Ethan Zuckerman's Cute Cat Theory at ETech
Speaking at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference this past week, Berkman Fellow Ethan Zuckerman shared his "Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism" on how repressive governments are increasingly targeting activists using Web 2.0 tools for information dissemination and organizing. Wired has the story: "What happens when the governments wake up?" Zuckerman asks.He sees a future online world that will increasingly look like the world the press currently works in -- free in the United States and other Western democracies, but heavily censored around the world.Most worrisome is China, according to Zuckerman, and not sim...
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Berkman Blog - March 5, 2008
Supreme Court of Canada Statistics, 1996-2007
The Supreme Court of Canada has published a special edition of the Bulletin of Proceedings giving a statistical view of the Court's work from 1997 to 2007.
The statistics are broken into five categories:
Cases Filed
Applications for Leave Submitted
Appeals Heard
Appeal Judgments
Average Time Lapses
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - March 5, 2008
Bald Assertions of Burden Insufficient Under Rule 26(b)(2)(B); Ball Club Ordered to Produce Remaining Email Using Previously Agreed-Upon Search Terms
City of Seattle v. Prof'l Basketball Club, LLC, 2008 WL 539809 (W.D. Wash. Feb. 25, 2008) The discovery dispute in this decision involved the City of Seattle's request to have defendant Professional Basketball Club, LLC (“PBC”) search for and produce responsive emails for six of its eight members. In January 2008, PBC produced approximately 150,000 emails from two members of PBC. It objected to producing emails for the remaining six PBC members because such a search would “increase the universe exponentially” and would generally produce irrelevant documents. The City moved to c...
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Electronic Discovery Law - March 5, 2008 Tags: Case Summaries
Choices for Turkey in a Digital Age
In today's Turkish Daily News, Berkman Faculty Co-Founder Jonathan Zittrain and Executive Director John Palfrey have an op-ed on choices for internet filtering and free expression that Turkey may face in the digital age. We admit to a clear commitment: We think that a free and open Internet is, on balance, a very good thing for democratic societies. We work closely in partnership with technology companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Lenovo, and others that are leading the digital revolution. It's our view that these companies, and citizens around the world, have benefited from the lightly...
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Berkman Blog - March 5, 2008
Citizen Media Law Project Publishes Newsgathering Section of Legal Guide
From the Citizen Media Law Project...Back in January, we announced the launch of the first two major sections of the Citizen Media Law Project's Legal Guide covering Forming a Business and Getting Online and Dealing with Online Legal Risks. This past month we began rolling out the section on Newsgathering and Privacy, which addresses the legal and practical issues you may encounter as you gather documents, take photographs or video, and collect other information. Here is a quick rundown of the sections we've just published:* Entering the Property of Others discusses your rights to access public and private property and...
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Berkman Blog - March 5, 2008
Fake Bad Scale - Impeached
The WSJ Law Blog discusses the weaknesses in this common PI tool for uncovering malingerers. WSJ
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novalawcity - March 5, 2008 Author: Robert Hudson
Michael Clayton and the legal profession
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novalawcity - March 5, 2008 Author: Meg Kribble
Librarians looking to move to a tropical locale?
As I am sure many law librarians look out their windows at work they see the cold, long winter. I'm writing this from central Mississippi and it is 38 degrees outside right now. For all of you who have had...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 5, 2008 Author: LawLibrarian Blogger Tags: Employment Opportunties
Law Librarian, Connecticut Judicial Branch
The Connecticut Judicial Branch is seeking a qualified individual to perform professional to advanced library duties which include providing legal reference and research guidance, instruction in database searching, and catalog and collection maintenance. Minimum Qualifications: A Master’s degree in Library...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 5, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Employment Opportunties
INTELWIRE Releases FBI Documents Cited In 9/11 Commission Report
From INTELWIRE.com: "INTELWIRE has obtained more than 1,700 pages of FBI documents cited in the end notes of the Final Report of the 9/11 Commission. They reveal a wealth of new details about the hijacker's movements, possible links between the...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 5, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Legal Research
Unequal Access: Neglecting the National Voter Registration Act, 1995-2007
From press release: "As the nation prepares for the 2008 election, a new study reveals that many states are routinely failing to offer low-income Americans an opportunity to register to vote as required by the federal National Voter Registration Act...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 5, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Think Tank Reports
National Summits Help Federal Courts Prepare for Sentence Reduction Requests
From the Third Branch: "More than 600 district court judges, federal defenders, prosecutors, and probation officers gathered last month for two-day summits in Charlotte, North Carolina, and St. Louis, Missouri, to help each other prepare for a sudden increase in...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 5, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: News
Another New Legal Education Reform Blog
Hosted by the Elon University Law School, the Center for Engaged Learning in the Law Blog "is intended to contribute to the discourse on teaching and learning in law, from the inspirational to the whimsical, to the mechanical. It includes...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 5, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Law School News & Views
Online Companions to Law Reviews -- Fizz or Fizzle?
Online law review companions can take several forms (websites, blogs, forums, etc) for a number of purposes (publishing scholarship on topics that might not fit the editorial confines of the hardcopy review, providing a means for responses and critiques of...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 5, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Web Communications
Public Facing Legal KM
Following up on a recent comment I left over on Lawyer KM, I'd like to relay some thoughts I've had going for a while. When it comes to legal knowledge management (KM), in my view, there will always a portion of a law firm's codified knowledge that will exist on the public web.While I accept that smaller firms, and especially solos, can make a conscious decision to censor themselves and not web-publish their experience; I do believe that's an exception rather than the rule.In my view, and particularly as firms get larger, a portion of lawyer knowledge is always going to public facing. For me, this goes much further tha...
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Vancouver Law Librarian Blog - March 5, 2008 Author: Steve Matthews
