Legal Research

OMB's Wiki Used to Compile Earmark Data

Posted on January 28, 2008
Today's Washington Post profiles OMB's in-house wiki, The MAX Federal Community, in Agencies Share Information By Taking a Page From Wikipedia. The wiki has 5,500 members and is growing by hundreds each month. A number of federal agencies are creating...

Professional Reading: First Comprehensive Study of the Credentials of Today's Legal Writing Faculty

Posted on January 28, 2008
Susan Liemer and Hollee Temple's Did Your Legal Writing Professor Go to Harvard?: The Credentials of Legal Writing Faculty at Hiring Time is now availabe from SSRN. Here's the abstract: "In this article, we share the results of the first...

2007 Gold Mouse Report: Lessons from the Best Web Sites on Capitol Hill

Posted on January 28, 2008
From the press release: "A new report from the Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) on congressional Web sites says the overall quality ?continues to be disappointing,? with more than 40% of congressional Web sites earning a substandard or failing grade...

Bookmark LLSDC's Legislative Source Book New URL

Posted on January 28, 2008
The Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. (LLSDC) has transitioned its website to a new server and nearly all parts of its very useful Legislative Source Book have been assigned new URLs. The temporary site at http://www.llsdc.net/sourcebook/ will be taken...

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Future Choices: Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Law

Posted on January 28, 2008
From the Center for American Progress: "In our modern world, sex is no longer the exclusive method for humans to reproduce. A new group of medical options, known as ?assisted reproductive technologies,? are challenging our understanding of parenthood and biological...

WSJ.com to Retain Subscription Component

Posted on January 28, 2008
Well...I guess the rumors were too good to be true. "The Wall Street Journal's Web site, WSJ.com, will keep a significant portion of its content behind its paid-subscription wall, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said yesterday. Speculation had been rife...

Journalism in Iraq

Posted on January 27, 2008
Two new studies from the Project for Excellence in Journalism: A Survey of Reporters on the Front Lines: "After four years of war in Iraq, the journalists reporting from that country give their coverage a mixed but generally positive assessment,...

Security and Stability in the Greater Middle East

Posted on January 27, 2008
From the Center for Strategic & International Studies: This briefing provides an overview of the major security problems facing the Middle East. [RJ]

Legal, Financial and Real Estate Industries Dominate Presidential Fundraising, Study Shows

Posted on January 26, 2008
From the press release: "More than half the major fundraisers for the presidential campaigns hail from just three segments of the U.S. economy: lawyers and law firms, representing both corporate and consumer interests; the financial sector; and real estate, according...

Council on Foreign Relations Launches Campaign 2008 Website

Posted on January 26, 2008
CFR.org's Campaign 2008 site tracks the presidential campaign through the prism of foreign policy issues, featuring Candidate Position and Issue Trackers, a daily blog, transcripts of debates and speeches, up-to-date polling data, and more. Campaign 2008 is a one-stop resource...

Friday Fun: Borat and Ali G Go to Law School

Posted on January 25, 2008
Sacha Baron Cohen impersonators visit (their?) law schools in these two video clips. Well, I think the Borat clip features an impersonator. Meanwhile it is rumored that the real Sacha Baron Cohen will play Abbie Hoffman in The Trial of...

New OUP Law Titles

Posted on January 25, 2008
Global Responsibility for Human Rights World Poverty and the Development of International Law Margot E. Salomon Price: $110.00 274 pages; Dec 07 ISBN13: 978-0-19-928442-9 ISBN10: 0-19-928442-3 Description: This book explores developments in the system of international safeguards meant to correspond...

The Secure Border and Open Doors Advisory Committee Issues Policy Recommendations

Posted on January 25, 2008
The Secure Border and Open Doors Advisory Committee, created by the DHS and State Department, has issued 44 policy recommendations in the Committee's recently release report, Secure Borders and Open Doors: Preserving Our Welcome to the World in an Age...

CRIV New Product Award Deadline Extended to Jan. 31

Posted on January 25, 2008
The deadline for submissions for the CRIV New Product Award has been extended until January 31, 2008. The orginial deadline was January 14, 2008. The Nomination form and additional information can be found at the AALL CRIV website. [JH]

What Non-Librarian Blogs Should Librarians Be Reading?

Posted on January 25, 2008
As a follow-up to their 10 Librarian Blogs Librarians Should Read In 2008 [our post], LISNews is soliciting recommendations for the 10 non-librarian blogs librarians should read in 2008. My suggestion: INFO/LAW by young law profs William McGeveran (Minnesota), Derek...

Stanford Professor Records 9th Circuit's Oral History

Posted on January 25, 2008
Interesting article from the National Law Journal: "Stanford law professor Michele Landis Dauber got a front-row seat on the workings of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 10 years ago at the feet of Judge Stephen Reinhardt. She was...

Academic Peer Review: Anonymous Blog Commenting v. Traditional Peer Review

Posted on January 24, 2008
Let the games begin! Read more about this experiment in Jeffrey Young's Chronicle article, Blog Comments and Peer Review Go Head to Head to See Which Makes a Book Better. Hat tip to INFO/LAW's Can Crowdsourcing Beat Academic Peer Review?...

Tentative Tax Rebate Deal Reached

Posted on January 24, 2008
CNN is reporting that a tentative tax rebate deal has been reached among Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, House Minority Leader John Boehner and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. According to CNN's sources: Deal would give individuals $600, couples $1,200...

New Documentary About 1L Life

Posted on January 24, 2008
The Trials of Law School is a new documentary film about 1L life and times. From the synopsis: [T]he film captures both the stress and emotion, both inside the classroom and out, as [eight students] try to juggle family and...

HTML5 Working Draft Released by W3W

Posted on January 24, 2008
The W3C has released the Working Draft of HTML5 (Jan. 22, 2008). In this version, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been...

Just Released Wikipedia: The Missing Manual

Posted on January 24, 2008
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton List Price: $29.99 Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Pogue Press (January 25, 2008) ISBN-10: 0596515162 ISBN-13: 978-0596515164 Book Description: Want to be part of the largest group-writing project in human history? Learn how to...

Nominations for AALL's Public Access to Government Award Due Feb. 1

Posted on January 24, 2008
Call for Nominations: The AALL Government Relations Committee invites members to nominate an individual, organization or institution for the Public Access to Government Information (PAGI) Award. The Association presents the award annually to recognize special efforts in promoting or preserving...

LLRX.com for January 2008

Posted on January 24, 2008
From www.llrx.com: Mis-Information at the Heart of the University: Why Administrators Should Take Libraries More Seriously, by Stuart Basefsky Carpe Diem: Establish an Institutional Repository for Your Organization, by Carol A. Watson What's New in Cordless Mice? by Jeffrey J...

Massachusetts Cases Online

Posted on January 24, 2008
New resource from the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries: "We are pleased to announce the availability of all Supreme Judicial Court and Mass. Appeals Court cases from 1986-1996 at http://masscases.com. Cases are accessible by citation, case name, or through a...

Database of Iraq Statements by Bush et al

Posted on January 23, 2008
The Center for Public Integrity has cataloged in a freely searchable database all of the "direct false statements" made by President George W. Bush and other high ranking administration officials following 9/11. President George W. Bush and seven of his...

EU Considering Privacy Rights of IP Addresses

Posted on January 23, 2008
This might cause some concern for Google, Yahoo, et al. Full article here. IP addresses, string of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the European Union's group of data...

Top 5 Legal Websites of 2007

Posted on January 23, 2008
From law.com, they are "not necessarily the best or the worst, but the ones that most altered the online legal landscape" this past year: www.avvo.com http://public.resource.org www.altlaw.org www.abajournal.com www.justia.com [JJ]

Professional Reading: Is the Google Generation a Myth?

Posted on January 23, 2008
Yes, according to Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future (pdf), a new report commissioned by JISC and the British Library. From the press release: [The report] counters the common assumption that the ?Google Generation? ? young people born...

A Quick Look at SCOTUSwiki

Posted on January 23, 2008
SCOTUSwiki is the companion site to the great SCOTUSblog. The site is still in its early stages of development. From the About Page: "we?ve created a page for each case set for argument in the October sitting, and at each...

Is Your Law School a Firm Favorite?

Posted on January 23, 2008
Check out the 2007 Law School Hiring Survey. Based on data collected in the 2007 NLJ 250 survey, this report shows where the largest U.S. law firms are hiring their first-year associates. Included is the list of law schools whose...

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