Legal Research

Fourth Edition of The Refugee Law Reader Now Online

Posted on February 26, 2008
The Fourth Edition of The Refugee Law Reader is now online. The Reader, created by a group of international refugee law specialists and published by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, is the first comprehensive on-line model curriculum for the study of...

Law Schools Fight Proposed Limit on Judges? Travel

Posted on February 26, 2008
Interesting article from Inside Higher Ed: "The ?good government? movement in Washington has taken aim at fat-cat lobbyists, free spending campaign donors, and earmark producing lawmakers. Its latest target: judge-inviting law schools? An association of law deans and the Judicial...

Professional Reading: Tamanaha on What the Rule of Law Requires, What Liberalism Wants

Posted on February 26, 2008
Brian Tamanaha's (St. John's) The Dark Side of the Relationship between the Rule of Law and Liberalism is now available from SSRN. Here's the abstract: Liberalism, democracy, and the rule of law are often thought to constitute a seamless unity,...

Opening: Reference Librarian, Ogletree Deakins, Greenville, SC

Posted on February 26, 2008
The national law firm of Ogletree Deakins is interviewing for a reference librarian position in its main office in beautiful Greenville, South Carolina. The full listing and contact information can be viewed on the SEALL Job Postings webpage at http://www...

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Recently Launched, Micro-blogging at law.librarians

Posted on February 25, 2008
law.librarians, an experiment in collabrative micro-blogging, was launched earlier this month. In Twitter fashion, posts are very brief, like this one. List of Contributors Great idea! [JH]

Earmarks, Analysis and Resources

Posted on February 25, 2008
Thanks to OpenCRS, the public now has access to the following recent CRS report: Earmarks Executive Order: Legal Issues (February 13, 2008) by Thomas J. Nicola and T. J. Halstead, Legislative Attorneys. Here's the summary: On January 29, 2008, President...

ICED, Video Game Puts You in the Shoes of an Immigrant Teen

Posted on February 25, 2008
ICED (I can end deportation) is a video game that puts you in the shoes of an immigrant to illustrate how unfair immigration laws deny due process and violate human rights. Game players have to live the day-to-day life of...

NALP Adopts Timing Guidelines for Job Offers

Posted on February 25, 2008
NALP has amended its Principles and Standards for Law Placement and Recruitment Activities by adding Part V, General Standards for the Timing of Offers and Decisions. Part V is in effect for the 2008-2009 recruiting season on a provisional basis....

CIA World Factbook 2008

Posted on February 25, 2008
The 2008 Factbook is now available from the CIA. [RJ]

Opening: Electronic Services Librarian, UCDavis Mabie Law Library

Posted on February 25, 2008
The UCDavis Mabie Law Library seeks a candidate with requisite qualifications who demonstrates strong customer service skills and a collegial attitude that thrives in a teamwork environment. Responsibilities: Reporting to the Associate Director, the position has the following responsibilities: Manages...

Possible Bankruptcy Changes for the Referencers in the Audience

Posted on February 25, 2008
The Executive Office for U.S. Trustees recently published two proposed rules for public comment in the Federal Register. These proposed rules concern: 1) the procedures and criteria for the approval of credit counseling agencies; and 2) final reports filed by...

Archiving Oral Arguments

Posted on February 25, 2008
A resource that I have personal experience with and seems to be spreading around the country in law libraries is archiving oral arguments. This resource that a few courts provided in the past is now being taken up by academic...

Cuba After Fidel Castro

Posted on February 24, 2008
Check out Julia E. Sweig's Fidel's Final Victory (Foreign Affairs, January/February 2007) "The smooth transfer of power from Fidel Castro to his successors is exposing the willful ignorance and wishful thinking of U.S. policy toward Cuba. The post-Fidel transition is...

Pakistan and the War on Terror: Conflicted Goals, Compromised Performance

Posted on February 24, 2008
From the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: "The United States must shift its counterterrorism policy towards Pakistan away from a reciprocal approach?requiring Islamabad to perform desirable actions to receive support?towards one encouraging Pakistan to enact effective counterterrorism policies, not for...

Moral Principle vs. Military Necessity

Posted on February 23, 2008
Interesting piece by David Bosco from the American Scholar: "The first code of conduct for warfare, and American creation, reflected ambiguities we struggle with to this day." [RJ]

Transforming the National Guard and Reserves into a 21st-Century Operational Force

Posted on February 23, 2008
The third and final report to Congress by the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves. The previous reports from June 2006 and March 2007 are also available on the Commission?s website. See also: Guard, reserves called inadequate for domestic...

Friday Fun: Spongebob Classics

Posted on February 22, 2008
The cast of "Spongebob Squarepants" lend their voices to Hollywood classics including Casablanca, Singing in the Rain, and The Godfather! Hat tip to Mark Giangrande, DePaul Law Library for sharing. [JH].

A Little More Friday Fun Before Oscar Night

Posted on February 22, 2008
Oscar(R) night, February 24th, is coming fast. For a little workplace Friday Fun today, you can print out and circulate the Oscars ballot (pdf) from the official Oscar site [nominations page for details], play Predict the Winners on the offical...

Free Legal Classes at People's Law School Set Example for Law Schools, Law Libraries and Local Bar Associations to Follow

Posted on February 22, 2008
The University of Texas School of Law is hosting and co-sponsoring free legal classes at People?s Law School on Saturday, February 23, 2008. Participants can choose to attend up to three classes, each featuring one topic. The classes, taught by...

Legal Research and Legal Education in Africa

Posted on February 22, 2008
Vicki Lawal, University of Cape Town, Dept. of Library and Information Studies, has deposited Legal Research and Legal Education in Africa: the Challenge for Information Literacy in NELLCO. Presented at the Starr Foundation Workshop, which took place at Cornell Law...

CrimeReports Maps Arrests and Other Police Reports

Posted on February 22, 2008
CrimeReports.com overlays police reports on maps so users can view where arrests and other police calls have been made. Users can also configure e-mail alerts to notify them of crimes in their neighborhood. The site relies on law enforcement agencies...

Opening: Associate Law Librarian, George Mason University Law Library

Posted on February 22, 2008
The George Mason University Law Library in Arlington, Virginia is seeking an experienced librarian who will report directly to the Associate Dean for Library & Technology, in overseeing administrative functions and coordinating the library's collection development activities...

Professional Reading: MBCAP's Methodology for Evaulating State Public Access Laws

Posted on February 21, 2008
A must read! -- [JH] Bill Chamberlin, et al. Searching for Patterns in the Laws Governing Access to Records and Meetings in the Fifty States by Using Multiple Research Tools, 18 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 415-445 (2007) [Westlaw]...

Are You an IT Omnivore?

Posted on February 21, 2008
What kind of information technology user are you? Take the PEW/INTERNET Internet Typology Test to see where you fit. [JH]

Open Access Publishing in the Legal Academy

Posted on February 21, 2008
Gene Koo, CALI Fellow and co-editor of Law School Innovation blog, writes: The openness of law schools'journals is largely due to history rather than deliberate planning. It gives law schools a huge potential leg up in entering the digital knowledge....

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Posted on February 21, 2008
Reviews published in the February 11, 2008 issue of InSITE: Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler Compassion Index Real Lawyers Have Blogs State Cancer Legislative Database Program Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice [RJ]

Top Ten Myths of Social Security

Posted on February 21, 2008
Check out Richard Kaplan's (Illinois) Top Ten Myths of Social Security. Here's the abstract: Few federal programs are as well known and as widely misunderstood as Social Security, despite its national prominence in matters both political and economic...

Opeing: Fellowship in Law Librarianship, Univ. of Arizona

Posted on February 21, 2008
Law grads (or soon to be ones) who are interested in pursuing law librarianship by earning a LIS degree should look into the law librarianship fellowship offered by the University of Arizona's College of Law Library. The fellowship, which includes...

Top 30 Law Prof Blogs: Harmless if not Very Meaningful Competition

Posted on February 20, 2008
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) charts traffic statistics of the "leading blogs" edited by law professors who use SiteMeter to record blog traffic. The selection of blogs is drawn from Dan Solove's "comprehensive" Law Professor Blogger Census, which of course isn't comprehensive...

Should Professional Librarian Journals Evolve into Blogs?

Posted on February 20, 2008
Marcus Banks argues that the traditional (hardcopy-based) journal model is too antiquated for sharing research and knowledge among librarians. I disagree. There's still a place in the structure of LIS literature for hardcopy serials but they can and are being...

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