Dreams from the Monster Factory: A Tale of Prison, Redemption and One Woman’s Fight to Restore Justice to All by Sunny Schwartz, with David Boodell Scribner, 204 pp., $24.00 Reviewed by Helen Epstein in a forthcoming issue of The New York Review of Books (Volume 56 Number 9 June 11,…
By Bryan A. Garner Foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “Bryan Garner has collected over a hundred of his finest essays on writing, language, and style in this substantial anthology. The book includes sections on legal language and lexicography, how to write successfully as a professional, and concludes with chapters…
Published by Research and Markets Ltd. Dublin, Ireland. The study presents data from 90 libraries – corporate, legal, college, public, state, and non-profit libraries – about their database licensing practices. More than half of the participating libraries are from the USA, and the rest are from Canada, Australia, the UK,…
Volume 21, Issue 3 May 2009. A publication of the American Society of Trial Consultants. LEAD ARTICLES: Narcissism in Gen Y: Is it Increasing or Not? Two opposing perspectives by Jean Twenge, Keith Campbell, Kali Trzesniewski, Brian Donnellan Two articles (authored by researchers with opposing perspectives on the prevalence of…
A 2009 publication of the American Bar Association. ” A practical reference for any attorney who is asked to represent a religious organization.” Guide to Representing Religious Organizations By Editors: Lisa A. Runquist and Jeannie Carmedelle Frey; Managing Editor: Patricia A. Tauchert ——————————————————————————– The Guide to Representing Religious Organizations addresses…
Volme 1 Issue 4 Spring 2009. A quarterly newsletter of the American Bar Association Section on Science and Technology. CHAIR’S WELCOME by RUTH HILL BRO Come Together, Right Now For many of us, it’s been a long, cold lonely winter as we’ve tried to find our way through a seemingly…
We are delighted to see the updated List of Law Library Blogs. It was originally compled by Bonnie Shucha, University of Wisconsin Law School, and has been updated by Michael Robak, University of Illinios College of Law. When viewing this list it is important to note that it contains only…
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Legal Information Services to the Public SIS has updated its publication, “How to Research a Legal Problem: A Guide for Non-Lawyers.” The text of the revised version, by LISP members Lee Warthen and Angus Nesbit, can be viewed here: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/lisp/research.htm In the past…
A quarterly journal published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. on behalf of the American Bar Foundation. Law & Social Inquiry is a multidisciplinary quarterly that publishes original research articles and wide-ranging review essays that contribute to the understanding of sociolegal processes. Law & Social Inquiry’s combination of empirical and…
Below is a message, useful to law librarians and others, from the current Chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section. It includes information about new books and some discussion about publication activities within the Section : Message from the Chair: The Criminal Justice Section is comprised of a number of…