Ten top stories. July 10, 2009. Editor’s Note: Check back at ABAJournal.com starting Monday for live coverage of the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings. The Journal’s U.S. Supreme Court expert Richard Brust will post highlights from the Senate committee Q&A. Law Schools Are Law Schools Like GM? Why Profs Should Mull…
TITLE: A Right to Discriminate? SUBTITLE: How the Case of Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale Warped the Law of Free Association AUTHOR: Andrew Koppelman with Tobias Barrington Wolff PUBLICATION DATE: July 2009 PUBLISHER: Yale University Press PAGE COUNT: 192 pp. ISBN: 978-0-300-12127-8 PROBABLE PRICE: $38.00 Koppelman (law &…
Lyonette Louis-Jacques of the D’Angelo Law Library at the University of Chicago has conducted a quick, informal, but very interesting survey asking law school librarians how many of their faculty members use Kindles. As often happens with such surveys, the results or responses reveal more than was originally intended, thus…
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Published: New York Times June 20, 2009 The new passion of the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury is raising money for California’s libraries. See article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/us/20ventura.html
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (New York City Bar) has just published its Report on the Merger of the Bronx Supreme and Criminal Courts. Commenting on the Report in his June 11, 2009 New York Law Journal article, “City Bar Report Cites ‘Serious Problems’…
According to Ed O’Keefe in a June 5, 2009 Washington Post article, “Library Officials Accused of Interference”, Senator Charles E. Grassley has written a sharply worded letter to the Librarian of Congress , James H. Billington, stating “…Your office attempts to influence and/or control [the Office of Inspector General] appear…
Top Ten Stories of the Week ending June 5, 2009: Law Practice Management MoFo’s NYC Office Tells Troops: Be Here By 9:30 a.m., Jumping Jacks Optional Jun 2, 2009, 02:53 pm CDT Law Schools Sweeping Accreditation Review May Prompt ‘Sea Change’ in Law School Evals Jun 3, 2009, 09:57 am…
QUESTION: Recently, Connecticut and New Jersey have sought to remove funding completely for their county and court law libraries through budget bills and separate legislative actions. Has anyone experienced this threat from their state legislature recently? SOME RESPONSES: In our state we have been given notice of a 10% cut…
Web based criminal justice issues cannot be addressed in a rational manner without also the establishment and ongoing maintenance of a trusted and resilient information and communications infrastructure. Realizing the paramount importance of these objectives the Obama administration has been engaging in a mumber related activities including President Obama’s recent…
Top Ten Stories of the Week ending May 29, 2009: Layoffs 2009’s Toll: More Than 10,000 Law Firm Layoffs and Lower Pay Trend May 28, 2009, 10:43 am CDT Law Firms Ex-Sidley Associate Pens Tell-All Memoir of China Sexcapades May 27, 2009, 09:28 am CDT Law Practice Management Mayer Brown…