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Stop the Hate: Join LAMBDA United Rock Out Loud on April 6

Posted on March 24, 2011
Despite the fact that homosexuality is becoming more and more accepted in television and print media (see e.g. Kurt and Blaine?s kiss on Glee last week), culturally and socially homosexuality is far from accepted in certain communities. Last October, during...

2011 Sunshine Week Webcast at Noon Today

Posted on March 18, 2011
For anyone interested in open government, there is afree webcast being sponsored by OpenTheGovernment.org and the American Association of Law Libraries that will take place at the Center for American Progress today at noon (EST). Watch the webcast at http://www...

Walk for the Animals 2011 on Saturday, March 5th!

Posted on March 04, 2011
Enjoy taking a walk with your pals -- with or without fur? Then please join members of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF) for tomorrow's Humane Society Walk for the Animals 2011. The 1.25 mile walk starts tomorrow at...

Paws & Laws Correction

Posted on March 04, 2011
Hello again! Many thanks for all the positive comments re: my previous post on animal law. However, Professor Phyllis Coleman has kindly pointed out two factual errors in said post. Namely that Professor Kundawala is a former co-advisor of the...

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Paws & Laws: Animal Law Events & Resources

Posted on February 11, 2011
Animal law is a dynamic field of law, one in which countless Shepard Broad Law Center students, faculty, and staff take a lively and heart-felt interest. As many of our good readers may know, the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund...

Resource of the Day: The Bluebook Online

Posted on January 12, 2011
Today's resource of note is the interactive online version of the gold-standard citation tool The Bluebook: A Uniform ?System of Citation. Not only does the Law Library & Technology Center keep several print copies of the current edition in Reserve...

Freedom of Information Law: Opportunity and Threat?

Posted on January 11, 2011
A New York Times article this last weekend described a novel use of freedom of information law. The new owners of CourseRank.com (a course information website for college students like ratemyprofessors.com), requested aggregate grade data by course and professor from...

Non-profit financial research--a blog post by Becka Rich

Posted on December 12, 2010
My most excellent colleague Becka Rich, Faculty Services/Reference Librarian, is one of the bloggers on the American Association of Law Libraries Research Instruction and Patron Services Special Interest Section blog, http://ripslawlibrarian.wordpress...

Law School Exam Tips: A Followup

Posted on December 06, 2010
As a follow-up to my post about exam tips, a quotation from an article about law school education I had intended to use to introduce my previous blog post: "Studies have shown that the best way to learn is to...

Law School Exam Tips

Posted on December 03, 2010
Two 1Ls here at NSU asked me the other day for tips for dealing with exams. I felt like I didn?t have a lot of insight. Law school was a long time ago for me, and I didn?t deal with...

2010 Government Secrecy Report Card released

Posted on September 10, 2010
OpenTheGovernment.org has released its 2010 Secrecy Report Card. View it at http://www.openthegovernment.org/otg/SecrecyRC_2010.pdf This coalition of more than 70 consumer and good government groups, librarians, environmentalists, labor, journalists, and others focuses on pushing back governmental secrecy and promoting openness...

Your Law School's Ranking? Not as Important as You Think!

Posted on August 10, 2010
Law school success, as measured by grades, is more important for lawyers? career success and satisfaction than the ranking of the law school they attended, according to a recent study reported by the ABA Journal?s blog. The study was encouraging...

Student Information Literacy: Reality and and Possibilities

Posted on August 02, 2010
Are today?s college students prepared to be ?digital citizens?? Do they have the tools they need to find, evaluate, and use information in today?s wired world? A Northwestern University suggests not, and a white paper offers some minimum standards for...

National Security Archive Director discusses FOIA & Wikileaks

Posted on July 30, 2010
Released on July 25th, the Afghan War Diary (a.k.a. The War Log) consists of 92,000 secret documents about the U.S. military's involvement in the war in Afghanistan. Published by Wikileaks, the report is currently being touted as the largest single...

A Trend in GLBT Discrimination Law?

Posted on July 19, 2010
Three recent court decisions, and an ABA policy shift, may indicate a trend in LGBT rights law towards greater protection for the LGBT community. First, a transwoman (a female-to-male transsexual) won a recent federal employment-discrimination lawsuit against the Georgia State...

?Passing the Hat?--An Investment?

Posted on July 08, 2010
Groups of people are coming together to accomplish goals as never before, often using the Web. But as traditional a funding practice as ?passing the hat? is illegal, under Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules--if the recipient makes money and...

Letters and Law Practice: A Cautionary Tale

Posted on June 24, 2010
ThinkGeek, http://www.thinkgeek.com, is an Internet-order company for, well, geeks. ThinkGeek carries... interesting(?) products for geeks: lightsabers, titanium sporks, no end of bacon products (they seem to think that bacon is cool), and The Big Bang Theory t-shirts (Bazinga!)...

Overdue praise

Posted on June 01, 2010
Over the Memorial Day weekend, I picked up This Book is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, by Marilyn Johnson. I'm only five chapters into the book, but I think Johnson really gets the importance of librarians...

Blogger Out

Posted on May 19, 2010
In the three years I have blogged at Novalawcity I have found it to be a rewarding place for ongoing learning and sharing. I am addicted to blogging, and will blog from my new office in Phoenix starting later this...

A Uniform Bar Exam For Missouri

Posted on May 11, 2010
Via Betsy McKenzie at Out of the Jungle: A recent report in stltoday.com indicates that Missouri has become the first state to adopt a plan to create a single bar exam for lawyers who want to practice anywhere in the...

Florida Supreme Court Joins Twitter

Posted on May 07, 2010
On the main page of the Florida Supreme Court's website, you will now notice a tiny turquoise icon indicating that the Florida Supreme Court is using Twitter as a communication platform. The first tweet was released on April 5, 2010,...

Streaming Video of U.S. House Floor Proceedings : HouseLive.gov

Posted on April 27, 2010
Live and archived streaming video of U.S. House proceedings are now available via HouseLive.gov. The searchable archives date back to the beginning of the 111th Congress. You can subscribe to live feeds in video, audio podcast and/or video podcast, or...

Increase in Public Accessing Government Info & Services Online

Posted on April 27, 2010
A report by PewInternet.org indicates that the U.S. public continues to seek government information and services online in growing numbers. View the report here. A tip of the hat goes to Susie Skarl, Urban Affairs Librarian at UNLV, for sharing...

Library of Congress collects 'tweets'

Posted on April 15, 2010
The entire archive of Twitter will be part of the LOC collection. Notice.

Athletes' Likenesses, Amateurism, and the NCAA

Posted on April 05, 2010
Tomorrow is the final game of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball tournament. A lawsuit was filed by former college and professional basketball player Ed O'Bannon, and other college basketball players, against the NCAA. The lawsuit is a class...

Article on the value of LLM in tax

Posted on March 30, 2010
Paul Caron writes on the characteritics and misconceptions of LLM programs in tax in this recent article.

Courtroom View Network

Posted on March 29, 2010
Courtroom View Network produces court videos and provides many to Westlaw. CVN covers litigation via web casts, includes a searchable archive back to 2006, and provides content on the CVN website for firms and libraries for a fee.

Understanding the New U.S. Health-care Environment, Part 2

Posted on March 24, 2010
According to an email from the Federal Depository Library Program: "The Health Care Reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives is available on GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys). To view the electronic versions of the legislation, debate and...

Understanding the New U.S. Health-care Environment

Posted on March 23, 2010
On Sunday, March 21, 2010, the House passed H.R. 4872, the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010. The Act passed by a vote of 220-211. No Republicans voted for the bill, and 34 Democrats voted against it....

"Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent."

Posted on March 22, 2010
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