The Future of Today’s Legal Scholarship: A Symposium in Honor of Bob Oakley July 25, 2009 Georgetown University Law Center Georgetown Law Library About The Future of Today’s Scholarship: A Symposium in Honor of Bob Oakley The time to debate the role of blogs in legal scholarship has passed. As…
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Court Law Library Online (CeLLO)
The New York Appellate Division Fourth Department Law Library has just announced in the Spring 2009 issue of their Law Library Newsletter rolling the introduction of a new online catalog. It will be rolled out during the month of March. The move to a new system was prompted by the…
American Association of Law Libraries Research Committee is Accepting Applications for Research Grants
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Research Committee is accepting applications for research grants from the AALL Research Fund: An Endowment Established by LexisNexis®. A single grant of up to $1,425, or multiple grants totaling $1,425, may be awarded. The committee will award one or more grants to library…
Ribert Richards Updates Legal Information Systems & Legal Informatics Resources
Legal Information Systems & Legal Informatics Resources, http://home.comcast.net/~richards1000/LegalInformationSystemsBibliography.htm , has been updated with new content. This site aggregates resources of interest to those conducting research on legal information systems. Materials listed include the following: • Articles, Preprints, Journals, Blogs, and Indexes • Conferences and Conference Proceedings • Dissertations & Theses…
Pre and Post Conference Gathering at Equal Justice Conference On Equal Justice and Impact on Self-Represented
RICHARD ZORZA As you may know, the economic crisis is having a major impact upon courts, self-help programs, and indeed litigants. A major focus of selfhelpsupport in the next year will be working to make sure that courts and their access partners continue to innovate in access to justice, even…
New, Powerful, State-Of-The-Art Learning Technology Coming to the American Association of Law Libraries
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is proud to announce it is adopting a new, powerful, state-of-the-art learning technology, which will provide a new learning gateway to all AALL members. The new Ed2Go @AALLNET site will provide members with: Online access to the AALL Annual Meeting program recordings, as…
Special Libraries Association Board of Directors Candidates for 2010 Announced
Special Libraries Association (SLA) has announced the slate of candidates for the 2010 Board of Directors. Two of the board candidates are members of the Legal Division Their names appear in bold type in list below: 2010 Board of Directors Candidates Announced Alexandria, Virginia, February 18, 2009 – SLA has…
U.S. Federal Trade Commission Rescinds Enforcement Policy Regarding Advertising of Books
On February 20, 2009 the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced that it is rescinding the book advertising policy sometimes known as the “mirror image doctrine”. Below is an excerpt from that announcement with links the complete FTC Announcement, the forthcoming notice in the Federal Register, an an article in the…
Book Review: The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789 – 2008
TITLE: The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2008 AUTHOR: Lucas A. Powe, Jr. PUBLICATION DATE: April 2009 PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press PAGE COUNT: 432 pp. ISBN: 978-0-674-03267-5 PRICE: $29.95 A leading historian of the Supreme Court, Professor Powe clerked for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas before joining the…
Placement: U.S. Foreign Service Information Resource Officer
U.S. Department of State: http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=12725 Foreign Service Information Resource Officer U.S. Department of State, Washington, District of Columbia As a Foreign Service Information Resource Officer, your progressive and advanced experience in library or information center programs or services and knowledge of current information technologies could lead to a challenging, rewarding…