But the death is…amicable. Altlaw.com announces that they will be shutting down in early 2010.
Filed under: Cool links, Courts, News, Technology, U.S. Law, legal research
November 17, 2009 • 6:43 pm 0
Google Scholar Now Includes Law Journals and Cases
From Google’s Official Blog:
Starting today, we’re enabling people everywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar. You can find these opinions by searching for cases (like Planned Parenthood v. Casey), or by topics (like desegregation) or other queries that you are interested in. For example, go to Google Scholar, click on the “Legal opinions and journals” radio button, and try the query separate but equal. Your search results will include links to cases familiar to many of us in the U.S. such as Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education, which explore the acceptablity of “separate but equal” facilities for citizens at two different points in the history of the U.S. But your results will also include opinions from cases that you might be less familiar with, but which have played an important role.
Filed under: Cool links, Courts, News, Technology, U.S. Law, legal research
July 1, 2009 • 6:09 pm 0
University of Miami Law School deferring some 1Ls
Saw this on Above the Law and thought it warranted a mention here: University of Miami Law School Defers 1Ls: This is Not A Joke. These sure are interesting times.
Filed under: Law School, News
April 24, 2009 • 5:22 pm 0
One library system to rule them all
In Challenge to ILS Industry, OCLC Extends WorldCat Local To Launch New Library System. This is big news. And here I thought merely shifting our local online catalog to WorldCat Local was a big deal.
April 17, 2009 • 1:26 pm 0
Law Professors Seek Injunction Over ‘Sham’ Treatise Supplement
Seems West Publishing put 2 professors’ names to a treatise supplement they didn’t work on. The professors claim that the supplement to their book “was so poorly researched that it will harm their reputations if allowed to remain on library shelves.” Oh, my. Makes me wonder about other (overpriced) West supplements.
(hat tip to Betsy McKenzie)
Filed under: Books, Law School, News
April 1, 2009 • 2:09 pm 0
Truly Amazing
From nextgov: GSA signs deal for agencies to use social networking sites. The mind boggles at the possibilities. Maybe OMB can get American Idol contestants to sing new budget proposals and put them up on YouTube. Or Congress can place scanned versions of bills on Flickr and let the public comment on them that way. Congresspersons are already twittering about proceedings.
Filed under: News, Twitter/Jaiku, Web 2.0, social networks
February 10, 2009 • 6:30 pm 0
From the Dean: Wednesday Lunchtime Law
From Dean Closius:
I am pleased to announce that long time Maryland Attorney General (and UB grad) Joseph Curran has agreed to do host a Lunchtime Law & Public Policy discussion series at the School of Law. The first one is tomorrow, Feb 11, at noon in Room 210. Prof Curran will be joined by Ellen Cooper, principal counsel for the antitrust division of the AG’s office, and William Gruhn, principal counsel of the state’s Consumer Protection Division. The topic will be Consumer Protection and the Antitrust. Prof Curran has remarkable insights into issues of stare regulation and litigation and his guest speakers are leaders in the state’s legal divisions. I’m sure you will find the talk valuable. As usual, pizza is available and pizza distribution will begin at 11:45.
Filed under: Law School, News, UB Events
August 25, 2008 • 2:07 pm 0
2 UN Human Rights Committee Reports
The Law Librarian Blog alerts us to two new Human Rights Reports:
1. A report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and
2. A report by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Filed under: Cool links, News
August 19, 2008 • 5:10 pm 0
Smart Boards
Over the summer, a number of classrooms were outfitted with “Smart Boards.” Please, please, please DO NOT write on them with regular white board markers! Doing so will render them inoperable.
Filed under: Law School, News
June 26, 2008 • 1:51 pm 0
Ernie The Attorney: Gathering information efficiently
Ernie makes some very good points in this post. If you do go the feed reader route, my advice is to choose your feeds wisely, otherwise you might feel overwhelmed.
