksgiving at Plimmoth Source Materials on the Plimmoth Plantation [JH]

AALL Giving Opportunities This Thanksgiving

Posted on November 24, 2010
As we give thanks tomorrow, I hope law librarians remember that many of our colleagues who are unemployed or who due to budget cutbacks have been and continue to be unable to participate in professional activities. On AALLNET you'll find...

Friday Fun on Wednesday Because of the Thanksgiving Holiday: How Not to Get Invited to Interview for a Law School Dean Appointment

Posted on November 24, 2010
U Chicago Law Prof Brian Leiter writes that "Brian Tamanaha (Wash U/St. Louis) has discovered the best way to guarantee one will never be sought after as a Dean" by pubishing his pitch to any law school dean search committee...

Can (Does) the Roberts Court Say What It Means and Mean What SCOTUS Says?

Posted on November 24, 2010
From Adam Liptak's New York Times feature, Justices Are Long on Words but Short on Guidance: The Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is often criticized for issuing sweeping and politically polarized decisions. But...

Meet the Players Behind (Responsible For) Our Current Financial Crisis

Posted on November 24, 2010
From the product description for Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera's All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (Portfolio Hardcover, Nov. 16, 2010): All the Devils Are Here goes back several decades to weave the hidden...

Christian Legal Society Loses Second Hastings Proceeding

Posted on November 24, 2010
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week rejected the final challenge, at that level, at least in the Hastings Law School case of Christian Legal Soc'y v. Martinez. The Supreme Court had limited its review to the issue whether...

Thomson Reuters' New Book Citation Index

Posted on November 24, 2010
TR's Book Citation Index is scheduled for release next year. At launch, some 25,000 volumes will be in the database including titles from from major publishers and university presses. For details, see Nancy Herther, anthropology/sociology librarian at the University of...

The Shadow Scholar - A Must Read

Posted on November 24, 2010
The Shadow Scholar, a disturbing November 12, 2010 article in the Chronicle Review, tells the tale of a person that makes a living by writing student papers. This writer works for an online "storefront" that employs 50 writers. The article...

CNET's Top Tech Turkeys of 2010

Posted on November 24, 2010
Starting with No. 1 ranked, "It's not the iPhone, it's the way you're holding it!" and including "Google Street View was spying on you" (ranked #3) and "The TSA needs a Barry White theme song" (ranked #5). The complete rankings...

Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Classic Westlaw Takes on Lexis Advance for Solos With a Curious Twist for a Long Neglected Market Niche

Posted on November 23, 2010
As noted here, Lexis Advance for Solos offers an attractive flat rate monthly price starting at $175 per month for one attorney, and $140 per month for a second attorney, with one, two, or three year licensing options that offers...

Law Prof Launches Consulting Firm for Legal Hiring, Retention and Promotion

Posted on November 23, 2010
Lawyer Metrics offers "evidence-based systems" to select, develop and retain lawyers and counselors. Headed by Bill Henderson (Professor of Law and Val Nolan Faculty Fellow and Director of the Center on the Global Legal Profession, Indiana Univ. School of Law,...

Opening: Faculty Services Librarian, Univ. of Georgia School of Law

Posted on November 23, 2010
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The Faculty Services Librarian Serves as the liaison between the Law Library and the Law School faculty Initiates and maintains regular contact with Law School faculty to ascertain specific research and teaching interests, and develops research profiles...

Google Sued Over Gmail Scanning

Posted on November 23, 2010
Google is a lawsuit magnet, of that there is no doubt. One of the more absurd suits sent its way concerns the automated process of scanning the content of mail to serve ads to Gmail users. The Register is reporting...

CCH Launches eBooks for Tax, Estates and Accounting Titles; Law Journal Press Launches Online Editions for Supplemented Treatises

Posted on November 22, 2010
Last month CCH launched eBooks using the Adobe Digital Editions platform for its most popular titles in federal tax, international tax, multistate tax, sales and use tax, state tax, accounting & audit, finance, and estate planning. The eBooks are available...

What Drives Me Crazy About Dealing with Vendors: The Straitjacket Corporate Policy Makers Force Reps to Wear

Posted on November 22, 2010
"Without Naming Names (unless you want to?) What drives you crazy when dealing with vendors? And/Or ? Have you had positive dealings with a vendor that other vendors could learn from?" That's the topic of another very interesting 3 Geeks'...

Do Law Firms Still Need Librarians?

Posted on November 22, 2010
Apparantly the answer is "yes" even if the law firm library is pass�. If you were designing a law firm today, would you even have a library? I think many, including me, would answer, ?Probably not.? As long as the...

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