Corey Rayburn Yung who teaches criminal law and procedure at the John Marshall Law School has posted a draft paper (Defining and Measuring Judicial Activism: An Empirical Study of Judges on the United States Court of Appeals) on SSRN. Professor Yung’s scholarship is primarily focused on sex crimes and judicial…
Ten top stories. July 17, 2009. Work-Life Balance Jack Welch: Women Take Time Off for Kids at Their Peril Jul 16, 2009, 07:54 am CDT Law Schools Harvard Law to Job-Hunting Students: Don’t Panic Jul 16, 2009, 07:30 am CDT Law Students Incoming 1L Writes Columnist About Fear of Never…
Can the offering of goods and services such as Google searches free of charge be considered in violation of antitrust? Many librarians have expressed an interest in this issue. They are concerned about what any resolution of this question wll have on their continuing efforts to provide knowledge based goods…
David Badertscher Legal experts and prosecutors are quite concerned about possible results of the June 25, 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts 07-591. In this decision the Court has ruled that forensic analysts conducting tests must be in court to testify about their test results and that lab…
BY KAT SANDERS* It’s easier to solve crime today than it was 50 years ago, because of the advances that have been made in the field of science, or to be more specific, forensic science. In fact, new and innovative crime solving techniques are being introduced by the day to…
The Unclassified Report of the President’s Surveillance Program released on July 10, 2009 is a review of the National Security Agency Warrantless Search Program, created during the presidency of George W. Bush some time after September 11, 2001. The unclassified report was prepared by the inspectors general of five government…
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