We just received word about the outcome of the vote on the proposal to change the name of Special Libraries Association (SLA) to the Association for Stategic Knowledge Professionals. The name change proposal stemmed from the findings of the Alignment Project, an intensive two year research effort aimed at understanding…
Letter: Remarkable Work By State Judges* In “10 Suggestions for Court Reform,” New York City Corporation Counsel Michael A. Cardozo notes that our nation’s state courts are in crisis. Many of society’s most intractable problems end up in the state courts, particularly during economic downturns. In New York, this has…
David Badertscher* Some jurors have always had an urge to visit a crime scene or research a case they’re considering while on jury duty, but now the Internet is making it much easier to play detective. “As simple as it might have been to research facts on their own in…
CLLB Abstract Prepared by Michael Chernicoff http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/fmri-evidence-u.html The defense lawyer for Brian Dugan, an Illinois man convicted of raping and killing a 10-year-old girl, used fMRI brain scans as evidence during the sentencing phase of his trial show that their client should be spared the death penalty because he has…
CLLB Abstract prepared by Michael Chernicoff Does Bringing a Terrorist Suspect From Gitmo to New York Confer Any More Legal Rights? http://volokh.com/2009/11/20/does-bringing-a-terrorist-suspect-from-gitmo-to-new-york-confer-any-more-legal-rights/ If Kahlid Sheikh Mohammed is transferred from Gitmo to New York, would this allow him different immigrant status or create constitutional rights, such as Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment,…
I am grateful to Lesley Ellen Harris for granting me permission to publish the complete issues of her New Media Law & E-Commerce News on this blawg as they appear. Here is Leslie’s most recent issue.: FROM THE OFFICES OF LESLEY ELLEN HARRIS Copyright, New Media Law & E-Commerce News…
Updated to November 25, 2009 Over the past months we have posted a variety of items related to the quest for health care reform in the United States. See our last posting at “Health Care Update as of the Beginning of October 2009. The quest continues. During the last month…
For week of November 16-20, 2009. PREPARED BY: Michael Chernicoff Weighing Life in Prison of Youths Who Didn’t Kill http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/us/08juveniles.html?_r=1 The Supreme Court will hear appeals from two juvenile offenders serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole. Outside of the consideration of the death penalty, the Supreme court…
TITLE: Gay Families and the Courts SUBTITLE: The Quest for Equal Rights AUTHOR: Susan Gluck Mezey PUBLICATION DATE: September 2009 PUBLISHER: Bowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. PAGE COUNT: 300 pp. ISBN: 0-7425-6219-0 (Paper) 0-7425-6218-2 (Cloth) PROBABLE PRICE: $27.95 (Paper) $70.00 (Cloth) Mezey (political science–Loyola Chicago) is an established author in…
Volume 21 Issue 6 November 2009. Table of Contents Sex and Race in the Courtroom: Shifting Gender-Role Attitudes in a Changing World Online and Wired for Justice: Why Jurors Turn to the Internet Jury Research for Settlement: The Price is Right? Guilty but Mentally Ill (GBMI) vs. Not Guilty by…