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Quo vadis South Asia ? Himal Southasian presents "Macaulay's Stepchildren" by Anjum Altaf : Indian & Pakistani Education and their Colonial Aspects

Posted on January 25, 2010
Quo vadis Southasia? Read:Himal Southasian/Macaulay's stepchildrenby Anjum AltafWe have excerpted a few paragraphs from this extremely interesting piece:"The colonial decision to utilise English in higher education was not one man?s decision ? and its legacy is far more complex than generally understood...

Animals in the News - Advocacy For Animals

Posted on January 24, 2010
Animals in the News - Advocacy For Animals

Money is not Speech : The Volokh Conspiracy Calls the Legal & Political Community to Order on US Supreme Court Corporate Free Speech Decision

Posted on January 24, 2010
(reposted due to an initial glitch at Blogger)Eugene Volokh at The Volokh Conspiracy writes:"The problem with restrictions on independent spending on campaign speech ? a problem recognized by Justices Brennan and Marshall and not just by today?s conservatives (though Brennan and Marshall would have allowed more such restrictions than today?s conservatives do) ? isn?t that money is speech...

Yeager and Other Letters Re Liberty article "Libertarianism and Intellectual Property" - Stephan Kinsella - Mises Economics Blog

Posted on January 23, 2010
Yeager and Other Letters Re Liberty article "Libertarianism and Intellectual Property" - Stephan Kinsella - Mises Economics Blog

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The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation � Governance Problems in Closely-Held Corporations

Posted on January 23, 2010
The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation � Governance Problems in Closely-Held Corporations

The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation � Compensation in the Financial Industry

Posted on January 23, 2010
The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation � Compensation in the Financial Industry

LEGAL IT SHOW 2010 : Europe?s Premier Legal IT Exhibition Focusing on Software and Services For the Legal Profession : London : 10-11 February

Posted on January 22, 2010
Legal IT Show 2010LEGAL IT SHOW 2010Europe?s Premier Legal IT ExhibitionFocusing on Software and Services For the Legal Profession"Venue: Business Design Centre52 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 0QHWednesday 10th Feb: 9:30am - 5.00pm | Thursday 11th Feb: 9:30am - 4:30pmWednesday 10th Feb: 9:30am - 5...

The Economy and the USA : Facing the Future and Keeping America's Edge in Economic Innovation : The Realities : Advantages and Costs

Posted on January 22, 2010
Jim Manzi has a thought-provoking article at National Affairs titled Keeping America's Edge.He writes:"The United States is in a tough spot....To grasp the difficulty of this moment for America, we must see more clearly the pain involved in economic innovation, the price we would pay for stifling innovation, and the daunting social obstacles that stand in the way of balancing the two...

Europe vs. the USA : A European Economic Model? ? Crooked Timber on Manzi : BloggingHeads : Henry Farrell & Daniel Drezner discuss Cohen & DeLong

Posted on January 22, 2010
Is There an European Economic Model? - Crooked Timber comments on Manzi's article - referenced in our previous posting and at Blogging Heads Henry Farrell and Daniel Drezner discuss Stephen Cohen and Brad DeLong's The End of Influence (of the United States) ...

U.S. Supreme Court Prohibits Suppression of Corporate Free Speech : Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. ___ (2010) :

Posted on January 22, 2010
The United States Supreme Court yesterday issued a landmark decision on corporate political speech which we - as political centrists - heartily endorse, ruling that free speech can not be suppressed just because of the corporate identity of the speaker...

Law Firms in the Baltic : Latvia Lithuania and Estonia

Posted on January 21, 2010
James Swift at The Lawyer in The Baltic triangle writes about law and pan-Baltic law firms in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. He observes, inter alia, that:"Rightly or wrongly, the Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - are viewed as one. With a combined population of less than seven million it is no surprise; and for investors, entering into one Baltic country is usually a prelude to entry into the others...

The Academic Battle over the Dead Sea Scrolls : A Harvard Ph.D. and NYU Law Grad Stands Criminally Accused : Did he Commit a Crime?

Posted on January 20, 2010
Climategate is no exception.Academia can be a cesspool of vanities and distortion.We knew this long ago.Some of the rest of the world is now just finding that out.InAbout New York - Raphael Golb?s Aliases Enlivened Debate Over Dead Sea Scrolls - NYTimes...

These Law Firms Are Diverse. Here?s How They Got That Way. - Law Blog - WSJ

Posted on January 20, 2010
Ashby Jones examines diversity in BigLaw atThese Law Firms Are Diverse. Here?s How They Got That Way. - Law Blog - WSJ

Legal Professions That Don't Require a Law Degree | by Richard Hemby

Posted on January 20, 2010
Legal Professions That Don't Require a Law Degree This following guest article was written by Richard Hemby who regularly writes about online law degree programs and college related topics for Online College Guru, an online college degree guide. While the best known legal profession is that of attorney, many other career paths are available to those who do not hold a law degree...

The Pick suggests that the Solution to the World's Problems is to Think French (exquisite humor : plus a video - harmless - The French Art of Loving)

Posted on January 20, 2010
Think FrenchThose who know us know that we love France but are reserved about the French, but there are some wonderful fashionable exceptions, such as this one.This is an exquisite intellectual piece for non-intellectuals.Take a look and keep reading in spite of the rather horrid beginning...

Religious Expression in American Public Life: A Joint Statement of Current Law

Posted on January 20, 2010
Beyond the shouting, what the law really says about religionby Charles C. Haynes, First Amendment Center, January 20, 2010"Because good news is all too rare in our culture wars, Americans should welcome a common-ground agreement released this week titled 'Religious Expression in American Public Life: A Joint Statement of Current Law...

INTERVIEW - Microsoft top lawyer urges law to protect cloud | Technology | Reuters

Posted on January 20, 2010
INTERVIEW - Microsoft top lawyer urges law to protect cloud | Technology | Reuters

Bill Gates of Microsoft Uses Twitter Account to Unveil New Gates Notes Website

Posted on January 20, 2010
Jennifer Van Grove at Mashable gives us the scoop that:Bill Gates Uses Twitter Account to Unveil New Website"Now it appears that Bill Gates joined Twitter with calculated intentions. After passing 100,000 followers in eight hours (now he has nearly 250,000 fans), the Microsoft visionary used his now-popular account to announce a new web project: The Gates Notes...

Breakthrough in Nanotechnology in the Development of Super-Material Graphene : The Future of Electronics is Nanotech

Posted on January 20, 2010
Breakthrough in developing super-material graphene"ScienceDaily (Jan. 19, 2010) ? A collaborative research project has brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL), have demonstrated how an incredible material, graphene, could hold the key to the future of high-speed electronics, such as micro-chips and touchscreen technology...

Google ices Android launches in China ? The Register

Posted on January 19, 2010
Google ices Android launches in China ? The RegisterThe Chinese are making a huge mistake in the manner that they are handling Google in China. We originally thought that China would simply ignore the issue via the well-known Oriental inscrutability, but the systematic attacks on Google systems from within China - where nothing like that happens without government sanction - are stupidly poisoning the world technology atmosphere - greatly to China's detriment...

PDFmyURL.com : a BLOCKBUSTER online application to convert and save any website page into a .pdf - for FREE

Posted on January 18, 2010
PDFmyURL.com looks like a blockbuster application. You can use it online to convert and save any website page into a .pdf - for FREE. And it works. We ran it on our LawPundit page successfully.They write at their Twitter page:" pdfmyurl 48 hours online and 22,000 people have visited...

Branding, IP, Finance and J.P. Morgan Chase : Return of the Glass-Steagall Act?

Posted on January 18, 2010
IP finance ... where money issues meet intellectual property rights:When Branding Comes to the Rescue of J.P. Morgan Chase

Tweet Tweet: Can I Copyright That? : What is Protected? Kyle-Beth Hilfer Discusses the Law of Copyrights On Twitter

Posted on January 18, 2010
Tweet Tweet: Can I Copyright That?

German Publishers Complain to Cartel Authorities about Google

Posted on January 18, 2010
Ralf Rottmann at TheNextWeb.com headlines his article Oh no, German publishers call cartel authority to go against Google and writes inter alia:"Yesterday, Google Germany confirmed that the German newspaper publishers association (BDZV), Microsoft owned Ciao and online maps service Euro-Cities AG called the German cartel authorities to investigate Google?s business practices, for various different reasons...

Writers Can Prosper Without Intellectual Property - Gennady Stolyarov II - Mises Institute

Posted on January 18, 2010
Writers Can Prosper Without Intellectual Property by Gennady Stolyarov II - Mises Institute"It is commonly supposed that, whatever its moral and theoretical standing, intellectual property is necessary for creators of written works to make a living and ? even more importantly ? to continue to create...

Grahnlaw: EP hearing Michel Barnier: Intellectual property rights

Posted on January 18, 2010
Grahnlaw: EP hearing Michel Barnier: Intellectual property rights

Art as Economics : Germany turns to Culture to Combat Foreign Competition

Posted on January 18, 2010
Germany combats foreign competition with culture - Pittsburgh Tribune-Reviewby Mike Wereschagin of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Reviewhat tip to German-American Relations group at LinkedIn

Alternative Billing Methods in Labor and Employment Law

Posted on January 18, 2010
Michael J. Lotito: The Emplyoment Law Revoltuion, headlines at Entrepreneur:"Streamline Your Legal Services: Results-based fees could make your attorney more efficient" and writes:"One area in which alternative billing methods have been successful is labor and employment law...

Royalty and Continuity : Queen Elizabeth in Photographs with 11 USA Presidents : Is Monarchy a Model for Unity of the Baltic States : A Baltic Union

Posted on January 18, 2010
We just posted this status report to law_pundit at Twitter:Talk about #continuity ! #Queen #Elizabeth in #Photographs with 11 #Presidents of the #USA http://b2l.me/4j6b #UK #USA #royals #royaltyThese photos show one advantage of monarchies over elected representation: continuity of leadership...

The 21st Century Belongs to Women : Half-Day Schools in Germany being replaced by All-Day Schools so that Women can Work

Posted on January 18, 2010
Katrin Beinhold in The Female Factor at the New York Times writes that In Germany, a Tradition Falls, and Women Rise as all-day schooling spreads in a school system traditionally marked by half-day schools:?This is a taboo we just can?t afford anymore; the country needs women to be able to both work and have children,? said Ursula von der Leyen, the German labor minister...

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