New Bills Would Open Deliberations of Supreme Court & Criminalize CCAP Discrimination
WisPolitics.com reports on two new pieces of legislation proposed by State Representative Marlin Schneider.
The first would open the deliberations of the State Supreme Court. From the article:
Schneider believes the public should also have the right to know about the private discussions of the Supreme Court. Just as the legislature must debate bills and issues in public, so too should the appellate courts. Hence, the lawmaker's.. bill opens up these deliberations to the public.
The second provides criminal penalties against those who CCAP to discriminate against employment and housing. This bill is in response to cri...
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - February 15, 2008 Tags: Courts
Create a Form with Google Docs
Google recently announced that you can create forms using spreadsheets in Google Docs.
Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address. They won't need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web page. Responses are automatically added to your spreadsheet.
Forms are great for collecting information and now you don't have to know anything about programming to set up one of your own. Very nice.
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - February 15, 2008 Tags: Data & Databases
Examination of RCMP Exempt Data Banks
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has released an audit report titled Examination of RCMP Exempt Data Banks ? Section 36 of the Privacy Act (PDF, 48 pages). The report found that ??many of the national security and criminal operational intelligence files sheltered from public access in the RCMP?s exempt data banks did not belong there.? More information can be found in the News Release and the Backgrounder.
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - February 15, 2008
Diversity and Fairness in the Jury System: Report from the U.K. Ministry of Justice
The U.K. Ministry of Justice has released a report called Diversity and Fairness in the Jury System (PDF, 244 pages). The report addressed two questions:
How representative of the local community are those summoned for jury service, those serving as jurors and juries at each Crown Court in England and Wales?
Does ethnicity affect jury decision-making?
The report found that the juror summoning process does not discriminate directly or indirectly against ethnic minority groups. Further, case simulation research showed that racially mixed juries in highly diverse communities did not discriminate against d...
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - February 15, 2008
Free U.S. Legal Research Site: Public Library of Law
Fastcase has announced the creation of a comprehensive free legal U.S. research site for consumers and lawyers called Public Library of Law (PLoL). Content available on PLoL include:
Cases from the U.S. Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals
Cases from all 50 states back to 1997
Federal statutory law and codes from all 50 states
Regulations, court rules, and constitutions
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - February 15, 2008
Berkman Buzz, week of February 11
BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations. If you'd like to receive this by email, just sign up here.The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law SchoolWeek of February 11, 2008* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *What's going on... take your pick or browse below.*Citizen Lab's Psiphon wins Netxplorateur Grand Prix 2008*Ethan Zuckerman looks at Kenya's bloggers*Melanie Dulong de Rosnay discusses Harvard's decision to go open access*Gene Koo lays out the problem with New York Times blogs*William McGeveran looks at how the passin...
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Berkman Blog - February 15, 2008
Congratulations to Psiphon and the Citizen Lab!
From the OpenNet Initiative...Psiphon, a tool developed at the Citizen Lab to help Internet users evade censorship, has won its latest in a string of awards and accolades, the Netxplorateur Grand Prix 2008. As Internet filtering grows around the world, so does commitment against it. Psiphon was chosen from 100 nominees for the award by a panel of French and international government, media and business experts, who called it the worlds most original, significant and exemplary Net and Digital Initiative.Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab and the Psiphon project and Principal Investigator of ONI expressed the good n...
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Berkman Blog - February 15, 2008
For Your Clients Charter Laws Graded and Ranked State By State
From the site: Charter Laws Graded and Ranked State By State Source: Center for Education Reform (CER) Parents and students...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Your Firm ' s Website
"100 Helpful Applications for the Mac"
Posted by Ben Stevens: One of the key components of the anti-Mac propaganda arsenal is the allegation that "there are...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Mac Use
"Get Smart About Analyzing ESI"
In the news: Gunderson Dettmer CIO Eric Rosenberg evaluates whether efforts to streamline the analysis of ESI are effectively applied....
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: E-Discovery
"New Free Resource for Lawyers"
Posted by Evan Schaeffer: Mentor CLE offers free online video CLE courses on a number of topics, some tailored specifically...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Uncategorized
"New Paper on Judicial Bias"
Posted by Stuart Buck: Two of the top scholars of law and psychology and a federal magistrate judge have written...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Judges
"Has Your Firm Tamed That Damn Billable Hour Yet?"
Posted by Tom Kane: Thanks to a reader, I was alerted to an article entitled Taming the Billable Beast by...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Alternatives to the Billable Hour
"Update on Lawyer Advertising: Should 'Tastefulness' Matter?"
Posted by Allison Shields: The news over the past few weeks, both online and off, has been full of stories...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Legal Ethics
"Marketing Advice for Lawyers During Economic Down Cycles"
Posted by Brian J. Ritchey: I had a chance to catch up with John Remsen, Jr. last week and asked...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Marketing
Video of the Week: Don't Stop Believin'
In honor of Valentine's Day yesterday, a law school romance today.
The music of Journey can do some strange things to you. Just ask Tony Soprano. This week's video, from the University of Queensland Law Revue, demonstrates its power over two law students destined to be together. Too bad for their poor classmates, who don't hear the music.
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novalawcity - February 15, 2008 Author: Meg Kribble
Law.Librarians = KM micro-blogging?
Many VLLB readers will be familiar with twitter, the micro-blogging application that requires users to document ideas in less than 140 characters. Like my lack of blogging here, I admittedly haven't had the time to commit to my twitter account lately, and my non feed-based postings have been down. ... Yes ok, I'll be back on the bandwagon soon, but follow me here...If you've been watching the law librarian blogoshpere recently, you may have picked up on the new law.librarians website. There's a bunch of us involved, but basically we're exploring micro-blogging outside of the twitter service using a new twitter-esque te...
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Vancouver Law Librarian Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Steve Matthews
Opening: Instructional Services/Reference Librarian, Marquette Law
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;...
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Law Librarian Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Employment Opportunties
Books on Trial Adds Chapter to Cold War Violations of Civil Rights
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...
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Law Librarian Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: New Publications
AALL FCIL-SIS Schaffer Grant Applications Due March 1
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...
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Law Librarian Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Library Associations Meetings
Librarians, Who Would Make the Best President?
Opinion Polls & Market Research
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Law Librarian Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Polls
10 Non-Librarian Blogs Librarians Should Read in 2008
LISNews has followed up its 10 Librarian Blogs To Read in 2008 [our post] with a great list of 10 Non-Librarian Blogs Librarians Should Read in 2008. The blogs were selected from LISNews reader recommendations. Here's the list: Boing Boing...
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Law Librarian Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Education & Professional Development
Friday Fun: The Reasonable Man Exists!
Meet the Reasonable Man!
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Law Librarian Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Friday Fun
Bailout Possible at American Justice School of Law
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...
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Law Librarian Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Law School News & Views
New: Public Library of Law
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. From the PLOL spiel:...
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Law Librarian Blog - February 15, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Information Technology Legal Research
