Legal Research

Professional Reading: The Bar's Good Moral Character Requirement

Posted on February 20, 2008
Keith Swisher's very interesting article about the history and application of the Bar's "good moral character" requirement is available from SSRN. Here's the abstract for The Troubling Rise of the Legal Profession's Good Moral Character: This Article exposes several rather...

Webcast: Justice Ginsburg and Baroness Hale on the British and US Legal Systems

Posted on February 20, 2008
Associate Justice Ginsburg and Baroness Hale, the first woman to join the British House of Lords as a "Lord of Appeal in Ordinary," discuss the British and U.S. legal systems in this archived webcast of an event sponsored by the...

Race and Law Research Wiki Lanuched by Syracuse's Barcley Law Library

Posted on February 20, 2008
Check out Barclay Law Library's new Race & Law Research Wiki. Good luck with the project! [JH]

Assistant Dean for Library and Research Services, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law

Posted on February 20, 2008
Position Description: University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (?Pacific McGeorge?) is seeking a dynamic and innovative leader for the position of Assistant Dean of its Gordon D. Schaber Law Library. The Assistant Dean for Library and Research Services...

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Now Available The Bluebook Online

Posted on February 19, 2008
Recently launched, The Bluebook Online! At first glance it looks like a well-executed service. Please add your thoughts as comments to this post. Online Subscription for Individual and Multiple User Accounts Additional Subscription Information from the Help Section of the...

Professional Reading: Public Services in Law Libraries: Evolution and Innovation in the 21st Century

Posted on February 19, 2008
The theme for the latest issue of Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 26 Legal Ref. Serv. Q. 1-302 (2007), is "Public Services in Law Libraries: Evolution and Innovation in the 21st Century." The issue includes a number of interesting articles, including...

Gary Price on the Ask SE

Posted on February 19, 2008
Interesting article from Pandia Search Engine News: "The search engine Ask doesn?t get the attention it deserves. Pandia talks to Gary Price, Director of Online Info Resources at Ask about the soul of Ask and how this search engine works...

Sidebar, the Blog for Court TV Junkies

Posted on February 19, 2008
When Court TV was replaced with truTV ("not reality. actuality" programming) this year [our post], fans were left with only six hours of trial coverage, In Session, which is aired from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (ET). But Sidebar, In...

IP Bibliography Published by Copyright Society

Posted on February 19, 2008
Bibliography of recent articles from law reviews and copyright periodicals at 55 J. Copyright Soc'y U.S.A. 111-123 (2007) [Westlaw] [JH]

Opening: Associate Dean for Information Resoures and Law Library Director, Cecil C Humphreys School of Law, The University of Memphis

Posted on February 19, 2008
The Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at The University of Memphis invites applications for the position of Associate Dean for Information Resources and Law Library Director ("Director"). The Director is the chief administrative officer in the law library, reporting...

Permanent Injunction issued against Wikileaks

Posted on February 19, 2008
LLB has previously brought a few documents to your attention, made available via wikileaks here and here. On Friday, a federal judge ordered the site shut down, issuing a permanent injunction against the wiki at a Cayman Islands bank request....

Fidel Castro Steps Down

Posted on February 19, 2008
CNN is reporting that Fidel Castro, 81, announced his resignation as president of Cuba and commander in chief of Cuba's military yesterday in a letter published by the state-run newspaper Granma. [text of letter | Castro's Wikipedia entry] Cuba's leaders...

Codes, Rules, and Regulations of the State of New York Now Online

Posted on February 18, 2008
From the press release: "The New York State Department of State today announced that an unofficial compilation of all State codes, rules, and regulations, which runs more than 58,000 pages, is now available on the Department of State website in...

Louis Mirando Appointed Chief Law Librarian at Osgoode Hall Law School

Posted on February 18, 2008
From the annoucement: Patrick Monahan, Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, today announced the appointment of Louis Mirando as Osgoode?s Chief Law Librarian, effective March 1. Mirando, who has a Master of Library Science degree from the...

Opening: Law Library Director, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Posted on February 18, 2008
Director, Law Library and Assistant, Associate or Professor of Law. Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, seeks to fill this full-time, tenure-track position starting 2008-09 academic year. Built in 1997, the Cleveland State University Law Library is a state...

Presidents' Day Reading: Our Lawyer-Presidents: From Law Office to Oval Office

Posted on February 18, 2008
Twenty five of our presidents have been lawyers. This ABA Museum of Law book takes a look at how their legal careers shaped their presidencies. [JH] America's Lawyer-Presidents: From Law Office to Oval Office Edited by Norman Gross List Price:...

Professional Reading: The Logic of Legal Reasoning

Posted on February 18, 2008
Check out Vern R. Walker's Discovering the Logic of Legal Reasoning. 35 Hofstra L. Rev. 1687-1707 (2007) [Westlaw]. From the introduction: Despite our need for transparent and sound reasoning, we in the legal profession devote surprisingly little research to developing...

New Institute of Medicine Study, Knowing What Works in Health Care

Posted on February 18, 2008
Knowing What Works in Health Care: A Roadmap for the Nation Jill Eden, Ben Wheatley, Barbara McNeil, and Harold Sox, Editors, Committee on Reviewing Evidence to Identify Highly Effective Clinical Services, Institute of Medicine National Academies Press, 2008 ISBN-10: 0-309-11352-0...

Health Care Opinion Leaders? Views on the Presidential Candidates? Health Reform Plans

Posted on February 18, 2008
From the Commonwealth Fund: "The 13th Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey asked a diverse group of experts for their perspective on the health care reform proposals of the 2008 presidential candidates. Survey participants strongly support reform proposals...

New Study Estimates 151,000 Violent Iraqi Deaths Since 2003 Invasion

Posted on February 17, 2008
From the press release: "A large national household survey conducted by the Iraqi government and WHO estimates that 151,000 Iraqis died from violence between March 2003 and June 2006. The findings, published on the web site of the New England...

Democracy Promotion: Cornerstone of U.S. Foreign Policy?

Posted on February 17, 2008
Recent CRS report via the Federation of American Scientists: "One of President George W. Bush?s stated reasons for starting the war in Iraq was to bring democracy to that country. He stated in December 2006 that ?[We] are committed to...

We Hold These Truths

Posted on February 16, 2008
Many would argue (and I am persuaded by them) that references to God in the Declaration of Independence were more rhetorical devices than faith-based expressions of conventional religious belief but that does not distract from DeSoto's very interest work...

Admissions and Public Higher Education in California, Texas, and Florida: The Post-Affirmative Action Era

Posted on February 16, 2008
Interesting article from the UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies: "1996 was a momentous year for higher education in the United States. In that year voters in California adopted Proposition 209, a ballot measure that amended the state constitution...

UConn Law Library Lawsuit

Posted on February 16, 2008
In an event that would seem like a nightmare to many librarians, suit has been filed by the State of Connecticut over ?shoddy and substandard? construction work on the ?new? UConn Law Library, a $24 million project, here is a...

AALL FCIL-SIS Schaffer Grant Applications Due March 1

Posted on February 15, 2008
AALL's Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL) is now accepting applications for the 2008 FCIL Schaffer Grant. Details and Application. The application deadline is March 1, 2008. The Grant provides a waiver of the 2008 AALL Annual...

Books on Trial Adds Chapter to Cold War Violations of Civil Rights

Posted on February 15, 2008
Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland by Shirley A. Wiegand and Wayne A. Wiegand List Price: $24.95 Hardcover: 286 pages Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (October 1, 2007) ISBN-10: 0806138688 ISBN-13: 978-0806138688 Book Description: Between the two major...

Opening: Instructional Services/Reference Librarian, Marquette Law

Posted on February 15, 2008
Marquette University Law Library is accepting applications for the position of Instructional Services/Reference Librarian. Major responsibilities include: teaching 1 credit Advanced Legal Research course each semester and rotating summer sessions; collaborating with Legal Writing Professor to teach 1L research sessions;...

New: Public Library of Law

Posted on February 15, 2008
FastCase has just launched their Public Library of Law, a free resource (registration required for caselaw) that brings together all the available online caselaw, statutes, regulations, court rules and constitutions from the federal and state governments...

Bailout Possible at American Justice School of Law

Posted on February 15, 2008
The ABA Journal is reporting that the American Justice School of Law in Paducah, Ky. which last week had a forth of its faculty resign in an attempt to ouster the Dean has been issued a loan by Dr. Meriwether...

Friday Fun: The Reasonable Man Exists!

Posted on February 15, 2008
Meet the Reasonable Man!

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