Legal Research

FTC Issues Staff Report on Malicious Spam and Phishing

Posted on January 23, 2008
From the press release: "In a new report, the Federal Trade Commission staff describes findings from its July 2007 workshop, ?Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions? and proposes follow-up action steps that stakeholders can adopt to mitigate...

Congressional Documents Online

Posted on January 23, 2008
From the Rutgers-Camden School of Law Library: "The Law Library is in the process of digitizing our print collection of Congressional documents (U.S. Congressional Hearings and Committee Prints). As of now, there are over 1,000,000 pages available consisting of over...

OEDb's Online College Rankings 2008

Posted on January 23, 2008
OEDb has just published its second Annual Online College Rankings. Data was gathered for eight different metrics ? acceptance rate, financial aid, graduation rate, peer Web citations, retention rate, scholarly citations, student-faculty ratio, and years accredited...

Fiscal Year 2007 Financial Report of the United States Government

Posted on January 23, 2008
New report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office: "The Secretary of the Treasury, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is required annually to submit financial statements for the U.S. government to the President...

To access this complete feed in the blog feed reader login or register for free.

Opening: Serials Librarian, Columbia University Diamond Law Library

Posted on January 23, 2008
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library of Columbia University invites applications and nominations for the position of Serials Librarian. Reporting to the Head of Technical Services, the Serials Librarian is responsible for overseeing the bibliographic and physical control of continuing...

Padilla Sentenced to 17 Years

Posted on January 22, 2008
Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al Qaeda to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months on terrorism conspiracy charges that don't mention those initial allegations. CNN has the details. See...

SEC's Executive Compensation Reader

Posted on January 22, 2008
From the press release: "Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox launched the first-ever online tool that enables investors to easily and instantly compare what 500 of the largest American companies are paying their top executives...

Future Trends in the State Courts

Posted on January 22, 2008
From the National Center for State Courts: "The Future Trends in State Courts, produced annually, is intended to support courts in their strategic planning efforts and stimulate thought and discussion about important current issues in the courts. The report has...

Using Blogs Instead of Propriety eCourse Management Services

Posted on January 22, 2008
OSU law professor Douglas Berman, blogger at Sentencing Law & Policy and Law School Innovation, is using a blog to support his 1L Legislation course this Spring. He has used a blog for course support before. See his upper level...

2008 CALI Conference Theme, Call for Suggestions

Posted on January 22, 2008
The 2008 CALI Conference will be held Thursday-Saturday, June 19-21, 2008 at the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore. John Mayer, CALI's Executive Director has posted several ideas for this year's conference theme and is calling for feedback...

From a Critic of Tribunals to Top Judge

Posted on January 22, 2008
Interesting article from the N.Y. Times: "Back in 2002, a master?s degree candidate at the Naval War College wrote a paper on the Bush administration?s plan to use military commissions to try Guantánamo suspects, concluding that ?even a good military...

Choice of Law in the American Courts

Posted on January 22, 2008
Symeon C. Symeonides, Dean & Professor of Law, College of Law, Willamette University, has deposited Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2007: Twenty-First Annual Survey in SSRN. Here's the abstract: This is the Twenty-First Annual Survey of American...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Law of the Land

Posted on January 21, 2008
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the...

The Legal Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Posted on January 21, 2008
Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law at The University of Chicago Law School has created the following resources: The Legal Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Selected Resources (pdf) Martin Luther King, Jr...

Sitkoff's King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop, New MLK Biography

Posted on January 21, 2008
Drawing on his expertise in the history of the civil rights movement, Harvard Sitkoff has produced the finest brief biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. The man who emerges is not the homogenized King celebrated every January, but a radical...

U.S.-Pakistan Relations Assassination, Instability, and the Future of U.S. Policy

Posted on January 20, 2008
The Rand Report, U.S.-Pakistan Relations Assassination, Instability, and the Future of U.S. Policy, (pdf) by C. Christine Fair, was prepared for testimony presented before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia on January 16,...

Winning the Right War

Posted on January 20, 2008
New Report via The Brookings Institution: More than six years after the start of the ?war on terror?, America and its allies are less safe, their enemies stronger and more numerous, and the war?s key geographic battleground, the greater Middle...

The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly

Posted on January 19, 2008
The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly edited by Robert Vare List Price: $35.00 Hardcover: 688 pages Publisher: Doubleday (October 16, 2007) ISBN-10: 0385521081 ISBN-13: 978-0385521086 Book Description: This extraordinary anthology brings together seventy-eight of the magazine's most...

Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950

Posted on January 19, 2008
Interesting article from the N.Y. Times: "A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty...

Friday Fun: Bad Day at the Office

Posted on January 18, 2008
I've seen "rage against the machine" happenings like the ones in this video in a law firm office! Hat tip to Lisa Wernke, Acquisitions Librarian, University of Cincinnati Law Library for sharing. [JH]

Should Law Profs Require Student Blog Participation?

Posted on January 18, 2008
That's the question Adjunct Law Prof Blog editor Mitchell Rubinstein asked after noting that Barry Law School Adjunct Professor Marc John Randazza gives credit for student participation on his blog, The Legal Satyricon. The question has created a mini-dust storm...

Belated Happy Birthday Wikipedia

Posted on January 18, 2008
Wikipedia turned 7 years old on January 15th. Hat tip to LISNews. [JH]

Researchers: Beware the IE Cache on a Public Terminal

Posted on January 18, 2008
Interesting article from eWeek.com: "If you use Internet Explorer to access Google's Gmail on public terminals, you may be leaving a lot of sensitive information exposed in the browser's cache, according to a warning from Web application security specialist Cenzic...

What Did the Professor Say? Check Your iPod

Posted on January 18, 2008
Interesting article from the N.Y. Times: "Students staring at their iPod screens may be taking a break with a music video ? or they may be reviewing a tough chemistry lecture. These days, students who miss an important point the...

White House Fact Sheet: Year in Review: 2007

Posted on January 18, 2008
From the White House. [RJ]

Be True to Your School

Posted on January 17, 2008
Check out the ten law schools who graduated the most law teachers on Brian Leiter's Law School Reports. The data was obtained from 7,820 tenured and tenure-track law professors listed in the AALS Directory of Law Teachers. The data was...

Does Court Secrecy Undermine Public Health and Safety?

Posted on January 17, 2008
THE SUNSHINE IN LITIGATION ACT: DOES COURT SECRECY UNDERMINE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY?: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights of the S. Comm. on the Judiciary 110th Cong. (2007). [Webcast] Member Statement The Honorable Patrick...

Reforming U.S. Immigration Policy: Open New Pathways to Integration

Posted on January 17, 2008
New report from the Brookings Institution: "Roughly 12 million people reside illegally in the United States. More are joining the workforce, and nearly half of these households have children. Congress tried but failed to pass legislation to change the functioning...

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Posted on January 17, 2008
Reviews published in the January 14, 2008 issue of InSITE: Debatepedia Dying Speeches & Bloody Murders: Crime Broadsides Collected by the Harvard Law School Library Human Rights Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute OpenCongress

Impact of Undocumented Immigrants on Public Treasuries

Posted on January 17, 2008
CBO's The Impact of Unauthorized Immigrants on the Budgets of State and Local Governments: CBO drew the following conclusions: State and local governments incur costs for providing services to unauthorized immigrants and have limited options for avoiding or minimizing those...

Bloggers, promote your law blog by nominating your blog for inclusion in USLaw.com's Law Blog Directory and RSS Reader. Benefits described.