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, 2009).
Here is an excerpt from that review:
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 on what he calls “bizarreries” –entertaining descriptions of puns, curiosities, vocabulary use, and other hilarious writing escapades. Finally, Garner includes several tributes to great stylists, and concludes with recommendations for making oneself a great writer, grammarian, and stylist”.
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, and other countries.
Volume 21, Issue 3 May 2009.
A publication of the American Society of Trial Consultants.
LEAD ARTICLES:
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
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
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 law library blogs; all others have been removed. Many thanks to Bonnie for her pioneering efforts in creating the original list and to Michael for maintaining it at a high standard.
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 this Guide has been published by AALL as a pamphlet and sold through AALL’s publications program for a modest fee. AALL wishes to evaluate whether publishing and selling the Guide as a print pamphlet, while also providing free digital access, remains viable, or whether a digital-only publication is more suitable. We’ve created a quick five-question survey to find out how your library might use the Guide and how you would prefer to receive it.
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 theoretical research with critique and appraisal of the sociolegal field make the journal a useful source for the latest research and commentary. Law & Social Inquiry’s ambit spans law and sociology, criminal justice,economics, political science, social psychology, history, philosophy and other social science and humanities disciplines. The journal publishes a wide range of scholarship on specific topics in law and society, including but not limited to law, legal institutions, the legal profession, and legal processes.
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 committees charged with the responsibility of addressing a broad array of criminal law topics. While each committee tends to focus on issues related to their special interest, when needed they all work in unison to make clear that we serve as the voice of criminal justice in the nation.
Criminal Law Library Blog